Martha Bolton
Author, Speaker, Comedian |
Joanna Brody
Brody Public Relations |
Lena Claxton
Online Marketing Expert & Author |
Laura Dawson
Books & Techn |
Mimi Donaldson
Motvational Speaker & Author |
Dawn Goldberg
Write Well U |
Jennifer Heinly
J&J Consulting, Public Relations |
Linda Hollander
Speaker & Author |
Tama Kieves
Inspirational Speaker & Author |
Jan B. King
Founder of eWomenPublishingNetwork |
Mark Levine
Intellectual Property Attorney & Author |
Jenifer Madson
Financial Success Coach & Author |
Deb Mrazek
Author & Sales Guru |
Dawn Putney
Book Designer, Toolbox Creative |
Gail Richards
AuthorSmart.com |
Val Sharp
Redesign Expert & Author |
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Martha Bolton
Comedy Writer & Author |
 Martha Bolton is an author,
comedy-writer and a parody lyric writer. She received an
Emmy nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Music and
Lyrics, the Ambassador Award, and three Angel Awards from
Media Fellowship International. She was a staff writer
for Bob Hope and has written for Phyllis Diller, Ann Jillian,
Kathy Troccoli and
many others. She is the author of
over 40 books on subjects from relationships to comedy. |
Joanna Brody
Owner of Brody Public Relations |
Joanna Brody is the founder of Brody Public Relations, a full service firm that specializes in the promotion of
causes and issues. Her areas of expertise include social marketing,
crisis communications and media training. In the publishing world, Joanna
works with authors on book promotion including business and
self-help books, biographies and fiction. She supplements the
publicity departments of publishers and assists self-published
authors with book tours and publicity. She has worked with
McGraw-Hill, Viking Studio and Harvard Business School Press.
Joanna lives in Culver City, California. |
Lena Claxton
Principal, New Media Mavens |
 Lena Claxton is one of the principals
of NewMediaMavens.com. Prior to her newest business,
Lena was the marketing project manager at Baker & Taylor,
Inc., the world's largest book distributor. She is an
International Coaching Federation member, a graduate of
Rutgers University and is an online and offline marketing
instructor with Central Piedmont Community College. Lena lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. |
Laura Dawson
Books & Technology Expert |
Laura Dawson is a
veteran of the book industry, specializing in its technology
issues and helping clients adapt new tools for new markets.
She has worked at Doubleday, Muze, Barnes & Noble.com, and her
clients include Ingram, Bowker, Baker & Taylor, Yale, Columbia
and Harvard University Presses. She currently consults, mostly with mid-sized
publishers, library content providers, distributors, online
retailers and others to help them make smart strategic
decisions to optimize their profits in the ever-changing book
publishing industry. Laura lives in New York City. |
Mimi Donaldson
Mimi Speaks! |
 Mimi Donaldson is a
beloved keynote speaker who has spoken for over half of the
Fortune 100 companies and to audiences throughout the world.
She has a Master's degree in Instructional Design from
Columbia. Mimi has recently been a visiting professor at
Harvard University's Center for Public Leadership at the
Kennedy School
of Government. Her book, Negotiating for
Dummies has sold over a million copies and has been translated
into six languages. Mimi lives in Marina del Rey,
California.
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Dawn Goldberg
Write Well U |
Dawn Goldberg is the
founder of Write Well University, where she provides coaching
and instruction in a number of writing programs and where she
facilitates writing circles. After she majored in
English at SMU, she taught Junior High School English and
eventually started her own virtual assisting practice.
She is currently Chief Operating Officer of AssistU, the top
training program for virtual assistants in the U.S. Dawn lives
in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
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Jennifer Heinly
President
of J&J Consulting |
Jennifer Heinly is the president of J&J Consulting. She
has been in the book publicity arena for over ten years and implemented
programs for several dozen authors and publishers in that
time. She has over 25 years of public relations experience as
well as being one of only a handful of public relations practitioners
with an MBA. The company is a specialist in the print as well
as broadcast mediums for nonfiction authors and publishers. They pride
themselves on focused, individual attention. Jennifer lives
in Foothill Ranch, California. |
Linda Hollander
Speaker & Author |
 Linda Hollander is the founder of the Women's Small Business Expo and a
speaker on entrepreneurial women and small business success
and an expert in creating corporate sponsorships. Her
marketing clients include Disney, CBS, Mattel, Variety and
many others. Linda lives in Los Angeles, California |
Tama Kieves
Speaker & Author |
 Tama Kieves is an honors graduate of Harvard Law School. She left
her corporate law practice to coach others on making the
transition from the life you lead to a life you love.
She is the founder of Awakening Artistry, an organization
dedicated to supporting the global family of visionary minds
and empowered leaders. She lectures internationally, and
often at the Canyon Ranch Spas. Tama lives in Denver,
Colorado. |
Jan B. King
Founder of eWomenPublishingNetwork |
 Jan B. King is a founder and the Editorial Director ofeWomenPublishingNetwork, devoted to transforming women who are
experts with important contributions in their fields into
successfully published authors. She began her career with
Merritt Publishing, becoming CEO and transforming this small
niche publisher into an employee-owned business as well as a
recognized brand for financial information to professionals
and consumers. She doubled revenues during the first half of
her eight-year tenure, finally leading the company through an
employee-buyout and its eventual sale to a leading computer
based training company in 1998. Jan lives in Los Angeles,
California. |
Mark Levine
Attorney & Author |
 Mark Levine was a practicing corporate, entertainment and intellectual
property attorney for nine years after graduation from
Georgetown University Law Center. He is an expert on
publishing contracts and on self publishing companies, and his
book has been praised as the "Consumer Reports of the
self-publishing industry." He has helped thousands of
authors choose the right self publishing opportunities and
avoid unfair contracts and low quality services. Mark lives in
Minneapolis, Minnesota. |
Jenifer Madson
Financial Success Coach. Author
& Speaker |
 Jenifer
Madson is a nationally renowned Financial Success Coach,
and the author of the award-winning book, A FINANCIAL MINUTE:
From Money Madness To Financial Freedom, One Minute At A Time! She
has brought her unique brand of financial wisdom to television and
radio programs across the country, been featured in national magazines
such as Shape and The Nest, and was recently dubbed one of the Top 5
Female Entrepreneurs in Denver by Colorado Company Magazine, for her
work in raising financial awareness for underserved portions of the
community. Today she is called upon by corporations and individuals
around the world to share her secrets of financial transformation. She
lives in Denver, Colorado. |
Debbie Mrazek
Author & Sales Trainer |
 Debbie Mrazek is the founder of The Sales Company, an
organization dedicated to empowering people to sell and
achieve more. Debbie holds a degree in Management with a
specialization in Organizational Behavior from the University
of Houston. Debbie has worked with Texas Instruments, Abbot
Laboratories, and Alcatel among others. Debbie lives in
Dallas, Texas. |
Dawn Putney
Founding Partner, Toolbox Creative |
Dawn Putney is a founding partner of
Toolbox Creative — a creative agency that specializes in
strategic marketing and thoughtful book design. Toolbox designs books
and branding strategies that help their clients tell their unique
stories with emotion, passion and craftsmanship. Dawn has been in the
advertising/design industry in one way or another since she was
seventeen. She started out typesetting ads for the hometown newspaper.
She moved on to the big city of Minneapolis, where she worked with some
of the top agencies there while attending classes at the Minneapolis
College of Art and Design, and Augsburg College. She currently lives in
Fort Collins, Colorado. |
Gail Richards
Founder
of AuthorSmart.com |
Gail Richards is the founder of AuthorSmart.com
and for more than 20 years has partnered with a variety of
businesses and more recently, authors, to create marketing
messages and visual concepts that demand and capture
attention. Gail works with aspiring authors to familiarize
them with the overall publishing process. She also partners
with authors of books that are taking shape to create dynamic
cover designs, back cover copy, and collateral material. She has a degree in Art History from Dartmouth College.
Gail lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
Val Sharp
Redesign Expert & Authors |
 Val Sharp is the founder and past president of the
Canadian Redesigners Association. The first redesign
instructor in Canada, she teaches budding entrepreneurs how to
start their own interior redesign and home staging businesses.
Val was Director of Corporate Communications for a NYSE
company and she has Bachelor of Commerce degree from the
University of Alberta. Val lives in Vancouver, BC,
Canada. |
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