Jennie Nash is founder and chief creative officer of Author Accelerator, a book coaching service that gives writers the feedback, accountability and support they need to write their best books.
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Ricardo Fayet is the co-founder of Reedsy, a global network that connects authors and publishers with top editorial, design, marketing and ghostwriting talent. A technology and startup enthusiast, he likes to imagine how small players will build the future of publishing.
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Shivani Bhargava is the CEO & Founder of TheRightMargin, a goal-driven writing app that helps you finish what you write. Bay Area born, Boston bred, Shivani has spent most of her professional life in health tech. After being the product manager of PatientsLikeMe in Cambridge, MA, she moved back to CA in 2014 and immediately caught the startup bug.
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Joanna Penn is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of thrillers under J.F.Penn. She also writes inspirational non-fiction for authors and is an award-winning creative entrepreneur and international professional speaker. Her site, TheCreativePenn.com is regularly voted one of the top 10 sites for writers and self-publishers.
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Rob began his career as a self-published author at the age of 19 with 200,000 copies sold and subsequently founded the small traditional house, Price World Publishing. Seeing a shift in the industry towards self-publishing, Rob launched Gatekeeper Press in 2015. Gatekeeper authors earn 100% of their royalties, retain 100% of their rights, and their books reach readers all over the world.
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Michael Anderle is a bestselling author, but he's also a driving force behind the success of many indie authors just getting a start in the business. With his 'rising tide lifts all boats' approach, he has helped to bootstrap the careers of several indie authors, and is working on new ways to revolutionize publishing.
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Dave Chesson ... the 'Dude' at the heart of Kindlepreneur.com and KDP Rocket. Dave has made a career out of learning the ins and outs of KDP and sharing them with a growing and appreciative audience. In this week's Wordslinger Podcast, Dave shares his story and his tools for author success.
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Angelique L’Amour was born in Los Angeles Ca. The daughter of author, Louis L’Amour, she grew up in the household of a prolific writer where writing and storytelling were a way of life. In 1988 Angelique wrote and edited a volume of quotes from her father’s works. Published by Bantam Doubleday Dell in 1988, A Trail of Memories spent 16 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List and was also a Publisher’s Weekly Bestseller for 1988. The book was the first quotation book derived from a single author to achieve these milestones.
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Liza Drozdov was Executive Producer of Holmes Makes it Right, one of the highest-rated shows on HGTV and DIY. Having produced successful lifestyle television series with audiences of over 100 million viewers she knows the truth behind makeover television. She knows where the bodies are buried–and has buried a few herself.
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Daughter of two Cuban political exiles, M.C.A. Hogarth was born a foreigner in the American melting pot and has had a fascination for the gaps in cultures and the bridges that span them ever since. She has been many things—web database architect, product manager, technical writer and massage therapist—but is currently a full-time parent, artist, writer and anthropologist to aliens, both human and otherwise. She's also in her second term as Vice President of SFWA (The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America).
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Tom Corson-Knowles is the international bestselling author of The Kindle Publishing Bible and 26 other books. He is also the founder of EBookPublishingSchool.com, a free self-publishing training course for authors, and TCK Publishing, an independent book publisher that specializes in publishing and marketing ebooks, print books and audiobooks online.
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Hank Garner is the author of Bloom, Mulligan, The Witching Hour, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, Writer's Block, and has contributed to several anthologies. He also hosts a weekly podcast called Author Stories where he interviews successful authors each week about writing and the creative process.
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RV life has its ups and downs, and there can be times when even the most enthusiastic RVer wants to chuck in the towel. But the recent lifestyle change that Kevin and his wife, Kara, have embarked on are about more than just the place they call home—they're about changing the very nature of who they are. Join Kevin in this special Wordslinger Podcast episode, and pick up a few tips and tricks about the RV life.
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Lucas Flint (aka Timothy L. Cerepaka) writes fantasy novels under his real name and superhero novels under his Lucas Flint pen name. He has been writing and publishing books under his own press since June of 2014 and lives in Texas.
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David Brin is a scientist, tech speaker/consultant, and a bestselling and award-winning author. His new novel about our survival in the near future is Existence. His 16 novels, including NY Times Bestsellers and Hugo Award winners, have been translated into more than twenty languages.
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Brooke Warner is publisher of She Writes Press, president of Warner Coaching Inc., and author of Green-light Your Book, What's Your Book?, How to Sell Your Memoir, and the co-author of Breaking Ground on Your Memoir. Brooke’s expertise is in traditional and new publishing. She is the former Executive Editor of Seal Press and currently sits on the boards of the Independent Book Publishers Association, the Bay Area Book Festival, and the National Association of Memoir Writers. She blogs actively on Huffington Post Books and SheWrites.com. She lives and works in Berkeley, California.
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Michael Bunker is a USA Today Bestselling author, off-gridder, husband, and father of four children. He lives with his family in a "plain" community in Central Texas, where he reads and writes books...and occasionally tilts at windmills. In November of 2015, Variety Magazine announced that Michael had sold a film/tv option for his bestselling novel Pennsylvania to Jorgensen Pictures. JP is currently developing Pennsylvania for production into a feature film or Television series.
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MCM is a screenwriter, author and programmer. He got his start in the free culture movement with the wildly successful internet fable "The Pig and the Box". He followed that up with the award-winning animated action series "RollBots", which aired on YTV and around the world. Since then, he has kept busy by launching experimental fiction projects like the live written novels "Typhoon" (written in 72 hours online), "The New Real" (48 hours at io9.com) and "The Archivists" (72 hours at "The Game Is Up" festival in Ghent, Belgium). He continues to write for a variety of preschool series (Disney Jr's "Justin Time", Sprout's "Terrific Trucks", TVO's "Shutterbugs", which he co-created- will be airing just after Labour Day), while still crafting genre-bending fiction series for grown-ups. He lives in Ottawa, Canada, with his wife and deeply embarrassed daughters.
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Honoré Corder is a bestselling author and executive business coach. She combines her business acumen and 12 years of self-publishing experience to provide structure, strategy, and accountability to individuals who want to elevate their platform and create multiple streams of income from publishing their own books. Honorée’s coaching and books provide real-world, time-tested strategies. She shares step-by-step advice in a straight-forward, no-nonsense fashion for use today, to get desired results as soon as tomorrow.
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Michelle Cox holds a B.A. in English literature from Mundelein College, Chicago, and is the author of the award-winning, A Girl Like You, the first in the Henrietta and Inspector Howard series. She is known for her wildly popular blog, “How to Get Your Book Published in 7,000 Easy Steps—A Practical Guide” as well as her charming “Novel Notes of Local Lore,” a blog dedicated to Chicago’s forgotten residents. Michelle lives with her husband and three children in the Chicago suburbs.
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