C. Hope Clark is author of The Carolina Slade Mystery Series, to include Lowcountry Bribe  and Tidewater Murder  to date. Her third book, Palmetto Poison, is expected in early 2014. Hope was born and reared in the South, from Mississippi to South Carolina with a few stints in Alabama and Georgia. Hope holds a B.S. in Agriculture with honors from Clemson University and 25 years’ experience with the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Lowcountry Bribe has won numerous awards including the Phillip Mangelsdorf Award, awards from the Alabama Writer's Conclave Competition, Writing Show Chapter Competition, top three finalist Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense, semi-finalist status (top 100 out of 10,000) in Amazon’s Breakthrough Novel Contest and  Lowcountry Bribe won The Silver Falchion Award at Killer Nashville Conference for mystery writers. It also won in the EPIC e-book awards for best mystery.   Hope manages FundsforWriters.com, a weekly newsletter service she founded that reaches 35,000+ writers. Writer's Digest has recognized the site in its annual 101 Best Web Sites for Writers for 13 years. She’s published in The Writer Magazine, Writer's Digest, Writer’s Market,Guide to Literary Agents, Chicken Soup, Next Step Magazine, College Bound Teen, Voices of Youth Advocates (VOYA), TURF Magazine, Landscape Management and other publications. She speaks at several writers’ conferences each year. Hope is a member of Sisters in Crime, EPIC, Mystery Writers of America, and MENSA.

 “Your book is not your baby…your book is your business.”  Peggy DeKay is an award winning author and freelance writer, blogger, podcaster, publisher, and book coach. As a book coach she has helped hundreds of authors self-publish their books through direct coaching, her podcast, live seminars, and the Business of Writing International Summit—a two-day writer’s conference to help writers and authors focus on the business, marketing, and promotional aspects of their careers. Her podcast, The Business of Writing Today  helps authors and would-be authors achieve their dream of becoming full-time writers by approaching their writing as a business. The podcast is heard in over 70 countries around the world and throughout the United States. She is the author of Self-Publishing for Virgins: The first-time author’s guide to self-publishing published by Darby Press. DeKay is an adjunct instructor for several universities. She teaches book marketing, self-publishing, e-books, and other topics.  A popular speaker, some of her 2013 presentations include The Writer’s Workshop in Asheville, MidSouthCon in Memphis, Florida Writers Assn. Conference, Kentucky Women's Writers Conference in Lexington and The Business of Writing International Summit in Louisville. A former newspaper columnist and past director of Women Who Write, DeKay has been published in several anthologies, is an On Angels magazine creative non-fiction award winner, and is a contributing writer in the 2014 Indie Publisher’s Guide, which will be released this November by F & W Media, Inc.

Sheila Clover English has worked in the publishing industry for ten years. She is the CEO of Circle of Seven Productions, the company credited for the book trailer® market and Sheila owns the trademark to the term “book trailer®”.  She has produced over 1000 book videos, both viral and commercial. Sheila has been awarded more prestigious awards for book trailers than anyone in the United States.  Sheila is an international speaker on the topic of marketing and multimedia.  She has published an online book called The Book Trailer® Revolution and several white papers regarding marketing and multimedia and her new book entitled Book Marketing, Book Trailers® and Author Etiquette in a Nutshell, co-written with Barbara Vey of Publisher's Weekly, was #3 on Amazon for business books.

Rik Feeney adapted his love of reading, writing, and gymnastics to become a published author of more than 60 books, reports, and CD’s on the sport and business of gymnastics as well as a book coach, book cover designer, and promotional expert for aspiring authors. He has been traditionally published by McGraw-Hill for his book Gymnastics: A Guide for Parents and Athletes, but then opted to start his own publishing company in 1994 called Richardson Publishing, which uses traditional, print-on-demand, and digital publishing technologies. Rik holds a Bachelor of Arts in Writing & Literature from Vermont College of Norwich University. He is currently a columnist for AllExperts.com answering questions in two categories; Publishing / Self Publishing, and the sport of Gymnastics. Rik works with authors and self-publishers as a book coach, marketing coach, and publishing consultant. He has spoken at numerous writer’s conferences and seminars across the Southeast.  Rik is the author of Writing Books for Fun, Fame, & Fortune!, Editing Basics for Authors and Self-Publishers, and is finishing two new books, Publishing Books for Fun, Fame & Fortune!, and Book Marketing Success for Authors on a Budget.

Dustin Hartzler is a full-time website developer, podcaster and instructor, who creates awesome content for the internet.  Dustin has been creating websites for clients since 2008, educating a world wide audience with his podcast since 2010 and in 2013 began teaching how-to courses to entrepreneurs about websites.  His passion is teaching others how to create great looking websites with WordPress. WordPress is a platform to create great looking websites and blogs without any special software installed on your computer. If you can get to the internet and can edit a Google Document, you can manage your own website.

When he's not behind his computer he enjoys biking, hiking and traveling with his wife Melody.

Daniel J. Lewis is an award-winning podcaster, who helps others launch and improve their own podcasts that share their passions. Daniel designs websites; offers one-on-one consulting for public presentations and podcasting; speaks on technology, social media, and theology; and Daniel hosts a network of podcasts covering how to podcast and use Audacity, clean-comedy, and the #1 unofficial podcast for ABC's hit drama Once Upon a Time.

Victorine Lieske is a New York Times Bestselling author who has made her mark by studying the constantly changing trends in today’s publishing world.  As Treasurer for the Nebraska Writers Guild, she has helped educate its membership about self-publishing options. As a blogger, show guest, panel member and speaker, Vicki’s candor has made her a favorite with audiences worldwide. Her willingness to share her successes, regretted decisions and insights provides a valuable experience for those seeking commercial success with their genre fiction.

Victorine self-published her first book, Not What She Seems, in April 2010. In March 2011, the novel hit the New York Times Best Seller’s List, where it remained for six weeks. To date, she has sold nearly 150,000 copies, most in eBook form. Victorine is represented by literary agent Jason Ashlock of Movable Type Literary Group, and turned down an offer from a traditional publisher to self-publish her second novel. Her latest work, How to Find Success Selling eBooks gives valuable advice to authors wanting to sell eBooks in the genre fiction market.

Sheri L. Wright is a Pushcart Prize and Kentucky Poet Laureate nominee and the author of six books of poetry, including her most recent, The Feast of Erasure. Her publishing credits include New Southerner, Out of Line, Chiron Review, Clark Street Review, Darkling and Earth's Daughters, Crucible and Kentucky Monthly Magazine. She works as a free-lance editor in a variety of genres ranging from poetry to fiction.   She has won awards with Jesse Poets, Green River Writers and the Kentucky State Poetry Society.  Ms. Wright has taught poetry workshops for Women in Transition, the Kentucky Young Writer’s Connection and The Kentucky State Poetry Society, judged poetry for the Virginia Writers Club, Women Who Write, Literary LEO and for Green River Writers.  She has served as regional chair for the Kentucky State Poetry society and co-chair for their adult poetry contest for 2011. Ms. Wright was the host of From The Inkwell, a one hour radio show dedicated to all things literary on CHRadio 1650am.  Ms. Wright is the founder and host of the Stone Soup Poetry Series.   Wright’s award-winning visual work has appeared in numerous journals, including Blood Orange Review, The Single Hound , THIS Literary Magazine, Prick of the Spindle, Blood Lotus Journal and Subliminal Interiors. In 2012, Ms. Wright was a contributer to the Sister Cities Project Lvlds: Creatively Linking Leeds and Louisville. Her photography has been shown across the nation and abroad.

Stephen Zimmer is an award-winning author and filmmaker, whose literary works include the epic-scale urban fantasy series The Rising Dawn Saga, and the epic fantasy Fires in Eden Series.   He has six novels and several short stories published, including the Harvey and Solomon steampunk adventures.  As a filmmaker, Stephen's film credits include the supernatural thriller feature Shadows Light, the horror short film The Sirens, and his latest as a director, Swordbearer, a medieval fantasy short film based upon the H. David Blalock     novel Ascendant.