As the co-founder of Mile High Press, Ltd., a small press that has published 11 titles (www.MileHighPress.com), founder of companies and organizations including: The Briles Group, Inc., a Colorado-based research, training and consulting firm (www.Briles.com); The Book Shepherd (www.TheBookShepherd.com), a company that works with authors to create, strategize, develop and publish their books; Author U (www.Author.org), an association dedicate to the serious author who wants to be seriously successful; and partner the WebinarMentor.com, a company dedicated to the design and delivery of webinars.
She routinely consults with clients are in the beginning stages of their books to implement an over-all plan to achieve book success. Judith Briles is known as The Book Shepherd. She knows publishing through the wearing of multiple hats: award-winning publisher (multiple first place awards for business, how to and publishing technology (printing, lay-out and cover design) and author (Chicago Tribune’s Business Book of the Year, Colorado Book of the Year). The books of her clients routinely win awards in multiple publishing and author contests.
Judith is as award-winning author of 28 books, including: Show Me About Book Publishing , The Tango of Authoring and Publishing, Stabotage!™ How to Deal with Pit Bulls, Skunks, Snakes, Scorpions & Slugs in the Health Care Workplace (Mile High Press, Ltd.), The Confidence Factor: Cosmic Gooses Lay Golden Eggs (Mile High Press, Ltd.); and Money Smarts for Turbulent Times (Mile High Press Ltd.). To date, her books have been translated in 16 foreign countries.
Her work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Time, People, USA Today, Self, The New York Times and People magazine. She has been a frequent guest on national television and radio and has appeared on over 1000 programs, including CNN, Oprah and Good Morning America. She is a past President of Colorado Independent Publishers Association (CIPA) and was honored with the first Life Time Achievement Award; the Colorado Author’s League and a past director of the National Speaker’s Association.
Her websites are www.Briles.com, www.TheBookShepherd.com, and www.AuthorU.org. Reach her at Judith@Briles.com, do a Like on Facebook for Author U to get daily marketing and publishing tips and you can follow her at Twitter.com/TheBookShepherd and Twitter.com/JudithBriles.
Brian Jud is an author, book-marketing consultant, seminar leader, television host and president of Book Marketing Works, LLC. He is also a partner in Premium Book Company that sells books to non-bookstore buyers on a non-returnable, commission-only basis.
Brian is the author of How to Make Real Money Selling Books (Without Worrying About Returns) as well as the Publishers Weekly title, Beyond the Bookstore and The Marketing Planning CD-ROM. With Oracle Corporation, Brian developed and introduced the Special-Sales Profit Center, the web-based, targeted-marketing system that helps deliver incremental sales and profits to publishers worldwide.
He is the host of the television series The Book Authority and has aired over 650 shows. In addition, he is the author, narrator and producer of the media-training video program You’re On The Air. He also wrote and published: It’s Show Time and Perpetual Promotion. These describe techniques for authors to get on and perform on television and radio shows.
Brian has also written and self-published five books on career transition that are distributed internationally. He is a prolific writer of articles about book publishing and marketing. He is a syndicated columnist and a regular contributor to the IBPA Newsletter, SPAN Newsletter and Book Marketing Update. He is the author of the eight e-booklets with Proven Tips for Publishing Success and creator of the series of Book Marketing Wizards. He is also the editor of the bi-weekly newsletter, Book Marketing Matters.
Brian conducts the Book Marketing 201® webinars with SPAN and the Book Marketing Monthly® webinars for CreateSpace. He also conducts monthly personal consulting webinars for people who have listed in his catalog.
Brian was an adjunct lecturer of sales and marketing courses for graduate and undergraduate students at the University of Hartford and the University of Connecticut. Brian is a regular speaker on marketing topics at IBPA’s Publishing-University and for publishing groups around the country. And he is the founder of the Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association.
Reach Brian at BrianJud@bookmarketing.com or you can visit his web site at: www.bookmarketingworks.com or follow Brian on Twitter at Bookmarketing
Dan Poynter is an author of more than 100 books, has been a publisher since 1969 and is a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP).
He is an evangelist for books, an ombudsman for authors, an advocate for publishers and the godfather to thousands of successfully-published books.
His seminars have been featured on CNN, his books have been pictured in The Wall Street Journal and his story has been told in US News & World Report.
The media come to Dan because he is the leading authority on book publishing.
Dan travels more than 6,000 miles each week to share, inspire and empower writers, publishers and professional speakers through keynotes and seminars. Reach Dan at DanPoynter@ParaPublishing.com. See www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWl0fnBu7bs