Danielle Smith
Danielle Smith is the Editor, Reviewer and Marketer for There's A Book which was named the Best Kidlit Book Blog during the 2010 Book Blogger Appreciation Week. Recently she began a career as an agent at Foreword Literary Agency. Her expertise in children's literature has been utilized while serving as a judge for both the 2011 INSPYs Awards as well as the 2010-2012 Cybils Awards. Working as a literacy advocate she helped to co-chair the online event "Share a Story Shape a Future" and founded the "Read-to-Me Picture Book Challenge" that encourages reading to young children. She's also a literacy advocate, classically trained professional flutist and movie lover. Danielle currently resides in the San Luis Obispo area with her two young children and her husband who works locally as an attorney.
Danielle is also a writer, represented by Pam van Hylckama Vlieg for her middle grade novel The Protectorate. She's a member of SCBWI and can frequently be found on Twitter (@the1stdaughter) talking about anything from children's books to the BBC's Sherlock to her own parenting woes & joys.
Marybeth Whalen
Marybeth Whalen is the founder of SheReads.org, a site devoted to spotlighting the best in women's fiction. She is also the wife of Curt, mom of six, and author of four novels, including The Wishing Tree and The Guest Book. Marybeth believes story is the shortest distance to the human heart.
David Lee King
David Lee King is the Digital Services Director at Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, where he plans, implements, and experiments with emerging technology trends. He speaks internationally about emerging trends, website management, digital experience, and social media, and has been published in many library-related journals. David was named a Library Journal Mover and Shaker for 2008. His newest book, Face2Face: Using Facebook, Twitter, and Other Social Media Tools to Create Great Customer Connections, was published in September. David writes the Outside/In column in American Libraries Magazine with Michael Porter, and maintains a blog at http://www.davidleeking.com.
Jane Litte
Jane Litte runs the popular romance review site, DearAuthor.com. It is a site that is peopled with voracious readers, authors, editors, and agents within the romance community. Jane was named as one of Forbes top 10 influencers in books and social media. Harlequin called Dear Author "one of the most respected romance sites in the blogosphere."
Mandy Boles
Mandy Boles writes about books, life and everything in between on her book blog The Well-Read Wife (WellReadWife.com) and her personal blog Mandibles (Mandibles.net). Known as much for her frank discussion of her personal life as she is for her eclectic taste in literature, Mandy has found her audience one post at a time. Mandy has writing credits across the web on sites like Thought Catalog, BlogHer, and Blissfully Domestic, and she regularly contributes reviews to the print publication RT Book Reviews. Mandy is passionate about creating a spirit of unity and fellowship among book bloggers. You can follow Mandy on twitter @WellReadWife.
Pam Van Hylckama
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Andrew Losowsky
Huffington Post
Andrew Losowsky is the Senior Books Editor at The Huffington Post. He's been working on websites since 1997, and has turned a number of online projects into physical books (and vice versa). He has written or edited 14 books, and been a blogger since 2002.
Joshua Kendall
Little Brown
Joshua Kendall is currently an executive editor at Little Brown, where he serves as the editorial director of the Mulholland Books imprint. He has published the work of Warren Ellis, Lawrence Block, Stewart O’Nan, Tana French, Charlie Huston, and Jasper Fforde, among others. He has also edited nonfiction projects from Argo to Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bronx is Burning.
Patrick James Nielsen Hayden
Tor Books
Patrick James Nielsen Hayden is Senior Editor and Manager of Science Fiction at Tor Books. He is a World Fantasy Award and a two-time Hugo Award winner (with nine nominations for the latter award. He is editor for bestselling and award winning authors such as Cory Doctorow, Terry Goodkind, John Scalzi and David Weber. Nielsen Hayden is one of the regular instructors at Viable Paradise, a science fiction writing workshop held on Martha's Vineyard, and has also taught at both U.S. Clarion Workshops. He also acquires and edits short fiction for Tor.com and has been at work on a large reprint anthology project in collaboration with David G. Hartwell, which will publish later this year. Visit him at nielsenhayden.com and/or about.me/patricknh and follow him on Twitter @pnh.
Chelsy Hall
Big Honcho Media
Chelsy Hall began working at Big Honcho Media, a boutique entertainment marketing firm, in 2009 as a Marketing Assistant. She is now the Manager for Marketing and Promotions and oversees the company's book campaigns, which allows her to work with lots of fantastic book bloggers. She also received her Master’s in Library Science last year and reads and sings with pre-kindergarteners on Saturday mornings at the Brooklyn Public Library.
David Gutowski
Largehearted Boy
David Gutowski is a writer and editor of the literature and music website Largehearted Boy. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, dog, and two cats.
Kelly Jensen
Stacked
Kelly Jensen has been blogging at STACKED (stackedbooks.org) for 4 years and works as a teen services and reference librarian in Wisconsin. She is in the process of writing her first book, a guide to contemporary/realistic young adult fiction, for VOYA Press titled "The Real Deal: A VOYA Guide to Contemporary Fiction for the Young Adult Reader."
Robert Mooney
Blogads
Robert Mooney is a Sales Strategist at Blogads. Founded in 2002 Blogads is a pioneer in blog advertising, and continues to help advertisers work with over 3500 top blogs. Prior to joining Blogads, Robert worked at the advertising agency McKinney with clients such as Sherwin Williams, Travelocity, and Sony. It was an award winning advertising campaign for Audi that first led him to discover blog advertising. A long time dj and record collector, Robert enjoys both the art and science of moving crowds.
Sarah Dickman
Odyl
Sarah studied English at Yale and completed the Columbia Publishing Course on her way to an amazing seven years as a Literary Agent and Foreign Rights Director at the Nicholas Ellison Agency, part of Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, where she represented #1 NYT Bestselling authors. She made the transition to Odyl in Summer 2011 leading the adoption of social media as a means to grow an author's platform. Her client base includes all of the Big Six publishers, international publishers in every continent, as well as a multitude of indie publishers and authors. Currently, Sarah is mapping out strategy for Riffle, a revolutionary platform for book discovery. Sarah is originally from the Bay Area, but has near celebrity status for her foursquare lists of New York hotspots. For more info please visit www.odyl.net and www.rifflebooks.com.
Rachel Rivera
Parajunkee
Rachel Rivera, is the founder of the popular book blog, parajunkee.com. Along with offering reviews of popular fiction parajunkee.com, also offers detailed advice and technical assistance on blogging. Rachel is also a web designer and graphic artist, specializing in design for authors and fellow bloggers. If she isn't reading, she's designing.
Stephanie Leary
Word Press Consultant
Stephanie Leary is a freelance web consultant specializing in WordPress sites for the higher education and publishing industries. Her first book, Beginning WordPress 3, was published in 2010 by Apress. A second edition will be out this summer book.
Jim C. Hines
JimCHines.com
Jim C. Hines has been blogging in one form or another since the late nineties, and won a Hugo award in 2012 for his writing about the science fiction and fantasy genre. (Including a series in which he posed like various oddly-contorted cover models, a practice he vehemently does not recommend.) Other themes on his blog include sexism and discrimination in publishing, the state of publishing, and a decent number of book and movie reviews. He’s the author of eight fantasy novels, the most recent of which is LIBRIOMANCER, about a magic-wielding librarian from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula who kills sparkling vampires. You can find him online at http://www.jimchines.com.
Mandi Schreiner
Smexy Books
Mandi Schreiner started Smexy Books in 2009 and reviews romance and urban fantasy books. She also contributes to USA Today's Happy Ever After Blog. In the years she has been blogging, she has learned she can't live without the romance community or Twitter. She has collected several fictional boyfriends along the way and doesn't plan to stop.
Rebecca Joines Schinsky
The Book Lady’s Blog
Rebecca Joines Schinsky is the director of content and community engagement at Riot New Media Group. Her blogging career began in 2008, when she created The Book Lady's Blog. She writes about books, publishing, and the reading life at Book Riot, is a co-founder of Bookrageous, and is hopelessly addicted to productivity tools.
Sarah Wendell
Smart Bitches Trashy Books
Sarah Wendell is author of the book Everything I Know About Love, I Learned from Romance Novels, co-author of the book, Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches’ Guide to Romance Novels, and co-founder of Smart Bitches Trashy Books.com, one of the most popular blogsexamining romance fiction. The site specializes in reviewing romance novels, pondering thehistory and future of the genre in digital form and in print, and bemoaning the enormousprevalence of bodacious pectorals adorning male cover models.
In her quest to celebrate the romance genre and the women who read and write it, Sarah hasappeared on Good Morning America, The Today Show, The Gayle King Show on The OprahWinfrey Network, the Canadian Broadcasting Company’s Steven and Chris Show, and NPR’s All Things Considered. Sarah has written columns on romance releases for The Washington Post, and has been quoted in People Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Post, USA Today, New Jersey Monthly, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Los Angeles Times Book Blog, Redbook, Metro:New York, and Publishers Weekly. You can find Sarah on Twitter@smartbitches, on Facebook, or on her couch, most likely with her eyeglasses turned towards a book.
Cindy Minnich
Nerdy Book Club
Cindy Minnich is a co-facilitator (along with Donalyn Miller and Colby Sharp) of the 2012 IBBA winning Nerdy Book Club blog. She is lucky enough to work with teen readers every day when she goes to work as a high school English teacher in Central Pennsylvania. You can find her on Twitter as @cbethm.
Kristina Radke
NetGalley
Kristina Radke is the Publisher Liaison and Communications Manager at NetGalley. NetGalley is a connection point between publishers and professional readers—over 100,000 bloggers, reviewers, librarians, booksellers, educators and media use NetGalley to discover new titles. Kristina helps publishers use NetGalley effectively and also manages NetGalley’s blog at www.netgalley.tumblr.com. Prior to her work at NetGalley, she worked in marketing at HarperTeen. Follow @NetGalley on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
Thea James
Booksmugglers
Thea James is half of the maniacal book review duo behind The Book Smugglers and a weekly contributor to Kirkus' Science Fiction & Fantasy blog. An M.S. in digital publishing graduate from NYU, by day, Thea manages ebook sales and promotions at Workman Publishing. When she isn't voraciously devouring the latest and greatest in speculative fiction, or swamped in proposals, she can be found blogging, watching horror movies and concocting general plans toward world domination.
Danielle Smith
COMPANY
Danielle Smith is the Editor, Reviewer and Marketer for There's A Book which was named the Best Kidlit Book Blog during the 2010 Book Blogger Appreciation Week. Recently she began a career as an agent at Foreword Literary Agency. Her expertise in children's literature has been utilized while serving as a judge for both the 2011 INSPYs Awards as well as the 2010-2012 Cybils Awards. Working as a literacy advocate she helped to co-chair the online event "Share a Story Shape a Future" and founded the "Read-to-Me Picture Book Challenge" that encourages reading to young children. She’s also a literacy advocate, classically trained professional flutist and movie lover. Danielle currently resides in the San Luis Obispo area with her two young children and her husband who works locally as an attorney.
Danielle is also a writer, represented by Pam van Hylckama Vlieg for her middle grade novel The Protectorate. She’s a member of SCBWI and can frequently be found on Twitter (@the1stdaughter) talking about anything from children's books to the BBC’s Sherlock to her own parenting woes & joys.
Jane Litte
DearAuthor.com
Jane Litte runs the popular romance review site, DearAuthor.com. It is a site that is peopled with voracious readers, authors, editors, and agents within the romance community. Jane was named as one of Forbes top 10 influencers in books and social media. Harlequin called Dear
Author "one of the most respected romance sites in the blogosphere."
Richard Newman
Hinch Newman LLP
Richard Newman is an Internet Lawyer at Hinch Newman LLP specializing in advertising, intellectual property and digital media matters. His practice includes conducting legal compliance reviews of advertising campaigns, representing clients in investigations and enforcement actions brought by the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general, commercial litigation, advising clients on promotional marketing programs, and negotiating and drafting legal agreements.
Mandy Boles
The Well-Read Wife
Mandy Boles writes about books, life and everything in between on her book blog The Well-Read Wife (WellReadWife.com) and her personal blog Mandibles (Mandibles.net). Known as much for her frank discussion of her personal life as she is for her eclectic taste in literature, Mandy has found her audience one post at a time. Mandy has writing credits across the web on sites like Thought Catalog, BlogHer, and Blissfully Domestic, and she regularly contributes reviews to the print publication RT Book Reviews. Mandy is passionate about creating a spirit of unity and fellowship among book bloggers. You can follow Mandy on twitter @WellReadWife.
Jenn Lawrence
Jenn’s Bookshelves
Jenn has been blogging at Jenn's Bookshelves since March of 2008. When she's not reading or spending time with her two boys and incredibly supportive husband, Jenn's hanging out at One More Page Books in Arlington, Virginia where she leads the fiction book club. Jenn is also very active in her town's literary community, providing books and resources to low-income children.
Tirzah Price
The Compulsive Reader
Tirzah Price has been blogging about Young Adult literature at thecompulsivereader.com for six years. She is a bookseller at Great Lakes Book & Supply in Big Rapids, MI and speaks at local schools about the importance of literacy and YA literature. She has taught creative writing classes and will begin the Creative Writing for Children & Young Adults MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts in July.
Wanda Jewell
Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance
Wanda Jewell has been the Executive Director of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance for over 20 years. Before that she was a school librarian for over 10 years. And before that she was an avid reader of Nancy Drew, The Borrowers, The Secret Garden, Nurses Who Led the Way, Little Women, Charlotte's Web, Flowers for Algernon and Flowers in the Attic. Wanda loves the world of books! She hails from Columbia, SC where she hangs out with her first husband of 30+ years, Patrick Calhoun, 2 cats, Cannonball & Roger, and perfect pup, Sidney.
Cheryl Klein
Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic
Cheryl Klein is the executive editor at Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic, where she works with such wonderful authors as Trent Reedy, Elizabeth C. Bunce, Katherine Paterson, Francisco X. Stork, and Sarwat Chadda, and on many exciting debuts. The author of SECOND SIGHT: AN EDITOR’S TALKS ON WRITING, REVISING, AND PUBLISHING BOOKS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS, she has blogged since 2005 at http://chavelaque.blogspot.com. You can follow her on Twitter at @chavelaque.
Deb Noyes
Candlewick Press
Deb Noyes is an editor-at-large at Candlewick Press, specializing in young adult fiction—particularly crossover, speculative, and fantasy—and, more recently, graphic novels. She has been with Candlewick for the past fifteen years in both the Editorial and Marketing departments, and some of the authors/creators she works with are Melina Marchetta, Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant, David Almond, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Sonya Hartnett, Matt Phelan, Leonard Marcus, and L.A. Weatherly. She also writes for children and adults. Her newest young adult novel, Plague in the Mirror, comes out June 2013.
Evie Seo
Bookish
Evie Seo is the blog owner of Bookish (evie-bookish.blogspot.com) and a blog designer. She has been blogging young adult and adult book reviews for nearly four years and designing fully customized vector graphics and blog layouts for close to two. She specializes in tailor-made designs that reflect the personality and style of her clients. Evie has worked in the field of advertising, design and fine art for close to five years. The experience she gained there, paired with her love of anything book-related, allowed her to quickly grow and expand her on-line presence.
Evie lives with her husband and dog, Wilson, in Buffalo, NY. Reading has been her great passion since early childhood.
Randi Zuckerberg
Zuckerberg Media
Randi Zuckerberg is the CEO and Founder of Zuckerberg Media, a new digital and traditional media and production company, and Editor-in-Chief of Dot Complicated, a modern lifestyle newsletter and blog. Previously, Zuckerberg served as the Marketing Director for Facebook for six years, where she struck groundbreaking deals with ABC (for the first online-offline presidential debates) and CNN (to cover Barack Obama’s inauguration). She was ranked among one of the “50 Digital Power Players” by the Hollywood Reporter.
Will Schwalbe
Hyperion Books
Will Schwalbe has worked in publishing (most recently as senior vice president and editor in chief of Hyperion Books); digital media, as the founder and CEO of Cookstr.com; and as a journalist, writing for various publications including The New York Times and the South China Morning Post. He is on the boards of Yale University Press and the Kingsborough Community College Foundation. He is the coauthor, with David Shipley, of Send: Why People Email So Badly and How to Do It Better, and his most recent book is The End of Your Life Book Club out in paperback from Vintage Books in June 2013.
Hut Landon
Northern California Independent Booksellers Association (NCIBA)
Hut Landon is executive director of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association (NCIBA), a position he has held for 17 years. In 1999, under Hut’s guidance, the association created Book Sense, a regional branding effort for independent bookstores that eventually became a national marketing campaign. Out of Book Sense grew IndieBound, a socially-conscious movement in support of independent businesses and shopping locally, starting with indie bookstores. Hut has worked in retail as well, as owner of an independent bookstore, Landon Books in Mill Valley, for 14 years. Prior to that, he was assistant publisher and managing editor of the award-winning Marin weekly newspaper, Pacific Sun, for 10 years. He graduated with a B.A. in Journalism from UC Berkeley and has lived in San Francisco for 30 years. He is married with a 16-year-old son.
Malle Vallik
Harlequin
Malle Vallik is the Director of Digital Editorial Initiatives for Harlequin. She leads the development of Harlequin’s new Series Digital First programs including Cosmo’s Red Hot Reads from Harlequin and oversees Carina Press. As well, she focuses on author services including the recently launched Harlequin Author Network which provides up-to-date sales information and marketing tips and a full-time concierge to answer questions. Industry firsts include: creation of online author social media training; launch of prequels/bridges to support author growth; launch of the first digital-first imprint (Carina Press) by a large publisher; lead in ebook revolution as first publisher to offer 100% frontlist in digital format in 2007; and developed original serial content in 1999.
Along with being a fan of romance novels, Malle has written seven romances under the pen name Molly Liholm.
Malle is a frequent speaker at conferences like Tools of Change, Digital Book World, Book Expo of America, International Digital Publishing Forum, and Romance Writers of America. She has been quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Globe & Mail, and “Spark” a CBC Radio show.
Mary-Theresa Hussey
Harlequin
Mary-Theresa Hussey is an Executive Editor with Harlequin. In her twenty-plus years with the company she’s acquired over twenty-five debut authors and edited more than 600 titles for various Harlequin imprints, including Harlequin Desire, Romantic Suspense, Special Edition, LUNA, MIRA, and TEEN as well as upcoming Harlequin E (Digital First) projects. She’s edited multiple titles that have hit the New York Times bestsellers list, including works from Mercedes Lackey, Michelle Sagara, Maria V. Snyder, and Rachel Vincent. She can be found at @matrice on Twitter.
Eric Smith
Quirk Books
Eric Smith is the social media and marketing manager at Quirk Books. He's also the co-founder of Geekadelphia and the Philly Geek Awards. His first book with Quirk, The Geek's Guide to Dating, comes out this December. Follow him on Twitter at @ericsmithrocks.
April Conant
Good Books and Good Wine
April is the founder of Good Books And Good Wine. She has been a book blogger since 2009. Good Books And Good Wine started on blogspot but moved over to Wordpress in 2010. She is especially interested in SEO and utilizing social media. By day, she is a community educator for her local crisis intervention center. In her free time she can be found reading, working out, or eating junk food. She often wears her sunglasses at night.
Jen Doll
The Atlantic
Jen Doll is a senior writer at The Atlantic Wire, where she focuses on culture, lifestyle, books, and language. Her column, Y.A. for Grownups, focuses on young adult fiction new and old. Before joining the Wire she was a staff writer at the Village Voice; prior to that she served as the copy chief and the managing editor of Radar magazine. Her work has also appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, U.S. News and World Report, and on websites including The Hairpin, The Guardian, and AOL.com. Her memoir about being a frequent wedding guest is forthcoming from Penguin/Riverhead.
Emily Meehan
Disney-Hyperion
Emily Meehan is Editorial Director of Teen at Disney-Hyperion. She is responsible for the shaping of the overall Disney-Hyperion YA list and the creation of new IP, as well as her own list of YA and middle grade books. Her list includes The Darkest Minds series by Alexandra Bracken, the At Somerton series by Leila Rasheed and authors Rachel Cohn and Melissa de la Cruz among many others. She began her career at Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, where over the course of her ten years there she developed and acquired best-selling books and series such as the Hush, Hush saga by Becca Fitzpatrick and the Summer trilogy by Jenny Han. You can follow her on Twitter @sourskittle.
Professor Geanne Rosenberg
Baruch College
Geanne Perlman Rosenberg, a journalist and attorney, is a professor at Baruch College of the City University of New York and CUNY Journalism, a faculty associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and a member of the board of directors of the Student Press Law Center. Her areas of expertise include: 1. Media law and empowering those engaged in public interest journalism with media law education and resources; 2. News literacy and information quality and media law education to help teenagers and adults become empowered, discerning consumers of and contributors to news and other online information including in their social networking activities. Geanne directs the Harnisch Journalism Projects and is the principal investigator of McCormick Foundation, Carnegie Corporation, Moore Foundation and Kellogg Foundation-supported projects relating to media law, journalism education, youth education and empowerment, and news literacy. Geanne has written for the New York Times, the National Law Journal, Columbia Journalism Review, and many other news outlets and has provided pro bono legal services to the Associated Press in support of freedom of information appeals. She has a J.D. from Columbia University’s School of Law, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar; an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism; and a B.A. in English from Bryn Mawr College.
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