ANNE KOSTICK

DIGITAL STRATEGY, EDITORIAL DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT, CONTENT DEVELOPMENT, USER EXPERIENCE (UX) DESIGN, CHILDREN’S EDUCATION AND ENTERTAINMENT, AUDIOBOOKS, PUBLISHING OPTIONS

Anne is a writer, editor, producer and partner in Foxpath IND, where she consults on digital publishing for web and print content and experience design in ebook development and education. Her clients at Foxpath IND include arts and cultural institutions, book publishers, and technology and business services. She is a frequent industry conference and webcast producer, moderator, and speaker. Since the Web was born, Anne has been fascinated with UX and interactive design, especially now, at the intersection of print and digital reading. Her occasional column, “Digital Reading,” discusses UX and related topics in ebooks and digital reading. A member of UXPA, Anne is also program director of the annual Digital Book Awards; emerita president of Women’s Media Group; an advisory board member of BEA Educational Conference and advisory board chair of Library For All. She is the author of several children’s books and a definitive collection of jokes.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annekostick
Twitter: @bklynanne
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/anne.kostick

CHARLOTTE ABBOTT

CONTENT DEVELOPMENT particularly for non-fiction authors and journalists on subjects of memoir, business, current affairs, women’s studies, adoption, lesbian and gay studies, African American studies, mind/body/spirit, nature and the environment, and photography.

Charlotte Abbott is a publishing journalist and digital content strategist who has developed a large and loyal online community of authors, publishers, booksellers, librarians, book bloggers, and e-reading innovators, via weekly discussions on Twitter (#followreader). In her 20 years in the book industry, she has been a reporter and editor for Publishers Weekly, a publishing commentator on National Public Radio, a book critic supervising more than 1000 reviews a year, and an acquiring book editor at HarperCollins and Avon Books. Most recently, she has been advising authors and retailers on how to maximize their online visibility through strategic content development, including social media, blogs and traditional media. She is a board member of the Women’s Media Group and has served as a judge of several noted literary awards.

Twitter: @charabbott

RON HOGAN

E-MAIL MARKETING, ONLINE MARKETING, SOCIAL MEDIA, BOOK BLOGGERS, EDITORIAL DEVELOPMENT

Ron Hogan helped create the literary Internet by launching Beatrice.com in 1995. He spent several years writing about the business side of publishing as a senior editor for GalleyCat, briefly worked with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as their director of e-marketing strategy, and was part of the inaugural editorial team at Regan Arts, where he published critically acclaimed novels by Beth Hahn, Kermit Roosevelt, Lev AC Rosen, and Karolina Waclawiak.

These days, he’s using all that experience to help publishing companies and individual authors develop stronger connections with their readers. He speaks frequently at book festivals and publishing conferences about how to make the best use of social networking tools, advances in digital publishing, and other transformative trends in the publishing industry.

Ron can also offer Developmental Editing to help fine-tune your novel or narrative non-fiction manuscript as you work toward the clearest possible expression of your voice and your story.

Ron maintains an active presence in New York’s literary scene, including Lady Jane’s Salon, the city’s only monthly reading series dedicated to romance fiction. In addition to regular posts at Beatrice, Ron also writes book reviews and literary features for several other publications.

Twitter: @RonHogan
Facebook: facebook.com/RonHogan
Website: RonHogan.net

RICH KELLEY

CONTENT DEVELOPMENT with special interest in science and technology, American literature; EMAIL MARKETING; SEO; SEM; SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING, SYSTEMS INTEGRATION, WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT

Rich is Strategic Partner, VP of BRIDGET MARMION BOOK MARKETING

Rich’s thirty years in publishing include stints as editor, editorial director, director of subsidiary rights, marketing director, director of online services, and general manager. Having spent more than twenty years marketing books directly to consumer and specialty audiences, both in print and online, Rich specializes today in consulting in online marketing (including email, SEO/SEM, and analytics), social media marketing, and content development/marketing. For two years, from its launch in July 2010 through October 2012, Rich edited The Reader’s Almanac, the popular blog of The Library of America.

Twitter: @rpmkel
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/richkelley
Facebook: facebook.com/richkelley

LAURA ROSS

EDITING NONFICTION AND FICTION; GHOSTWRITING; EDITORIAL COLLABORATION; CONSULTATION ON PUBLISHING AND SELF-PUBLISHING

Laura Ross is an author, editor, and publishing consultant with more than thirty years’ experience in New York book publishing. She has served as Editorial Director at Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers and Theatre Communications Group; Vice President/Director of Marketing at Pocket Books; Director of Advertising and Promotion at Simon & Schuster and Penguin Books; and the co-proprietor of a book-packaging firm, Cognoscenti Books. Over all that time, she has also worked as a journalist, book doctor, and ghostwriter.

In 2008, she turned full-time to independent editorial work with a focus on writing and editing nonfiction. She has ghostwritten a variety of memoirs and works of narrative nonfiction for clients including HarperCollins, Sterling, Quayside, and Stone Song Press. Her attributed works include a series of annotated classics, a wellness book, and several works of history—notably, Traveling the Silk Road and Theodore Roosevelt: A Passion to Lead (both Sterling Publishing). She lives in New York City.