We are delighted to announce that our Board of Experts is taking shape. Each month, we’ll feature an article and a teleclass offered by a member of our Board. Our carefully chosen experts will speak on topics that will help members build a stronger, more stable writing or editing business. We’re honored to have each of them on Board!
So far, the Board includes:
Shel Horowitz: The Ethical/Grassroots Marketing Expert 
Shel is widely known as an “Ethical Marketing Expert, Writer, Speaker, Consultant, Community Organizer, Frugalist” and the founder of the Business Ethics Pledge movement. His many books, including Principled Profit and Grassroots Marketing for Authors and Publishers have inspired entrepreneurs and writers to create successful businesses with ethical relationship-based marketing. His knowledge of the writing and entrepreneurial worlds is both wide and deep, and he looks forward to sharing that knowledge with others.
Claudia Suzanne: The Ghostwriting Expert (Teleclass: July 2009)
Claudia Suzanne, a ghostwriting expert and recognized book-industry authority, has ghosted and edited over 100 titles, including nonfiction bestsellers, award-winning novels, and celebrated business titles. Secrets of a Ghostwriter, Suzanne’s definitive book on the skills, theory, and politics of ghostwriting, is used in her Ghostwriter Certification Training course, currently the only program that certifies ghostwriters. Through her books, teaching, and mentoring, Claudia has launched or expanded dozens of ghostwriting and book-industry careers, and she looks forward to sharing that expertise with NAIWE members.
Maya Frost: The Freelance Lifestyle Expert
Maya Frost, author of The New Global Student, has successfully managed a freelance career while living an abundant, freelance lifestyle with her family. She is currently living and working in Buenos Aires. She’ll share her expertise in managing a freelance career from abroad, and her insights on how to successfully create the freelance life you want to live.
Peter Bowerman: The Well-Fed Freelancing Expert Peter Bowerman is a veteran commercial freelance writer and business coach, and the author of the award-winning Book-of-the-Month Club selection, The Well-Fed Writer, TWFW: Back For Seconds, and The Well-Fed Self-Publisher: How to Turn One Book into a Full-Time Living. Peter will share strategies and techniques he’s learned about maintaining a steady flow of happy clients and creating multiple streams of income in order to remain well-fed.
Paulette Ensign: The Tips Booklet Expert Paulette Ensign has personally sold well over a million copies of her own tips booklet, ‘110 Ideas for Organizing Your Business Life,’ without spending a penny on advertising. Paulette has unwittingly become The Booklet Queen since writing her booklet in 1991. With a sense of humor and a ‘can-do’ attitude, Paulette shares her experiences with clients and audiences worldwide, through her consulting, speaking, and teleseminar services and products. She’ll provide an expert perspective on creating and profiting from a unique specialty, along with instructions for using Twitter .
Mary Jo Tate: The “Tell Me Your Book” Expert Mary Jo received her B.A. in English and philosophy from the University of Mississippi and an M.A. in English from the University of South Carolina., as well as many seminars on writing, publishing, and marketing. She created the Tell Me Your Book niche to help people with great ideas transfer them to paper. Mary Jo will share advice for entrepreneurial authors.
Barbara McNichol : The Editorial Expert Barbara is the author of Word Trippers: The Ultimate Source for Choosing the Perfect Word When It Really Matters, and has an overflowing portfolio of books she has edited. She is active in several professional associations, including the National Speakers Association, and enjoys an active professional life.
Jim and Linda Salisbury: The Smart Self-Publishing Experts Jim Salisbury is the publisher of Tabby House, a company that specializes in quality book packaging for authors and small press. He is past president of the Florida Publishers Association and, with his wife, Linda, is co-author of Smart Self-Publishing: An author’s guide to producing a marketable book, (3rd edition), and The Tabby House Breezy Guide to Charlotte County and Southwest Florida. Tabby House has advised or produced books for nearly 400 authors and publishers since it was founded in 1990.Linda Salisbury, a former newspaper columnist and editor with the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, is now a freelance writer, book reviewer, and senior editor at Tabby House. Linda has written several children’s books including the seven-book Bailey Fish Adventure series, and Mudd Saves the Earth. She has won prestigious awards including a bronze medal in the 2006 Moonbeam Children’s Book award in the pre-teen fiction category and was a finalist in the 2008 ForeWord magazine Book of the Year Contest, and earned the President’s Pick Award in the FPA best children’s books contest. She is the author of two collections of humorous newspaper columns, Good-by, Tomato; Hello, Florida and Read My Lips: No New Pets. Linda is a graduate of Oberlin College, with a degree in English.Together, the Salisburys offer seminars on self-publishing, and Linda also speaks about writing children’s books and presents numerous school programs. They will provide expert advice for writers and editors who serve the self-publishing industry, as well as those considing self-publishing.
