Jennifer Belle is the best-selling author of four novels, The Seven Year Bitch, published May, 2010, Little Stalker, High Maintenance, and Going Down.  Her critically acclaimed novels have been translated into many languages and optioned for film and television by Madonna, Das Films, HBO and Fox. In 1996 she was named Best Debut Novelist of the year by Entertainment Weekly. Belle’s essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Observer, The Independent Magazine(London), Cosmopolitan, Ms., Harper’s Bazaar, and several anthologies. She lives in New York City where she teaches writing workshops and is proud to be on the advisory board of the New York Writers Coalition.

Tamiko Beyer’s poetry has appeared in diode, Sonora Review, OCHO, Copper Nickel Review and elsewhere. She has received several fellowships and grants, including a Kundiman fellowship, a grant from the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund, and an Olin and Chancellor’s Fellowship from Washington University in St. Louis where she is currently an M.F.A. candidate. She is the poetry editor of Drunken Boat, and a founding member of Agent 409: a queer, multi-racial writing collective in New York City. Find her online at wonderinghome.com and blogging at kenyonreview.org .

Betsy Hulsebosch is a publishing professional and book-marketing expert with more than two decades of experience in trade publishing houses.  Her work includes developing traditional and non-traditional sales, author-branding, and franchise extension promotion strategies; consulting on acquisitions and imprint development; instituting system analysis; and creative advertising execution with media planning in print, radio, television, and electronic platforms.  Her specific efforts range from complete online marketing campaigns, directing website design, email list building, SEO, and social networking concepts, to hosting virtual reality events that were among the first author appearances to be webcast internationally. She has been instrumental in the bestselling careers of authors Sophie Kinsella, Dean Koontz, Luanne Rice, and Lee Child; she has spearheaded branding efforts for the estate of Louis L’Amour, Spectra, The Bantam Classics/Bantam Classics Shakespeare, and The Dial Press. Betsy has been a featured presenter on book marketing at The Denver Publishing Institute, has consulted with the NYU Center for Publishing, serves on the Books for a Better Life Executive Committee, and is a former board member of the Publishers Advertising and Marketing Association. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.