PAT MORRIS is past president of the Midwest Independent Publishers Association (MIPA), an organization trying to make sense of this crazy publishing industry. She's been a professional editor for over 30 years, but obnoxiously corrected people's grammar long before that. Her clients include the Federal government, corporations, novelists, children's book authors, memoirists, and everything in between. Pat is the author of two nonfiction books.
BILL HAMMOND is former sales manager of Little, Brown and publisher at the Hazelden Foundation, he has served as a business consultant to numerous publishing companies nation-wide. He is the author of three historical novels published by the Naval Institute Press (another will be released this fall). He’s also been an agent and has served as project editor for a number of local authors and corporations.