ePublishing

VABook! hosts 1st Independent eBook Awards

Douglas Clegg is the author of nine traditional print-published novels, and one previous e-Novel, Naomi, soon available in hardcover. He is winner of the Bram Stoker Award and the International Horror Guild Award for his collection, The Nightmare Chronicles.










John Feldcamp is Xlibris’ chief strategist and one of the original creators of the publishing services business model. Prior to founding Xlibris, he was VP of Operations at Oki Business Digital.

Carol Fitzgerald is the founder/president of Bookreporter.com. Before logging onto the Internet for the first time in 1995, she spent 17 years at Mademoiselle magazine in promotion and marketing.


Robert L. Garthwaite, Jr. is Franklin Electronics’ VP of Worldwide Sales and Marketing. He played a critical role in developing and bringing to market a variety of Franklin's core products and advanced technologies, including the BOOKMAN line. He lives in Shamong, New Jersey.


Angela Adair-Hoy is co-owner of Writers Weekly.com and Booklocker.com. Through Booklocker.com, Adair-Hoy has helped more than 800 authors publish their books online.

Pauline Baird Jones is the award-winning author of four novels published in a variety of formats. Her third novel, Do Wah Diddy…Die was the first ebook to be optioned for film. Her latest e- and hardcover release is Byte Me.


Mayapriya Long, Charlottesville resident, is an award-winning publication designer who has worked in newspapers, magazines, books and ebooks. In 1993 she started Bookwrights Design, a design studio for publishers of all sizes, and her articles have appeared in various e-magazines.


Laura Miller is New York editorial director for Salon.com. Her criticism and book reviews have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post Book World, the Village Voice, the San Francisco Examiner and the New York Observer.


Laura Nolan is the senior editor of Barnes & Noble Digital, the eBook publishing division of Barnes & Noble.com. She was a literary agent for ten years, most recently with Sobel Weber Associates,Inc. She held the first ever eBook auction in July 2000 for a collection of works by James Ellroy called "Breakneck Pace."


J. Stephen Pendergrast, Jr. comes from a technology background, and was a distinguished software engineer at AT&T Bell Laboratories in the early 1990s. In 1996 he founded an Internet training software company that was acquired in 1997. He served as Chief Technology Officer for the acquiring company and was bought out in 1999. He co-founded Fictionwise.com with his brother Scott Pendergrast in June, 2000.










M.J. Rose, author of In Fidelity, Lip Service and How to Publish and Promote Online, was dubbed the "Queen of E-Books" by Publishers Weekly for being the first self-published e-book to be picked up by a major book club and sold to a major NY publisher. Ten percent of the proceeds from her books go to Yale New Haven Organ Transplant Unit.


Sunny Ross is the founder of Mystic-Ink, one of the first online communities for writers, and co-creator of the Independent e-Book Awards. Through Mystic-Ink and the e-Book-Studio, Ross connects the pioneers of e-publishing with readers who are embracing electronic literature.


David Seaman, director of the internationally recognized UVa Electronic Text Center, has taught etext and internet courses in the annual summer Book Arts Press Rare Book School at Virginia, and he has a particular interest in the Special Collections and museums applications of computer technologies.


R. Micheal Segroves is Vice President ofPeanutPress.com, an e-book publisher. He was the founder of Modern Age Books.


Diane Zoi is the director of Amazon.com's Advantage Program, which enables independent publishers and authors to sell their titles. Prior to joining Amazon.com, she was in Marketing at Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. in San Francisco. Zoi has an MBA from Stanford University and is a graduate of Colgate University.