Pavarti K Tyler is an artist, wife, mother and number-cruncher who has been committed to causing trouble since her first moment on this Earth. Her eclectic career has flirted with Broadway, Teaching, Law Firms and the IRS. Her unique experience as a dramaturge, both on and off Broadway, has provided her the opportunity to work closely with many playwrights and directors.  This allows Pavarti to consider both the literary and audience perspective.

Pavarti enjoys stories that offer something unexpected.  Pavarti prefers well-crafted, expertly executed yarns that the reader can become entangled in. Currently she is hard at work establishing her Indie Publishing Company Fighting Monkey Press, as well as promoting her serialized novel Two Moons of Sera.  Her next novel, Shadow on the Wall, is a work of literary fiction scheduled for release in Early 2012.

You can find her via email or on her blog, Facebook, Twitter, or, GoodReads and just about anywhere else authors congregate!

Rob W. Hart is a writer with a background in journalism and public relations. His reading interests are wide and varied, but he has a special place in his heart for hardboiled and noir crime stories, as well as science fiction. His passion is and always has been good writing, which he believes can come in any form.

He is also the website and social media administrator forMysteriousPress.com, a publishing house bringing classic works of crime, mystery and suspense to digital reading formats. In his spare time, he writes news and columns about the publishing industry and the craft of writing atLitReactor. Previously, he spent four years as a journalist at a daily newspaper, and four years as the communications director for a high-ranking politician. He recently completed his first novel, and his most recent publishing credit is Second Chance, a short story at Shotgun Honey.

He lives in New York City with his wife and two terrible cats. You can find him via e-mail and Twitter.

Kimberly Kinrade was born with ink in her veins and magic in her heart. Always entrepreneurial in nature, when her business relationship with the Tooth Fairy ended (she ran out of teeth to sell), she began selling her fantastical short stories to the neighbors. (These were far easier for her to produce than more teeth.)

Kimberly writes all things paranormal and fantastical and is the Marketing Director for Evolved Publishing and co-founder of WordOne2Done.com, a free site that teaches the craft and business of writing, marketing and publishing and features a YA Book Club.

The book that changed Kimberly’s life is The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis. Kimberly has always secretly (or not so secretly) believed that any moment she will find a magic doorway to another world. In the meantime, she writes about those worlds. She is a voracious reader, and while she enjoys all types of novels, YA paranormal novels and fantasy are her favorite. Forbidden Mind is her first YA paranormal novel, with many more to come.

Kimberly can be reached via email, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Amazon Author page or GoodReads. You can also learn more about her by visiting her author website: www.KimberlyKinrade.com.

Donna is a long time book reviewer and the recent founder of The Indie Exchange, a website aimed at bringing readers and bloggers together with independently/ small press/ self published authors.  She has devoured books from an early age and writes short stories as and when inspiration hits.  She is married to fantasy author David M. Brown and has managed his book’s marketing and promotional campaign since its launch in May 2011.

Donna has been providing editorial and proofing support for almost a decade, primarily for non-fiction works and reports and more recently for fictional pieces.  She sets up and maintains blogs for a range of clients, including authors, artists and linguists and is passionate about encouraging and supporting independently and self published authors Her blog, Book Bags and Cat Naps, regularly features new and upcoming writers.

Donna has lived in many different areas of the UK over the last 31 years but has remained in Yorkshire for the past decade.  She ardently disputes the misnomer that ‘It’s grim up north’. You can connect with Donna on  Google+,  Facebook,  Twitter,  LinkedIn, and Goodreads, or visit her blogs at Book Bags and Cat Naps and The Indie Exchange.

Coral Russell successfully stole her Kindergarten primer, thus sealing her fate. Her addiction to reading has led her around by her nose all of her life, and she doesn’t consider a second of that time wasted. Having time on her hands in 2010 after five and half years of teaching English Language Learners how to read and write, she dove head first into the fascinating world of eBooks, where she has encountered diverse new authors and seen the value of introducing readers to up and coming writers.

Traveling is her second love. She lived in Korea and Mexico, traveled to Canada, and visited forty-seven states in the US before finally settling down in the desert in Texas. In 2003 she won the McCaleb Peace Initiative and traveled back to Korea to study the continuing ceasefire between North and South Korea. The project resulted in the publication of Peace on the Peninsula. She has gone on to publish Playing with Fire, Amador Lockdown, and the DIY Guide to Social Media Marketing and eBook Publishing, which is also available as an on-line class with Udemy.

She can be reached via email, Facebook, Twitter, G+, Goodreads, Linkedin and her blog at My Stalker Package.

Leah’s love affair with reading began at age 5, when she would take her parents’ Reader’s Digest and read the funny anecdotes. Over the years, she moved on to teen books and series and eventually to novels from her mother’s collection. Leah loves reading books of all genres but gravitates towards fantasy and adventure books.

Leah found her voice through writing in 6^th grade when she became a columnist for the school paper. A self-confessed introvert, she used writing to express herself and sort out her thoughts. She wrote poems and kept a journal but didn’t pursue a writing career. Instead she worked in human resources consulting and kept a blog on the side. Eight years later, she finally decided to become a full-time freelance writer.

Leah is now busy trying to get her freelance groove by reading more and writing more. Her determination to become a “true” writer landed her on the Novel Publicity website, where she signed up as a blog tour host and eventually got invited to join the team.

Aside from writing, and reading, Leah also loves to play ultimate Frisbee and is contemplating her first major writing project. She writes about her new freelancer life at her blog. You can also reach her on Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, and via email.

Marie has depended on books all her life – for entertainment, for emotional support, and for escape. Marie enjoys writing on her blog, Write Panic Live, where she shares the high, lows and in-betweens of living with mental illness, her path to becoming a published writer, and all the books she reads along the way.

While she has worked many jobs over the years and has a wealth of college education under her belt, her first love has always been writing. In the spring of 2011 she picked up her favorite pen and grabbed a notebook to begin writing her current WIP, “Route 6”. Never one to take a single project under her belt, she has several “pots on the stove.” Most recently she has started developing a business (the WPL) to share her love of crafted items, a charity (My Missing Stitch) she hopes will spread the hobby of knitting/crocheting to those in need, and taking on developing two series of children’s books to promote social awareness.

Marie lives in Minnesota with her four bunnies (Hershey, Reeses, Coco and Frank) and a several hundred strong “frog” collection.

You can find her on Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, Google+, and Tout as well as a few other places.

When it comes to publishing, Kira McFadden is passionate and deeply invested in seeing the success of the authors she works with. Kira has worked as an editor and project manager for Big Earth Publishing, in association with Westcliffe Publishers, as well as HardMagic Press. Reading, writing, and editing, not surprisingly, have shaped her love of literature over the years. While series such as “Animorphs” drove her childhood dream to write, it was “The Color of Distance” by Amy Thompson that really changed her perspective of literature as a whole.

For the last few years, Kira has been steadily compiling data on publishing and applying it to her own work. She is very interested in researching trends, such as the emerging market in ePublishing, and helping authors do the same. Her devotion to studying and understanding literary structure is one of the driving forces behind her love of editing. When it comes down to it, though, editing isn’t just about making something sound good. It’s about bringing the author’s vision to life.

You may follow Kira on Twitter, find her on Facebook, follow her blog, and visit her webpage at http://inrugia.zxq.net Also, please feel free to contact her by e-mail at kira@novelpublicity.com.

Julie began to wield a pen when she was seven years old, composing books for school assignments. She grew to love the craft and has been writing in some form or other ever since. Though she attempted crude novelettes in junior high and abysmal poetry in high school, personal essays became her forte in college. She has been creating them ever since. Clichés infuriate Julie, and one life goal is to eliminate them completely from the English language; progress has been slow. She moonlights as a preschool teacher during spare hours, which offers ample subject matter for the written word, and she finds that working with children develops her as a person and a professional.

Reading is a grand passion and always has been. She admits freely that mysteries are an addiction, having completed the entire works of Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers at least four times over. Anne Lamott’s books smashed her notions of what a thoughtful, funny, appealing essay should look like, and Lamott remains one of her most beloved authors. Julie graduated from George Fox University and credits her professors there with shaping her mind to be open and honest and teaching her to always avoid the obvious.

Julie can be reached via email.

Mallory Rock has been an aspiring artist from a very young age, winning her first fine artist award in elementary school at the ripe old age of 8. She wrote short stories throughout her childhood, which she still has in her vast array of journals. The artist blood that runs through her veins also shines through in her musical endeavors: playing drums and singing. She has no shortage of artistic talent and inspiration, which she puts to great use as a graphic artist and photographer. Mallory’s accomplishments to date include designing everything from professional websites to animated web graphics and signatures to T-shirts and vehicle ad graphics.

An avid reader from a young age, Mallory enjoys books across many genres but has a very fervid love of YA dystopian novels. She has been known to devour up to a book a day when her busy schedule permits. Mallory enjoys combining her love of literary works with her artistic skills to help authors bring their work to life visually.

Mallory can be reached via email, Twitter, or Facebook. You can also find her on her company System Skin’s website, where she enjoys designing web graphics, and skin kit designs for devices such as e-readers, cell phones, and more.

Damon Xeda cannot draw. However, he’s pretty handy with a computer and a good creative brief. Damon also cannot write, but he’s an avid reader of pretty much any genre and has a knack for visualizing and creating some kick-ass covers. At least that’s what this profile says, so it must be true. Some people say that Damon Xeda is a nice guy. Those people are related to Damon; however, it’s possible that this flattering yet somewhat bland description is, in fact, true. What is certainly true is that he is committed to producing top quality covers that catch potential readers’ attention, at least long enough for them to pick up or click on the book that it represents.

Damon has 15 years experience in design, at least 10 of which could be considered as pretty good (hey, we don’t all start off brilliant.) He has 2 naughty kids, a grumpy cat and a very understanding wife, considering the hours he puts into his design work.

Damon is also a man of few words, which is why this profile is so short. However, if you would like some more words, you can e-mail him.

Terry Tracy’s gift for art and her love for books have combined over the years into an affinity for children’s books and art books. She began collecting picture books many years ago and doesn’t intend on stopping her collection any time soon.

Terry continued pursuing her passions at Mott College, where she received honors for drawing. Other recognition included a scholarship at the Center for Creative studies in Detroit for Fine Art and Design, which only solidified her artistic zeal.

In addition to owning Art Venture Gallery and selling her work to many other galleries, Terry also involves herself in community events. The highlight of her life was a trip to Africa where she taught children art and later illustrated a calendar that was used to raise funds for children in Africa.

Terry enjoys working with writers to help them express their characters through art and to make their visions come alive to the reader. In providing artistic insight, she draws on her own experience creating covers for authors such as Jack Loshaw and Scott Wilkerson.

Terry is currently working on a illustrating a children’s story that she wrote, entitled Tiffany Turtle. She also recently expanded her expertise in media through the filming of her Art Classes on DVDs. You can learn more about Terry by viewing her work on her web site www.Art-N-Adventure.com.

Emily Rae Robles is something of a literary prodigy, and we’re so glad to have found her!  Growing up her dream was to become a professional reader, not the more commonplace ballerina or veterinarian. Her parents often punished her by taking away her reading privileges back then. She credits CS Lewis and Chaim Potok for changing her view on literature and life.

Emily Rae likes to be inundated with words and enjoys reading any and everything, especially books for or about children. She admires any author that is motivated and passionate enough to complete a full work and is genuinely interested in furthering the careers of others. So far she has written mostly short stories, poetry, and book reviews, but we know she has a novel in her somewhere. Emily Rae’s official role with Novel Publicity is that of the apprentice. Emlyn plans to teach the hard-working and sharp-witted Emily Rae everything she already knows plus everything she’s going to learn along the way. Long live Novel Publicity!

Emily Rae can be reached via email or Twitter. You can also learn more about her by visiting her blog, The Paradoxymoron:  www.emilyraerobles.wordpress.com.

Although she has loved books from an early age, Vicky never thought she would one day join the blogging world and become a reviewer herself. However, she firmly believes that starting her own blog has been the best decision in her life so far, and she enjoys every minute of it. Born and raised in Hungary, Vicky is currently studying British literature and culture at the University of Debrecen and hopes to fulfil her lifelong dream of moving to the United Kingdom as soon as she graduates. She hopes she’ll be able to work in publishing someday, but she’s looking forward to seeing what the future holds for her.

Although Vicky enjoys a great variety of genres, murder mysteries will always hold a special place in her heart. Her all time favorite author is Agatha Christie (having read almost 30 of her books so far) but she’s fond of Marian Keyes, Sophie Kinsella, Jane Austen and Sue Townsend as well.

When she’s not reading or studying, Vicky runs a blog at Books, Biscuits, and Tea and makes blog designs at her own design studio, Sweet Dreams Design.

You can contact Vicky via her blog, on Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads or email.

Eliabeth Hawthorne is a recent college graduate whose background in international business and Japanese brings a unique skill set to the team. A writer, reader, and thoughtful organizer, she came to us as one of the Novel Publicity blog hosts, and now she is here to stay.

Eliabeth loves complicated book series that drop puzzle pieces in the first book and only reveal their importance at the end. She loves books that make her laugh and cry, even more so if it is at the same time. Her favorite authors include Mercedes Lackey and Robert Asprin, who have contributed to her love of the fantasy genre. She is one of the

Ermilia co-authors, writing the urban fantasy series Blind Sight.  Because she believes that “if no one ever presents new ideas, nothing ever changes,” the series is written to challenge conventional trends.

Eliabeth can be reached via email, Twitter, Facebook, GoodReads, or Google+.  She and her coauthor Ermisenda Alvarez write about books, life, and everything in between on www.ermiliablog.wordpress.com.

Haley E. Hagen never expected her life to deviate from its seemingly boring routine, but that was before she discovered the wonderful world of books.  Born in Portland, Oregon, Haley is now embarking on her own adventure as she attends Clark College and hopefully will transfer to Washington State University after getting her associate degree. She is still in the process of figuring out which path she wants her life to take, but never fear!  No matter what life throws at her, she will wield her vitality and enthusiasm and ward off whatever challenges come her way.

Haley didn’t realize she had such an affinity for reading until the day she stumbled upon a YA paranormal novel when she was eighteen.  She immediately realized what she was missing out on and now reads anywhere from 1-3 books a week.  Her list of favorite authors is extensive, but she especially looks up to Alice Hoffman, JK Rowling, Cassandra Clare and Julie Kagawa. When Haley isn’t reading, working, or studying, she runs a YA book blog over at YA-Aholic.

Haley’s role at Novel Publicity is Assistant to Emlyn, fulfilling any duties that need to be done.

Haley can be contacted through her blog at www.ya-aholic.com, via email haley@novelpublicity.com, on twitter @ya-aholic or on Facebook.

Ducky is a four-year-old Sun Conure, and while he doesn’t really appreciate books beyond their perchability, he’s all-too happy to contribute his modeling skills to Novel Publicity as the company’s official spokes-bird. As Emlyn’s devoted avian companion, he spends most of the day perched on her shoulder while she works at the computer or reads books. Ever the astute, little parrot, Ducky realizes that he serves as something of a metaphor for the writer’s spirit—colorful, bold, loves to feel the wind at his wings and look down on the world beneath him, but also easily held back by the combination of a cruel human and a pair of wing-clipping scissors.

Ducky has few interests beyond Emlyn and food, but he does appreciate good music, especially the works of Frank Sinatra, James Taylor, and Lady Gaga. If the modeling thing falls through, he plans on trying out for the reality television show “So You Think You Can Dance.”

You can contact Ducky through Emlyn or by emailing him at ducky@novelpublicity.com. Also due to a fan protest, Ducky is now available via Twitter, Facebook, and GoodReads. Yes, he is an actual bird. Yes, he does enjoy social media!