Angela Hoy is well-known in the online freelance writing community as the publisher and editor of WritersWeekly.com, a site that publishes new freelance jobs and paying markets every Wednesday. She is also an advocate for writers’ rights, publishing numerous articles on how writers can protect themselves from deadbeat editors and publishers as well as common industry scams. She created and moderates the Whispers and Warnings forum on WritersWeekly.com, where writers can share their experiences with deadbeats and scammers targeting writers. She is the author of 11 non-fiction titles and the co-author of 2 additional books. Her book, How to Be a Syndicated Newspaper Columnist, was one of the first ebooks created and sold online.
Richard Hoy had been involved in Internet marketing since it became a profession back in 1995. Early in his career, he developed and executed online promotional strategies for a number of companies. He was moderator of the Online Advertising Discussion list, the first discussion community on the Internet dedicated to the subject of online advertising. Richard created and edited The ClickZ Guide to Email Marketing, one of the first compendiums on the subject of the then-emerging field of email marketing. He was a regular speaker at the popular Web Advertising and Web Marketing conference series back in the heyday of the dotcom boom; as well as a columnist on ClickZ, where he wrote a well-received column on small business use of the Internet. For the past 20 years he has focused his expertise on building the self-publishing services company BookLocker.com into a respected online brand.