Kilby Blades

Kilby Blades is a 25-time-award-winning author of Romance and Women's Fiction and a 15-year digital marketing veteran. She managed more than $50 million in digital media advertising spend as the VP of Media and Metrics for a leading NYC marketing agency, served as CMO for a leading technology brand, and was the marketing talent behind three top crowdfunding and Shark Tank brands that raised more than $15 million combined. She is the author of "The Book Marketing Audit" and "Marketing Steamy Romance", she writes a monthly column on social media marketing for the RWA Romance Writer's Report, and she teaches courses on advanced book marketing through SixFigureAuthor.com. When she's not writing novels, seeing movies, or drinking wine, she consults on marketing and PR to Fortune 500 companies and high-growth start-ups in the San Francisco Bay Area.