WEBINAR WEEK HOST
Lynn Serafinn, MAED, CPCC, Founder of Spirit Authors
Founder of Spirit Authors, Lynn is a transformation coach, book promotion coach, author, book campaign manager, teacher/trainer, radio host and inspirational speaker. Lynn's spiritual journey started in childhood, which later led her to the study and practice of the ancient Vedic tradition, via an intimate connection with an Indian temple for more than 20 years. Her book The Garden of the Soul: lessons from four flowers that unearth the Self received recognition when it became an Amazon bestseller in spirituality and mind-body-spirit on a shoe-string budget. Winner of the Microsoft UK Innovative Teacher of the Year Award in 2005, Lynn also has an MA in adult education and distance learning, which brings rigor to her online training courses. She is committed to helping authors unlock their creative process, create a promotional platform and launch and sell their books while maintaining authenticity and a spirit-based focus. Her most recent success in the publishing world is her work as campaign manager for Allison Maslan's book Blast Off!, which hit Number-1 in both the US and Canada.

WEBINAR WEEK CO-HOST
Shelagh Jones, Founder of Spiritus - the Spiritual Marketing Directory
Shelagh started her working life as an industrial chemist, but then embarked on a long and varied entrepreneurial career in everything from manufacturing to technical design to retail. Throughout all the changes in her life, Shelagh was devoted to the study of metaphysical teachers, and to exploring her own spirituality. For the last 17 years she has worked in or with small businesses, and currently runs a consultancy providing sales and marketing support to SME's throughout the UK. It was seeing the struggle of these small businesses to make their voice heard an increasingly noisy world, and recognising the authenticity of the concept of spiritual marketing, that lead her to create the online business directory Spiritus, which connects customers and businesses in a unique manner, congruent with Law of Attraction. Shelagh also broadcasts her "Wheel of Life" programme online at Southside Broadcasting in the UK.

Allison Maslan, Number-1 Selling Author, Life and Business Strategist, Speaker, Homeopathic Physician
Allison has been an entrepreneur for 25 years with 9 successful businesses to her credit including a homeopathic physician for 15 years. Her book Blast Off: the Surefire Success Plan to Launch Your Dreams into Reality was a Number-1 bestseller in both the US and Canada, and was at the top of the lists in entrepreneurship, motivation, self-help and "hot new titles". Her writing, 1-to-1 coaching at Blast Off Coaching and Speaking, and her Blastation Interactive Life Coaching Software, all help people tap into their passions, learn to release their self-limiting roadblocks, and guides them through a step-by-step flight plan for success and fulfilment in all areas of life.

Daya Devi Doolin, award-winning author, spiritual healer/counsellor
Daya is an award-winning author as well as an award-winning singer/songwriter with her husband Chris. They write and record under the name "Level Seven". She assists people with their true healing through her books, her company Padaran Publications, The Doolin Healing Sanctuary & Yoga Center as well as through counselling, training and healing sessions. It is Daya's goal to give readers a better insight and take them to a higher level of consciousness, where they can witness the unseen dimension of their inner selves. Her book, The Only Way Out is In: The Secrets of the 14 Realms to Love, Happiness and Success! offers people deeper insight and a greater path of enlightenment.

Shannon Arnold Jackson, Writing Coach and Inspiration Catalyst
Shannon has supported more than a thousand writers in getting their stories onto the page and into the world through writing workshops, coaching and marketing consults. In her business, "The Inspired Writer", she brings her varied background (as a book author, magazine editor, spiritual seeker, flower photographer, ice cream spokesperson and more) to inspiring others to "bloom, grow and shine" in bigger and bigger ways.

Dana Lynn Smith, The Savvy Book Marketer
Book marketing coach Dana Lynn Smith is the author of several book marketing guides, including the award-winning Savvy Book Marketer's Guide to Successful Social Marketing. Drawing on her 15 years of publishing experience and degree in marketing, she develop book marketing plans for nonfiction books and help authors learn to promote their books online. Dana shares free book marketing tips and resources with authors and publishers through her Savvy Book Marketer blog and newsletter.

Shelley Lieber, The Wordy Woman: Publishing Maven
Shelley is an author, publisher, visionary, creator of writers' communities and tele-seminar host. A leading authority on how to succeed in the new publishing environment, she teaches authors how to attract readers by combining traditional strategies, social media and the power of community. She is the author of 4Ps to Publishing Success, founder of VIP Authors, host of VIP Author Talks, and publisher at VIP Book Publishing. She founded and led the South Florida Association of Women Writers, Women's Writing Room Collective and 4Ps to Publishing Success Workshops. During her 30+ years in the publishing industry, Shelley has been an editor, freelance writer, marketing manager and publicist.

Tony Eldridge, Author and Founder of Marketing Tips for Authors Blog
Tony is author of The Samson Effect and Creating Effective Twitter Contests, and is a prolific marketing tips blogger and social networker. He has led a Fortune 500 team of sales reps to national honors and has been the Marketing Director for a video training company. As an author, his first novel, The Samson Effect, has been acquired by a major Hollywood film producer.

Patrick Ryan , author, coach, "Chief Waker Upper" of Awakened Wisdom
Patrick is a successful entrepreneur, a past Buddhist monk in Burma, and now an executive coach, trainer, and author. His work has been offered throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia through public events as well as into organizations. He is author of The Eagle's Call and the newly released Awakened Wisdom: A Guide to Reclaiming Your Brilliance, which blends Buddhist, Native American, and collected wisdoms into a beautifully crafted healing message for our modern culture. His is also the Founder of Awakened Wisdom Experiences™ offering training, coaching and inspiration around the globe.

Richard Fitt, Founder/Editor Authors Online, Publisher for Self-Publishers
After many years as a successful entrepreneur in businesses ranging from financial services, catering, web design and the retail trade, Richard wrote a book in 1992. He soon discovered was extremely hard to find either an agent or a publisher. Soon his publishing company Authors Online was born, providing self-publishers with service, support and a dedicatedly friendly, author-focussed work ethic. Based in the UK, his company has published over 800 books and ebooks for self-published authors since the company started in 1997.

Laurel Marshfield, Blue Horizon Communications, co-author, ghost writer and developmental editor
Laurel Marshfield has provided book manuscript evaluations, developmental editing, co-authoring, and ghost-authoring services to authors for the past decade, having been a professional writer for the previous two decades. This year, she will launch an offshoot business called Your Book Your Business (with the tagline, Your Book is a business that grows Your Business) to help practitioners, healers, teachers, and coaches put their core message into book form and use their books to grow their businesses.

Yvonne Perry, Writers in the Sky Creative Writing Services
Yvonne Perry is a freelance writer and editor, award-winning bestselling author, podcast host, blogger, newsletter publisher, Internet marketing guru, and outstanding keynote speaker. A graduate of American Institute of Holistic Theology where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Metaphysics, she has written 170+ articles on spirituality, death, afterlife, spirit communication, suicide, and politics. She is highly experienced in book launches and virtual blog tours, including her most recent success as communications coordinator for the launch campaign of the Number-1 bestseller Blast Off! By Allison Maslan.

Marion Ross PhD, bestselling author, holistic healer, psychologist
Marion is co-author of the Number-1 bestseller Shift A Woman's Guide to Transformation and the co-author of Shift: 12 Keys To Shift Your Life. She is a Doctor of Holistic Healing and a transpersonal psychologist, as well as an international entrepreneur with 30 years of international marketing and licensing experience. Moving from the business realm to study ancient wisdom traditions and spirituality at an ancient mystery school, she shifted her life into one of meaning and purpose and began a second career at 50. She recently promoted her book with her co-author Dr. Tracy Latz through a bestseller campaign which included extensive social networking, radio interviews and developing a platform of expert status.

William Gladstone, President of Waterside Productions Literary Agents, Author
Author of the bestselling spiritual fiction book The Twelve, and literary agent to some of the most well-known authors in the mind-body-spirit world, William Gladstone, is one of the pioneers of agenting books for professionals whose motivation is to build their consulting and business practices through the publication of books. He has advised both individuals and major corporations including Apple Computer, Novell, Intel, and many other major corporations on the use of books as marketing tools. Along the way he helped package the "For Dummies Book" series which lead to many of these consultants becoming full time book authors, making more money from their books than their consulting practices. His agency, Waterside Productions in Southern California, represent an array of illustrious spirit-based authors such as Eckhart Tolle, Neal Donald Walsch, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Allison Maslan and Spirit Authors Founder, Lynn Serafinn.

Stephanie Gunning, The Get a Book Deal™ Coach
Stephanie Gunning is a bestselling author, editor, and publishing consultant with 25 years of experience in the book business specializing in the categories of spirituality, new thought, and health. Her A-list clients include New York Times bestselling authors such as Gregg Braden, Hale Dwoskin, and Ruby Payne, as well as major publishing firms, top caliber literary agencies, and innovative self-publishers. A former senior editor at Bantam-Doubleday-Dell and coauthor of 22 published nonfiction titles, she has mastered the art of transforming powerful ideas into highly marketable books.

Alan Seale, author, leadership and transformation coach
Founder and Director of the Center for Transformational Presence, Alan Seale is the author of four successful books including Soul Mission * Life Vision, The Manifestation Wheel, The Power of Your Presence, Intuitive Living (which was the winner of the COVR Visionary Award for Best Book in Spirituality 2001) and soon to be released Transformational Presence. He maintains a full schedule of workshops throughout North America and Europe and supports a full roster of coaching clients from four continents who are committed to bringing extraordinary gifts to the world.

Caron Goode, author, health psychologist, medical intuitive
Caron helps parents and families through her writing, coaching and teaching, and by training parent coaches. Founder of Academy for Coaching Parents International, and recipient of 2008 Mom's Choice Award as Lightworker, Caron is the author of a dozen books including Nurture Your Child's Gift, Inspired Parenting, Kids Who See Ghosts and Raising Intuitive Children, which won the 2009 Best Parenting Category, National Books, from USA News Today.