Jennifer S. Wilkov, Industry Expert & Your Host

Media personality, host and producer of the popular radio talk show "Your Book Is Your Hook!" on WomensRadio.com.

Jennifer is a best-selling award-winning Author, an award-winning freelance writer and a respected book business consultant in her business by the same name, "Your Book Is Your Hook!"

I'm your host for The Next Bestseller™. In early 2006, I became an instant success with the writing, publishing, distribution and publicity for my first book, a best-selling award-winning book called Dating Your Money. Over the years, I have been published 5 times – both self-published and traditionally published. Specific how-to tips from a book I co-authored about environmentally friendly book publishing can be found in the How to Go Green series on PlanetGreen.com, a Discovery Company website.

I am currently on an international book & event tour with my fifth book, Boys Before Business: The Single Girl's Guide to Having It All! where I am conducting live workshops inside Saks Fifth Avenue store locations and I am a curriculum trainer in the Beaches Resorts by Sandals' BFF Girls Getaway Program.

I have experienced the success of a project getting picked up by an agent in less than a minute. I have become a consultant for other authors and writers who wanted to succeed with their books. I was asked to become a radio show host by a radio network and I am now the host of the # 1 show on WomensRadio called "Your Book Is Your Hook!" where I interview industry professionals and successful published authors every week.

People listen from across the U.S. and all over the world each week to hear the advice, guidance and insights from the industry professionals and authors I talk with who have taken books all the way to the bookshelf and beyond. Listeners hear other authors tell their publishing stories of success and the challenges they've had to overcome.

I want you to think about something for a moment.

I created The Next Bestseller™ as a response to something I saw missing in the vast publishing industry conferences, seminars, trainings and resources we're all providing. It is something that has been repeated over and over again by agents and publishers that I have interviewed on my show and reiterated by professionals I've spoken with across the industry.

The time has come to provide a specific resource that is focused on training authors to present their books properly and professionally to the decision makers so everyone can succeed.

Agents and publishers are still hungry for good books to sell and publish. Writers want to get published with their carefully crafted books that they've spent quality time writing.

If the only thing standing between you and the agents who want your book is your pitch, doesn't it make sense then that we as professionals can help you gain a tremendous advantage by perfecting your pitch with us during The Next Bestseller™ Workshop?

I'm excited to invite you to attend The Next Bestseller™ Workshop. It's your unique opportunity to see the power of what this event can really do for your book, and in turn, for your life. The professionals I've asked to join me are busy with their businesses of selling and promoting books. I've asked them to take time out to work directly with you on your pitch and the presentation of your book during The Next Bestseller™ weekend. Through the incredible access and powerful teaching it offers, there's no other workshop quite like it!

Dan Fauci, Teacher

Creator of The Mastery of Self-Expression Program, Former Executive at Paramount Pictures, Film Producer & Artist

Dan facilitates The MASTERY of Self Expression in Los Angeles. He is the creator of the program, and also created the programs Leadership and Creativity, The Abyss and Samarai.

Dan founded The Actors Institute, a school for professional actors, in 1975. Within ten years, the Institute grew to include branches in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Vancouver, Austin, Montreal, Toronto, London, Bristol, Paris, and several cities in Israel. Dan and the Institute then branched off into producing. Their first production was Looking Glass, a play about Lewis Carroll. Dan then partnered with Ted Danson, and in two years produced three movies for televison: When The Bough Breaks (NBC), We Are The Children (ABC), and Follow Your Heart (which Dan co-wrote for NBC), and the series Down Home with Judith Ivey (NBC).

After four years as an independent producer, Dan went to work for Paramount Pictures, heading comedy development. Over the next twelve years he oversaw the development of over 100 comedy pilots, half of which went to series. The most successful was Frasier, winning five Emmys for best comedy. Other shows he developed were Becker, Clueless, Girlfriends, Lateline and Sister, Sister.

Since leaving Paramount, Dan has written a feature film, had a show of his photographs and collages at a Los Angeles gallery, and is in the midst of directing and producing a series called Lightfoot & Lee. Dan is currently working on a book on creativity and acting, a novel, leading the MASTERY in L.A., and preparing for another art show.

Katharine Sands

Lane Shefter Bishop

Principal of Vast Entertainment and an Emmy Award-Winning Director & Hollywood Producer

A Producer, an Emmy award-winning Director, & the founder of Vast Entertainment, she has spent nearly 18 years working in the industry.

Lane has projects with Akiva Goldsman, Dick Clark Productions, Sid Ganis, The Disney Channel, Jane Goldenring, ABC Family, Lifetime, Evolution Entertainment and McG. She is also working with an array of top-notch Authors including Anne Perry, Robert K. Tanenbaum, Stacey Ballis, Mark Terry, Rachel Vincent, Lee Nichols and Robyn Carr on adapting their books to screen. Her newest project is a TV Movie for ABC Family, starring LeAnn Rimes.

Lane has the answer to the number one question she is often asked by Authors "Can my book be adapted for television and/or film?"

Penny Sansevieri

CEO and Founder of Author Marketing Experts, Inc.

Penny C. Sansevieri, CEO and founder of Author Marketing Experts, Inc., is a best-selling author and an internationally recognized book marketing and media relations expert. She is an Adjunct Professor teaching Self-Publishing for NYU.

Her company is one of the leaders in the publishing industry and has developed some of the most innovative Social Media/Internet book marketing campaigns.

She is the author of five books, including Red Hot Internet Publicity which has been called the "leading guide to everything Internet." AME is the first marketing and publicity firm to use Internet promotion to its full impact through The Virtual Author Tour™, which strategically works with social networking sites, Twitter, blogs, book videos, and relevant sites to push an author's message into the virtual community and connect with sites related to the book's topic, positioning the author in his or her market.

AME has had ten recent books top the bestseller lists including New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal. 

BONUS TRAINER:

LAUREN SOLOMON, AICI, CIP

Trusted Image Advisor & Founder, L.S. Image Associates, Past President of the Association of Image Consultants International Media Personality and Image Industry Trailblazer.

Lauren Solomon is the trusted image advisor to CEOs, millionaires and private individuals worldwide. She is an internationally renowned speaker, Author, coach, media personality and image industry trailblazer.

Lauren is the current resident image expert for Career TV and the reality makeover TV show, ReMake My Life; the former in-house image expert at the Chase Manhattan Bank; a faculty member of the Image Consulting Certification Program at the Fashion Institute of Technology; and Past President of the Association of Image Consultants International (AICI). She is the Author of Image Matters! First Steps on the Journey to Your Best Self, and has been featured on Lifetime Television, MSNBC, CNN-fn, WOR and Voice America Business and Voice America Women radio. She has also appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Men's Health Magazine and numerous other publications.

Her signature focus on taking each individual's unique message from the inside and expressing it authentically and effectively on the outside has transformed the lives of clients around the globe, propelling them to their greatest success.

BONUS TRAINER:

MATTHEW BENNETT

Known as "The Truckload Guy" for selling books by the truckload, President of BTDT Enterprises, Author & the creator of Outselling Bestsellers and Write It, Print It, Sell It

Matthew Bennett develops, publishes, and distributes innovative educational materials in conjunction with major charities. He has personally authored books with sales totaling over five million copies and worked directly with sixteen national non-profits raising millions of dollars.

Matthew frequently leads seminars on topics ranging from overcoming adversity to Role-model Entrepreneurialism to Excuse Blasting. He has spoken at conventions, universities, hospitals, and many other venues, and appeared in a wide variety of national media.

In 1991, Matthew wrote THE MATERNAL JOURNAL (co-published with Simon & Schuster, over 3 million copies sold) to help boost faltering levels of prenatal education and infant care in the United States. THE BABY JOURNAL (1992), contributed to Matthew becoming a March of Dimes Volunteer of the Year in 1992 and 1993. Both books were National Parenting Center Products of the Year, and won the Healthcare Public Relations Marketing Association's Golden Advocate Award with perfect 90 out of 90 possible scores. Since then he has written and published other books to benefit the American Heart Association, American Veterinary Medical Foundation, the National Paralysis Foundation and others.

In addition to his vocational endeavors, Matthew spent five years as a State Commissioner with California Special Olympics, served as a consultant for the California Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness, received Angel of the Year awards from Mychal’s Learning Place and The Vietnamese Cultural House, and has represented numerous organizations as a national fund-raiser. He also guest lectures for the MBA Anderson School Entrepreneur Program at UCLA.

He motivates and teaches authors how to successfully market their work through innovative and non-conventional avenues.