Joy Jordan-Lake — After graduate theological studies, she earned both her master and doctoral degrees in English Literature. Having worked as a journalist, minister, professor, and a Baptist chaplain at Harvard, she is the author of five books, including Blue Hole Back Home (a novel), Why Jesus Makes Me Nervous: Top Ten Alarming Words of Faith; Working Families: Navigating the Demands and Delights of Marriage, Parenting and Career; Whitewashing Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Nineteenth-Century Women Novelists Respond to Stowe; and Grit & Grace: Portraits of a Woman’s Life. With her husband and three children, she lives in Tennessee, where she writes and teaches part time at Belmont University.

Frank Ball – full-time freelance writer & author of four books, including Eyewitness: The Life of Christ Told in One Story. For almost fifteen years, he has been a mentor, teacher, and coach of more than a hundred writers in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. He has worked as a copy editor for a trade magazine, has written hundreds of devotionals, and has been a columnist for The Spirit-Led Writer e-zine.

Terry Glaspey – Director of Acquisitions and a Senior Editor for Harvest House Publishers and the author of several books, including Not a Tame Lion: The Spiritual Legacy of C.S. Lewis, The Book Lover’s Guide to Great Reading, Pathway to the Heart of God, The One-Minute Bible Guide, and others. He also worked on putting together a recent collection of art and essays entitled The Lion and the Land of Narnia.

Steve Laube – Literary Agent responsible for the discovery, evaluation, and development of potential new books for publication. He as negotiated nearly 200 contracts managing over 350 new books during his time as an agent. Steve is a 25 year veteran of the bookselling industry. He began in the bookselling arena and his store in Phoenix was named the Christian Booksellers Association (CBA) store of the year in 1989. He then spent 11 years with Bethany House Publishers rising to the position of an editorial director. In 2002 he was named the AWSA Golden Scroll Editor of the Year. The next year he became a literary agent and in 2004 formed The Steve Laube Agency.

Thomas Umstattd – CEO of Umstattd Media, a company that helps authors use the web to sell books and win contracts. As a speaker on web technology, Thomas teaches all over the world. He built his first website at the age of 13 and taught his first web design class at 16 years old. He has been helping authors and small businesses use the web ever since.