Sue Hamilton started Dialogue Publishing in 2004 as an outlet for new authors to get superb fiction and niche non-fiction work in print. The company's first title The Man with No Skin took first place in the 2006 Colorado Independent Publisher's EVVY Awards in the fiction category and received an honorable mention in multicultural fiction in the national IPPY Awards. Her second book Paying the Price took an honorable mention in the 2006 EVVY's in fiction and won The Honolulu Advertiser's Readers Choice Award for 2006. The third title Cleaning Closets took an honorable mention in the 2007 EVVY's and was a finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. The company's fourth book will be out in late 2009.
Sue also operates The Colorado Springs Writers Workshops. She has been trained by Amherst Writers & Artists in their workshop method and some years has spent as many as 40 Wednesday nights a year working with new writers. She has been published in the anthology Ophelia's Mom . She ghost wrote and edited Adoption: Stories of Lives Transformed for The Adoption Exchange in Denver. It won an EVVY in 2007 and an honorable mention in the IPPY Awards.
Sue's love of reading and writing go way back. She won her first writing contest as a freshman in high school and received her award from radio great Paul Harvey. She's got loads of radio and newspaper experience she used as a springboard for her career in publishing. Sue is President of the Colorado Independent Publishers Association and a board member for the organization's Education & Literacy Foundation.
Herb tried semi-retirement after 25 years as a practicing CPA before moving to Colorado 7 years ago and starting Summit Strategic Business Services, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in tax problems and asset protection. Drawing from his experiences as a 2000+ hour Commercial Pilot flying small airplanes and hot air balloons, he wrote and published Where's the Runway? and Other Flying Stories in 2001, joining CIPA a year later. Herb is the author of 3 books and is a regular contributing writer to the Summit Daily News and the monthly arts magazine, Cultural Times. Encouraged by winning USABookNews.com Best Books 2005 (Anthology) plus 3 EVVY Awards (one for each book), he is currently working on two books scheduled for release early in 2007. Herb has served CIPA as a committee member and as a Board member, Chairman of the Membership Committee, Co-Chairman of the Awards Committee and Board member and Treasurer of CIPA Education and Literacy Foundation. He brings to the office of Treasurer not only his recent independent publishing experiences but his wide knowledge of business and finance enhanced by academic credentials that include MBA, JD and PhD degrees.
Cornerstone Virtual Assistance specializes in working with authors to manage the technical, creative and administrative projects for your business. Kelly Johnson, owner and Online Business Manager, strives to move your business to the next level by ensuring that the foundation of your business is supported through managing projects and proposing creative ideas to help achieve success. Kelly's certifications include professional author’s assistant, online shopping cart maintenance, and article writing coach. Services offered include website and blog maintenance, newsletter creation, event coordination, book publishing support, desktop publishing, and teleseminar management. The possibilities to collaborate on projects are endless!
Sue Hamilton started Dialogue Publishing in 2004 as an outlet for new authors to get superb fiction and niche non-fiction work in print. The company's first title The Man with No Skin took first place in the 2006 Colorado Independent Publisher's EVVY Awards in the fiction category and received an honorable mention in multicultural fiction in the national IPPY Awards. Her second book Paying the Price took an honorable mention in the 2006 EVVY's in fiction and won The Honolulu Advertiser's Readers Choice Award for 2006. The third title Cleaning Closets took an honorable mention in the 2007 EVVY's and was a finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. The company's fourth book will be out in late 2009.
Herb tried semi-retirement after 25 years as a practicing CPA before moving to Colorado 7 years ago and starting Summit Strategic Business Services, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in tax problems and asset protection. Drawing from his experiences as a 2000+ hour Commercial Pilot flying small airplanes and hot air balloons, he wrote and published Where's the Runway? and Other Flying Stories in 2001, joining CIPA a year later. Herb is the author of 3 books and is a regular contributing writer to the Summit Daily News and the monthly arts magazine, Cultural Times. Encouraged by winning USABookNews.com Best Books 2005 (Anthology) plus 3 EVVY Awards (one for each book), he is currently working on two books scheduled for release early in 2007. Herb has served CIPA as a committee member and as a Board member, Chairman of the Membership Committee, Co-Chairman of the Awards Committee and Board member and Treasurer of CIPA Education and Literacy Foundation. He brings to the office of Treasurer not only his recent independent publishing experiences but his wide knowledge of business and finance enhanced by academic credentials that include MBA, JD and PhD degrees.
Cornerstone Virtual Assistance specializes in working with authors to manage the technical, creative and administrative projects for your business. Kelly Johnson, owner and Online Business Manager, strives to move your business to the next level by ensuring that the foundation of your business is supported through managing projects and proposing creative ideas to help achieve success. Kelly's certifications include professional author’s assistant, online shopping cart maintenance, and article writing coach. Services offered include website and blog maintenance, newsletter creation, event coordination, book publishing support, desktop publishing, and teleseminar management. The possibilities to collaborate on projects are endless!
