After earning a B.S. degree in Management and Finance from NYU’s Stern School of Business, Adam Chromy was the head of sales and marketing for a number of startup technology companies where he honed his entrepreneurial skills for nearly a decade.  But his love of storytelling inspired him to start over as a twenty-nine year old intern at an esteemed literary agency.  He soon realized the lessons he learned in tech could be applied to representing his clients’ business interests and developing a methodology for constructing effective narratives.  So he struck out on his own, and now his unique “value based storytelling” approach has made him a popular player in New York and Los Angeles and a frequent speaker at writing conferences.

Jane K Cleland is the author of the Agatha Award-winning Mastering Plot Twists and Mastering Suspense, Structure & Plot, from Writer’s Digest Books, now Penguin Putnam Random House, and the multiple award-winning and IMBA-bestselling Josie Prescott Antiques mysteries, from St. Martin’s Minotaur. Her short fiction has been published by Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine.

She is also a contributing editor for Writer’s Digest magazine and the chair of the Black Orchid Novella Award sponsored by the Wolfe Pack and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine.