Eddie Vincent, co-owner of Encircle Publications, has been in the publishing and graphic design field for more than 30 years. His company Encircle Publications specializes in complete book production, and is home to The Aurorean poetry journal. Eddie works with publishers and independent authors, helping them with all their design needs and all facets of bringing a book to life. Eddie and his wife Cynthia, a poet and editor, live in Maine. 

Charlotte has participated as an IPNE member since 2007, serving in most positions on the Board of Directors over the years, including President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Regional Groups manager. She coordinates the Metro Boston regional group for IPNE.

Charlotte runs the independent publishing house Pierce Press and podcast production company, Pierce Productions. Charlotte gives a free publishing or podcasting consult to IPNE and IBPA members.

Mike is a freelance ghostwriter, editor and publisher. He is also the Managing Editor and Anthology Barista at The Fictional Café literary magazine. Mike is an IPNE Membership Chair and serves on the Conference Committee. He’s one of the co-hosts of IPNE’s Metro Boston Publishers Regional Meetup group. You can find his work on Linktree. 

Scott has self-published four non-fiction books on sales and marketing topics to establish thought leadership and demonstrate expertise on sales and marketing topics.

He published his first book in 2004. He enjoys the art and science of positioning and marketing a non-fiction book to sell and generate business for services offered. Scott runs Finding Business LLC, ScottChannell.com and FindingBusiness.com.

Odile works with indie authors as a developmental editor, line editor, and book coach. She’s edited genre flash fiction at Havok, slushed flash with a literary bent at Flash Fiction Magazine, and begins this spring as a prose editor at literary-minded VoiceCatcher. 

Throughout her career, Odile has mentored novice editors and writers. While with San Jose arts and culture publication Content Magazine, she developed editorial standards and established an editing department. She’s reviewed indie, hybrid, and small-press books for several services, including Chanticleer Reviews and BlueInk Review. More recently, she judges for writing contests and book awards.

Michael DeSanto has owned bookstores in Vermont since 1995 and has published off and on since 1997. In addition to owning or partnering in Phoenix Books Essex, Rutland, Burlington, Yankee Bookshop in Woodstock, and The Bookstore in Brandon, he publishes POD as Onion River Press. and with a traditional imprint as Maple Tree Editions. The Press has recently added a partner to carry Onion River Press towards wider distribution and to discover unpublished quality Vermont writers. In recent days he has been busy helping to establish the new Green Mountain Book Festival in Burlington and to grow the Vermont Authors Project.

” I am honored to be offered membership on the board of directors for IPNE and I look forward to learning from and sharing with the diverse members of the group.” 

BJ Magnani’s fascination with toxicology led her to a career in pathology and laboratory medicine. She is currently Professor of Anatomic and Clinical Pathology Emerita at Tufts University School of Medicine and writes the Dr. Lily Robinson thriller series (The Queen of All Poisons, The Power of Poison, A Message in Poison)  about a poison-savvy physician recruited by the U.S. government as an assassin. You can learn more about Dr. Magnani and her work at Author | BJ Magnani

Isai’s most proud accomplishment is his family.  Isai is a husband and the father of four sons.  While professionally, he has spent most of his career as an educator in both the public and private sectors, Isai’s true passion has always been art and creative thinking. 

In March 2020, Isai published his first children’s book, Miguel Goes to Eagle School.  His writing exemplifies a love of family and teaching life lessons.  As part of this journey Isai started his own publishing company, Dancing Duck Publishing, so that he could help others navigate the publishing journey and have full control over this book and future projects.