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Jessica Bell, Publisher & Graphic Designer |
As well as being the founder and publisher of the press, she is the one responsible for all the cover designs. She is a hands-on team member that nurtures her authors, and insists that she be the one to sort through the query letters before passing them on for further consideration. Being an author and all-round creative person herself, she understands the needs of her kind. This is why she started a private VLP group on Facebook where members (authors and staff only) can support eachother and their work. Jessica has worked years to establish an extremely friendly and happy environment at Vine Leaves Press in order to motivate creativity and productivity. She got her wish. If you become a VLP author, you become a part of a loyal and enthusiastic family of book lovers that will bend over backwards to help you out.
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Amie McCracken, Typesetter & Formatter |
It's a bonus that Amie finds great satisfaction in helping to shape books from the conception of an idea to a physical product in readers' hands, because her role as publishing director does just that. Amie McCracken not only typesets and formats all the books herself, but she is responsible for creating and co-ordinating the publishing schedule. She is a VLP author's liaison for all questions big and small. Without Amie, we would not be able to keep things organized and running smoothly.
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Linell van Hoepen, Social Media Manager |
When she was five years old, Linell van Hoepen taught herself to read and discovered that books have special powers. She went on to get an honours degree in political science and worked, among others, as a theatre publicist before starting her professional journey in the publishing industry in 2001. She’s lost count of how many books she’s edited and proofread, is the author of several textbooks on subjects as diverse as financial management and geography, and over the years has ghostwritten everything from travel guides to listicles. Most recently she worked at Ingenium Books, where she held the fancy title of content director and did a bit of everything. Originally from South Africa, Linell currently lives on the shores of Lake Atitlán in Guatemala.
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