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Based on your goals, we guide you to resources for increasing your book’s distribution and visibility through different venues, including bookstores, retailers, and libraries, which will not automatically stock your book.
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Dr. Laura L. Bush
CEO & Founder
Dr. Bush earned her doctoral degree in English from Arizona...
Dr. Laura L. Bush
Dr. Bush earned her doctoral degree in English from Arizona State University and taught writing and literature courses for over 20 years in university classrooms. For 10 of those years, she also developed curriculum and facilitated workshops and conferences to train other faculty members to teach more effectively in person and online.
Early in her academic career she discovered the literary value of memoir and autobiography. Specializing in western American women’s autobiography, she published a ground-breaking book of literary research in Mormon women’s autobiographies: Faithful Transgressions in the American West: Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women’s Autobiographical Acts (Utah State University Press, 2004). She has also published numerous articles in scholarly and non-scholarly publications, an award-winning short story, and many blogs.
Seeking new challenges, Dr. Bush resigned from the university in 2012 to become an entrepreneur by starting a book writing and publishing business.

Dr. Holly Welker
Editor
Holly Welker is the editor of Baring Witness: 36 Mormon...
Dr. Holly Welker
Position: Editor
Holly Welker is the editor of Baring Witness: 36 Mormon Women Talk Candidly About Love, Sex, and Marriage (2016) and Revising Eternity: Latter-day Saint Men Reflect on Twenty-first-century Relationships (2022, forthcoming), both from the University of Illinois Press, and the co-editor of Singing and Dancing to The Book of Mormon: Critical Essays on the Broadway Musical (2016, Rowman and Littlefield). She has an MFA in nonfiction writing and a PhD in English literature from the University of Iowa, and has edited poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and scholarship. Her own writing has appeared in such publications as Best American Essays, Bitch, New York Times, Poetry International, Rattle, Slate, and TriQuarterly.

Wendy Ledger
Transcriptionist & Editor
Wendy Ledger has a BA in French and English, graduating...
Wendy Ledger
Position: Transcriptionist & Editor
Wendy Ledger has a BA in French and English, graduating magna cum laude from Tufts University. She received an MA in creative writing from San Francisco University and taught introductory creative writing there. She has been a transcriptionist since 1989 and has been certified as an editor through the UC Berkeley Extension Professional Sequence in Editing program. Wendy has published five books, most available as paperbacks, ebooks, and audiobooks: Joy Returns!, Kate and the Horses, and The Loudest Meow, The Sharpest Claw, The Deepest Growl.

Sarah Bush Lloyd
Writer and Proofreader
Sarah Bush Lloyd earned an MEd in educational psychology and...
Sarah Bush Lloyd
Position: Writer and Proofreader
Sarah Bush Lloyd earned an MEd in educational psychology and an MEd in school administration, as well as a BS in home economics, health, and vocational education from Brigham Young University. She worked as a principal, a guidance counselor, and a home economics and health teacher for over 25 years in Utah public schools before retiring to begin working part-time at Peacock Proud Press as a writer and proofreader.

Gloria Carmer
Executive Assistant
Gloria Carmer has worked as an Executive Assistant to the...
Gloria Carmer
Position: Executive Assistant
Gloria Carmer has worked as an Executive Assistant to the Director of Audit at a world class firm. At a previous firm, she trained employees in MS Word and Excel before becoming an SQL programmer who managed the firm’s CRM software. She also owned her own consulting business in the use of MS Office Suite products. At Peacock Proud Press, Gloria performs administrative tasks, manages our database, and assists at events.

Jana Galvan
Book Designer
Jana Galvan has over twenty years of experience working as...
Jana Galvan
Position: Book Designer
Jana Galvan has over twenty years of experience working as a graphic designer and artist. Before starting her design career, Jana worked in management for several retail outlets. Upon graduating from the University of Utah with a BFA, she worked for the Salt Lake City Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games of 2002. As a member of the “Look of the Games” department, she designed, managed, and installed graphics for the Salt Lake Ice Center, Olympic and Paralympic Medals Plaza, and the Olympic and Paralympic Athletes Village. Jana also designed the Athlete Medals for the Paralympic Winter Games. After four years with the Olympics, Jana was hired as the Design Manager for the International Department, and then as the Event Design Manager for Stampin’ Up!, a paper-crafting company. At Stampin’ Up!, Jana managed and produced materials for catalogs and collateral, merchandise, event staging, show graphics, and environmental graphics for their domestic and international markets.
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As part of my ministry with my husband, Roger, in the Damascus Road Church of God we founded, I often tried to help those who were going through very traumatic times: loss of livelihood, grave illness, incarceration, deaths of loved ones. These were people in poverty and misery. Some were homeless, some were in prison.


Why You Should Take Source Citation Seriously
Perhaps you remember this task from school. You had to write a term paper or a thesis, and your professor explained that you had to cite your sources, pointing you to MLA or APA as your guide. If you were anything like me, you might have rolled your eyes, yawned, or cried to the heavens,


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Most entrepreneurs, speakers, coaches, and leaders will say they want to write a book to benefit their readers—and rightly so. But I’m here to tell you that it’s A-Okay for you to write a book for yourself first. Why? Because when you invest your time, money, and whole heart into writing a quality book, your


