Contributing Writers’ articles here continue to provide outstanding education, help, instruction, and inspiration to readers throughout the year.

Many of these articles have achieved an amazing level of engagement, with dozens of readers sharing and commenting on these posts.

In order to offer you useful, practical information that will help fulfill our mission here—”Practical Advice to Help Build Better Books”—we continue to recruit seasoned publishing professionals with specific areas of expertise that will help you reach your own publishing goals.

Now I’ve got another addition to our outstanding panel of writers.

Amy Collins will be joining us as a Contributing Writer tomorrow.

Amy has been a book buyer, a sales director for publishers, and over the years has sold to Barnes & Noble, Target, Costco, Airport­ Stores, Books-A-Million, Wal-Mart­, and other major chains and has helped launch private label publishing programs for Borders, PetSmart, and CVS.

Amy is also the founder of New Shelves Books, one of the fastest-growing book distribution, sales and marketing companies in North America. She is the author of the new book, The Write Way and works with self-published authors and small publishing companies to increase their sales.

Please join me in welcoming her to The Book Designer.