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From the archives / TIAC 2024

Voices from
an earlier chapter.

Meet the authors and publishing professionals who shared their experience at the 2024 Toronto Indie Author Conference.

2024

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13 profiles from TIAC 2024.

Presenters 2024

Portrait of Eva Chase TIAC 2024

Author

Eva Chase

  • Fantasy
  • Paranormal romance

Eva Chase is an Amazon top 100 bestselling author of fantasy and paranormal romance. She grew up on a steady diet of magic, mayhem, and romantic angst, and brings plenty of all three to…

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Portrait of Tao Wong TIAC 2024

Author

Tao Wong

  • Fantasy
  • LitRPG
  • Science fiction
  • Xianxia

Tao Wong is a Canadian author based in Toronto, with series in the LitRPG and xianxia science fiction and fantasy markets. He has over five different series spanning a wide range of worlds, with…

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Portrait of Becca Syme TIAC 2024

Author & strengths coach

Becca Syme

  • Mystery
  • Writing coaching

Becca Syme (MATL) is a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach and has been coaching success alignment for more than a decade. She is the author of the Quitbooks for Writers series and the popular Write Better-Faster…

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Portrait of Mark Leslie Lefebvre TIAC 2024

Author & publishing professional

Mark Leslie Lefebvre

  • Bookselling
  • Publishing

Mark Leslie Lefebvre is a writer with over three decades of experience in the publishing and bookselling industry. He is the former Director of Self Publishing and Author Relations for Rakuten Kobo, the former…

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Portrait of Genevieve Clovis TIAC 2024

Author, editor & writing coach

Genevieve Clovis

  • Editing
  • Writing coaching

Genevieve Clovis is a self-published author, an editor, and writing coach. She specializes in developmental editing speculative fiction novels for indie authors. Genevieve’s debut novel, Tea and the Transcendent, is an urban fantasy novel…

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Portrait of Michael Chatfield TIAC 2024

Author

Michael Chatfield

  • Fantasy
  • LitRPG

Michael Chatfield is an international bestseller who lives to create character-driven stories set in fact-paced worlds. His main genres are Fantasy, Science Fiction, and LitRPG, but he enjoys adding enough realism to make the…

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Portrait of Sylvia Frost TIAC 2024

Author & book cover designer

Sylvia Frost

  • Book cover design

Sylvia Frost is an author and award winning book cover designer who lives with her husband and daughter in Chicago, IL. She has designed thousands of covers for New York Times Best Sellers and…

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Portrait of Melissa Storm TIAC 2024

Author & publishing consultant

Melissa Storm

  • Advertising
  • Publishing

Melissa Storm is an industry veteran with more than 13 years experience under her belt. She currently juggles four active pen names (including Molly Fitz, Luna Ryder, and SK Prince) and also serves as…

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Portrait of Stephen Kotowych TIAC 2024

Author, anthologist & podcaster

Stephen Kotowych

  • Fantasy
  • Science fiction

Stephen Kotowych is a writer, anthologist, and podcaster who is winner of the Writers of the Future Grand Prize, Spain’s Ictineu Award, and a two-time finalist for the Prix Aurora Award, Canada’s highest prize…

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Portrait of Robin Siegerman TIAC 2024

Narrator & voice artist

Robin Siegerman

  • Audiobooks
  • Narration

Robin Siegerman is a 4-time One Voice Award Nominee and an Earphones Award winning narrator. She has narrated over 60 books with a particular love for historical fiction, and also does voiceovers for documentaries,…

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Portrait of Senn Annis TIAC 2024

Narrator & performer

Senn Annis

  • Audiobooks
  • Narration

Senn Annis draws on a decade of stage performance experience as an award winning circus aerialist to create memorable characters and stirring vocal performances. She has worked with both traditional publishers and Indie authors…

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Portrait of Melissa Yi TIAC 2024

Author & emergency doctor

Melissa Yi

  • Mystery

Melissa Yi could slice your throat and sew it back up again. Legally. Because she’s an emergency doctor. Her heroine, resident Dr. Hope Sze, leaps from fixing ingrown toenails to solving full-blown murders. Melissa…

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Portrait of Steph Sterritt TIAC 2024

Marketing manager & author

Steph Sterritt

  • Fantasy
  • Marketing
  • Science fiction

Steph Sterritt serves as the Marketing Manager at Starlit Publishing, an independent publishing company founded by Tao Wong. Alongside her role, she is an independent author, crafting sci-fi and fantasy romances under a pseudonym.…

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