PhotobucketJane Friedman is a professor of media and writing at the University of Cincinnati, and the former publisher of Writer’s Digest. She has spoken at more than 200 events since 2001, including South by Southwest, BookExpo America, and the Association of Writers and Writing Programs.

Her expertise has been featured by sources such as NPR’s Morning Edition, Publishers Weekly, GalleyCat, PBS, The Huffington Post, Digital Book World, and Mr. Media, and she was recently called on to serve as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, to review 2011 grants in literature.

Get more of her advice at JaneFriedman.com, or follow her on Twitter.