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Alyssa Matesic is an independent developmental book editor and publishing consultant specializing in adult fiction. After holding editorial roles at Henry Holt & Company (an imprint of Macmillan), The Book Group literary agency, and Ballantine Books (an imprint of Penguin Random House), she founded her own editorial services company, which helps hundreds of authors per year strengthen their manuscripts for publication. She shares writing and publishing insights to help aspiring authors on her popular YouTube channel (@AlyssaMatesic) and newsletter (Chapter Break).

Patrick McDonald is the creator of QueryTracker and QueryManager, which are the industry-leading online querying tools. He has been bringing agents and authors together since 2007. This gives him a unique perspective since he has worked extensively with both groups and understands the needs and expectations on each side of the query trenches. Patrick started as an aspiring fiction writer when he found the query process lacking proper tools. At the time, he was working as a software engineer and decided to take his two passions, programming and writing, and combine them to create QueryTracker. When it became an instant success, no one was surprised more than Patrick. He lives in Billings, Montana surrounded by his three adult children and five spoiled grandkids.