Writers' Rough Drafts

Dave Chesson is passionate about books and writing stories, and he's a best-selling writer as well. He started creating niche websites and generating income from Adsense and Amazon-affiliated programs, but quickly found the solution for making money and integrating his passion for writing and storytelling by publishing four books and establishing 34 websites! He wakes up every day at 3:30 AM while everyone in his family is sleeping, gets a cup of coffee, writes for his websites -- including Kindlepreneur, where he shares multiple writing tips to help writers bring their books to the next level.

Guy Vincent is the founder of publishizer.com, a webpage that can launch a campaign of your book, starting from the proposal to gathering funds through crowdfunding and connecting you with literary agents to help get your book published.

He published an e-book about how to wake up early by himself and then, while working as an e-publisher, conceived the idea of applying the crowdfunding concept with self-publishing.

Linda Nguyen is a Texas native in hot pursuit of good food, adventure, and laughter.

She is a consummate content creator, with a few different blogs, an active Instagram feed, and her own sketch notes and #DoodlesAboutFeelings series. Previously, she ran a multi-contributor YouTube vlogging channel called Totes Awesome.

Linda has really hit the scene in recent years with her hugely popular Girl Eats World food blog, where she shares her favorite sports and eats in Austin, Texas, and as she travels around the world.

A never-ending source of kindness and inspiration, she also co-wrote the book 3 Things, with Kim Arenas, a gratitude journal that encourages readers to take a few minutes each day to stop and give thanks for three things.

Dan Norris is a serial entrepreneur, award winning content marketer, international speaker and the author of the top 10 Amazon bestselling Small Business book The 7 Day Startup and Content Machine.

In June 2013 after failing at entrepreneurship for 7 years, he founded wpcurve.com, a worldwide team of wordpress developers, providing unlimited small fixes and support, 24 / 7 for a low monthly fee. After becoming profitable in 23 days, WP Curve grew to a team of 40, servicing thousands of customers and passed an annual run rate of over $1m AUD using Content Marketing alone. 

Dan's second book, Content Machine documents how to create a 7 figure content strategy and scale it with automation, delegation and a content team. 

The 7 Day Startup which became a top 10 bestseller in 3 Amazon categories has been translated into 5 languages and inspired thousands of entrepreneurs around the world to launch their business.

Jess Ostroff is the Founder and Director of Calm at Don’t Panic Management, a virtual social media assistant agency which helps companies outsource administrative, bookkeeping, social media, and content marketing tasks so they can focus on growing their business. She is also the Managing Editor for Convince & Convert, a digital media and consulting company that provides high-impact counsel to many of the world's largest brands, and specializes in strategic planning for digital, content marketing, and social media.

Glen Allsopp is a successful online entrepreneur who started his career at the young age of 16. He is the creator and voice behind the insanely popular internet marketing blog, ViperChill, which offers free marketing advice and strategies as well as a host of invaluable information, all geared towards making money online. He has done some substantial social media research as well as consulting work for international brands, and his articles have been featured on front page of top sites such as Digg, StumbleUpon, SEOmoz, and Copyblogger. Having founded and sold a few businesses, Glen now travels the globe, runs his own SEO company, and shares his love for tech and marketing with his dedicated followers.

Emily Straubel is a certified holistic health coach, columnist, writer and speaker in what many would call a taboo niche. Her site, Red Lipstick Project carries tags like mind blowing sex and turn-ons for smart girls, and explores topics from sex and love, relationship, entrepreneurship, femininity and more. She also blogs on some slightly tamer, but still spicy things on her column for MaineToday called The Sex Files. Coming off her recent TEDx success asking the audience “What turns you on?” and starting her newest project Ten Thousand Turn Ons, Emily is determined to understand the inner workings of people's mind, talk about what others are scared to talk about and share it all through her witty and intelligent writing.

Tom Morkes is a graduate of West Point, a former Army Officer, and an Iraq war veteran. Since leaving the military in 2013, he has been traveling the world and has gone on to write 3 books. He is currently the CEO of insurgent publishing, a boutique publishing company that makes books for the creative outliers of the world. He, along with two other veterans, just launched HighSpeedLowDrag.org, a transition resource for aspiring veteran entrepreneurs.

Alexis is an entrepreneurial writer and digital strategist who transitioned from a thriving journalistic career, writing for publications like the Houston Chronicle and US News and World report, she decided she needed more freedom and creativity in her life. Having spent time as a solo traveler through Africa, she started making money for her site The Traveling Writer. Quickly, she expanded her offerings to digital products, courses and eBooks, in addition to the freelance writing and social media consulting she was doing.

In 2010, she transitioned from the solopreneurial life to working with a team and built her first business, Socialexis, a blog management and content marketing agency that puts out over a hundred and twenty pieces of content for various clients every month -- not including daily social media posts.

In 2013, she founded the site The Write Life, for writers and authors looking for resources and advice to create, connect and earn money. She also manages to carve out her own little corner of the internet on her site, AlexisGrant.com where she shares her personal journey and the behind scenes details of life as a creative entrepreneur.

Taylor Pearson is an entrepreneur, marketer, and philosopher. After finishing his undergraduate studies and promptly abandoning his lifelong plan to become a lawyer, he made a life for himself traveling the world teaching English, playing some semi-pro football, and building multiple businesses for himself and others using savvy marketing knowledge and disposition towards being able to see systems, where none previously existed. His site, TaylorPearson.me is a favorite among the location-independent entrepreneurial essay crowd for his long as his thoughtful pieces about the current state of things such as education, business culture, personal frameworks, and mental models.