Maria Connor has been providing editorial and publishing project management support to self-published, hybrid authors, and small publishers since 2010. She is the author of The Self-Publishing Checklist Series, a Golden Heart finalist and USA Today bestselling romance author of more than 35 titles, and an international speaker on writing, editing, marketing, and publishing topics. She is also an award-winning freelance writer and journalist, with more than fifteen years of expertise producing content for print and digital media. She has presented workshops at the Women’s Fiction Festival (Matera, Italy), NINC (The International Organization of Multi-Published Novelists), Romance Writers of America National Conference, and numerous regional writing conferences/events.

When not working with authors, she enjoys eavesdropping on conversations in coffee shops, browsing thrift shops, or road tripping with her Chorkie, Dickens.