Carole Jelen, VP/Literary Agent, has created thousands of publishing contracts and repeated author success stories over 25 years in the publishing industry. Carole's author client list and wide audience following has been built combining traditional networking with layers of digital techniques culled from working with top selling titles and luminaries of the Silicon Valley. Her publishing editorial work includes building author successes at Prentice-Hall, Sybex (Wiley imprint), and working as senior editor at Addison-Wesley. As a speaker and credentialed teacher, she also instructs author platform seminars.