About Dee Power and Brian Hill

Dee Power was born on the East Coast and grew up on the West Coast. She holds a Master of Business Administration. She started her writing career in the second grade by writing a Thanksgiving Day play which debuted before many appreciative parents. Dee has been engaged to do consulting projects for a myriad of different companies, and realizes now that her management consulting career is over her brain is filled with data about almost every industry. Her previous clients have a tendency to pop up as characters in her novels and screenplays, their identity changed just enough to avoid litigation. But they know who they are.

Dee has been interviewed as an expert on the publishing industry from the author’s point of view by The New York Times, Washington Post, the Associated Press and various local publications.

Brian Hill, a Midwest native, began his writing career while still in college, when he sold an article that became the cover story for a national sports magazine. Brian has a Master’s of Business Administration.

For ten years he was a partner in a management consulting firm and advised several hundred companies across the US, specializing in business planning and finding capital.  He has written articles and has been interviewed as an expert in the venture capital industry for numerous publications including Smart Money, BusinessWeek online, and Business Journals in several major cities.

Five years ago, he became a full-time writer of nonfiction and fiction books, as well as screenplays. He has studied screenwriting at UCLA-Extension and won 2nd Place in the 2005 Phoenix Film Festival Screenwriting Competition.

Accomplishments Brian and Dee founded Profit Dynamics Inc., a management consulting firm in 1987. They specialized in writing business plans (which investors often consider works of fiction). Clients included large well-known companies as well as entrepreneurial start-ups. The experience they gained from this work provided the inspiration and material for two books they co-authored Inside Secrets To Venture Capital,and Attracting Capital From Angels both published by John Wiley & Sons.

The Making of a Bestseller: Success Stories from Authors and the Editors, Agents and Booksellers Behind Them, Dearborn Trade, was published in 2005.

Business Plan Basics, 58 Ways to Find Money for Your Business and The Publishing Primer: A Blueprint for an Author's Success were published in 2007.

Dee and Brian have interviewed on numerous radio stations and have appeared on several television broadcasts.

Guest Speakers They have developed a seminar, The Bestseller in You: How to Get Your Book Published, and several shorter presentations on the publishing industry which are appropriate for writers’ conferences and conventions. They have been invited to present at the New Orleans Writers Conference, the San Francisco Writers Conference, BookExpo America, and the Midwest Literary Festival.