Stimulating Conversation is an author marketing stragety company, specializing in author websites and technology. We offer a team of experts to provide authors a robust knowledge base covering the early questions and issues authors face such as: When and how do I need a website and/or blog? How and with whom do I publish my book? What are the channels to sell more books & get exposure? Do I need a marketing plan? What does Public Relations have to do with promoting my book? Oprah called, how do I know I am media ready? The Team of Experts at Stimulating Conversation are hand picked to bring the most talented and successful leaders in the industry to meet the needs of every author and every budget. We are a collaborative group who all feel strongly about educating clients, and teaching authors how to be effective. Stay current on all our experts upcoming speaking engagements, confernece appearances, workshops, and specials as well as atricles and free resources every month by signing up for Stimulating Conversation's monthly newsletter. Stimulating Conversation, LLC is the parent company of Stimulating Conversation and Ijustfinished.com.

Penny C. Sansevieri, CEO and founder of Author Marketing Experts, Inc., is a best-selling author and internationally recognized book marketing and media relations expert. She is an Adjunct Professor teaching Self-Publishing for NYU. Her company is one of the leaders in the publishing industry and has developed some of the innovative Social Media/Internet book marketing campaigns. She is the author of five books, including Red Hot Internet Publicity which has been called the "leading guide to everything Internet" AME is the first marketing and publicity firm to use Internet promotion to its full impact through The Virtual Author Tour™, which strategically works with social networking sites, Twitter, blogs, book videos, and relevant sites to push an authors message into the virtual community and connect with sites related to the book's topic, positioning the author in his or her market. AME has had ten recent books top the bestseller lists including New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal.

Eileen Winnick is a corporate and media communications expert, nationally known for catapulting clients to strategic success. She maintains an office in Westport, Connecticut and a full-service media studio in New York City. Her experience as a media analyst combined with her background in education and her career as a professional actress and TV Spokeswoman bring in-depth experience to helping her clients develop individual style, public presence and personal persuasiveness. Eileen designs media and corporate trainings that offer practical tools for immediate application. She is committed to her clients’ personal and professional development. She offers media techniques and messaging while providing structure, strategic solutions and on-going support for C-level executives, authors, editors and marketers at all the major publishing houses. Her clients have appeared on OPRAH, The Today Show, The Martha Stewart Show, Charlie Rose, Meet the Press, Larry King Live, The View, The Daily Show, Good Morning America, C- Span. Fox News, Bloomberg and CNN. Eileen offers an array of communication services to corporations, sales and marketing teams, government, and TV personalities. Through a unique combination of psychological insight, practical knowledge and instinct, Eileen has transformed the performances of already top- level professionals into media and sales stars. She has been a project manager and executive coach for Fortune 500 executives at Johnson & Johnson, Smith Barney, AT& T, Tweedy Browne, LLC, The National Association for Women Lawyers, Random House, Simon & Schuster, Warner Books, Rizzoli International Publications, Workman Publications, Crown Publications, Paramount and Viacom.

Andrea Martone has been a public relations and communications executive for 17 years, working with top New York City-based agencies (Howard Rubenstein Assoc., and CooperKatz & Company) and now as an independent contractor. Her experience with writing and PR stems from her early roots when she served as the editor-in-chief of a top Long Island weekly newspaper chain, and then as editor of “Hometown Guides” – a regional magazine for the communities of the tri-state area.

Most recently, she worked with a client, iON Television Network working as one of several producers and on-air hosts for a series of public affair shows which aired in 62 markets across the country. The show highlights issues and concerns to the community and she interviewed hundreds of politicians, businesspeople, environmentalists, nonprofit leaders, and authors of books. As a consultant, she launched several books for clients including: Employee Engagement: A Roadmap for Creating Profits, Optimizing; The Hair Loss Cure: A Self Help Guide; The Journey from Abandonment to Healing: Turn the End of a Relationship into the Beginning of a New Life; The Séance: Healing Messages from Beyond; Hello from Heaven: A New Field of Research-After-Death Communication Confirms That Life and Love Are Eternal.

Andrea’s vast expertise of the local, region and national media allow her to secure many radio and print interviews for her clients, including – for some - appearances on TV shows. Andrea also is an expert in Radio Media Tours (RMT) and has conducted hundreds of these tours for new book authors. RMT’s are a series of interviews offered to radio stations throughout the country during a specific time period. A RMT usually involves a celebrity, expert or company spokesperson doing 10 to 20 interviews in succession with radio stations from locations all over America. Through her consulting firm, Intuitive Vision Network, she conceived and executed America's first concept of Psychic & Spiritual "Healing" Cruises, featuring top mediums, psychics, life coaches and healers. The concept was held on cruise ships for nine consecutive years and was featured on NBC'S "Extra", and written extensively in many regional and national publications.

Media personality, host and producer of the popular radio talk show "Your Book Is Your Hook!" on WomensRadio. Jennifer is a best-selling award-winning author who has been published five times, an award-winning freelance writer and a respected book business consultant in her business by the same name, "Your Book Is Your Hook!" She has both self-published and been published by a traditional publisher. She created the trademarked "From Thought to Sales in 90 DaysTM" book process which she developed while writing, marketing and publishing her best-selling book, "Dating Your Money: How to Build a Long-Lasting Relationship with Your Money in 8 Easy Steps."

Jennifer supports first time and seasoned authors and writers with the writing, getting published and marketing of their book ideas and projects as well as the building of their platform to raise their visibility to readers and the media. She teaches simple strategies to tweet, post and find followers and connections for authors, business and media professionals and others to build their marketing platform and expand the reach of their book, business or project while they attend to their jobs, families and personal lives.

Specific how-to tips from her book, "The Green Guide Girls: Guide to Book Publishing" which she published, produced and co-wrote with the founder of Plant A Tree USATM about environmentally friendly book publishing, can be found in the How to Go Green series on PlanetGreen.com, a Discovery Company website and originally appeared on and were endorsed by Treehugger.com. She is currently on an international tour with her fifth book, "Boys Before Business: The Single Girl's Guide to Having It All!"

Naomi is the author of two novels and hosts/produces several radio shows. She uses her experience in writing, publishing, and interviewing to help clients achieve their goals. Naomi hosts the "Brazos Valley Health" show on KEOS 81.9 FM. She interviews authors weekly on "Coffee With an Author," and "Best Sellers' Club" on BlogTalkRadio. She facilitates "Write On!" a resource round table for experts in areas of interest to authors to share information, while Renee fields the associated chat room and” tweets” during the program for listener input. She is also the co-creator of the Writer’s Tool Kit, a free resource available on the Stimulating Conversation website. As a fund raiser for KEOS, Naomi has been know to put on her Gypsy garb and read Tarot cards at a Halloween events. Call her to schedule a meeting to promote your future as a successful author. It just might be in your cards!

Chelsea used hard work, effort, and lack of sleep to graduate from the University of Arizona in Film Studies. Today she applies these keys to promote SC through media and social networking. A frequent “Tweeter”, more than 280 people read her messages several times a week about authors and events sponsored by Stimulating Conversation. The Facebook page she hosts exceeds 875 readers. Chelsea develops followings for writers through posts about events including book releases , “Coffee With an Author” on BlogTalkRadio, and new media campaigns. One of Chelsea’s goals is to see authors from SC on the New York Times Bestseller List. She wants to use her marketing skills even more with incoming clients to develop their presence and promote their writing. Although Chelsea has no sense of smell (It’s true!), your book will come out smelling like a rose.

Confident and poised, Kendyll has always expressed her energy through dance. At SC, she turns that energy into riding herd during the daily staff meetings, sending books to reviewers, compiling custom resource lists for clients and holding down the office. She’s Renee’s right hand and strives to wear the right job hat at the right time. She has remarkable drive to do her best and is undaunted when presented with a new job responsibility. She just digs in and succeeds. As a teen, Kendyll’s mom remembers watching her through her bedroom window, dancing energy away. These days Kendyll is still dancing, but after work with her toddler daughter.

Renee Giroux spent the first 15 years of her career as a pediatric nurse, and most of her creative energy on a multitude of other artistic outlets. It was on a serendipitous journey that she was encouraged to "follow her passion," and discovered her passion was books. Renée founded Ijustfinished.com with a leap of faith and excitement. The learning curve took her through the process of building and rebuilding Ijustfinished.com. She became immersed in learning the ins and outs of the publishing world, web design, web development, social media, small business, networking, and all things book marketing. She now leads a team of marketing, writing, and web professionals who are just as passionate about books and helping authors navigate the book world at Stimulating Conversation. She can often be found speaking at seminars and workshops, guest blogging, and Tweeting her way around the social media world. She is currently editing a book, Expose Your Book; 101 Experts Reveal the Secrets of Book Marketing Through Conversation. She still considers herself an author groupie, and often thinks she is very lucky to meet and befriend authors.

Creating his own website business, Robert needed extra cash flow. So he taught classes in web design, where Renee first met him . She had a vision (IJF); he told her she wasn’t ready yet. Two weeks later she contacted him and said, “Hey, I started my website and…I need your help!” Robert signed on with I Just Finished/Stimulating Conversation as a result. To support authors’ success in the writing arena, Robert builds and supports all the websites and web activities based on client needs. He is able to take a concept or vision and translate it in to computer languages exceptionally well. He also develops the process so novices and new computer users are comfortable using it. He tests and re-tests to remove any bugs, making the process easier for all our clients. Robert began developing sites at age 15. He has been programming for eight years and has extensive knowledge in PHP, MySQL, AJAX, HTML, Python, CSS, Standard Javascript and jQuery. His expertise also extends to SEO (search engine optimization). He is an example of a highly motivated person, sans college degree, reaching a high level of success in a highly competitive field. Playing as goalie in social soccer league, Robert has the energy and drive to help you reach your goals in image-building and marketing your writing.

Starting with a review blog 'Reading with Monie' , Monie initially joined “I just finished” as a reviewer. Her lifelong love of books, knowledge of the publishing industry, and organizational skills made her a natural for increased responsibilities with IJF and Stimulating Conversation. Monie schedules authors for Naomi’s interviews, for the Featured Author section of IJF, keeps track of the progress of reviewers, and gets the word out about authors to market their books and improve their sales. She is the social media wiz for IJF. Determination has been a guiding force in her life, starting as a young mother supporting and raising her son (now in college), and carrying through to today as she holds down both a full time job and a part time job while reading more than 200 books a year. A veteran buyer of Scholastic books starting back in fifth grade, Monie is never without a book. Her amazing appetite for reading in many genres has her usually reading a book for pleasure, one for reviewing, an audio book to play in her car, and another waiting for her at her computer.