April L. Hamilton is an author, blogger, Technorati BlogCritic, leading advocate and speaker for the indie author movement, and founder and Editor in chief of Publetariat (http://www.publetariat.com), the premier online news hub and community for indie authors and small imprints. She provides lessons in self-publishing and author platform/promotion at http://vaultu.publetariat.com, and her popular self-published reference book, The IndieAuthor Guide, has recently been picked up by Writer’s Digest Books for publication in a revised and updated edition in fall of 2010.