Advisory Board

Rachel Jacobsohn is the author of The Reading Group Handbook, the premier guidebook for reading groups, and president of the Association of Book Group Readers and Leaders based in Chicago. She conducts workshops for groups and organizations on improving reading skills, group dynamics, and reading interpretation. Rachel is the most often quoted authority in the country on matters relating to reading groups. She can be reached at rachelj@interaccess.com.

Laurie Kretchmar is former editor-in chief of Women.com Networks, one of the leading web sites for women with over 4 million unique visitors every month. As the founding editor at Women.com, Laurie launched the company's first web site in 1995. She speaks frequently on publishing and the Internet to industry groups and national business organizations. She is an avid reader.

Hut Landon is executive director of the Northern California Independent Bookseller's Association and one of the originators of the Book Sense program for the American Bookseller's Association.

David Laduke is co-founder and vice president of marketing at Linuxcare. David has held senior-level marketing and consulting positions at Apple, Netscape, Oracle, NeXT and Silicon Graphics. He holds an MBA from the Tuck School at Dartmouth College and an MFA and BA from Columbia, where he won the Tennessee Williams Award for creative writing.