Jay is the founding author of the Birds of a Feather Press, and the project coordinator working with travel and nonfiction writers to achieve their self-publishing goals.

Originally from the flatlands and big skies of rural Norfolk in eastern England, Jay is a British Expat who spent two decades in Los Angeles, before relocating to Bodrum Turkey. After 17 years as a Project Manager and corporate Global Operations Executive for Sony Pictures, Jay abandoned her corporate career to become a full-time writer and help others achieve their writing and self-publishing goals. In this new role, she combines her strategic approach to problem solving with extensive project management and planning expertise. She works with small businesses, entrepreneurs, and authors to build their online presence and brand awareness using a strategic approach to content marketing, and is a passionate believer in teaching what you know to help others.

Author

Jay writes and publishes her own Travel Guide series, and nonfiction books for travel writers to hone their writing and self-publishing skills. In addition to these How To books, her creative pleasure is writing whimsical poetry (inspired by her childhood love of Hilaire Belloc), and has published two poetic memoirs. She also writes a personal blog (Roving Jay) about her travels and house sitting adventures. Basically, she just loves to write!

Content Marketing & Social Media Strategy

Jay was a Content Marketing early adopter to support the launch of her Travel Website (Bodrum Peninsula Travel Guide) and publication of her Turkey Travel Guides. She has since accumulated a loyal client-base of brands and businesses (Jay Artale) who leverage her Content Marketing and Social Media Management acumen.

Jay works with solo-preneurs and small businesses to develop their brand voice. She will show you how to use tools and techniques to take control of your own online presence, but is available to provide consulting services for any of the content marking and social media management tasks you need to delegate.

MEMBERSHIP AND ORGANISATIONS

SHOWCASE

FOR Indie Author Fringe: Co-organiser with Author's Orna Ross and David Penny, of the Alliance of Independent Author's free online conference series for independent authors and self-publishing. Events for 2015 will be tied to London Book Fair, BEA (Chicago) & Frankfurt Book Fair. Role also includes Social Media
Strategy and Activity to promote and support each event.

Social Media Strategy and Management of the Alliance of Independent Author's social networks. Manage a team of social media assistants to deliver timely and relevant self-publishing content across private and public Facebook groups, Twitter stream, private LinkedIn group and Google Community.

FOR Orna Ross: Book Launch social media support for release of "Her Secret Rose" (fiction) including promotion of a crowd funder campaign. Promotional activity for non-fiction "Go Creative" series.

 Monthly event blog posts and to raise the profile of the Alliance of Independent Author's events, publications and campaigns to increase their visibility across the web and build membership engagement.

FOR Indie ReCon: Managed Social Media activity for Indie ReCon, a 3-day online Conference for Authors, held in April 2015. Managed Twitter and Facebook event page.