Jason GillikinJason Gillikin is the founder and CEO of Lakeshore Literary -- a small traditional and hybrid Midwestern publisher and specialty book distributor -- and the president of Diction Dude, an author-consulting and freelance writing-and-editing agency. Gilikin got his start as a newspaper columnist, working up the ranks until he earned appointment as editor-in-chief of a daily community broadsheet. He's freelanced as a writer and editor for several national media corporations, where his content earned more than 4 million distinct impressions on the Web and he coached several hundred general-assignment writers. Simultaneously, he's the founder of the Grand River Writing Tribe, a small writers' collective in the heart of West Michigan. He earned a degree in theoretical and practical ethics and quantitative political science from Western Michigan University. In his free time, he is an avid hiker, scuba diver, and cat butler. Read More Read Less