Board of Directors
Eddie Vincent, President
IPNE Project Teams: MissionEddie Vincent, co-owner of Encircle Publications, has been in the publishing and graphic design field for more than 30 years. His company Encircle Publications specializes in complete book production, and is home to The Aurorean poetry journal. Eddie works with publishers and independent authors, helping them with all their design needs and all facets of bringing a book to life. Eddie and his wife Cynthia, a poet and editor, live in Maine. Adopt Eddie! Jack B. Rochester
IPNE Project Teams: Mentoring In his role leading IPNE's Mentoring & Internship program, Jack B. Rochester helps IPNE members find publishing resources and opportunities to learn the business firsthand. He earned his Master's degree in comparative literature from California State University at Sonoma, where he sponsored the Joshua Tree Interactive Working Writer’s Scholarship for ten years. He has taught writing and publishing workshops and spoken at writing conferences coast to coast. Jack has worked in publishing his entire career as an editor, publisher and writer. As an editor, he acquired and published over 70 business text and trade books. He wrote over a dozen works of business and technology nonfiction, including the national bestseller The Naked Computer (William Morrow, 1983, reviewed in The New York Times), before launching yet another career as a novelist. His second novel, Madrone (Wheatmark, 2015), was published in 2014, and won the 2016 award for Best Literary Fiction from the Independent Publishers of New England. All of his fiction works are available in paperback, Kindle, and Audible. Joanne Lannin
Joanne Lannin is a freelance writer and a writing instructor. She has been honored by the New England Women's Press Association and the Maine Press Association for her sportswriting. She wrote for the Maine Sunday Telegram in Portland for 22 years. Her latest book won a silver medal in the ForeWord Reviews INDIEFAB awards competition in 2015. She writes a blog about women’s basketball at FindingAWayToPlay.com. Joanne also teaches journalism and writing at the high school and college levels. She is involved in coaching and playing basketball and is actively soliciting sports manuscripts for her next publishing project. Adopt Joanne! Stephen McArthur
He and his author wife, Rickey Gard Diamond, started Rootstock Publishing in 2016 to bring their skills to the world of book publishing. Stephen oversees all publishing projects and works directly with authors.
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The goal of Adopt-A-Board Member is to have our shadow-ees eventually take a role on the Board or as a Project Team coordinator. We hope this will be a painless way of getting up to speed on IPNE programs and helping your own publishing while you help your colleagues in IPNE. The "Adopt Me" links below the bios lead to the Project Teams signup form, where you can pick your Board member! Recent forum updates
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Stephen has been a producer and distributor of popular music and educational media - audiovisual, recorded music, and books - since 1985. Multicultural Media Inc. which he founded in 1991 is the creator of the Music of the Earth recordings series, the Rootstock Recordings series featuring world music artists, the MCM DVD series of music documentaries, and the world renowned JVC Smithsonian Folkways DVD world music and dance collections consisting of 41 video programs and twenty books.
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Pick one of these fun, hard-working folks to shadow as time allows; you'll help us expand member benefits and keep the ball rolling during vacations and absences. With your help, we'll be able carry out more effective programming without burnout!