Catherine Ryan Howard

CATHERINE RYAN HOWARD is the bestselling self-published author of MOUSETRAPPED: A Year and A Bit in Orlando, Florida and BACKPACKED: A Reluctant Trip Across Central America. Her blog, Catherine, Caffeinated-which she started after discovering that straightforward, realistic self-publishing advice that wasn't laced with chants of "death to the Big Six!" was hard to find-has become the go-to resource for the pragmatic self-publisher. Catherine's success story has been featured in the likes of The Irish Examiner, The Irish Independent and The Sunday Times newspapers, and she has been interviewed on BBC Radio Ulster, RTE Radio 1 and Newstalk (Ireland). In February 2012 she was chosen to deliver the first ever self-publishing course at Faber & Faber's Faber Academy in Bloomsbury, London, where she continues to be a guest tutor. Find out more on Catherine's website, catherineryanhoward.com.