Author and Filmmaker Kailin Gow Designated as Expert Blogger For FastCompany.com

Kailin Gow, noted children and teen book author, will be featured as an expert blogger on FastCompany.com with her blog series, “The Fast Life With Kailin Gow.”

Los Angeles, Calif.  – August 30, 2011 – Kailin Gow, author of over 80 books for children, teens and women, has been selected as an expert blogger for FastCompany.com.  Kailin’s blog series titled, “The Fast Life with Kailin Gow,” will be a regular series on Fast Company’s Leadership page.  The blog features Kailin’s opinions on the fast-paced world of digital publishing and digital entertainment. She writes about trends, issues, and the business of book publishing from the viewpoint of being a bestselling author and also as a publishing industry veteran for over 10 years.

Kailin Gow is the author of over 80 books for children, tweens, teens, and women. She is known best for her young adult fiction novel series:  Frost Series, PULSE Vampire Series, Wicked Woods Series, and The Stoker Sisters.  In the last half year, fifteen of her young adult fiction novels have been on the Amazon.com Top 100 Bestselling Teen New Releases list, and  she has recently won the most fiction awards in the 2011 International Book Awards for her books Bitter Frost, PULSE, Wicked Woods, and Dracula’s Daughter (The Stoker Sisters #1). The Parent Teacher Association, U.S Mental Health Association and Women’s groups, has recommended her books.

According to their website, “Fast Company sets the agenda, charting the evolution of business through a unique focus on the most creative individuals sparking change in the marketplace. By uncovering best and ‘next’ practices, the magazine and website help a new breed of leader work smarter and more effectively.  Fast Company empowers innovators to challenge convention and create the future of business.”

Kailin Gow’s first blog post was titled “Why Celebrity Authors Are Self Publishing–And What It Means For You.” You can read the full post at http://www.fastcompany.com/1776309/why-celebrity-authors-are-choosing-to-self-publish-and-what-it-means-to-you

To learn more about Kailin Gow, please visit http://www.authorkailingow.com

About Kailin Gow:

Besides writing fiction, she writes non-fiction books helping teens, young adults, and women with self-esteem, career, and social issues. Her recent book, Shy Girls Social Club Handbook for Dealing with Bullies and Other Meanies have been used at PTA events. Kailin Gow is also a filmmaker, having had her short film, The Stoker Sisters, screened at the prestigious 14th Annual Shorts Festival, accredited by the Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.  She is the author of Books to Films: From Twilight, Jane Eyre, to Hunger Games, which is being made into a web show.  As a mother of a little girl, she incorporates her passion for helping girls and women develop self-esteem through empowerment into her fiction novels and films, and has founded an organization called Shy Girls Social Club, based on her book series, for girls to get together to encourage each other and support each other on teen and young adult issues. Having a background in internet marketing as a marketing executive for top Fortune 500 companies, Kailin Gow is also well turned to how the youth employs technology. She is amongst the first authors to have her book sell as eBooks on Amazon.com ten years ago and is one of the pioneering authors in digital publishing.  She believes in order to help spur the economy, people have to invest in their youths and spend the time to understand the youth culture.

Learn more about her at http://www.authorkailingow.com

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