Wendee Mullikin is an accomplished author and editor—with both fiction and nonfiction bylines—who came to the professions by way of education and a chance encounter on Twitter. Since 2012, Wendee has worked in the publishing industry in text-focused roles as well as others—up to and including senior acquiring editor for a small fiction publishing house. She is the founder of Purple Pen Wordsmithing, LLC and lives in Michigan—but forges positive and meaningful relationships with authors and organizations across the U.S.