Half-day of publishing consultation, including review and recommendations on your book proposal, insight into the publishing business and lunch with Matt Holt.

How would you like to spend a half-day with one of the largest business publishers? That’s right, you’ll have exclusive access to Matthew Holt at his Hoboken offices to review your book ideas, discuss the pros and cons of book publishing, review your book proposal (or create one if you don’t have one), examine the market potential and learn how the publishing decision is made. Whether you publish or not, you’ll have seen the inside of a world that most people don’t get to see.

Matthew Holt is vice president and publisher at John Wiley & Sons trade division, where he publishes general business and self-help books. Holt’s authors have included actor and economist Ben Stein, skateboarder Tony Hawk, divorce attorney Raoul Felder, radio talk show host Ronn Owens, marketing gurus David Meerman Scott and Chris Brogan and television star, Larry Winget. Holt has also published NSA's own Shep Hyken, CSP, CPAE, Jeff Gittomer, CSP, CPAE, Ron Karr, CSP, Philip van Hooser, CSP, CPAE and Laura Stack, CSP. Many of those published have appeared on The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek and USA Today best-seller lists.