VidLit

LIZ DUBELMAN is the founder of VidLit Productions, LLC, the world-renowned book marketing and content-creating company. VidLit is best known in the publishing world for its success with the book, "Yiddish With Dick and Jane," the sales of which more than doubled thanks to the online promotion. This year VidLit will launch its digital publishing arm.

She co-edited What Was I Thinking? 58 Bad Boyfriend Stories, [St Martin’s Press 2009]based on the VidLit series of the same name. The book has been optioned by New Line for a film and has also been adapted as a play.

Ms. Dubelman's 15-year digital career includes creating and producing original programming for MSN and American Cybercast. She served as Creative Director of News Corp MCI, and has been a consultant to all of the major studios in the area of digital rights and Internet content. She was President of Cherry Lane Digital, the consulting arm of the famous music publisher.

Her pre-digital career included ten years in film production. Her television work won her two Emmys -- one as a producer and one as a director. She was the first woman member of the labor negotiating committee of I.A.T.S.E., New York local 644 (cinematographers), and is an establishing member of Women in New Technology.

Ms. Dubelman is a graduate of Hampshire College. She is a published author, and a sometimes radio personality. Well over a million people have viewed her short story “Craziest” on the Web. http://www.vidlit.com/craziest/ She and her co-editor, Barbara Davilman, have just published "What Was I Thinking?: 58 Bad Boyfriend Stories," (St. Martin's Press, 2009), which originated as a VidLit series. She recently completed her first novel and is negotiating Internet and print deals to release it.

She lives in Santa Monica with her husband, Paul Slansky, and their daughter.