Different People Make a Difference

Jason Gillikin is the founder and CEO of Lakeshore Literary -- a small traditional and hybrid Midwestern publisher and specialty book distributor -- and the president of Diction Dude, an author-consulting and freelance writing-and-editing agency. Gillikin got his start as a newspaper columnist, working up the ranks until he earned appointment as editor-in-chief of a daily community broadsheet. He's freelanced as a writer and editor for several national media corporations, where his content earned more than 4 million distinct impressions on the Web and he coached several hundred general-assignment writers. Simultaneously, he's the founder of the Grand River Writing Tribe, a small writers' collective in the heart of West Michigan. He earned a degree in theoretical and practical ethics and quantitative political science from Western Michigan University. In his free time, he is an avid hiker, scuba diver, and cat butler.