2020 Bombeck workshop faculty Jim Azevedo

Jim Azevedo is the marketing director at Smashwords, the largest distributor of self-published e-books. Since 2008, Smashwords has helped more than 140,000 authors, publishers and literary agents around the world release more than 500,000 titles to e-book retailers, subscription services and public libraries. Jim, a convert from Silicon Valley's technology industry, brought to Smashwords' indie author ethos 18 years of drumming, recording and touring with a San Francisco Bay Area hard rock band.