Charmaine Hammond is an 11x best-selling author, professional speaker and successful business owner for the past 28 years. She currently owns two businesses. In her company Raise a Dream, she guides authors and entrepreneurs on how the power of collective influence, collaboration and sponsorship can help them sell more books, sell their creative works in bulk, and deepen their impact on the world through their written words. She also teaches how to find sponsors to help bring authors and creatives bring their events, book related projects and book tours to life. She is the Executive Producer of an award winning animated short film, Back Home Again and frequently writes for different magazines and periodicals.