Mark Levine dedicates his work to empowering authors around the globe through his efforts in promoting self-publishing avenues. His company, Hillcrest Media Group, located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has embraced the technological age to bring authors and readers together in new ways. An author himself, Mark Levine’s interest in writing bloomed at the University of Wisconsin, where he earned a bachelor of arts in journalism.

After graduating, Levine led Creative Sports Images, Inc., another Minnesota company, as president, selling wrestling-branded clothing and other items throughout Asia. During that same period, he served as vice president at Creative Clothing Concepts, Inc., in Minneapolis. The company offered a selection of direct-to-consumer products from the Moose Junction Clothing Company label. From 1999 to 2009, the entrepreneur and executive led Click Industries, a company that provided filing services for small business owners.

Since 2006, Mark Levine has guided Hillcrest Media Group as CEO (both Hillcrest and Click were owned by the same investors and Levine was CEO of both from 2006-2009). From its inception, the company’s online presence has expanded rapidly as it adds more authors and titles to a growing base of more than 1,500 customers. In 2013, Hillcrest Media Group will launch one of its latest web sites, and one of the most sought-after domain names in publishing, Fiction.com.