Vivi’s WHY: To give others the voice so that people feel included and supported.
Vivienne Mason (Vivi) joined the Ultimate 48 Hour Author team in January 2018 as a Publications Coordinator and was promoted to Publications Manager a year later. She is responsible in helping our authors with their book projects through the many stages of publishing.
Her experience in the book trade started in 1983 with her first job working for a large book wholesale distribution centre, typing up the buyer’s notes for all the new titles.
Since then, she furthered her career working as a Personal Assistant to the Managing Director of a large UK chain of bookstores, and later for a well-known company collecting book sales data and bestseller information for publishers.
Vivi moved with her family to Australia in 2002 from the UK and works in house alongside Natasa and Stuart Denman.
After 15 years of working in an Accounts department in Melbourne, she decided it was time to return to her love of books.
She says, ‘This is the best job I have ever had as I love working with authors, hearing their stories and helping them achieve the significant goal of writing and publishing their first book”.
She also wrote her own book ‘Onion Girl’ a memoir, in her first year with us.