Teri Rider, the award-winning independent publisher and a master of the inner workings of book design and production is the publisher and acquisitions editor for Torchflame Books, an imprint of Top Reads Publishing. Her combined catalog includes over 200 fiction and nonfictions titles.

She is an active member of Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), currently serving on the Advocacy Committee, where she co-authored the criteria for hybrid publishing, and was part of the committee that created the checklist of standards for professionally published books.