Chela Hardy is a former Executive Assistant who transitioned into a career as a Virtual Assistant in 2001. Since 2013, she has also shared her industry knowledge with others as a Loudoun County Public Schools Adult Ed instructor teaching the course How to Work From Home As a Virtual Assistant.

 

Through her website AuthorAndSpeakerServices.com, Chela offers virtual assistant services (including full publishing project management and book marketing planning) to authors and speakers around the country. Her client list currently includes Authority Publishing, the Nonfiction Authors Association (NFAA), and Mocha Media Inc. among many others.

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Chela is also an award-winning self-published young adult author (writing under a pseudonym), an instructor and mentor for the Author Assistant Academy (by the NFAA), and a member of the International Virtual Assistant Association, the International Association of Administrative Professionals, the Women's National Book Association, and the National Association of Women Business Owners.

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Chela lives, writes, sings, and works from home in Northern Virginia.