Colleagues

CONTENT DEVELOPMENT particularly for non-fiction authors and journalists on subjects of memoir, business, current affairs, women’s studies, adoption, lesbian and gay studies, African American studies, mind/body/spirit, nature and the environment, and photography.

Charlotte Abbott is a publishing journalist and digital content strategist who has developed a large and loyal online community of authors, publishers, booksellers, librarians, book bloggers, and e-reading innovators, via weekly discussions on Twitter (#followreader). In her 20 years in the book industry, she has been a reporter and editor for Publishers Weekly, a publishing commentator on National Public Radio, a book critic supervising more than 1000 reviews a year, and an acquiring book editor at HarperCollins and Avon Books. Most recently, she has been advising authors and retailers on how to maximize their online visibility through strategic content development, including social media, blogs and traditional media. She is a board member of the Women’s Media Group and has served as a judge of several noted literary awards.

Twitter: @charabbott

E-MAIL MARKETING, ONLINE MARKETING, SOCIAL MEDIA, BOOK BLOGGERS, EDITORIAL DEVELOPMENT

Ron Hogan helped create the literary Internet by launching Beatrice.com in 1995. He spent several years writing about the business side of publishing as a senior editor for GalleyCat, briefly worked with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as their director of e-marketing strategy, and was part of the inaugural editorial team at Regan Arts, where he published critically acclaimed novels by Beth Hahn, Kermit Roosevelt, Lev AC Rosen, and Karolina Waclawiak.

These days, he’s using all that experience to help publishing companies and individual authors develop stronger connections with their readers. He speaks frequently at book festivals and publishing conferences about how to make the best use of social networking tools, advances in digital publishing, and other transformative trends in the publishing industry.

Ron can also offer Developmental Editing to help fine-tune your novel or narrative non-fiction manuscript as you work toward the clearest possible expression of your voice and your story.

Ron maintains an active presence in New York’s literary scene, including Lady Jane’s Salon, the city’s only monthly reading series dedicated to romance fiction. In addition to regular posts at Beatrice, Ron also writes book reviews and literary features for several other publications.

Twitter: @RonHogan
Facebook: facebook.com/RonHogan
Website: RonHogan.net

CONTENT DEVELOPMENT with special interest in science and technology, American literature; EMAIL MARKETING; SEO; SEM; SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING, SYSTEMS INTEGRATION, WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT

Rich is Strategic Partner, VP of BRIDGET MARMION BOOK MARKETING

Rich’s thirty years in publishing include stints as editor, editorial director, director of subsidiary rights, marketing director, director of online services, and general manager. Having spent more than twenty years marketing books directly to consumer and specialty audiences, both in print and online, Rich specializes today in consulting in online marketing (including email, SEO/SEM, and analytics), social media marketing, and content development/marketing. For two years, from its launch in July 2010 through October 2012, Rich edited The Reader’s Almanac, the popular blog of The Library of America.

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Twitter: @rpmkel
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/richkelley
Facebook: facebook.com/richkelley

EVENTS, ADULT, YA, ARTS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE, POETRY, LITERACY

David Kener has enjoyed an expansive career in Theatre, Arts and Education, with a significant focus on underserved youth communities. David was just appointed Director, NYC Project Hope for Counseling in Schools. This FEMA funded initiative offers Crisis Counseling and Creative Arts services to students and school communities in the hardest hit areas of Hurricane Sandy.

David worked as an actor for many years following his graduation from The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater, studying with the legendary Sandy Meisner.” He has appeared on many stages in the US and internationally including The Signature Theater, where he worked with Arthur Miller, and The American Place Theatre, working with Wynn Handman.

While working as a professional actor in all media, he began his teaching artist career and spent many years working in leadership roles for The Creative Arts Team, The Henry Street Arts Settlement, and Colors United. He then held the position of Executive Director of The Leadership Program, creating an arts focused methodology and establishing partnerships with institutions such as New York University and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. His most recent position, held for over fifteen years was as Executive Director of The American Place Theater where he pioneered the Literature to Life Program serving over 20,000 students annually across twenty-five states, working to improve literacy and cultural awareness.

David has recently been a featured writer for The New York Times, penning a weeklong Drama series for the Learning Network on drama strategies using the Times. He now heads up his own consulting firm Education Development Unlimited (EDU) working with mission driven organizations such as Counseling In Schools, where Caring Inspires Success and Power Writers, helping launch powerpoetry.org, the world’s first transmedia mobile poetry community for youth.

David lives on the upper west side of NYC with his wife, the Costume Designer Michelle Matland and his son Marcus, a sophomore at The Beacon High School, where David serves on the Executive Board as Vice President, Arts Liaison.

Website: www.counselinginschools.org

DIGITAL STRATEGY, EDITORIAL DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT, CONTENT DEVELOPMENT, USER EXPERIENCE (UX) DESIGN, CHILDREN’S EDUCATION AND ENTERTAINMENT, AUDIOBOOKS, PUBLISHING OPTIONS

Anne is a writer, editor, producer and partner in Foxpath IND, where she consults on digital publishing for web and print content and experience design in ebook development and education. Her clients at Foxpath IND include arts and cultural institutions, book publishers, and technology and business services. She is a frequent industry conference and webcast producer, moderator, and speaker. Since the Web was born, Anne has been fascinated with UX and interactive design, especially now, at the intersection of print and digital reading. Her occasional column, “Digital Reading,” discusses UX and related topics in ebooks and digital reading. A member of UXPA, Anne is also program director of the annual Digital Book Awards; emerita president of Women’s Media Group; an advisory board member of BEA Educational Conference and advisory board chair of Library For All. She is the author of several children’s books and a definitive collection of jokes.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annekostick
Twitter: @bklynanne
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/anne.kostick

UNIQUE RADIO MEDIA TOURS and PUBLICITY for SELF-HELP, INSPIRATIONAL, SPIRITUALITY, CONSCIOUS LIVING and WELLNESS

Jackie has more than forty years of publicity experience—including serving many clients among the world’s largest corporations and media entities—but since 2008, when she became a bestselling author herself in the genre, she has focused her efforts entirely on one sector. Jackie is now the founder of Conscious Media Relations, a media relations agency specializing in all matters relating to Self-Help, Inspirational, Spirituality, Conscious Living and Wellness. She is especially known for her signature radio media tour introducing authors, leaders and clients to more than 2,600 radio hosts who seek interviews in personal development, spirituality, wellness, and inspired living.

Jackie serves her clients by providing comprehensive or a la carte publicity services, but she also creates special resources for Conscious and Transformational authors, individuals and companies that wish to do their own publicity. Her newest book, Practical Conscious Creation: Daily Techniques to Manifest Your Desires (Findhorn Press) was chosen best spiritual book of the year at the International New Age Trade Show.

Conscious Media Relations has the nation’s most comprehensive media lists covering the personal growth/mind-body-spirit sector. The company, which bridges the gap between the transformational and the mainstream media, counts among its clients Hay House, Don Miguel Ruiz, James Twyman, Dr. Joe Vitale, Dr. Joe Dispenza, Richard Moss, Dr. Eric Pearl/The Reconnection, Denise Linn, Marie Diamond, Silent Stay Retreat & Hermitage, AgeNation, Make a Stand, Higher Brain Living and others.

Website: www.ConsciousMediaRelations.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jackielapin
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/jackie-lapin/6/1a5/739

PUBLICITY, PR, BRAND EXTENSION, ONGOING PUBLICITY, SOCIAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENT; focus on POP CULTURE, A&E, STYLE, SPORTS, SOCIAL EQUALITY, HISTORY.

Jen has more than twenty years experience in public relations, consumer promotions, marketing communications, and brand licensing. Her projects frequently include IN-STORE EVENTS, CO-BRANDED TIE-INS, CROSS-OVER PLACEMENT and SAMPLING. Prior to launching Maguire Public Relations, Inc. in 2002, Jen’s corporate career included working inside major media and marketing organizations, including Grey Advertising on the Revlon account, Playboy Enterprises, BET, Seventeen media, and Urban Latino magazine.

While at Seventeen, Jen was Director of PR for the brand’s unique in-house, 30-person, full-service marketing machine which produced 200 in-store/fashion show/concert/broadcast live events yearly; editorial; and the brand’s licensing program, working with top manufacturing partners in accessories, books and beauty.

Her career includes a position as the Deputy Press Secretary for a U.S. Presidential campaign’s New Jersey headquarters, where she worked closely with the White House press corps, White House advance teams, and The Secret Service; as well as serving on the staff of a U.S. Senatorial campaign.

Her nonprofit work includes volunteer PR support for The American Run for the End of AIDS (AREA) and their annual co-production with GMHC of NYC’s World AIDS Day Candlelight Vigil; and Feminists for Free Expression anti-censorship advocacy as a founding member and former president. Jen also lends her talents towards indigenous rights advocacy.

She is a member of the Public Relations Society of America, (PRSA), Publicity Club of New York (PCNY), Entertainment Publicists Professional Society (EPPS), Mediabistro, SoloPR and Freelancers Union.

Books Jen has worked on include From The Danube To The Hudson, Bumblebees Can Fly: Creating Climates for Inherent Power & Intentionality To Flourish in Young Men of Color, The Mex Books, The Spinsterlicious Life, The Queen of My Self, The Playboy Interview: The Best of Three Decades; The Playboy Interviews By Alex Haley.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifermaguire
Twitter: @maguirejen
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jennifer.maguire
Website: http://maguirepr.com/

MARKETING, STRATEGIC PLANNING AND COORDINATION, ADULT AND CHILDREN’S BOOKS

As SVP Marketing of Farrar, Straus Giroux, Random House and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Marmion has over three decades experience creating, coordinating and implementing campaigns that lead to the bestseller list. At FSG and HMH, Marmion oversaw publicity and marketing, traditional and digital, both adult and children’s books. Her focus has always been helping an author or illustrator hone his message, but most importantly developing campaigns reflecting how that author is most comfortable and effective engaging his/her audience. Her time in sales and marketing at those distinguished houses plus her work with the AAP, including two years as Chair of the AAP Trade Executive Committee, have resulted in extensive contacts and expertise in all channels including retail, K-12, college, library, online and the agent community.

Marmion recognizes that in this era of social media, trusted sources and engaging your target audience, it’s still about strategy and what will have maximum impact for YOU. Our team will include a genre expert as we create your campaign, blending the traditional and the newest marketing tools for maximum impact.

Twitter: @bridgetmarmion
Facebook: facebook.com/BridgetMarmion
LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/bridgetmarmion

PUBLICITY FOR NON-FICTION AUTHORS, INCLUDING RADIO TOURS AND MEDIA TRAINING. ONGOING PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN. SPECIAL INTEREST AREAS: POLITICS, HISTORY, LEGAL, BUSINESS, MILITARY, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, SCIENCE AND ANIMALS, FOOD, PHOTOGRAPHY, PARENTING.

Johanna Ramos-Boyer has worked in communications and publicity for more than 25 years, starting in the Clinton White House in 1993, then transitioning to the communications departments for Secretary Ron Brown at the U.S. Department of Commerce and Secretary Dan Glickman at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

In 1999, as a Senate Press Secretary for Barbara Mikulski, Johanna spearheaded the publicity efforts for the first book by the then nine women of the United States Senate, Nine and Counting: The Women of the U.S. Senate.  This launched Johanna into the publishing industry and she has not looked back.

Johanna has extensive experience in developing publicity efforts and media strategy for authors and publishing clients.  A seasoned professional, she has knowledge of non-fiction and fiction publishing, government affairs, documentary and feature television production and programming, non-profit organizations and how these elements fit together for cross platform multi-media efforts that combine publishing with larger projects that reach millions.

In 2003, Johanna launched JRB Communications, LLC where she works across a variety of industries and clients including the National Geographic Channel, AXS TV, getTV, Goldcrest Films, W.W. Norton, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, Yale University Press, Penguin Putnam, Crown, Knopf, and the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library.  No project is ever the same.

Johanna represented filmmaker Tim Hetherington.  Hetherington’s 2010 film, Restrepo (produced and directed with Sebastian Junger) won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, was nominated for a 2010 Academy Award for Best Documentary and was broadcast on the National Geographic Channel.  Other documentary clients include Gold Star Children, a documentary film by Mitty Griffis Mirrer and Academy Award nominated writer Mark Monroe about children who have lost a parent to war — Vietnam to Afghanistan & Iraq; and Defiant Requiem: Voices of Resistance (PBS – Peter Schnall, Director; April 2013).

Johanna has worked with notable authors including Ebola expert David Quammen, former CIA Chief Michael Morell, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Lucinda Franks, Mitchell Zuckoff and the Benghazi Annex Security Team, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer David Hume Kennerly, Washington Post Columnist David Ignatius, New York Times bestselling author Craig Nelson, award-winning business writers Po Bronson And Ashley Merryman, Judith Martin (Miss Manners), First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Frankel Technology reporter Adam Lashinsky, New York Times bestselling author Sebastian Junger, fallen reporter Tim Hetherington,  Robert L. Forbes, Charles Ogletree, General Tony Zinni, John W. Dean and Barry M. Goldwater, Jr., Humorist Mary Roach, Primatologist Frans de Waal, General Wesley K. Clark, Patricia Gucci, Dog Whisperer Cesar Millan, Economist Charles Wheelan, and New York Times bestselling author Vincent Bugliosi.

Services include:

• Strategic Media Relations for Book Launches (including TV, radio, print and online outreach)
• Developing and overseeing events
• Satellite Radio Tours
• Executive and Spokesperson Media Training

Contact:
Phone: 703-646-5137

EDITING NONFICTION AND FICTION; GHOSTWRITING; EDITORIAL COLLABORATION; CONSULTATION ON PUBLISHING AND SELF-PUBLISHING

Laura Ross is an author, editor, and publishing consultant with more than thirty years’ experience in New York book publishing. She has served as Editorial Director at Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers and Theatre Communications Group; Vice President/Director of Marketing at Pocket Books; Director of Advertising and Promotion at Simon & Schuster and Penguin Books; and the co-proprietor of a book-packaging firm, Cognoscenti Books. Over all that time, she has also worked as a journalist, book doctor, and ghostwriter.

In 2008, she turned full-time to independent editorial work with a focus on writing and editing nonfiction. She has ghostwritten a variety of memoirs and works of narrative nonfiction for clients including HarperCollins, Sterling, Quayside, and Stone Song Press. Her attributed works include a series of annotated classics, a wellness book, and several works of history—notably, Traveling the Silk Road and Theodore Roosevelt: A Passion to Lead (both Sterling Publishing). She lives in New York City.

SALES-FOCUSED DIGITAL ADVERTISING, SOCIAL MEDIA, CONTENT MARKETING  with special interests in HEALTH/WELLBEING, SPIRITUALITY, and SELF-HELP

Jennifer is a digital marketing specialist with more than seven years of experience helping brands and individuals sell products and services online. After serving four years as Managing Director of a boutique digital marketing agency which grew 300% under her watch, Jennifer now works as a consultant specializing in customer acquisition via digital advertising, social media, and content marketing. Merging her background in PR and love of analytics, Jennifer works to create engaging, on-brand digital campaigns that drive cost-efficient results and positive ROI.

Twitter: @jennifer_spivak
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferspivak
Website: http://www.jenniferspivak.com/

RETAIL, LIBRARY MARKETING, INTERNATIONAL MARKETING, ONLINE COMMERCE, GLOBAL MARKETS, INSTITUTIONAL CATALOGS OF DIGITAL MEDIA, EDUCATIONAL CONTENT USE AND PROMOTION

Pamela’s evolution in becoming a strategic expert in the publishing world began with post-graduate import-export work in a Tel Aviv buying office. Learning the importance of international markets for products, she carried that knowledge into the operation of Under Cover Books, the Midwest chain of independent bookstores founded by her family. The community of new breed hand-sellers and influencers helped launch popular and topical authors and created destination salons for thinkers. A strong reputation with publishing suppliers enabled Pamela to introduce the concept of digital reading and to encourage publishers to incorporate eBook creation plans into their business sales models.

Pamela entered the digital media arena as Chair of the IDPF’s Business Special Interest Group. She was able to build one of the world’s largest digital marketplaces, OverDrive’s Content Reserve for library patrons and consumers. Then she expanded her library integration work for Ingram’s Content Group.

Since 2000 Pamela has coordinated profitable initiatives for technology software companies and global digital resellers utilizing the opportunities for online commerce with secure digital fulfillment. She has spotlighted the importance of libraries as vital partners in evangelizing e-reading and listening, and has assisted the narrative audio industry in finding effective virtual revenue shelves. Pamela is proud to work with educators, scholars and publishers who continue to offer rich soil for the planting of new curriculum and interactive learning. Recently she marketed the catalog of a Pre-K-3 educational publisher to meet Common Core State Standards for reading teachers and academic vendors.

Throughout her career, Pam has been an advocate for authors, publishers and retailers, by representing and refining the services of global vendors who provide trusted guidance and creative profits.

With her Turn the Page Consultant activities, in all strategies print and digital (marketing and creation of interactive audio/media/enhanced educational tools), Pamela continues to hone her skills in marketing books and reaching readers through EVERY channel, using the timeless and the newest tools, now in a global marketplace.

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/turnthepage