GENERAL INFORMATION
Author Behavior Guide by Bella Stander. The lowdown on what -- and what not! -- to do and wear, based on painful experience and personal observation.
Book Marketing Budgeting The blunt bottom line from MarketAbility. Essential reading!
Event Planning Guide for Booksellers
by children's author Dianne Ochiltree. Good for authors too.
40+ Ways to Make Your Next Book Signing an EVENT!! by Larry James.
Marcela Landres Aimed at
Latino writers, but the information and inspiration offered apply to almost everyone.
"Latinidad" newsletter features timely information about workshops, writing contests, awards, and fellowships.
Publishers Marketplace Great info on publishing business. Register for free daily news email, Publishers Lunch.
Writing-World Wide variety of resources and pragmatic advice for writers.
Ten Essential Tips for Successful Interviews by Media Mentor Steve Bennett
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WEBSITE DESIGN & ONLINE MARKETING/PUBLICITY
Anne Gerdes Web Design offers reasonably priced professional Web design and Internet marketing.
Austin DesignWorks offers professional & affordable web design and hosting services.
AuthorBuzz is an online marketing service that puts authors directly in touch with readers, reading groups, booksellers and librarians.
AuthorBytes Author websites and multimedia book "trailers" that can be emailed or posted on a web site.
Authors on the Web Web design & development, and online publicity by Carol Fitzgerald of BookReporter.com.
Bookstream Flagship product, the Bookwrap, is a Web-based book commercial that combines streaming video and audio along with all the information of a print jacket.
Book Tour Where authors and audiences meet.
Denise Biondo Studio Web design & animation.
Etherweave Communications Purveyors of fine Web experiences for the creative arts and non-profits.
FSB Associates Website design, internet book & author publicity.
GroovySoup does website & print design.
Ink2Art Artistic website design.
Invite an Author Program at the The Book Club Cookbook enables authors to speak with book clubs around the country by phone.
JonasWeb offers web design & hosting; services to retool, update or maintain existing websites.
Likoma Website design by Bradley Charbonneau.
Lincoln Flood Studio Animation, websites, video & multimedia.
Low Fat Designs Website design
Luda Fedoruk Creative Solutions Website design & creative marketing services
Miss Mary K.. "Purveyor of fine websites."
Precedent Media provides online publicity and marketing for authors, publishers and bands.
Tom Edgar has been building dynamic, database-driven websites since 1997.
The Virtual Book Tour offers web-based publicity for authors of commercially published literary fiction and narrative nonfiction.
Winding Oak Literary services, web design and booking agency for children's authors and illustrators.
Wolfe Star Design Website design, branding & logos, print design & illustration.
Xuni Author Website Management. Beautiful & functional sites by designer extraordinaire Heidi Mack.
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BOOK PUBLICITY & MARKETING
Authors on Tour specializes in book tours and publicity campaigns for authors whose publishers have turned off the "publicity machine."
The Barrett Company specializes in entertainment/celebrity, travel & business books. Provides a range of services, including media escorts in Southern California. Offices in Los Angeles & New York.
Biggs Publicity SF Bay area, specializes in general interest lifestyle and personal growth books.
Book Publicity Services Selective nationwide listing of book publicists.
BreakThrough Promotions/PJ Nunn & Assocs. (TX)
Buzz Your Book is a yearly six-week online class taught by writer MJ Rose that helps authors create an actionable marketing/PR plan.
Cate Cummings (NY) offers full-service national, regional and local book publicity and promotion through print and electronic media.
Fortier Public Relations (NY) specializes in the promotion of business authors and thinkers.
Goldberg McDuffie Communications has offices in New York and Los Angeles.
GT/PR (DC) Former PublicAffairs VP Gene Taft works on a wide range of books on politics, current events, history, biography, sports, music, film, and television.
Caitlin Hamilton Marketing & Publicity, LLC (CO) National, regional and local marketing and publicity plans for authors and presses, by an executive with experience at small and large houses. (email)
Peter Handel: Publicity for Books & Authors (SF Bay area) offers national publicity and promotion with particular emphasis on the West Coast book market.
Hilsinger-Mendelson PR & Marketing (NY & CA)
Milton Kahn Associates (CA) Veteran entertainment PR specialist now works with publishers and authors.
Kelley & Hall (MA) helps talented authors get the attention they deserve.
Kim-from-L.A. Literary & Media Services Based in Los Angeles, offers book publicity and media training.
KSB Promotions (MI) More than 30 years experience in promoting cookbooks, travel guides, home/how-to, health, gardening, outdoor/recreation, parenting, children's and general lifestyle books.
Gail Leondar Public Relations (MA) introduces progressive authors to thoughtful, well-informed media people and their audiences across the country.
Scott Manning & Associates (NY & NH) creates and implements public relations campaigns for a wide variety of high-profile authors and products.
MAX Communications (GA) is a public relations firm specializing in the promotion of authors and books, including children's.
McAllister Rowan Communications (NY & Chicago) offers global public relations with the personalized attention of a small boutique firm. Book marketing strategies for authors and publishers.
Media Masters Publicity (IL) Full-service literary publicity agency specializing in publicity for children's and teen books, and adult non-fiction.
Monteiro & Co., Inc. (NY) specializes in nonfiction.
Meryl Moss Media Relations (NY area)
Oettinger & Associates, Inc. (DC area) specializes in military and public policy books and other media.
Newman Communications (MA). Affordable publicity for literary clients.
Obie Joe Media (MD) specializes in publicity for creative nonfiction, photography and urban affairs titles. Services include media bookings, targeted audience appearances, search engine optimization, web sites and development of databases exclusive to an author.
Raab Associates (NY) Marketing consulting and publicity for children's and parenting books, and children's specialty products.
Rentsch Assocs (NY) Tailor-made publicity campaigns for publishers, authors, organizations and businesses since 1980.
Rocks-DeHart (PA)
Shreve Williams Public Relations (NY & DC) specializes in strategic media campaigns for books, publishers, and authors.
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MEDIA & PRESENTATION TRAINING
Many of the book publicists listed above also offer media training.
CommCore Consulting Group (DC & NY) provides communications counsel to authors, businesses, government agencies and non-profit organizations.
Davalos Media Coaching Services (San Francisco)
Roberta Gale Media Coaching, individualized coaching via telephone by a radio talk show host.
Gallo Communications
Media Mentor (MA) media training for authors in person and by telephone.
Media Skills Training (Seattle)
The Newman Group (NY)
Reese Communications (Denver)
Tellem Worldwide (Los Angeles) specializes in coaching clients to meet the press and develop strategic message points. Clients have included authors, celebrities, corporations and nonprofits.
Talent Dynamics (Dallas)
Vicki Jenkins Performance Power (Los Angeles) trains authors nationwide for media tours, speaking engagements and DVD/CD sales.
The Winnick Group (CT & NY) does media coaching in person and over the phone.
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LECTURE AGENTS
Authors Unlimited, New York
The Lecture Bureau, Cambridge, MA.
Jodi Solomon Speakers Bureau, Boston, MA.
Speakers Home Exclusive, CT. Established by public relations firm Meryl L. Moss Media Relations, Inc.
Washington Speakers Bureau, Washington, DC.
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LITERARY NETWORKS
Jacket Flap Resource and social networking web site for people in the children's book industry.
Library Thing Catalog your books and discuss them with like-minded readers.
Red Room Social network for writers and readers.
Readerville Forum Discussions for writers and readers.
Shelfari Social network for people who love books.
RECOMMENDED READING - ARTICLES
New Author Timeline by Brian Malloy
An Argument for Writers Taking Charge by Johnny Temple
Everything Old is New Again: Reinventing the Publishing Model by MJ Rose
Bribes, threats and naked readings: In a world where more and more new books get less and less attention, authors will do anything to promote their work by Christopher Dreher
How to Make Literary Journalists Nervous by Dennis Loy Johnson
A Brief Meditation on the Desires of Touring Authors by Steve Almond
How to Write Good Timeless advice from the immortal Michael O'Donoghue.
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RECOMMENDED READING - BOOKS
THE SAVVY AUTHOR'S GUIDE TO BOOK PUBLICITY: A Comprehensive Resource -- From Building the Buzz to Pitching the Press by Lissa Warren (Carroll & Graf)
PUBLICIZE YOUR BOOK! An Insider's Guide to Getting Your Book the Attention It Deserves by Jacqueline Deval
(Perigee/Putnam)
NAKED AT THE PODIUM: The Writer's Guide to Successful Readings by Peter V.T. Kahle & Melanie Workhoven (74th Street Productions). How to use drama as a tool to give dynamic readings anywhere.
ACTING TECHNIQUES FOR EVERYDAY LIFE: Experience the Power and Pleasure of Being Your Very Best in Any Situation by Jane Marla Robbins
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BOOK & PUBLISHING BLOGS
Agent 007 A book editor became an agent and told it like it is. Discontinued, but still true.
Beatrice. Literary news, commentary & author interviews by writer-about-town Ron Hogan.
BookAngst 101. Tough talk about the publishing industry by editor "Mad Max Perkins." Discontinued, but still worth reading.
Booksquare. Delightfully wry news & views for authors.
Buzz, Balls & Hype by author MJ Rose. "Because there are over 175,000 books published a year and they can't all get reviews in the NYTBR."
Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind Crime fiction, and more by Sarah Weinman.
The Elegant Variation Literary weblog with an emphasis on the Los Angeles area.
Emerging Writers Network Publishing news, book reviews and incisive e-panel discussions.
Fresh Eyes: A Bookseller's Journal by Robert Gray.
GalleyCat Book news and views with a New York slant.
Ghost Word Ethereal thoughts on books and writing from Berkeley, CA, writer Frances Dinkelspiel.
The Happy Booker Wendi Kaufman on the Washington DC (and elsewhere) lit scene.
The LitBlog Co-op unites leading literary weblogs to draw attention to the best of contemporary fiction, authors & presses.
Lux Lotus Art, Politics and Style, Broadly Defined.
Maud Newton Occasional literary links, amusements, politics, and rants.
Miss Snark, the literary agent. Alas, no longer live, but check out the invaluable Snarkives.
No rules. Just write. Author Brenda Coulter discusses writing, life & the writing life.
Reading Under the Covers Commentary on writing, publishing & a bunch of other stuff by yours truly.
Sepulculture Commentary by a publishing insider.
Southern Comfort by novelist Karin Gillespie
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