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GUEST SPEAKERS & PUBLICISTS

Every workshop features guests who speak to and work with the class: usually a media trainer, independent book publicists, recently published authors, and a reading coach.

PAST GUEST SPEAKERS

  1. Kenneth Ackerman, author
  2. Bill Applebaum, media trainer, Kim-from-L.A. Literary & Media Services
  3. Louis Bayard, author
  4. Steve Bennett, proprietor, Media Mentor & AuthorBytes
  5. Len Biegel, media trainer, CommCore Consulting Group
  6. Meredith Broussard, author
  7. Jane Cleland, author
  8. Jacqueline Deval, publisher, Hearst Books & author of Publicize Your Book!
  9. Linda Friedman, BEAU (Book Events & Authors Unlimited)
  10. Jeffrey Goldsmith, publisher, Caffeine Society
  11. Robert Gray, proprietor, Fresh Eyes Now
  12. Stephanie Elizondo Griest, author
  13. Peter Handel, president, Peter Handel: Publicity for Books & Authors
  14. Susan Harrow, CEO, prsecrets.com
  15. Julie Hill, literary agent
  16. Ron Hogan, author; editor, GalleyCat & founder, Beatrice
  17. Sam Horn, consultant & author
  18. Lynn Isenberg, author
  19. Kassia Krozser, proprietor, Booksquare
  20. David Leite, food writer & proprietor, Leites Culinaria
  21. Marc Leepson, author
  22. Gabrielle Lichterman, author
  23. Kerry Madden, author
  24. Maria Massie, literary agent, Lippincott Massie McQuilkin
  25. Sally Nemeth, author
  26. Joyce Newman, media trainer, The Newman Group
  27. Martha O'Connor, author
  28. Carol Preston, media trainer, CommCore Consulting Group
  29. David Prete, reading coach, actor & author
  30. Laurie Puhn, author
  31. Karen Quinn, author
  32. Laurie Viera Rigler, author
  33. Jane Marla Robbins, reading coach, actress & author of Acting Techniques for Everyday Life
  34. Katharine Sands, agent, Sarah Jane Freymann Literary Agency
  35. Cynthia Shapiro, author
  36. Danyel Smith, author
  37. Kevin Smokler, author & cofounder, BookTour.com
  38. David Umansky, media trainer, CommCoreConsulting Group & The Umansky Network
  39. Katharine Weber, author
  40. Lissa Warren, sr. publicity director, Perseus Books Group & author, The Savvy Author's Guide to Book Publicity
  41. Sarah Weinman, proprietor, Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind
  42. Joseph Weisberg, author
  43. Eileen Winnick, media trainer, The Winnick Group
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PAST GUEST PUBLICISTS

  1. Megan Underwood Beatie, West Coast publicity director, Goldberg McDuffie Communications
  2. Adrienne Biggs, president, Biggs Publicity
  3. Kim Dower, president, Kim-from-L.A. Literary & Media Services
  4. Lauren Cerand
  5. Camille McDuffie, president, Goldberg McDuffie Communications
  6. Barbara Monteiro, president, Monteiro & Co., Inc.
  7. Rose Marie Morse, president, Morse Partners
  8. Meryl Moss, president, Meryl Moss Media Relations
  9. Callie Oettinger, Oettinger & Associates
  10. Kelly Powers, cofounder, Obie Joe Media
  11. Yvette Romero, publicist, Monteiro & Co., Inc.
  12. Darcie Rowan, partner, McAllister Communications
  13. Elizabeth Shreve, CEO, Shreve Williams Public Relations
  14. Gene Taft, proprietor, GT/PR
  15. Jane Wesman, president, Jane Wesman Public Relations, Inc.
  16. Meryl Zegarek, president, Meryl Zegarek Public Relations
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Photos by Bella Stander.
Left: Publicist Yvette Romero talks to class in NY.
Middle: Author Louis Bayard in DC.
Right: Media trainer Eileen Winnick interviews attendee Karen Quinn in NY.


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