The BookWire Index
Publicity and Marketing
- 1st Books
- Publish your book on the web for worldwide exposure, recognition and income,
at a small fraction of the cost of conventional self- publishing, or so-called
subsidy or vanity presses. Endorsed by the National Writers Association.
- 21st Century Communications
- Atlanta-based multimedia firm providing marketing and promotion services
for authors and publishers. Develops and maintains web sites. Currently the
host site for Remembering Diana: The People's Tribute to Their Princess
(the new condolence book from Milligan Books).
- Accurate Writing & More/AWM Books
- The Penny-Pinching Hedonist: How to Live Like Royalty with a Peasant's
Pocketbook and Marketing Without Megabucks: How to Sell Anything on
a Shoestring written by Shel Horowitz.Strengthen your career and business;
and, learn to be a better writer.
- Advanced Marketing Services
(AMS)
- A leading distributor of books to the membership warehouse clubs.
- Amazing Internet
Bookstore
- Publish and sell your own book on the Internet. We provide the form and
ability to sell your book and you provide your copywrited book for download.
- Anita Hutchings, Literary
Agent
- As a literary agent, Ms. Hutchings represents authors of all genres. In
addition, she provides copy edit services. ABA member.
- The Art of Screenwriting
Simplified
- Published by Bawn Publishers. Site also contains information on literary
agents representing screenplays.
- Association of American University
Presses (AAUP) Online Catalog/Bookstore
- The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) is a cooperative,
non-profit organization of university presses. Formally established in 1937,
the AAUP promotes the work and influence of university presses, provides cooperative
marketing efforts, and helps its presses respond to the changing economy and
environment.
- Austin's Publisher's Editor
- We are a "fulfillment company." We take second-chance authors
from rough-hewn edges to polished manuscripts. Our authors receive prompt
attention at reasonable rates. We teach and guide as the work progresses.
- Authors' Interface
- A unique manuscript placement service dedicated to helping literary agents
and publishers find quality manuscripts. We offer an effective alternative
to the traditional methods of presenting new works to the literary industry,
benefitting not only authors, but also agents and publishers, who may view
online the equivalent of an intitial submission, then, if interested, request
a hardcopy of the entire manuscript for exclusive review for a limited period.
- Authors' Self-Published Clearinghouse
- An online clearinghouse providing printing, marketing, and distribution
for the self-published author.
- Bearlife Womens Writing Advocate
- This woman-owned and operated literary agency provides free evaluation as
well as contract services, manuscript preparation and agent representation.
Other reading services available.
- Beverley Slopen Literary Agency
- The Insider Column on general news of books and authors. News highlights
about Slopen Agency clients, including descriptions of their books. "Ask
An Agent" electronic service.
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- Book Buzz
- Sponsored by Susannah Greenberg Public Relations, this site provides book-related
information and links to national industry organizations.
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- The Book Doctor,
Carol Henson
- Offers manuscript editing and marketing services.
- Book Easy
- A service to support booksellers in the trade; site includes industry and
consumer links, and The Bookseller.
- Book Talk
- A great new site with lots of news about publishers and bookstores, authors
and authors' events, and literary agents...and of couse, books! All readers
welcome to the online forums.
- BookExpo America FAQ,
Literary Agents and Scouts Rights Center
- The Rights Center is a place where parties interested in selling and purchasing
content rights and other forms of media can meet
- BookWorld
- Offers a total production and marketing program, including cover design,
editing, printing and distribution.
- Burnett Literary
Agency
- The Burnett Literary Agency's site contains information about the agency,
including submission guidelines; and, offers various services to fiction authors.
- Calendar Publishing 101
- This site offers a brief, and (hopefully) amusing look at what the "new"
calendar publisher needs to know.
- Cate Cummings Publicity
& Promotion Group
- Cate Cummings is a publicist and media relations agent, for authors and
publishers of alternative health, business, environment, new age, spiritual
and women's issues non-fiction books.
- Coal Diamond Publishing
Company
- Coal Diamond Publishing provides exclusive Internet access to new writers
through chat rooms, bulletin boards. Links to various industry areas, including
literary agents and government copyright and trademark offices.
- Colorado Independent Publisher's
Association (CIPA)
- A Website containing information about books published by the members of
the Colorado Independent Publisher's Association.
- Combined Book Exhibit Service
- Offers a complete listing of library, education, bookseller exhibit schedules
as well as library and multimedia surveys and publisher links. Also provides
an online multimedia database with free access. Search by category, publisher
or keyword. Descriptions, reviews, publishers addresses and more. Free CD-ROM
give-away each month.
- Crane Creek Communications
- Crane Creek Communications creates strategic marketing and publicity plans
for authors and publishers based on effective target marketing and public
relations tactics that have proven effective, economical and very successful.
We focus on a clients goals and them bring them to fruition by combining marketing
savvy with passion and perseverance.
- Creative Freelancers Registry
- The CFR is a database of freelancers who are experienced in all aspects
of book production. We also do book production consulting and print broker
for the small to medium and self publishers. We are a networking resource
for the writing/publishing community in the Southeast Texas area.
- Cyberzines
- Cyberzines offers self-publishing, promotion, and freelance writing opportunities
for writers in all genres.
- Diagonal Marketing
& Publicity
- Provides creative design and marketing services on the Internet.
- Dr. R.E.,
Literary Agency at Hollywood.com
- You need more than a literary agent, you need a friend! We are literary
agents specializing in nonfiction by new authors with a focus on those writers
whose primary language is not English.
- Electric Works Publishing
- Fiction and non-fiction from new and experienced writers, publishing in
digital format only. Free show-casing of writers works. Higher royalties to
the writer and lower cost to the reader.
- France Edition Office
de Promotion Internationale
- France Edition is an interprofessional organisation dedicated to promoting
French publishers on cross-border markets.
- Freelance Writing Tips
- Tips on frelance writing, especially for the business world; publisher of
how-to reports on writing and other business subjects; author, publisher,
and seller of disk books.
- FSB Associates
- Provides Internet marketing services by seasoned publishing professionals.
We have sales, marketing, and Internet experience to provide you with a total
marketing package for this fast-growing medium.
- FTPress
- Specializes in publishing new writers. Need book length fiction and non
fiction; general or genre. See our Website for one of the most complete lists
of e-book publishers and resources on the Web.
- Gazelle Book Services, Ltd.
- The subject areas Gazelle cover for their client publishers range from medical,
scientific, technical and academic books at the one end, through language
learning aids, to all kinds of practical and leisure time books for the general
public at the other.
- Ginger Rogers
Literary Agency
- We abide by the guidelines of the AAR, in preparation for membership. We
do not charge reading fees or conduct business in any way which is not in
the best interest of our clients, the writers. Ginger S. Rogers has legal,
marketing and business experience and Sarah S. Ray has legal, writing, editing
and electronic publishing experience.
- Gomez Marketing Booklets
For Success!
- Over 280 publications and reports designed to help you succeed. MLM, quick
money-makers, small business helps, asdvertising and marketing references.
- The Great
Idea Patch...Co-op Publishing
- We are looking for e-books that fit in with our homespun theme. If you have
written a cookbook, a how-to, a romance, children's or craft book, we want
to hear from you.
- Gulotta Communications, Inc.
- Full-service book publicity for authors and publishers who seek national
or local media exposure in major and secondary markets. We arrange broadcast
and cable television, radio, newspaper, and magazine interviews, create and
distribute press materials, provide book review coverage, and plan and schedule
tours.
- Hans Zell Publishing Consultants
- Consultancy services to publishers and academic institutions, in particular
providing advisory services and individual project management for publishers,
research institutes, and the book community in Africa and in other developing
countries.
- Heron View Literary Services
- Offers WWW-based marketing for authors. Sample chapters available online.
Readers can submit their own reviews of online titles.
- How to Make Money on the Internet
- Increase your Websites traffic 10 times and earn substantial money using
Website sponsorship. Site offers free reports and more than1000 free products
and services available on the Internet; special offers; Website design and
hosting.
- J. T. O'Hara and Associates
- We are not a literary agency, but since 1985 we have helped writers prepare
professional quality book proposals and then help them submit the proposals
to our contacts (agents and publishers) in New York and Hollywood.
- Jane Dystel Literary Management
- We represent general fiction and nonfiction titles on a wide variety of
subjects.
- JCP Marketing and Communications SA
- Provides advertising, promotion, publishing and multimedia production services.
- June Townsend, Commercial
Writer and Marketing Consultant
- Formerly creative director of advertising and promotion at Time Warner/Warner
Books creative force behind the marketing campaigns for Scarlett, Madonna's
Sex and The Bridges of Madison County. Now offering professional
skills and experience on a freelance, per project basis to clients nationwide.
- Karen Lewis &
Company (Literary Agency)
- This mid-size agency currently handles 60% fiction --- 40% nonfiction; 80%
of clients previously published. Interested in hearing from fresh new voices.
- Kingswood Advertising
- Marketing commuications company specializing in advertising and web site
development for publishers.
- Larsen-Pomada Literary Agents
- This long-established literary agency specializes in adult fiction and nonfiction
books. Member: AAR.
- Literary
Agents: The View From the Other Side
- Comments about the work of literary agents from industry leaders.
- Literary Fiction Home Page
- A resource to select information on notable authors, books, writing workshops,
conferences, awards, grants, agents, publishers, editing services, libraries,
booksellers, and related information of interest to readers and writers of
literary fiction.
- LiteraryAgent.Com
- The premier site on the Internet where writers and would-be writers find
literary agents and other helpful information.
- Lone Wolf MultiMedia, Inc.
- Specializing in short-run color layout and printing, talking books, and
sales/promotion of our clients materials, mainly aboriginal resources, including
Dene, Cree and English.
- Marich Communications
- Find out why you need to think about public relations before you even begin
writing a book. Check out our website and find out who we are and who we represent.
We also have a writer's tips section to give you something to get you started.
- Market Partners International,
Inc.
- Publishing Industry consultants and idea facilitators.
- Maverick Marketing
- "Know the rules, then break 'em." Helping book publishers develop
and execute innovative marketing programs grounded in solid strategic thinking.
Full range of consulting and marketing services. Strong specialist network.
- The Media Coach
- Former Donahue producer, Brad Hurtado, uses his 16 years of talk experience
to help authors and experts get more radio/TV interivews and sell more books.
PMA member.
- Media Coaching
- Media training for authors, experts, and spokespeople. Helps maximize your
investments in PR by sharpening your media presentation skills. Coaching for
TV, radio, and print interviews.
- MediaOutfitters, Inc. Publishers
Sales Agents
- Represents book publishers across Canada into the retail, educational and
special/corporate markets. Represent authors for multimedia content brokering.
- The Midwest Literary and Entertainment
Management Group
- A 21st-century virtual literary agency, forward-looking and total service
for the writer including free editing, free entry to contest, and no reading
fees.
- Murder on the Menu
- Customized interactive murder mystery events as entertainment and team-building
for meetings, incentives, private parties and conventions. Groups of five
to 5000 anywhere in the world. Written by Janet A. Rudolph, Editor, Mystery
Readers Journal.
- National Media Services
- NMS works heavily with authors, publishers, and freelance writers to promote
books, syndicate columns, setup book tours, handle media, and boost marketing.
- Net Me Up
- Assist clients with Internet marketing.
- New Editions International
- New Editions International, Ltd. is a publisher and international marketing
specialist serving the metaphysical, New Age and holistic market including
books, audio and video publishers, artists, independents, organizations and
businesses with services, products and events.
- New
Fiction
- A page offering unsigned works for literary agents and publishers.
- Nordhaus-Wolcott Literary Agency
- This literary agency for new authors specializes in mass market genre fiction,
including science fiction, fantasy, horror and romance. Visit our Web site.
- O'Connor House
- A 35-year publishing industry veteran gives writers inside information how-to
market books and find literary agent.
- Overseas Book Service
- Organizes and operates a collective book and multimedia exhibit at a
number of international book fairs. Provides various fair-related services.
- Papyrus
Literary Enterprises, Inc.
- Papyrus Literary Enterprises is a independent press that provides an outlet
for talented and underpublished African-American writers' creative and literary
works.
- Paz & Associates
- Consulting services for booksellers, publishers, librarians and authors;
publications including monthly newsletter. Links to hundreds of industry
sources.
- Phase II: Publications and
BookTree Press
- Publishes travel guides, life guides, and parenting/teaching guides. Also
offer editorial and design services, production management and marekting and
sales.
- Phenix & Phenix Literary Publicists,
Inc.
- Provides high caliber, in-depth marketing for published (or soon to be)
authors. We use traditional marketing strategies as well as on-line campaigns.
- Picasso Publications, Inc.
- A traditional printing and marketing firm.
- Pine Island Press
- Services book authors needing their work published. Since 1988, we have
worked closely with authors producing their material at the most reasonable
rates available.
- PMA Foreign Rights Virtual
Book Fair
- This site is intended as an Internet meeting place for buyers and sellers
of foreign rights. Anyone looking to purchase rights can browse by category
and request further information and review copies online. The book listing
will be updated monthly.
- Premiere
Publicity
- Premiere Publicity, for all your publicity needs. Start promoting your books
for less today!
- Priority Publications
- Creates financial and health care newsletters. We seek press releases on
newsworthy events, services, and products of interest to consumers.
- Publicity 3.0 Module
- A software application for publicists that really works, including contact
information, list management, author tour scheduling and expense tracking
all in an easy and fast Windows environment.
- Publishers Marketing Association
- This site features a searchable directory of the nearly 3000 PMA members,
monthly updates of feature articles from the PMA newsletter, full descriptions
of all PMA marketing programs, interactive forums, and many other features,
with more to come.
- PublishingBiz.com
- Cheryl Woodard -- a business consultant for publishers -- helps publishing
entrepreneurs solve business problems. Her new how-to business book from Nolo
Press is called, Starting and Running A Successful Newsletter or Magazine.
- PubNet: Inside the Book Business
- A division of the not-for-profit Association of American Publishers (AAP)
devoted to providing electronic commerce solutions to the publishing and bookbuying
community. Supplies electronic information.
- PubText International and OnCourse
- PubText is an Internet site where K-12, college and university publishers
may display descriptions of their titles for lecturers who come into the site
in order to seek course/class textbooks. Course descriptons are also sent
to textbook publishers through OnCourse.
- Pure Fiction
- Interest in fiction? Visit this site to preview excerpts from new books,
chat with other writers, find a literary agent, discover the best sites for
online research.
- Raab Associates
- Raab Associates provides marketing and public relations tips for publishers
of children's and parenting books, and children's specialty toys.
- Research Triangle Publishing
- RTP offers publishing services including production, marketing, fulfillment,
and distribution.
- Richard Curtis Associates
- One of the publishing industry's leading literary agencies, representing
over 100 top authors in every category of popular fiction and nonfiction.
- S.J. Miller Communications
- This full-service book publicity firm specializes in partnership public
relations.
- SFF Net, Literary Agents
and Agencies
- Links to literary agencies and authors' marketing services.
- Shoemaker & Handel
- Victoria Shoemaker and Peter Handel providing publicity and promotional
services for the book trade located in Berkeley, California. Authors and publishers
welcome.
- Strictly Book Promotions
- Strictly Book Promotions is a public relations firm geared specifically
to help small publishers and self-published authors: one title or a full line.
We are also available as consultants for those people just starting out in
the book publishing business.
- Sue Flaster Book Sales & Marketing
- 20-year book business veteran recently retired from Ingram Book Company,
ready to help you position and sell your books to independent and chain retailers.
- Susannah Greenberg Public Relations
- A full service public relations firm for publishers and authors.
- Third Party Associates, Inc.
- This company provides a variety of services, including publishing, training,
and consulting.
- Tips on Getting
Published
- Although written for Australian writers in-mind, this brief discourse by
Sara Douglass provides some helpful tips for the would-be author.
- Triangle Publishing & Marketing
- Offers book publishing services, including typesetting, editing, cover design,
illustration, printing, bookstore and wholesale distribution.
- TST Associates, the Writers' Source
for Self-Promotion
- We provide professionally prepared materials for writers wanting to develop
recognition for their names and published work. These include press kits,pressbooks,
bookmarks, flyers, signing posters, and an affordable Internet listing.
- U.S.A. Books Abroad
- Represents all sectors of U.S. publishing, book trade and electronic sectors.
Site contains complete list of publisher participants.
- United Kingdom
Literary Agents
- Offers an extensive list of literary agentsbased in the United Kingdom.
- w r i t e r s.n
e t
- The comprehensive guidebook to Net resources and opportunities for writers.
Appropriately, the book utilizes the Net, with updates, a mailing list forum
for reader-writers, the chapter on research hyperlinked as a useful all-in-one
search tool / navigation site. Sponsored by Prima Publishing.
- Waterside Productions, Inc.
- Waterside Productions, Inc. is an electronic rights, software and literary
agency, specializing in computer books. The agents at Waterside Productions
represent such acclaimed authors as Peter Norton (Inside the PC), Dan
Gookin (DOS for Dummies), Alan Simpson (The Windows Bibl), Andy
Rathbone (Windows for Dummies), Danny Goodman (The HyperCard Handbook
), and many others.
- White Knight Publishing
- Offers marketing services for authors; books to download for readers.
- William Clark, Literary
Agent
- Description of services as literary agent with the Vines Agency, and formerly
of the William Morris Agnecy.
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