Meet our latest LITERARY LOOKBOOK, a comprehensive but not exhaustive collection of 393 upcoming 2024 releases curated by Kelly Hooker and me. The Lookbook includes titles from May-October 2024 from a variety of genres and features cover designs organized by publication date. Click on this banner to purchase.

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July 16, 2021

Danielle Bartlett

Danielle and I discuss her job as a Publicity Director at Harper Collins and what her role entails, her road to becoming a book publicist, how publicists at William Morrow are assigned to books, how each book campaign is unique …

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July 14, 2021

Mary O'Malley and Pamela Klinger-Horn

Pamela, Mary and I discuss working as booksellers and what their roles entail, the book club event they are organizing and hosting in September called the Book Club Buffet, what surprises them the most about the book world, the genres …

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July 1, 2021

Elizabeth Barnhill

Elizabeth and I discuss the books that have captivated us in 2021 so far, why we organized them by publication date, and more.

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May 27, 2021

Elizabeth Barnhill

Elizabeth and I discuss what constitutes a summer/beach read, reading habits and tackling our TBRs, finding diamonds in the rough, our favorite books of summer 2021, and more. Listen to the episode to hear our summer 2021 picks!

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April 28, 2021

Heather Caliendo

Heather and I discuss our latest book club recommendations, some books we have read recently and loved, and some titles we have not loved.

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April 9, 2021

Elizabeth Barnhill

Elizabeth and I discuss her job as a book buyer at the indie bookstore Fabled Bookshop and Café, what the job entails, the fortuitous way she landed the job, her favorite genres, how she decides what to buy, how bookstores …

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April 2, 2021

Katie Fulton and Desiree Bourkan

Katie and Desiree join me today to discuss bookstagram (book accounts on Instagram), how they got started, developing relationships with publishers, the best and worst things about the platform, the books they loved and some they didn’t, and much more.

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Nov. 30, 2020

Heather Caliendo - Book Club Chat

Heather discusses how she started Book Club Chat, her favorite and least favorite aspects of what she does, how she decides which books to select, her favorite genres, recent changes and trends in the publishing industry, celebrity book clubs and …

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Aug. 21, 2020

Kathleen Carter

Kathleen discusses how she became a literary publicist and eventually started her own firm, a typical day as a publicist, her favorite part of the job, trends in the book industry, the effects of the pandemic on the book world, …

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