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SUSANNAH GREENBERG

PUBLIC RELATIONS

is a full-service public relations firm specializing in book publicity. Her clients include authors, book industry organizations, nonprofits, philanthropies, and publishers.

 

SERVICES INCLUDE:

  • Media Placements: Placing Reviews, Features, Interviews, and Mentions in TV, Radio, Print, and Online

  • Press Releases

  • Researching and creating comprehensive, up-to-date and targeted media lists

  • Distribution of press releases to the media: journalists, producers, editors, reviewers, podcasters, booktubers, and bloggers at targeted media outlets

  • Social Media

  • Marketing

  • Influencer Campaigns

  • Digital advertising

  • Website Design

  • Events: Bookstores, Libraries, Universities, Cultural and Community Centers

  • Consulting, strategy, and project management

TYPES OF BOOKS REPRESENTED INCLUDE:

 

  • Arts: Broadcast; Cinematic Studies; Film; Music; Theater; TV

  • Biography

  • Business

  • Children’s: Young Adult; Middle Grade; Fiction; Nonfiction; Poetry

  • Current Affairs

  • Fiction: Historical; Literary; Mystery; Suspense; Thriller

  • History: American History; Military History, World War II

  • Jewish Interest

  • Memoir


RECENTLY REPRESENTED BOOKS INCLUDE:

  • Fire Music by Connie Hampton Connally (Coffeetown Press, April 9, 2024)

  • Deep Inside the Blues: Photographs and Interviews by Margo Cooper (University of Mississippi Press, November 2023). STARRED review in Library Journal.

  • Bone Whispers: A Novel by Rosalind Brackenbury (Coffeetown Press, February 2024)

  • The Red Ear Blows Its Nose: Poems for Children and Others by Robert Schechter (Word Galaxy, April 2023). STARRED reviews in Booklist, School Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, a Common Sense Media Selection, and a Bank Street Library Children’s Book Committee Selection for Best Children’s Books of the Year.

  • Creative Producing: a pitch-to-picture guide to movie development by Carol Baum with Tom Baum (Allworth / Skyhorse, October 2023). STARRED review in Library Journal; Interviewed on Film Week With Larry Mantle (NPR).

  • Always Something Sings: Book One in the Ada Reed Mystery Series by Roger Lynn Howell (Coffeetown Press, October 2023)

  • The Moth Came Back: Native Prairie Mysteries Book One by Tara Ratzlaff (Camel Press, July 2023)

  • The Case of the '66 Ford Mustang: A Brovelli Brothers Mystery by Tom Meschery (Camel Press, October 2023)

RECENT MEDIA PLACEMENTS INCLUDE:

Booklist, Broadway World, Common Sense Media, CrimeReads, FilmWeek with Larry Mantle (NPR), Forward, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, Poisoned Pen, Publishers Weekly, Publishing Perspectives, San Diego Jewish Journal, School Library Journal, Shelf Awareness, and more.


PAST CAMPAIGNS / CLIENTS OF NOTE INCLUDE:

 

  • A Banker's Journey: How Edmond J. Safra Built a Global Financial Empire by Daniel Gross;

  • Bader Philanthropies;

  • Bloomberg Press;

  • Book Industry Study Group;

  • Hazelden Publishing;

  • Jerusalem Prize/ Jerusalem International Book Forum;

  • National Poetry Month; 

  • National Reading Group Month;

  • Pat Mora, Children’s Author, founder of Children's Day / Book Day / DIA, Arbuthnot Lecture Award Winner;

  • Roxie Munro, Children’s Books Illustrator and Author, illustrator of New Yorker covers;

  • Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson, MD, a business book and #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WITH OVER 28 MILLION COPIES IN PRINT;

  • Women's National Book Association.

 

 

ABOUT SUSANNAH GREENBERG:

 

Susannah Greenberg, President and Founder of Susannah Greenberg Public Relations, founded in 1990, has been in book publishing since graduating from the Radcliffe Publishing Procedures Course in 1983.  She went on to work at Pantheon Books / Penguin Random House, Cambridge University Press, M. Evans & Co., and Prentice Hall Press / Simon & Schuster before founding her own eponymous book publicity firm. 

 

A past board member of the Women’s Media Group, a past president of the Women’s National Book Association, and a current member of the New York Book Forum and the Publishers Publicity Association, Susannah Greenberg has lectured on book publishing topics at universities including Marymount, Hofstra, and CCNY. She has organized, moderated, and participated in numerous book publishing panels for publishing related conferences and associations including BookExpo, the Women’s National Book Association, the Women’s Media Group, the American Book Producers Association, and the American Society of Journalists and Authors.

 

Susannah Greenberg has been mentioned in, quoted by, or appeared on C-SPAN’s BookTV, Publishers Weekly, and Against the Grain, and written articles for Shelf Awareness and Publishing Perspectives.  She has served as publicity consultant to the Jerusalem International Book Forum and its Jerusalem Book Prize, and as a judge for the Audies (Audiobooks Awards), the Women’s National Book Association Pannell Awards for Bookstores, and the BookExpo Buzz Picks.  She is currently a KidLit.TV team member / publicity consultant.


RECOMMENDATIONS:

 

“I highly recommend Susannah Greenberg as an exceptional publicist we worked with to promote a biography of our foundation’s benefactor. Her expertise and dedication played a pivotal role in a successful promotion. Her strategic approach and excellent communication skills were invaluable. I wouldn’t hesitate to collaborate with Susannah again in the future.”

Lisa Hiller, VP-Administration,

Bader Philanthropies

 

“I highly recommend Susannah as I have worked with her for many years on numerous books. She consistently delivers results and is professional and responsible. I have enjoyed working with her and look forward to working with her again.”

Jennifer McCord, Executive Editor & Associate Publisher

Epicenter-Coffeetown-Camel Press

 

"As the owner of Sally Dedecker Enterprises and a publishing consultant, I have recommended Susannah to clients and worked with her on a number of book publishing publicity campaigns and projects over the last 15 years. She is organized, professional and knowledgeable and has a great deal of experience in her field. She was very successful in getting top media placements including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and more. I highly recommend her." 

Sally Dedecker, Print & Digital Publishing Consultant

and Education Director,

BookExpo America

 

"Susannah was a very effective Marketing Manager who understood all the components of the marketing mix and was very sensitive to the branded nature of the products that she marketed. The products that she marketed were all branded reference but were diverse categories and she was very detail oriented and conscientious about each one of them. She was a pleasure to work with." 

Liana Thompson, LNT Consulting;

(Liana managed Susannah at Prentice Hall / Simon & Schuster)

 

“Susannah was instrumental in helping the Women's National Book Association gain visibility for its ongoing Pannell Award for excellence in bookselling to children and in obtaining special recognition for the organization's 80th anniversary and 80 Books for Girls List. With her contacts and ability to create and make the news, Susannah is a true book industry professional who can get results.”

Donna Paz Kaufman, Partner,

The Bookstore Training Group,

Paz & Associates

 

“Susannah Greenberg is simply amazing. She got Saltwater Taffy into the printed pages of Scholastic Instructor Magazine, interviews with Wired Magazine and NBC News, and onto the airwaves of NPR.  If you are serious about getting your titles the publicity they deserve, book Susannah Greenberg Public Relations today. You’ll be glad you did.” 

Eric DelaBarre,

Author, Saltwater Taffy

 

Linktree -

One Page with Links to All Susannah Greenberg Public Relations Social Media Sites: 

https://linktr.ee/SusannahGreenbergPR

CONTACT:

Susannah Greenberg,

Public Relations

(646) 801-7477

publicity@bookbuzz.com

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