We're Your Bridge to Comprehensive Media Services!
Founded in 2000 by two former Random House executives — Jennifer Richards-Ballot and Rachel Tarlow Gul — OVER THE RIVER PUBLIC RELATIONS is a distinctive publicity firm that creates marketing, media, and word-of-mouth campaigns for books and authors. At OTRPR, we deliver personal attention to our clients, along with the resources normally associated with larger PR companies.
Today’s rapidly evolving media landscape demands thoughtful, creative, and effective strategies to reach your audience. No one is better prepared than OVER THE RIVER PUBLIC RELATIONS to help you achieve valuable exposure. Whether it’s creating full-scale marketing plans, launching your new book, or planning and implementing innovative approaches to keep you and your work visible in the public eye over the full life-cycle of the product, we’re ready to help you reach—and exceed—your goals.
OVER THE RIVER PUBLIC RELATIONS’ experience in building authors’ careers, promoting new titles, and sustaining interest in backlist is unparalleled in the publishing PR trade. Our contacts in television, radio, print and Internet media are second to none. In addition, authors continually benefit from our strong one-on-one working relationships with independent and chain booksellers, librarians, and many trade association and speaking venues.
With nearly forty years combined experience in publicity, OTRPR principal partners, Jennifer Richards-Ballot and Rachel Tarlow Gul are uniquely qualified to serve authors in today’s changing media markets. Our range of services includes: comprehensive marketing plans and consulting, multiple city tours, national media pitching, radio telephone interview campaigns, magazine and newspaper campaigns, press material writing, website/blog campaigns, social networking outreach, booksignings and speaking engagements, and more. Among our diverse pool of clients are many leaders in their respective fields, including New York Times bestselling novelists Greg Bear and David Morrell; Good Morning America's career correspondent, Tory Johnson; biographer James McGrath Morris; self-discipline guru Brian Tracy; “Bitches on a Budget™” blogger Rosalyn Hoffman; and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, David Mamet. In addition, we have worked with Random House, Harper Collins, Viking Penguin, Perseus, Harcourt, Simon and Schuster, Dutton, Nextbook Press, Kensington, Fordham University Press, NYU Press, and Abbeville Press.
Our expertise extends from success in nurturing authors’ careers from their infancy, to building greater awareness for established names. Contact us now to see how we can help you get maximum impact for your media dollar. |
