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Congratulations to Dame Hermione Lee, winner of the 2020 BIO Award

The Biographers International Organization (BIO) recently announced that Dame Hermione Lee, Professor Emeritus of English Literature, University of Oxford, had won the 11th BIO Award. This prize is bestowed yearly by BIO to a distinguished colleague who has made a major contribution to the advancement of the art and craft of biography. 
 
One of the leading literary scholars and critics of our time, Lee is best known for her Virginia Woolf (1996), widely considered the definitive biography of that author. The book won the British Academy’s Rose Mary Crawshay Prize.
 
Comfortable with literature from both sides of the Atlantic, Lee has written biographies of two American novelists, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather, and also a critical study of Philip Roth. In addition, she has written a biography of the Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen and, most recently, of the British novelist, poet, essayist, and biographer Penelope Fitzgerald. Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life was the winner of the 2013 James Tait Black Prize and BIO’s 2015 Plutarch Award…[READ MORE]
 

Filed Under: News & Announcements, Organizations, Uncategorized Tagged With: BIO, biographers, biography, Dame Hermione Lee, Hermione lee, international biographers organization

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Broadway legend and author, Harold Prince, has died at 91

Harold Prince

To call him a legend is an understatement. From the mid-fifties to 2019, Mr. Prince did more than anyone to define the content, form, and parameters of the modern Broadway musical. West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, The Pajama Game, Damn Yankees, Sweeney Todd, Evita, and Phantom of the Opera — Harold Prince was the theater genius behind all of these iconic musicals. Over the course of his amazing career, he received more Tony Awards than any other individual — a total of 21.

We had the great privilege to work with Hal Prince on his candid memoir, SENSE OF OCCASION (Rowman & Littlefield |Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2019). Harold Prince was the true Prince of Broadway, and his passion for musical theater will live on.

Filed Under: Biography, Books, News & Announcements, Theater Tagged With: Broadway musical, Hal Prince, Harold Prince, Musical theater, musical theatre, Prince of Broadway, Sense of Occasion

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Lovable Jen Dixon is back in the hilarious follow-up to Class Mom! YOU’VE BEEN VOLUNTEERED by bestselling author, Laurie Gelman, launches today!

Laurie Gelman (yes, her husband is that Gelman of Live with Kelly and Ryan fame) has written another funny AND relatable tale that takes place three years after Class Mom.  Somehow Jen Dixon has ended up as the class mom once again—this time for her son Max’s third grade at one of Kansas City’s great bastions of primary education, William H. Taft Elementary. While juggling hearth, homework, and hubby Ron, she’s been saddled with even more school responsibilities plus a micromanaging PTA president. Add that to dealing with her grown daughters’ sudden displays of independence (must all millennials get piercings?) plus her aging parents’ need for some parenting of their own, and she finds herself pulled in too many directions for one middle-aged, minivan-driving temptress to handle.  

Gelman is a New York City-based writer and mother of two who spent 25 years as a broadcaster in both Canada and the US – including stints on Good Morning America, The Early Show on CBS, and The Mom Show – before trying her hand at writing novels.  Her first book, Class Mom garnered rave reviews from several places including The New York Times, People magazine, and Good Housekeeping, and it was recently included in Parade’s list of books Mom will love .  Gelman’s writing has been compared to Lauren Weisberger’s, Maria Semple’s and Sophie Kinsella’s.

This is a fun book – a perfect summer read or comical book to ease you into the stressful Back to School season.

To celebrate the release of YOU’VE BEEN VOLUNTEERED, Laurie is participating in a month-long book blog tour that features reviews, author Q&As, and features. We hope you will follow along and enter to win the daily prizes. You’ll find all the details here:
http://lauriegelman.com/blogtour.html

Happy Publication Day, Laurie! It’s been a pleasure working with you!

Filed Under: Books, Fiction, News & Announcements Tagged With: beach read, blog tour, Chick Lit, Class Mom, fiction, Henry Holt Books, Laurie Gelman, summer reading, women's fiction

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Already an international bestseller, Paullina Simons’ new novel, THE TIGER CATCHER, launches today in the U.S.

Twenty-five years ago, I had the wonderful opportunity to work with Paullina Simons to help launch her debut novel, TULLY, with St. Martin’s Press. TULLY became an international sensation, garnering rave reviews, topping bestseller lists in 11 countries and selling over a million copies.

Paullina went on to write over ten additional novels, including THE BRONZE HORSEMAN, which has been published in over 23 countries and has sold millions of copies worldwide. 

Today, Paullina Simons returns with her most compelling saga yet. In THE TIGER CATCHER (William Morrow/Harper Collins; May 28, 2019; ISBN 9780062394767; $16.99), the first book in the End of Forever Trilogy, Simons takes readers on an extraordinary adventure of love and loss across continents and time. Her captivating story will appeal to her millions of fans, as well as readers of Outlander, The Time Traveler’s Wifeand JoJo Moyes’ novels.

To celebrate the release of THE TIGER CATCHER — which is already on the bestsellers lists in Australia and New Zealand! — Paullina is participating in a month-long book blog tour. We hope you will follow along and enter to win the daily prizes, as well as the grand prize giveaway. You’ll find all the details here: http://paullinasimons.com/2019/05/blog-tour-2019-schedule/

Happy Publication Day, Paullina! It’s such a delight to be working with you again!

Filed Under: News & Announcements Tagged With: EndofForeverTrilogy, Harpercollins, PaullinaSimons, TheTigerCatcher, Tiger Catcher, TigerCatcherBlogTour, WilliamMorrowBooks

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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY talks to OTRPR about working with independent book publicists

We recently had the opportunity to share with Publishers Weekly some key guidelines to follow when hiring and working with a freelance book publicist. Read on to learn more and then let us know your thoughts!

PW talks with OTRPR about the benefits of hiring a freelance publicist.

Filed Under: News & Announcements Tagged With: book PR, book publicity, freelance book pr, freelance book publicist, freelance pr, freelance publicist, literary PR, literary publicist, literary publicity, publishers weekly, PW

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