Publicity Vets Launch New Group, Broadside
May 21, 2015
Literary publicists Kimberly Burns, Whitney Peeling, and Michael Taeckens have formed a full-service publicity group, Broadside: Expert Literary PR.
The new venture will specialize in will specialize in publicity and marketing for publisher-backed literary fiction and narrative nonfiction, as well as literary and mission-driven organizations and nonprofits.
Before starting her own company in 2003, Burns worked at Knopf, Random House, Pantheon, and The Penguin Press. Peeling started her own company in 2010, and prior to that held positions at HMH Norton, and PublicAffairs. Taeckens, who also has his own company, was previously marketing director at Graywolf Press, and publicity director at Algonquin Books.
