Book Publicity Campaign for Jerry Weintraub’s New
When I Stop Talking You’ll Know I’m Dead
Author: Jerry Weintraub with Rich Cohen
Publisher: Twelve (Hachette Book Group)
When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead
Newman Communications brought Jerry Weintraub’s story to life with a book publicity tour that had him speaking with national radio networks including Westwood One, Talk America, and the USA Radio Networks. Jerry also spoke to major stations such as WBZ in Boston, WCBS in New York, and KABC in Los Angeles as well as to numerous local stations across the country.
In WHEN I STOP TALKING, YOU’LL KNOW I’M DEAD, written with Rich Cohen, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, we follow entertainment titan Jerry Weintraub from his first great success at age twenty-six with Elvis Presley, whom he took on the road with the help of Colonel Tom Parker, to immortal days with Sinatra, and his crowning hits as a movie producer, starting with Robert Altman’s Nashville, continuing with Diner, Oh, God!, and The Karate Kid series, among others, and summiting with Steven Soderbergh and Ocean’s Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen, which together earned well over a billion dollars worldwide.
About The Book
Weintraub shepherds us from the poker tables of Palm Springs (the games went on for days) to the power rooms of Hollywood, and from the halls of the White House to Red Square in Moscow and the Great Palace in Beijing—all the while counseling potentates, poets, and kings, with clients and confidants like Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, John Denver, Bobby Fischer, George H. W. Bush, Armand Hammer, George Clooney, Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon . . . the list goes on.
With wit, wisdom, and the cool confidence that has colored his remarkable career, Weintraub chronicles a quintessentially American journey, one marked by luck, love, and improvisation. The stories he tells and the lessons we learn are essential, not just for those who love movies and music, but for businessmen, entrepreneurs, artists . . . for everyone.
About The Author:
JERRY WEINTRAUB has spent more than five decades in show business, in the process earning a reputation as one of the savviest negotiators, smartest producers, and shrewdest film investors of our time. He has been praised and honored for his philanthropic work and, as UNICEF’s Man of the Year, was presented the organization’s Danny Kaye Humanitarian Award.
RICH COHEN, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone, is the author of five books, including the bestsellers Tough Jews, The Avengers, and Israel Is Real.
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Book Promotion for Legend of a Suicide
Author: David Vann
Publisher: Harper Perennial
David Vann’s reputation certainly precedes him making Newman Communications all the more enthusiastic for his book promotion and book publicity campaign. The Newman Team provided Mr. Vann with a Book Publicity and Radio Media Tour, providing the outstanding book promotion service and results he deserves.
About the Book:
The Legend of a Suicide, Vann’s debut fiction collection, includes five stories and a novella joined by one, unavoidable incident: the suicide of Roy Fenn’s father. From Roy’s dramatic birth on a remote Alaskan Island to his boyhood fascination with tropical fish; from a detailed and dark speculation of his own suicide and what it would mean to his long-dead father to his 30-year old self returning to his childhood hometown to confront his father’s first mistress and the origin of his despair: this semiautobiographical collection transforms “tragedy into art.”
Vann gives each story a different context and perspective, allowing a unique and sincere connection with the protagonist, and catapulting Vann into his own place among contemporary literature.
Prizes & Awards for Legend of a Suicide:
- Winner of The New York Times Editors pick
- New York Times Notable Book
- Winner of the Grace Paley Prize
- A California Book Award Winner
- San Francisco Chronicle top fifty
- Story Prize Notable book
- Kansas City Star Top ten story Collections
- Esquire’s Contributor Award Winner
About the Author:
David Vann is a professor at the University of San Francisco. A contributor to Esquire, The Atlantic, Men’s Journal, Outside, and National Geographic Adventure, he is the author of a bestselling memoir, A Mile Down: The True Story of a Disastrous Career at Sea, and the forthcoming Last Day On Earth: A Portrait of the NIU Shooter, Steve Kazmierczak. His website is www.davidvann.com
Prizes & Awards for David Vann:
- National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship
- Wallace Stegner Fellowship
- AWP Nonfiction Prize
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Lisa Jackson Returns to Newman “Without Mercy”.
Without Mercy
Author: Lisa Jackson
Publisher: Kensington
Lisa Jackson's Without Mercy
New York Times Bestselling Author Lisa Jackson has returned to Newman Communications for another book publicity tour and publicity services for her latest release, Without Mercy.
We worked tirelessly on constructing a Book Publicity Media Tour for Lisa’s previous book Malice, generating national interest from nationally syndicated radio shows across the US and including Canada.
Following on the success of the Malice book publicity tour, Lisa Jackson chose to return to Newman Communications and work with our team on another Media Tour for Without Mercy, Jackson’s “pulse-pounding thriller.”
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How to Never Look Fat Again
How to Never Look Fat Again
Author: Charla Krupp
Publisher: Springboard
How to Never Look Fat Again - Charla Krupp
Every woman has said “Does this make me look fat?” Now we have the answers from Charla Krupp who has brought her newest book to Newman Communications for a National Book Publicity and Radio Media Tour.
About the Book:
In HOW TO NEVER LOOK FAT AGAIN, Charla examines every aspect of how not to look fat, suggesting smart, easy and stylish ways to hide any reader’s arm flap, big bust, muffin top, back fat, Buddha belly, big booty, wide hips, thunder thighs, heavy calves as well as special problem situations such as not looking fat in work-out gear, evening wear and even in a swimsuit. She dissects clothing, giving specific “High-Fat,” “Low-Fat,” and “No-Fat” advice about the “four basic ingredients” of shape, fit, fabrics and colors. She’s as thorough, detailed, fun and stylish as ever! Other invaluable advice in each section includes:
- High-Fat/No-Fat Lists: Clothing and accessories are analyzed for their potential fat-making content.
- 10 Things That Make You Look Fat: Tips that address the styling of outfits. Don’t Waste a Penny on.
- The bottom line on beauty bull and fashion hype.
- Thinner by Tonight! Fierce, fast ways to drop a dress size in seconds.
- Brilliant buys. Specific recommendations for the products that really work, including brands, style numbers, prices, retailers, and shopping websites
- Going to Extremes: Cosmetic surgery, dermatological treatments, and new age solutions to body issue dilemmas.
- Swap-Outs: Newer ways to hide fat, including how to exchange dated pieces for the current fashion solution, so that you look neither fat nor frumpy.
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How to Hit a Curveball: Confront and Overcome the Unexpected in Business
How To Hit A Curveball
Author(s): Scott R. Singer with Mark Levine
Publisher: Portfolio
Strategic change expert, Scott R. Singer turns to the book publicity services of Newman Communications to help garner media attention for his first book, How To Hit A Curveball. Available in stores April 1, Investor’s Business Daily is the first to talk about it!
About the book:
The recording industry never saw it coming. Xerox never saw it coming. Employees at Bear Stearns never saw it coming. Maybe even you didn’t see it coming….
Whether it be the advent of digital music, the desktop computer with a graphical interface and mouse, a major recession, or a personal layoff, divorce, or illness, how one reacts to and handles the next curveball can be the difference between success and failure.
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