Publicist by Day, Poet by Night

Melissa Broder, Penguin Group publicity manager, who works on titles from the Berkley, NAL, Riverhead, and Perigee imprints, just signed a contract for her own second book, Meat Heart. The books she works on for Penguin are mostly women's fiction and nonfiction, but her own books are poetry. Broder's had lots of success getting big time publicity for her Penguin authors—she landed spots on the Joy Behar show for both Jen Lancaster and Sloane Crosley in May, for example—but that kind of media isn't particularly interested in poetry. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

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