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]
Over the River PR Welcomes New Client, Audio Publishers Association
We are pleased to announce our newest client, the Audio Publishers Association (APA), a not-for-profit trade association focused on creating greater awareness of the audiobook industry. OTRPR was hired by APA to help develop and implement ongoing public relations and social media outreach including pieces on national consumer surveys, the Audie® Awards, the annual APA conference, June Is Audiobook Month initiatives, and Sound Learning literacy resources for educators.
“We are excited at the opportunity to work with the APA to help raise awareness of audio books and grow this important part of the publishing industry,” said Jennifer Richards, Co-Founder and President of OTRPR. “We look forward to publicizing the APA’s many services, programs, events and initiatives and working closely with its executive staff and committees.”
“We are thrilled to engage the OTRPR team to help us further build awareness of audiobooks as the industry continues its sales and production boom,” said Michele Cobb, Executive Director of the APA.
For more information about the APA, please visit their website.
OTRPR announces innovative partnership with UK publicity firm, Literally PR
New York, NY (July 20, 2015) — Over the River Public Relations has been working on a collaborative and innovative partnership with a like-minded book publicity firm in the UK. Our aim is to provide authors a reliable and effective extension of the successful promotional campaigns OTRPR offers in the US. To that end, we are pleased to announce our partnership with Literally Public Relations Limited, a public relations company that offers a refreshingly different, creative and competitively priced approach to securing you and your books the attention they deserve.
“We aim to support authors, publishers, writers, brand owners, consumer goods businesses, chefs and technology companies of all shapes and sizes as they share their unique story with their perfect target audience. We achieve this not just through excellent and innovative PR strategies that have been tried and tested by our team over many years; we consider the entire process. We look at the role of the client/face of the company, the personality of the book/brand and the story behind the story. We assist with brand creation, profile development and, if required, we build a name for our clients as respected authors with a voice to be heard.”
—Helen Lewis, Founder and Director of Literally PR Ltd.
Literally PR Ltd. has worked with a range of clients including first-time authors, multinational publishing houses, technology start-ups and chefs. They love working with people who are passionate about their ‘product’ and want to take their journey to the next level. They have a range of services to suit all sorts of budgets and objectives.
If you’d like to know more about Literally PR and how they can help you expand in the UK market, please feel free to email us at info@otrpr.com. You can also find out more about the publicists behind Literally PR, what services they provide, and who they represent on their website: http://www.literallypr.com/.