Tours, Events & Festivals

Provide strategy, planning and execution of book tours, author events, and arts + literary festivals.

Create an author tour or event strategy
Map out venues, markets and partnership opportunities to maximize sales, reader engagement and discovery
Execute tour plans
Craft event best practices
Assist with select local media outreach in tour/event markets

Coordinate and oversee operations and logistics for festival planning and execution
Create festival program topics, including outreach to publishers and authors
Experience working with small presses, high-profile and celebrity authors and Big 5 publishing houses

SAMPLE SUCCESSES

BOOK TOURS & AUTHOR EVENTS CURATION —

Changing Hands First Fiction event series (2017-2022) featuring: Tommy Orange, Joseph Cassara, Fatima Farheen Mirza, R.O. Kwon, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Bryan Washington, Isabella Hammad, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, and Madeline ffitch.

Tours include: Betty White, Goldie Hawn, Zadie Smith (NW), Emma Straub (Laura Lamott, Vacationers), C.J. Box, Harlan Coben, Deb Harkness (All Souls Trilogy), Jojo Moyes (Me Before You), Khaled Hosseini (And the Mountains Echoed), Paula Hawkins (The Girl on the Train), Anne Lamott, and Meg Wolitzer (The Interestings) to name a few.

FESTIVAL PLANNING & PROGRAMMING —

[margins.] Literary Conference + Book Festival (2022, 2024)

"Reclaiming Memory through Magical Realism" - Panelists: Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, Gina María Balibrera. Moderator: Angela Maria Spring
"Right to Read: Fighting Book Bans and Why it Matters" - Panelists: Britt Camacho, Debra Johnson, and Rick Griffith
"Uprooting the Body from Ancestral and Cultural
Mythologies in the Contemporary Novel" - Panelists: R.O. Kwon in conversation with Angela Maria Spring
"Addiction, Recovery and the American Dream" - Panelists: Jessica Hoppe in conversation with Manuel Aragon

AUTHORLESS EVENTS —

Changing Hands Book Previews featuring Penguin Random House sales reps showcasing top fall and holiday titles, and summer reading books.