In this Behind the Scenes interview, Laura Rossi and I chat about her roles in the literary world, how she got started in the book world, launching her own PR firm, her work as a podcast producer, her favorite and least favorite thing about her job, including the audiobook in a book's publishing day promotional events, celebrity book clubs, and much more.
In this Behind the Scenes interview, Laura Rossi and I chat about her roles in the literary world, how she got started in the book world, launching her own PR firm, her work as a podcast producer, her favorite and least favorite thing about her job, including the audiobook in a book's publishing day promotional events, celebrity book clubs, and much more.
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Founder/Laura Rossi Public Relations; Publicity + Social Media Director/AUDIOFILE; Producer/Parent Footprint Podcast
LAURA ROSSI is a public relations expert, digital strategist, podcast producer, and published author. For over three decades, Laura has lead book publicity campaigns for bestselling authors as well as for national companies and brands in the lifestyle, nonprofit, and art and design industries. Laura worked in-house at top publishers including Random House, Viking Penguin, and W. W. Norton before founding Laura Rossi Public Relations. Laura is the Producer of Parent Footprint with Dr. Dan on Exactly Right. The podcast lives on the Exactly Right podcast network. Created by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, the hosts of “My Favorite Murder,” Exactly Right’s podcasts reach a devoted audience of over 35 million downloads per month. Laura is AudioFile's Publicity + Social Media Media Director. AudioFile is the #1 source in the world for audiobook reviews and recommendations. AudioFile also produces the popular podcast Behind The Mic podcast.
Laura is a published writer and author. Her writing appears in Make Mine A Double by Gina Barreca and The Grateful Life by Nina Lesowitz as well as in the collections Fast, Funny, Women and Fast Fierce Women. Laura Rossi has appeared in The New York Times, Psychology Today, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Providence Journal, More Magazine, The Huffington Post and NPR’s The Public’s Radio, and other media.
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