Your Book Is Your Hook! – The Lace Reader & A Speaking Bureau

[HTML1]More about Arlynn Greenbaum, prominent Lecture Agent for Authors
Arlynn Greenbaum is President of AUTHORS UNLIMITED, the speakers bureau she founded in 1991 after a 20-year career in book publishing, most recently as director of marketing for Little, Brown and Company.

AUTHORS UNLIMITED represents over 400 authors nationwide who are expert speakers on a wide variety of subjects.  She is proud to represent Pulitzer Prize winning authors Taylor Branch, David Levering Lewis, Elizabeth Strout and Jeffrey Eugenides.  In addition to the authors on her roster, Arlynn can contact others through her professional connections.  Prominent authors she has booked include Amy Tan, Margaret Atwood, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Scott Turow.

AUTHORS UNLIMITED books speakers for colleges, corporations, trade associations, libraries and other groups.  If possible, Arlynn also arranges for the author’s books to be sold at the speaking engagement.  Her secret goal is to get people interested in books and help revive the lost art of reading.

Arlynn grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and graduated with a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Michigan.  She moved to New York City in 1970, and has worked for five publishers in publicity, public relations and marketing capacities.

She is past president of the Women’s Media Group and the Publishers’ Publicity Association.  She is a member of Meeting Professionals International, the National Association for Campus Activities and the International Association of Speakers Bureaus.

More about Brunonia Barry, Author of The Lace Reader
Born and raised in Massachusetts, Brunonia Barry studied literature and creative writing at Green Mountain College in Vermont and at the University of New Hampshire and was one of the founding members of the Portland Stage Company. While still an undergraduate at UNH, Barry spent a year living in Dublin and auditing Trinity College classes on James Joyce’s Ulysses.

Barry’s love of theater led to a first job in Chicago where she ran promotional campaigns for Second City, Ivanhoe, and Studebaker theaters. Barry moved to California and worked on a variety of projects for several movie studios.

After a decade in Hollywood, Barry returned to Massachusetts in the mid-1990s. Several years ago, she wrote for the Beacon Street Girls, a fictional series of books for ‘tweens. Happily married, Barry lives with her husband and her 14-year-old Golden Retriever named Byzantium. The Lace Reader is her first original novel.