[HTML1]More about CreateSpace & Aaron Rosenstein
As Sr. Manager, Marketing, Aaron Rosenstein leads CreateSpace’s marketing and product development efforts. CreateSpace, a leader in the Independent Publishing market and a member of the Amazon group of companies, is innovating new opportunity and technologies to help creators to easily publish their work and distribute it to a worldwide audience.
Prior to working in the Independent Publishing industry, Aaron worked as Senior Vice President at DDB Communications, a leading advertising and communications company, in helping a multitude of national and international clients to build their brand, audiences and businesses through the development and execution of innovative online and offline marketing campaigns.
Before DDB communications, he held a variety of Senior Marketing positions with leading online audio and video innovator RealNetworks, helping to launch and build their music subscription business, market the RealPlayer software and run Real.com.
Aaron has always enjoyed being a part of game-changing, innovative companies that have a real impact on creative and business practices.
More about Maria Murnane
Maria Murnane is the author of the award-winning romantic comedy Perfect on Paper, which she has dedicated to any woman who has ever been on a really bad date or realized halfway through the workday that her skirt is on backward.
The book was initially turned down by several major publishing houses, so Maria self-published through CreateSpace and implemented a creative, grass-roots marketing campaign in an effort to prove the publishing houses wrong. And it worked!
Within a year Perfect on Paper attracted the attention of senior executives at Amazon, who chose it out of more than 10,000 self-published titles for the company’s venture into traditional publishing. They offered Maria a contract, and in 2010 an updated version of the novel was released by the AmazonEncore imprint in the United States.
Since then it has also been published by Random House in Germany and Alexandra Publishing in Hungary, and Maria has signed on with the same Hollywood film rights agency that represents the authors of Capote and Legend of the Guardians.
Maria’s next book, a sequel called It’s a Waverly Life, is scheduled for release by Amazon Publishing in November 2011, and she has recently begun writing a third novel in the series.
She has also launched a line of products based on her books that includes witty greeting cards, T-shirts and tote bags. Maria has inspired audiences across the country with her “never give up” story, and she now offers consulting services on publishing and book marketing to share what she has learned with other aspiring authors.
YOUR BOOK IS YOUR HOOK! SUPPORTS…
Project Night Night and their efforts to put a new or slightly used children’s book in the hands of homeless children in shelters in the United States. Since 2005, they have hand-delivered more than 100,000 night night packages which include a stuffed animal, a blanket and a children’s book tucked inside a canvas night night bag. We encourage you to find out how you can donate to support their efforts today.
Read to Feed is a reading incentive service-learning program that offers global education opportunities and will foster in your children a love for reading, a passion to help others and a way to help create a better world.
THE NEXT BESTSELLER™ EXCLUSIVE WEEKEND WORKSHOP
Los Angeles * New York City * Miami
TheNextBestSellerTV.com/event
Practical training for a first time or seasoned author to learn to properly pitch your book to the book publishing industry, Hollywood, the media and others. Whether you are going to a writers’ conference, publishing industry event or have a sudden opportunity to pitch your project to a professional, this is your weekend to prepare, practice and polish up your pitch with the professionals.
PLUS you will receive a BONUS full scholarship to a second weekend workshop – The Mastery of Self-Expression. This is an opportunity to continue to work on your personal presentation skills in an environment designed for creative people like you. It is a 3-day intense workshop to expand your creative abilities and vision.
Graduates of The Mastery include Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei, Fisher Stevens, Mary Louise Parker, Tommy Tune, Michael Bennett, Colin Higgins and many others.
Recent Comments