Jessica Jonap and Paola Fernandez Rana
Daily Briefing Lecture
Get Your Book Noticed! PR Tips and Tricks
Friday, May 7 | 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

MDC, Wolfson Campus

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Don’t miss this lively, informative discussion on the important role that publicity plays in the successful publication of your book. Since leaving her position as Publicity Manager at Harper Collins, Jessica Jonap has run a successful book PR company in Miami. Paola Fernandez Rana is a fomer Publicity Director at Doubleday.

Jessica Jonap is book publicist with more than 20 years experience and provides personalized publicity services to authors and the publishing industry.  Jessica drafts press materials, arranges national media coverage and interviews, books multi-city author tours, and creates original grass-roots campaigns. Jessica has held senior positions at Pocket Books and HarperCollins where she designed and executed campaigns for high-profile authors, including Kevyn Aucoin, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Douglas Coupland, Fran Drescher, Olivia Goldsmith, Gregory Maguire and Ivana Trump.   

Prior to her work with Miami Book Fair International and the Florida Center for the Literary Arts, Paola Fernandez Rana was the Director of Public Relations at Health Communications, Inc. and Publicity Director at Anchor Books/Doubleday. She has twenty-five years of publishing experience and has worked closely with many bestselling authors, agents, booksellers, and members of the media.

Date and Time
Friday, May 7 | 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

This is a Community Education (non-credit) course.

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