Dan Smith

Dan Smith – Publicist

CEO of Smith Publicity, an industry-leading book marketing and book publicity firm. More than 2,600 books from all genres promoted,

Overview

Smith Publicity has promoted over 2,500 books and authors since 1997. We work with all genres and promote both self-published and traditionally published books. Our mission: secure as much media coverage as possible authors and their books -- radio and TV interviews, newspaper, magazine and online reviews, feature stories and articles -- to spark book sales and create additional opportunities to enhance personal author/expert brands and national name recognition.
Services
Non-Fiction
Architecture Art Biographies & Memoirs Business & Management Design Health & Wellbeing Parenting & Families Photography Self-Help & Self-Improvement Sex & Relationships
Fiction
Historical Fiction Romance Science Fiction Thriller & Suspense Women's Fiction
Awards
  • Publicist of the Year, Book Publicists of Southern California, 2007

Work experience

Smith Publicity

Apr, 1997 — Present

CEO and Founder of the most prolific book publicity and book marketing agency in the industry. Supervised the implementation of over 2,600 book promotion campaigns.

Portfolio

Singleness has somehow become a word that carries with it a negative connotation, as if being single means there is something wrong with you. Comments such as “she's such a lovely girl, I wonder why she hasn't found a good man yet” are coupled with looks of pi... read more
No other individual has had as broad an impact on the auto industry during the past fifty years as Dave Power. Dave's persistence in getting auto executives to listen to customer concerns was key to the across-the-board rise in car quality, and the influence o... read more
“The best survival book in a decade” (Outside magazine), 438 Days is the true story of the fisherman who survived fourteen months in a small boat drifting seven thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean.On November 17, 2012, a pair of fishermen left the coast of... read more
Providing the inspiration and source material for the upcoming HBO series produced by Academy Award–winning director Martin Scorsese and Emmy Award–winning screenwriter Terence Winter, this riveting and wide-reaching history explores the sordid past of Atlanti... read more
At a time when women did not commonly travel unescorted, carry a rifle, sit down in bars, or have romantic liaisons with other women, Lucy Lobdell boldly set forth to earn men's wages. Lucy Lobdell did all of these things in a personal quest to work and be pai... read more
Give a kid a classic! Cozy Classics is a new board book series that presents well-loved stories to children aged 0+ through twelve child-friendly words and twelve needle-felted illustrations. Pride and Prejudice is a timeless romance about how a bad first impr... read more
The Time Bandit Solution won the 2015 Axiom Business Book Award for operations management, lean, and continuous improvement by Independent Publisher which honors books that help the business community understand changing trends and technologies and point out o... read more
Hide!!!

Jeff Foxworthy

On a Saturday morning Like many before The kids were all restless. In fact, they were bored. It had finally stopped raining After nearly a week Then they had an idea, Let's play hide-and-seek! Comedian Jeff Foxworthy tells the story of a neighborhood hide-and-... read more
Living in Southern California, Gary Carmell has become very familiar with tectonic shifts: cataclysmic changes in the earth’s crust that cause earthquakes and tsunamis.Carmell has also experienced numerous tectonic shifts in the economic landscape in his nearl... read more
Learn the secrets of great communicators, professional speakers, and C-level executives “Gina is a maestro of public speaking! She coached me for my TED talk, and I am forever grateful to her for giving me the technical and emotional training I needed to take ... read more
When It's Smart to Say NoNearly every week we read about a tragedy or scandal that could have been prevented if individuals had said no to ill-advised or illegitimate orders. In this timely book, Ira Chaleff explores when and how to disobey inappropriate order... read more

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