Katie Kurtzman

Katie Kurtzman – Publicist

Veteran in-house publicist who provides creative and enthusiastic publicity for your book, your brand, and your organization!

Overview

I have a decade of book publicity experience with top New York City-based publishing houses including Simon & Schuster, Penguin Young Readers, and Henry Holt. Most recently, I assumed a directorial role at literary powerhouse Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Active in the literary community, I am a member of the Brooklyn Book Festival publicity committee and publicity director for Littsburgh: Celebrating Literary Pittsburgh.

I specialize in booking media and organizing events for a wide range of projects and genres including literary fiction, mystery, politics, cookbooks, history, memoir, and children’s books. With KTK Publicity, I develop creative and results-driven publicity campaigns focusing on media outreach and placement, social media, and event planning.
Services
Non-Fiction
Architecture Art Biographies & Memoirs Cooking, Food, Wine, & Spirits Design Health & Wellbeing History Photography Political Science & Current Affairs
Fiction
Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Middle Grade Mystery & Crime Picture Books Romance Short Story Thriller & Suspense Women's Fiction Young Adult

Work experience

KTK Publicity

Jan, 2015 — Present

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Nov, 2013 — Jan, 2015 (about 1 year)

Henry Holt and Company

May, 2012 — Nov, 2013 (over 1 year)

Penguin Young Readers Group

Apr, 2010 — May, 2012 (about 2 years)

Simon & Schuster

Nov, 2006 — Apr, 2010 (over 3 years)

Portfolio

"The Anthologist" is narrated by Paul Chowder -- a once-in-a-while-published kind of poet who is writing the introduction to a new anthology of poetry. He's having a hard time getting started because his career is floundering, his girlfriend Roz has recently l... read more
When the body of his daughter's friend is brought to his autopsy table, Quirke is plunged into a world of corruption that takes him to the darkest corners of the Irish Church and State."At first they thought it was the body of a child. Later, when they got it ... read more
*USA Today Bestselling Series**Amazon Top 100 Bestselling Novel*"A richly nuanced -- and smolderingly clever -- book about letting love shine in places where the past feels bigger than it needs to be. The cast of side characters range from quirky to mysterious... read more
It is preschooler Lulu’s first time at the beach and she needs to conquer her fear of the ocean in this hardcover picture book from the New York Times bestselling Ladybug Girl series. Lulu has never been to the beach but she knows she is going to love it…until... read more
A gripping debut novel about friendship, loss and love; a confession of what passed between two women who met as girls in 1960s Pasadena, CaliforniaComing of age in the patrician neighborhood of Pasadena, California during the 1960s, Rebecca Madden and her bea... read more
The New York Times BestsellerHow did a disheveled, intellectually combative gay Jew with a thick accent become one of the most effective (and funniest) politicians of our time?Growing up in Bayonne, New Jersey, the fourteen-year-old Barney Frank made two vital... read more
A New York Times bestseller! One of America's most prominent and personable politicians shares his mischievous side in a heartwarming story of a childhood Christmas. Mike is desperate to get a football for Christmas. Then one day in the middle of December, a b... read more
From the bestselling author of The Know-It-All comes a fascinating and timely exploration of religion and the Bible. Raised in a secular family but increasingly interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world, A.J. Jacobs decides to dive in headfirst ... read more
The New York Times Bestseller"An extraordinary, brave and even shocking document. Dr. Jauhar's sharply observed anxieties make him a compelling writer and an astute critic of the wasteful, mercenary, cronyistic and often corrupt practice of medicine today." - ... read more
A brilliant new collection of short stories from "the conspicuously talented" (Time) Rivka GalchenIn one of the intensely imaginative stories in Rivka's Galchen's American Innovations, a young woman's furniture walks out on her. In another, the narrator feels ... read more
Maile Meloy, Ian Schoenherr'sThe Apothecary [Hardcover]2011

Ian Schoenherr (Illustrator) Maile Meloy (Author)

Bestselling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben recounts the personal and global story of the fight to build and preserve a sustainable planetBill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find handcuffed and behind bars, but that's where he found h... read more
Stuck

Oliver Jeffers

From the illustrator of the #1 smash The Day the Crayons Quit comes another bestseller--a giggle-inducing tale of everything tossed, thrown, and hurled in order to free a kite!When Floyd's kite gets stuck in a tree, he's determined to get it out. But how? Well... read more
Anna and the French Kiss

Stephanie Perkins

Anna can't wait for her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a good job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. So she's not too thrilled when her father unexpectedly ships her off to boarding school in Paris - until she meets Etienne... read more
"Funny...odd, original, and nearly unclassifiable...unlike any novel I can think of."―David Haglund, The New York Times Book Review"Brutally honest and stylistically inventive, cerebral, and sexy."―San Francisco ChronicleNamed a Book of the Year byThe New York... read more
In the first two volumes of his bestselling Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson recounted how the American-led coalition fought through North Africa and Italy to the threshold of victory. Now he tells the most dramatic story of all - the titanic battle for Weste... read more

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