Mark Fortier – Publicist

Mark Fortier is founder of the 8 person firm Fortier Public Relations, a PR firm specializing in business and nonfiction authors. Mark Fortier has twenty-four years of experience publicizing hundreds of successful books. Among the bestsellers he has handled are the #1 bestsellers Onward by Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos, Tell to Win by Peter Guber, Switch by the Heath brothers, the 4-Hour Workweek , the 4-Hour Body and the 4-Hour Chef by Tim Ferriss, The One Minute Entrepreneur by Ken Blanchard, the million copy bestseller Blue Ocean Strategy, and scores of bestsellers including Abundance, Made to Stick, Great by Choice, Buyology, and The Innovators Solution.He has worked on books by twenty of the Thinkers50 list of the world’s leading business thinkers including Jim Collins, Clayton Christensen, Seth Godin, Ram Charan and Peter Senge, public officials including former treasury secretary Robert Rubin, journalists like Maria Bartiromo, virtually every publishing house, and the CEOs and/or founders of Starbucks, GM, Southwest Airlines, Procter & Gamble, AT&T, Zappos, Citigroup, Deloitte, Whole Foods Market, IDEO, Medtronic, Nielsen, Razorfish, Reddit, Seventh Generation, the Skoll Foundation, Loews Hotels, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Gilt Groupe, The Container Store, JWT and LRN.In just the first half of his first year in business, five of the books he handled hit The New York Times and/or Wall Street Journal bestseller lists and five of his authors appeared on the Today Show. Our firm has averaged eleven New York Times bestsellers a year for the last three years. Books we have worked on have won numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize and the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year.Mark has worked on book projects with numerous corporate clients including Accenture, Amazon, Arthur Andersen, Barnes and Noble, Booz & Company, Booz Allen Hamilton, Deloitte, Edelman, Financial Times, Ford Motor Company, Fortune Magazine, FranklinCovey, Gilt, Goldman Sachs, Heidrick & Struggles, IBM, IDEO, JWT, KPMG, LinkedIn, Loews Hotels, Mercer Consulting, Merck, Microsoft, Nielsen, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Prudential Securities, The Publicis Group, Schwab, Seventh Generation, Starbucks, Young & Rubicam and Zappos. Mark has also worked with such nonprofits as the NEA, the Council on Foreign Relations, Environmental Defense Fund and The Bronfman Philanthropies.Before founding Fortier Public Relations, LLC, an agency specializing in the promotion of business books, Mark worked at book publicity firm Goldberg McDuffie Communications for almost nine years, rising from assistant director of publicity to director of publicity to vice president to partner (the first and only employee there to earn this title). Previously he held positions at Penguin U.S.A. and Columbia University Press.Mark is a graduate of Wesleyan University, and has studied at New York University and the University of London. His work has been recognized by Newsday, The New York Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Publishers Weekly, Book Publishing Report, and PRWeek. He has written about book publicity for numerous trade publications, and has lectured on book publicity at the Public Relations Society of America national convention, the Association of American University Presses, and the New York Advertising and Communications Network. An interview with Mark is included as a chapter in the books Publicize Your Book and What No One Ever Tells You About Blogging and Podcasting.