Leila Siddiqui - Marketer
I am a book marketer at Simon and Schuster. I can work with you in creating and executing a strategic and targeted marketing campaign.
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Overview
I am a career book marketer for nearly seven years, first at Penguin Random House and currently at Simon & Schuster. I've worked on genres varying from Literary Fiction to Science Fiction to Thrillers along with Nonfiction genres like Pop Science, History, Memoirs, and Biographies.
I have extensive experience in Google, Amazon, and Facebook advertising and would love to lend my expertise to your marketing campaign. Given the opportunity, I can create a detailed and comprehensive marketing plan for you including blog outreach, targeted ARC and/or ebook outreach to influencers and bookstagrammers, and optimizing your social accounts for which I'd provide a detailed social media timeline. I can also advise you on how best to optimize your website and newsletter.
I'm also an author with a novel published last September. I understand the book market well having been on both sides as an author and a publishing professional.
I'm proud of the books I've worked on and I can't wait to work on yours!
I have extensive experience in Google, Amazon, and Facebook advertising and would love to lend my expertise to your marketing campaign. Given the opportunity, I can create a detailed and comprehensive marketing plan for you including blog outreach, targeted ARC and/or ebook outreach to influencers and bookstagrammers, and optimizing your social accounts for which I'd provide a detailed social media timeline. I can also advise you on how best to optimize your website and newsletter.
I'm also an author with a novel published last September. I understand the book market well having been on both sides as an author and a publishing professional.
I'm proud of the books I've worked on and I can't wait to work on yours!
Languages
English (US)
Non-Fiction
Biographies & Memoirs
Humanities & Social Sciences
Fiction
Historical Fiction
Literary Fiction
Mystery & Crime
Science Fiction
Thriller & Suspense
Women's Fiction
Work experience
Marketing Manager
Simon & Schuster
March, 2020
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Present
(over 2 years)
Creating marketing campaigns from scratch for fiction and non-fiction titles including targeted digital advertising, social media promotion and outreach, influencer outreach, and partnership outreach
Providing guidance to author's on website and social media appearances and best practices
Extensive social media experience including advertising, posting schedules, and optimizing posts and ads based on data and analytics
Experience testing and optimizing Facebook/Instagram, Amazon and Google advertising
Assistant Marketing Manager
Penguin Random House
July, 2015
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January, 2020
(over 4 years)
Creating marketing campaigns from scratch for fiction and non-fiction titles including targeted digital advertising, social media promotion and outreach, influencer outreach, and partnership outreach
Providing marketing feedback at acquisition
Extensive social media experience including guiding authors on how to optimize their accounts and creating comprehensive social media timelines for authors
Experience testing and optimizing Facebook and Google advertising
Marketing Intern
Macmillan Children's Group
January, 2015
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April, 2015
(3 months)
Researched outreach and potential partners for social media partnerships and promotions
Managed Goodreads account and giveaways
Provided administrative marketing services
Marketing Intern
Atria Books - Simon and Schuster
August, 2014
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November, 2014
(3 months)
Wrote galley letters for Independent Bookseller mailings
Managed Goodreads account and giveaways
Wrote reading group guide questions for bookclub picks
Provided administrative marketing services
Projects
Apparently There Were Complaints
For this TV celebrity memoir, we ran a Facebook advertising campaign targeting TV Land, Hollywood and celebrity targets, and an older demographic given the age of the author. We finished the campaign with 622.1K and a cost per link click of $0.15. The click through rate was 5.51%.
How God Works
For this nonfiction title, I ran an AMS campaign targeting against comparative titles like WHY BUDDHISM IS TRUE, Sam Harris’s WAKING UP, and search terms for mind/body books, psychology, and science. The ACoS was a remarkable 0.6%.
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
For this genre bending novel, I tested taglines and creatives of the book via Facebook advertising to see what would appeal best to our audience and what messaging would resonate with them. The winning tagline was:
A debut novel that examines the intersections of race, gender, and popular culture with a provocative Rock and Roll legend who reverberates in these modern times.
We saw 420,691 impressions and 9,054 link clicks delivered at a cost per link click of $0.38.
Yellow Wife
For this hardcover release for an author we wanted to breakout in a big way, I created a detailed social media timeline to keep the author on track as she promoted on socials.
I tested taglines and creatives of the book via Facebook advertising to hone in on our best audience and messaging as we prepared for publication. The winning tagline was:
A breathtaking novel based on Mary Lumpkin, a real life 'yellow wife,' in an often overlooked narrative of our country’s history.
It demonstrated that the true story aspect of the novel appealed the most to our targeted book club audience. The cost per link click was $0.26 and click through rate was 3.27%.
We also ran an AMS campaign targeting comparative and genre titles with an ACoS of 18%.
I also ran several social media giveaways and did extensive bookstagrammer outreach to generate buzz.
Portfolio (14 selected works)
Yellow Wife: A Novel
Johnson, Sadeqa
On New Year’s Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize–winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day—chosen completely at random—turned out to be Sunday, December 28, 1986, by any conventional measure a most ordinary day. Weingarten spent the next six years proving that there is no such thing. That Sunday between Christmas and New Year’s... read more
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA Science News favorite science book of 2019As you read these words, copies of you are being created. Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and one of this world’s most celebrated writers on science, rewrites the history of 20th century physics. Already hailed as a masterpiece, Something Deeply Hidden shows for the first time that facing up to the essential puzzl... read more
The Birthday Girl: A Novel
Melissa de la Cruz
In the thrilling, suspenseful new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz, all of Ellie de Florent-Stinson’s secrets come to light in one eventful evening full of twists, turns, and surprises. Before she became a glamorous fashion designer, Ellie de Florent-Stinson was a trailer-park teen about to turn sixteen. But a night of birthday celebration doesn’t go exactly a... read more
The definitive, fascinating, all-reaching biography of Dr. Seuss Dr. Seuss is a classic American icon. Whimsical and wonderful, his work has defined our childhoods and the childhoods of our own children. The silly, simple rhymes are a bottomless well of magic, his illustrations timeless favorites because, quite simply, he makes us laugh. The Grinch, the Cat in the Hat, Horton, and so many more... read more
Delta-v
Daniel Suarez
The bestselling author of Daemon returns with a near-future technological thriller, in which a charismatic billionaire recruits a team of adventurers to launch the first deep space mining operation--a mission that could alter the trajectory of human civilization. When itinerant cave diver James Tighe receives an invitation to billionaire Nathan Joyce's private island, he thinks it must be a mi... read more
Let's Talk About Hard Things
Sale, Anna
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
Walton, Dawnie
Lucky
Stapley, Marissa
This Bright Future: A Memoir
Hall, Bobby
Apparently There Were Complaints: A Memoir
Gless, Sharon
Author of the iconic bestsellers This Is Your Brain on Music and The Organized Mind, Daniel Levitin turns his keen insights to what happens in our brains as we age, why we should think about health span, not life span, and, based on a rigorous analysis of neuroscientific evidence, what you can do to make the most of your seventies, eighties, and nineties today no matter how old you are now. Su... read more
Leila has 9 reviews
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Communication & Punctuality
I really liked working with Leila. I think she really got what it was I was trying to accomplish in the beginning. But as the time went on, and I hired a PR person as well, I didn't think we were on the same page toward the end. A deadline I was striving for was missed at the end, and although not a deal breaker (I'm an indie author after all and still just beginning) I had hoped there would ha...
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Samira Taher Kolb, June 2022
Great to work with for making ads, would recommend
MV Perry, May 2022
Leila knows her stuff, and provides good guidance on how and when to use advertising media from Facebook to Reddit. She was timely in her work and always good-humored, which makes everything easier. She also gave me good advice on ad layout and design, and actually created the ads for Facebook. Leila was very hands-on and did the bulk of the work on the campaigns. Knowledgeable and hands-o...
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Michael Rogers, May 2022
What can I say? Leila is professional and knows her industry. As a newbie self published author, I didn’t know a lot about the nitty gritty, and honestly, about what works for my genre in marketing. She was patient with all of my questions and took the time to explain anything that was unclear for me. I would hire her again in a heartbeat.
Samira Taher Kolb, April 2022
It was a pleasure to work with Leila on the launch of my first novel. From help with uploading and metadata to promoting my book, Leila had lots of ideas over the month for new ways to publicise the work. I was really happy to find someone who could help with the whole process. Many thanks.
Amelia Smith, April 2022
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