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Carol HoenigEditorial Services & Publishing Consulting

If you are in the writing or marketing phase of your manuscript and need some guidance, award-winning novelist Carol Hoenig is available to help you reach your audience.  Carol is also available to give a workshop about how you can break into the publishing industry or a writing seminar. Her passion is evident and her fees are reasonable.

Here is what some of have said about Carol:

“The tips and techniques you generously shared have given me confidence and assurance, and I’m ready! You pointed out many opportunities to promote. I’m taking them one at a time and now have a full-time job I love. Thanks again. I will keep you in mind as my new career grows knowing I have a professional to consult who knows what she’s doing.” — Jennifer Monahan, Author of AN AMERICAN IN OZ

Comments from New York Roundtable Writers’ Conference attendees:

“Carol Hoenig was the nicest and most helpful person I’ve ever met in the industry. Carol answered all my questions in a kind and considerate way.”

“Carol Hoenig helped me with ideas about events for my self-published books.”

“Carol was outstanding.”

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“I very much enjoyed your talk; you
are my role model for small press success!”
—Cindy Gallagher (aka Cynthia Polansky)
FAR ABOVE RUBIES by Cynthia Polansky
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“Excellent workshop at the BEA.  You gave so much wonderful information, I
can’t wait to go through all of my notes.  I learned so much.” — Author, Janet Spurr

“It was great meeting you and participating in your interesting seminar at the recent BookExpo in Washington, D.C.  I wish it was a weekend seminar with you, instead of only an hour.  Ray Seager, my business associate and I walked away from your Seminar in Washington D.C. saying -”it was the most informative session of the entire Expo”  - You’re terrific Carol!   Love your ideas, your energy, your knowledge, experience, creativity, & sensitivity.  It all works!!!–Barbara Valentine, author of WHO Really Gives A RAT’s ASS! Journal

My resume for your perusal:

Carol Hoenig

(516) 435-7545

www.carolhoenig.com

Carolhoenig@Carolhoenig.com

Resume

2001-Present

Freelance Writer

  • Writer for Patch.com, an online community newspaper
  • Monthly columnist for Digital Americana Magazine, the first literary & culture magazine developed especially for the Apple iPad

  • Novelist of multi-award-winning novel Without Grace

  • Author of the award-winning book The Author’s Guide to Planning Book Events

  • Contributed to Arianna Huffington’s On Becoming Fearless

  • Blog for The Huffington Post

  • Hired by Where I Stand to write daily blog

  • Contributing writer for Suite101.com covering Literary Culture

  • Contributor for AbsoluteWrite.com, Radical Academy, The Raw Story, Long Island Journal, Long Island Voice, Media Channel.org, Woman This Month, Small Press.org, Boomercafe.com, Women For Hire

  • Hired by Good Morning America’s Tory Johnson to blog for WomenForHire.com and contribute to her New York Times bestseller Will Work From Home

  • Ghostwriter for a number of projects

2001-Present

Freelance Editor

  • Edited newsletters, children’s and adults’ novels, and non-fiction

  • Acquisitions Editor for BenBella Books

  • Edited materials for various individuals including but not exclusively: Frank Capri, The Rosen Publishing Group, Level 4 Press, Bruce Curtis, etc.

  • Edited Trail Thoughts: A Daily Companion for Your Journey of Faith by Eric Kampmann, Midpoint Trade Books

  • Manuscript Evaluator

  • Worthy Shorts

2001-present

Freelance Publicist

  • Booked events on C-SPAN Book TV, WGBB Tonite, TV’s Davidson & Co., Writers on The Vine at Palmer Vineyards, Port Washington Theatre, Sirius Radio, WWRL Books That Matter

  • Toured Elliot D. Cohen and Arthur Kent to promote News, Incorporated

  • Freelance basis for Wiley Publishers

  • Small Press Center Month Coordinator for the New York Center for Independent Publishing

  • Philip Johnston for The Last Call

  • Andrew Grinbaum for Sinsibel

  • Janice Flood Nichols for Twin Voices

  • John Rhodes for Who Killed Callaway?

  • Mary E. Martin for The Osgoode Trilogy

  • Alan K. Austin for The Adagio

  • Gene R. Dark for The Brutality of War

  • Shireen Jeejeebhoy for Lifeliner: The Judy Taylor Story

  • And many, many more….

1995 to 2005: BORDERS, Marketing
National Events Specialist

  • Liaison for major publishers including Wiley, Random House, Simon & Schuster, Houghton Mifflin, Perseus Book Group, PGW, The Penguin Group and HarperCollins

  • Working with publishers on arranging author events on a national level

  • Working with publicity departments to arrange media in connection with store events

  • Working with publishers on allocating co-op funds to stores for book signings

  • Maintained a fiscal budget for author events (1995-2001)

  • Coordinate off-site events for stores

  • Develop special event programs tailored for the community while working directly with authors and publishers to provide a forum for their books

  • Managed events coordinators and their programming

Extracurricular Activities:

  • Panelist for the New York University Summer Publishing Program, 2009

  • Director and Writer-In-Residence for Old Forge Library Adirondack Summer Writer’s Workshop, 2008

  • Advisory council member for Author Solutions

  • Guest speaker for Hofstra University Summer Writing Program, 2008

  • Panelist for The New York Center for Independent Publishing, 2008

  • Member of Women’s Media Group

  • Lectured at BookExpo, Washington, DC 2006 and Jacob Javits Center, 2007 on writing, marketing and self-publishing.

  • Spoke to Writer’s Group at Suffolk Community College regarding the industry

  • Moderated Panel Discussions for The 2nd Annual Writers’ Roundtable Conference at the Small Press Center for Fiction Editors, Marketing and PR (2006)

  • Panelist on Self-Publishing for The 2nd and 3rd Annual Writers’ Roundtable Conference at the Small Press Center (2006) (2007)

  • Spoke to the American Association of University Women (Long Island Chapter) on writing and perseverance, 2007

  • Coordinated Borders involvement in New York Is Book Country.  Moderated panel discussion at NYIBC on politics with Dr. David Cassidy, John Judis, Jeannine Pirro and Walter Shapiro (2004)

  • Member of the Marketing Roundtable Committee for the National Book Foundation

  • Member of Advisory Council and Coordinating committee for the Small Press Center and Independent Booksellers Book Fair.  Arranged C-SPAN Book TV coverage for the Small Press Center.

  • Member of the coordinating committee for the Long Island Festival of Books.

  • Moderated panel discussion at the Long Island Festival of Books in Glen Cove, Long Island with  Laurie Foos, Louisa Thomas Hargrave, Heather Dune McAdam, Tom Piazza and James Siegel  (2004)

  • Fund-raising committee member for Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic—NYC division

  • Arranged press party for the launch of Black Issues Book Review Magazine (1998)

  • Lectured at New York University (2001) Publishing and Marketing in the Bookselling World

  • Developed Book Fairs for local schools

  • Guest co-host on Books That Matter WWRL radio with Leroy Baylor

  • Member and symposium panelist for the International Women’s Writing Guild