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. Her passion is evident and her fees are reasonable.
Here is what some of have said about Carol:
"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:
2001-2006:
Freelance Writer
- Novelist of WITHOUT GRACE and OF LITTLE FAITH
WITHOUT GRACE won the 2005 Silver Book of the Year Award by ForeWord Magazine
- Wrote spotlight feature for Stone Magazine
- Hired by iUniverse to write The Author's Guide to Planning Book Events.
- Contributed to Ariana Huffington’s ON BEING FEARLESS
- Hired by Where I Stand to write a 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
- Wrote a number of articles for various newsletters, magazines
- Worked with art historian Ruth Bowman to write biography
- Writing text for Bruce Curtis photography book: GARGOYLES: Defenders of the Night
- Writing text for SPIRIT OF CHEERLEADING (McGraw Hill)
2001-2005:
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
- Editing Manuscript for Daily Devotional for Eric Kampmann
2001-2006:
Freelance Publicist
- Booked events on C-SPAN Book TV, WGBB Tonite, TV’s Davidson & Co., Writers on The Vine, Port Washington Theatre, Sirius Radio, WWRL Books That Matter
- Toured Elliot D. Cohen and Arthur Kent to promote News, Incorporated
- Worked for Wiley Publishers to promote Alan Dershowitz
- Small Press Center Month Coordinator
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
1995-1996: Book Reviewer for the now defunct Long Island Voice
- Wrote a monthly book review for the Long Island Reader on different genres
- Contributing journalist for local weekly Bellmore Life.
- Book reviewer for The Long Island Historical Journal.
- Taught writing at Winthrop Elementary School.
Literary Activities:
- Lectured at BookExpo, Washington, DC 2006 on writing, marketing and self-publishing.
- 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 Annual Writers’ Roundtable Conference at the Small Press Center (2006)
- Spoke to the American Association of University Women (Long Island Chapter) on writing and perseverance.
- 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)
Topic: 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
Affiliations
Member and symposium panelist for the International Women’s Writing Guild; Member of Women’s National Book Association and National Writer’s Union.
Contact Carol at carolhoenig@carolhoenig.com.