Carol Hoenig

Author Resume

 2001-Present

Freelance Writer

• 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 and 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 Calllaway?
• 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:           

• 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 3^rd 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

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