CA Book Publicist Charlie Barrett Expands To Serve Self-Published Authors, Screen Writers

PRLog (Press Release) - Sep 08, 2009 -
Hollywood, CA - - Charlie Barrett, voted Book Publicist of the Year by the Southern California Book Pub Society, will represent  screen writers, self-published and small press writers and authors in both the non-fiction and fiction areas, it was revealed today. Over the years Charlie Barrett, who heads the Los Angeles based PR/publicity firm, The Barrett Company, has repped authors with such publishing giants as Norton, Little Brown, Simon & Schuster, Scribners, McGraw-Hill, Time-Warner Books, SMU Press and many, many others. TBC specializes in books on health, entertainment, sports and business.

“Self-published and small press authors and writers are in need of special handling as they navigate the book marketing world and The Barrett Company wants to make our book marketing services available to them,” said Charlie Barrett. “Reviewers and radio and TV program producers are constantly looking for new and interesting authors to write about and book on their shows…. and we want to serve those clients. ”

The Barrett Company, established in 1991, also serves the television and film industries, representing such TV shows as   the multi-Emmy winner reality TV series "The Amazing Race" on CBS (Sundays @ 8-9pm) and studios such as Paramount, MGM and Fox Television. Mr Barrett also served as a publicist with 20th Century Fox Studios where he did publicity for the movie '"Doctor Dolittle," among other distinguished feature films such as "Ever Again" with Kevin Costner.

Mr. Barrett has personally directed publicity for such entertainers as Johnny Carson, Ed McMahon, Robin Wright, Robert Stack, Bryant Gumbel (Today) and many others.  He served as the NBC staff publicist for the network’s long –running late night staple, "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" from 1984 to the early 90s. “Oftentimes,” said Charlie, “television and film producers are looking for new stories…new books to make into shows and movies.  We have many long standing relationships in Hollywood that we hope to put to use for  aspiring screen writers, self-published, small press writers too.”

Earlier, Charlie served as an editor and film critic with the Hollywood trade paper, The Hollywood Reporter as well as a  music publicist for Capitol Records (Glen Campbell) , Mercury Records ( Rod Stewart) and Elektra Records ( Judy Collins).

“Effective and results oriented marketing of books is a challenge in today’s marketplace,” emphasized Charlie. “There are so many, many media outlets from the Internet to more mainstream avenues such as satellite radio and national television talk shows like Oprah Winfrey, Dr. Phil, GNA (Good Morning America), Today,  Wendy Willaims Show, Tyra Banks Show, Ellen, Charlie Rose, Tavis Smiley and The Early Show self-pubbed and small press writers can  reach out to  - -to be considered and get booked as a guest”

The Barrett Company is based in Los Angeles and can be reached at  its web site www.thebarrettco.com by emailing info@thebarrettco.com

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