About the Author

Jacqueline Deval is publisher of Hearst Books and has been a director of publicity and marketing for several major publishing houses. She has created publicity and marketing campaigns for hundreds of authors of fiction and nonfiction including Isaac Asimov, Margaret Atwood, Lawrence Block, Tony Brown, Stephen J. Cannell, Wilt Chamberlain, John Feinstein, Bill Geist, Nikki Giovanni, David Halberstam, Faye Kellerman, Dennis Lehane, Sidney Sheldon, and Alexandra Stoddard. She is the author of a novel, Reckless Appetites, for which she appeared on the "Today Show" and "Good Morning America". Publicize Your Book! is published by Perigee, a division of PenguinPutnam. Contact her at jdeval@yahoo.com.