Literary Agent at FinePrint Literary Management
Greater New York City Area
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- Literary Agent at FinePrint Literary Management
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- Publicity Manager at Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group
- Associate Director Publicity at Del Rey Books, Division of Random House Publishing Group
- Marketing Manager at Crown Business Books, division of RH, Inc
- Marketing Manager at Stacey's Professional Bookstore
- Sales Associate at Ballantine Books, Division of Random House, Inc.
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Colleen Lindsay’s Summary
Currently I am a literary agent at FinePrint Literary Management, specializing in representing authors of fantasy, science fiction, YA fantasy, graphic novels, commercial and literary fiction, pop culture and works of LGBT interest, among others. For a full list of my interests and my submission guidelines, please visit my website at theswivet.com.
I have eleven years experience in marketing, publicity and brand management in publishing. For five years I served as Assistant Director of Publicity for Ballantine Books, a division of the Random House Publishing Group, specializing in science fiction, fantasy, pop culture, YA fantasy, graphic novels and third-party licensed media. I was responsible for building and managing relationships with our third-party licensors, coordinating marketing and media campaigns with such notable media clients as Sony Pictures, Lucasfilm LTD, Microsoft Xbox, New Line Cinema, Fox, and Turner Broadcasting.
I excelled in using the Internet as a viral marketing tool, utilizing blogs, message boards, chat rooms, street teams and e-newsletters to help break out Del Rey and LucasBooks authors, and to build the Del Rey Manga, Del Rey and LucasBooks brands.
Colleen Lindsay’s Experience
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Literary Agent
FinePrint Literary Management
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)
February 2008 — Present (7 months)
Specializing in representing authors of fantasy, science fiction, YA fantasy, graphic novels, commercial and literary fiction, pop culture and works of LGBT interest, among others. For a full list of my interests and my submission guidelines, please visit my website at theswivet.com.
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Publicity Manager
Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Publishing industry)
February 2007 — November 2007 (10 months)
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Associate Director Publicity
Del Rey Books, Division of Random House Publishing Group
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Publishing industry)
December 2000 — December 2005 (5 years 1 month)
* Specialist in pop culture, film tie-in, licensed media, graphic novels, manga, science fiction, fantasy
* Developed and executed national media campaigns, bookstore tours for 80-100 NYT bestselling titles per year
* Spearheaded major promotional campaigns for licensed tie-in properties including Microsoft Xbox, New Line Cinema, Kodansha USA, TNT/Turner Broadcasting, Sony Pictures and Lucasfilm, Ltd.
* Used innovative viral marketing campaigns, street teams, bloggers and author fan clubs to generate consumer buzz for major projects
* In conjunction with marketing director, developed and executed major campaign to launch Del Rey manga program, and worked to successfully bring Japanese manga to the attention of mainstream media
* Convention planning and management, author/editor panel programming, and at major media conventions including San Diego Comic-Con International, Wizard World Chicago, Gen-Con, Dragon-Con, Anime Expo, and Star Wars Celebration II and III -
Marketing Manager
Crown Business Books, division of RH, Inc
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Publishing industry)
July 1999 — December 2000 (1 year 6 months)
• Liaison between sales department, marketing and editorial; worked with sales department to identify marketing opportunities in the major sales channels, and develop marketing plans to exploit those opportunities
• Supervised three-person team of marketing associates to plan and produce seasonal promotional materials for sales department; developed presentations and represented department at sales conferences -
Marketing Manager
Stacey's Professional Bookstore
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Retail industry)
May 1993 — July 1999 (6 years 3 months)
• Booked, organized and managed 25-30 celebrity events per month in $14 million dollar independent bookstore; designed, wrote and produced monthly store newsletter; maintained store website and created listserv; planned, designed and produced all store ROP advertising; coordinated in-store staff presentations with publishers’ sales reps; managed coop budget
• Backlist inventory management for all trade and mass market product
• Supervision, performance appraisals, training and scheduling of 38 booksellers and cashiers -
Sales Associate
Ballantine Books, Division of Random House, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Publishing industry)
May 1991 — May 1993 (2 years 1 month)
