For more than 35 years, Scott Manning has created and implemented public relations campaigns for a wide variety of high-profile books, authors and literary organizations. Founded in 1995, his company's services include special events planning and media placement via long-standing contacts with print and online journalists, book reviewers and broadcast producers. Over the last ten+ years, he and his colleague Abigail Welhouse have expanded the company’s expertise to include media training, marketing consulting and social media counsel.

Manning was also the founder of the Books for a Better Life Awards, which honored the best self-help books for 21 years and raised more than $2.1 million for the fight against Multiple Sclerosis. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of The MacDowell Colony.

Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down and Killing Pablo
(contact available upon request)

Judy Hottensen, Associate Publisher
Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
jhottensen@groveatlantic.com

Brenda Marsh, former Managing Director
Abrams & Chronicle Books, London
bmarsh@abramsbooks.com

Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Graywolf Press
Schaffner Press

Pilgrim Bell
KAVEH AKBAR
(Graywolf Press, August 2021)

Four Miles West of Nowhere: A City Boy's First Year in the Montana Wilderness
JOHN PHILLIPS
Pronghorn Press

Dark Money and the Politics of School Privatization
MAURICE CUNNINGHAM
(Palgrave MacMillan, November 2021)

Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire
JONATHAN M. KATZ
(St. Martin’s Press, January 2022)

Poetry in America, Season 3
(Verse Video/GBH Boston, airs winter-spring 2022)

Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World: What China’s Crackdown Reveals About its Plans to End Freedom Everywhere
MARK L. CLIFFORD
(St. Martin’s Press, February 2022)

2015 National Book Award Finalist Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
2017 National Book Award finalist Never Caught by Erica Armstrong Dunbar

11 New York Times bestsellers:
Hue 1968 by Mark Bowden
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin Laden by Mark Bowden
Classy: Exceptional Advice for the Extremely Modern Lady by Derek Blasberg
I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President by Josh Lieb
The Best Game Ever by Mark Bowden
On the Wealth of Nations by P.J. O'Rourke
Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden
Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile
Eat the Rich by P.J. O'Rourke
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea by Gary Kinder

5 Titles on the New York Times Extended Bestseller List:
Driving Like Crazy by P.J. O'Rourke
Guests of the Ayatollah by Mark Bowden
The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery
Halsey's Typhoon by Tom Clavin and Bob Drury
Triangle: The Fire that Changed America by David Von Drehle

During more than 15 years spent "in house," Scott Manning ran publicity departments at William Morrow, Avon Books and Harper & Row. In 1998, he received a Literary MarketPlace Award honoring his creation of the Books for a Better Life Awards. He was on the faculty of the Center for Publishing at NYU from 2005 to 2007, and the Denver Publishing Institute from 2006 to 2019. He is a member of the Board of Directors of The MacDowell Colony and currently serves on its Executive Committee. He was on the U.S. advisory board of the Jerusalem International Book Fair for six years.

Abigail Welhouse serves on the New York Advisory Board of the Poetry Society of America.