Anne Sullivan

Publicity is essential for your message to be heard in this age of information overload.

With more than eleven years of experience as a Communications Specialist, Anne Sullivan has strategized publicity and marketing campaigns for highly regarded publishing houses. As a seasoned publicist with a track record that shows results, she will guide you through the competitive world of media so that your message — and your book — get the attention they deserve to reach their full sales potential.

Anne was the Publicity Director for The New Press from 2007 until 2011 and has previously worked for Nation Books/Avalon Publishing, The Disinformation Company, and Lantern Books. As a publicity consultant to publishers, non-profit organizations and social justice campaigns, her clients have included Bill Moyers, Alice Walker and Wenonah Hauter for The New Press, Dr. John Carlos for Haymarket Books, the Forks Over Knives companion books for The Experiment, Rich Roll for Crown Archetype, Sue Coe for OR Books, Verso Books, The Puffin/Nation Prize for The Nation Institute, Strike Debt and its Rolling Jubilee initiative, and others.

Recent campaigns:
–The Mendocino Center for Living Well at the Stanford Inn Eco-resort (located in Mendocino, California)
–Approaching the Natural: A Health Manifesto (by Sid Garza-Hillman, published by Roundtree Press)
–Foodopoly: The Battle Over Food and Farming in America (by Wenonah Hauter, published by The New Press)
–Forks Over Knives – The Cookbook: Over 300 Recipes for Plant-Based Eating All Through the Year (by Del Sroufe, published by The Experiment), a New York Times best seller
–The Making of Lee Boyd Malvo: The D.C. Sniper (by Carmeta Albarus with Jonathan Mack, published by Columbia University Press)
–Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World’s Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself (by Rich Roll, published by Crown Archetype/Random House)
–Verso Books, including its New York Times best seller News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media (by Juan González and Joseph Torres), the 2012 Sydney Hillman Prize for Book Journalism award-winner Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers (by Frank Bardacke), and The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire (by Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin)
–Cruel: Bearing Witness to Animal Exploitation (by Sue Coe, published by OR Books)
–Forks Over Knives: The Plant-Based Way to Health (by Gene Stone, published by The Experiment), a New York Times best seller
–The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World (by Dr. John Carlos and Dave Zirin, published by Haymarket Books)
–The United States of Fear (by Tom Engelhardt, published by Haymarket Books)
–Humanity’s Law (by Ruti G. Teitel, published by Oxford University Press)
–Bill Moyers Journal (by Bill Moyers, published by The New Press)
–The Chicken Chronicles (by Alice Walker, published by The New Press)

Anne also represents non-profit organizations to help spotlight their work on relevant social issues and businesses offering sustainable products and services.

From The Daily Show, The Tavis Smiley Show and The Rachel Maddow Show, to Time, The Nation, and VegNews magazine, to the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle and other top tier print outlets, to NPR and Democracy Now, to online and progressive news outlets, Anne has worked with a wide variety of media to raise the profile of authors and their books, while propelling progressive ideas into the mainstream public discourse.