Michele Karlsberg Marketing and Management

Michele Karlsberg Marketing and Management Michele Karlsberg brings a unique combination of skills to effectively carry out publicity/marketing campaigns for authors, organizations and film/theater

Michele Karlsberg brings a unique combination of skills to effectively carry out publicity/marketing campaigns for authors, organizations and film/theater professionals. She has also worn many hats in her 34-year book Publishing career. Michele was one of the founders of Amethyst Press. As curator of Outspoken, a nationwide LGBTQ Literary series, she helps new and established voices reach a wider

audience. Michele also served as Publisher of Bywater Books and published many award winning authors in those years. In 1989 along with the Publishing Triangle Michele launched Le***an and Gay Book Month. She was recently presented with the Publishing Triangle Leadership Award which along with Michael Denneny was the first co-chairs of the Triangle. She worked with David Rosen and The Book Of The Month Club/Quality Paperback Books on their GLBT Book Club Insight/Out along with the Triangle Classic series. She was also inducted in the Saints and Sinners Literary Hall of Fame in New Orleans, LA. She produced Holland America cruise lines first BOOK EXPO along with Olivia Travel. In 2010 she produced BACK 2 BACK at the St George Theater in NY with Lily Tomlin and Kate Clinton She is the author of Self Publishing GLBT Books (1989) and is the co-editor of To Be Continued and To Be Continued: Take Two (1998). Her non-fiction piece entitled The Isle Of Staten will appear in the book Love, Christopher Street. (Chelsea Street Editions). Her column WORDS appears in the San Francisco Bay Times. Michele has won the Publishing Triangle Leadership Award, Community Health Action Advocacy Award, Lambda Literary Foundation Publishing Professional Award, One Island/One Pride Award. The Publishing Triangle established its Leadership Award in 2002, specifically to honor contributions to LGBTQ literature by those who are not primarily writers, such as editors, agents, booksellers, and institution. As of 2023 tis award will now be known as the Michele Karlsberg Leadership Award,

Her activism includes working with many organizations but not limited to CHASI, Lambda Literary Foundation, Soulforce, The Publishing Triangle, GLAAD, New York City GLBT Center, Gay Men's Health Crisis, Project Hospitality, SAGE, Helping Our Women and God's Love We Deliver. She is most proud of her dedication to building community.

10/11/2025

Email from The Gay & Le***an Review Revisit some of our coverage on book bans and commonly removed titles. The G&LR's Newsletter   Banned Books Week Dear , With efforts at government censorship escala

Enter Now. Celebrate Happy National Coming Out Day.
10/11/2025

Enter Now. Celebrate Happy National Coming Out Day.

Contest entries are due NEXT WEEK, October 15!

Don't miss your chance to win cash prizes and publication!

Submit your poetry and/or fiction TODAY for the chance to win!

Learn more by visiting: https://tennesseewilliamsfestival.submittable.com/submit

Please be advised: At the Eric Hoffer Book Award, we’ve been dealing with customs, tariffs, and hefty international ship...
10/11/2025

Please be advised:

At the Eric Hoffer Book Award, we’ve been dealing with customs, tariffs, and hefty international shipping rates for decades, but HERE IS HOW YOU CAN AVOID MOST if not all of it: Preregister your submission to the Eric Hoffer Book Award and then ship the book separately from a US-based source.

You do not need to send your registration form and payment with the book, only in advance of its arrival. You may preregister each entry by 1) filling out our registration PDF form, 2) paying the entrance fee on-line, and 3) sending the form and payment receipt to [email protected]. We typically acknowledge preregistrations within 24 hours. You then have the option of sending your book from a US-based distributor and even retailers like Amazon or Barnes & Noble. So your book never crosses the border.

Of course, you may always submit a digital book to either the E-Book Fiction or E-Book Nonfiction category.

Please understand that registrants from Asia to Europe are successfully shipping books to us from their home countries. There are a lot of rumours currently circulating, which include folktales that particular countries are banned from shipping packages to the US. While some international mail offices are having issues, all of the major carriers (i.e. UPS, FedEx, DHL, EMS, etc.) are still delivering shipments to the US. We receive international shipments every day and would be happy to receive yours.

Registration Information Links:

* Registration guidelines: https://www.hofferaward.com/Eric-Hoffer-Award-registration.html -Restrictions
* Registration forms:https://www.hofferaward.com/Eric-Hoffer-Award-registration-form.pdf
* Registration fees payment: https://www.hofferaward.com/Eric-Hoffer-Award-registration-payment.html
* E-Book registration instructions: https://www.hofferaward.com/Eric-Hoffer-Award-e-book-registration.html
* Pre-registration instructions: https://www.hofferaward.com/Eric-Hoffer-Award-registration.html
* Practical advice for registering: https://www.hofferaward.com/Eric-Hoffer-Award-registration.html

Discount early registrations prior to December 10th.

Sent registration materials to
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The Eric Hoffer Award
PO Box 11
Titusville, NJ 08560

independent book award for the small press, academic press & independent press, including self-published books

10/09/2025

County officials in Wyoming fired Terri Lesley, a library director, after she refused to purge children and young adult books that contained sexual content and L.G.B.T.Q. themes.

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10/07/2025

A not-so-pretty summer for Non-Fiction titles
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BY ALEX CALL
Non-Fiction categories have seen a drop of 8.4% – nearly twice that of Fiction paperbacks – in volume terms.

Smart and serious non-fiction will be on the rise at Frankfurter Buchmesse this year, but fiction – the spicier the better – will still sizzle

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10/04/2025

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Book censorship in US schools has become 'rampant and common', free speech advocates warn.A free speech advocacy group w...
10/04/2025

Book censorship in US schools has become 'rampant and common', free speech advocates warn.

A free speech advocacy group warned that book censorship in public schools across the United States has become "rampant and common," with book bans increasing significantly over the last few years.

Though book censorship is not a new issue, the United States has seen a sharp rise in book bans and attempted bans since 2021. PEN America's “Banned in the USA" report, released on Oct. 1, recorded about 6,800 instances of books being removed .....

Since July 2021, PEN America has documented more than 22,800 cases of book bans across 45 states and 451 public school districts.

The Poetry of Tortured Hearts: On Taylor Swift’s Pre-Raphaelite Era“Swift seems to be identifying with, and forcefully r...
10/04/2025

The Poetry of Tortured Hearts: On Taylor Swift’s Pre-Raphaelite Era
“Swift seems to be identifying with, and forcefully reimagining, this tragic figure from Victorian history.” In the August 2025 announcement of her engagement to NFL tight end Travis Kelce, Taylor Swift playfully likened herself to an “English teacher.” Indeed, her catalogue amounts to what we in the business of literary criticism might call astonishingly “intertextual.” Swift’s nods to 19th- and 20th-century writers are well documented. (See the excellent book-length study by Rachel Feder and Tiffany Tatreau). English professors are increasingly offering courses that situate Swift’s work in the literary context....

“Ope not thy lips thou foolish one Nor turn to me thy face The blasts of heaven shall strike thee down ere I will give thee grace” –Elizabeth Siddall, “Ope not thy lips thou foolish one” * “I didn’…

Seizing Opportunities: Academic Libraries in the AI EraWhat librarians can learn from testing Academic AI and why it mat...
10/04/2025

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What librarians can learn from testing Academic AI and why it matters

Librarians are no strangers to change. But today’s shift toward Academic AI assisted cataloging and personalized discovery isn’t just about technology. It’s about librarians shaping that technology to work for them and....

Librarians are no strangers to change. But today’s shift toward Academic AI assisted cataloging and personalized discovery isn’t just about technology. It’s about librarians shaping that technology to work for them and their user’s needs.

Hello. This is Pearl. I work with the Marketing and Management. We will be moving all business, exciting updates, publis...
11/24/2024

Hello. This is Pearl. I work with the Marketing and Management.

We will be moving all business, exciting updates, publishing and entertainment news, WORDS column, client news, conference updates, AI updates and so much more to LinkedIn. Please feel free to follow us there. Our LinkedIn account is under Michele Karlsberg.

We look forward to continuing meeting up with you on that platform.

Looking forward to a successful 2025.

Have a nice Thanksgiving. Stay Safe. Be well.

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Michele Karlsberg shows how ordinary people make extraordinary contributions to their communities. Her philosophy is simple: “It is our giving that makes us strong, not our receiving.” Bottom line, she loves what she does. She is grateful for her beloved mentors, some of whom are Nancy Bereano, Sasha Alyson, Barbara Grier, Richard Labonte, Carol Seajay, Roz Parr who helped her gain knowledge and confidence in the book publishing industry.

She has worn many hats in her twenty-nine year career.

As a publicist, she brings a unique combination of skills to effectively carry out publicity/marketing campaigns for authors, organizations, events, comedians, musicians and film/theater professionals. Her list of clients has included Katherine Forrest, Felice Picano, Kate Clinton, Stephen Fry, Jewelle Gomez, Assotto Saint, Dorothy Allison, Martin Duberman, Judy Grahn and Minnie Bruce Pratt to name a few. From her home office stateside, Michele represented many International Publishing companies: Spinifex Press (Australia), Second Story Press (Canada), Bruno Gmunder (Germany) and Creation Books (UK). She generously speaks at many conferences about the business of publishing, publicity and marketing. When she gets to share what she knows about marketing and publicity in the world of publishing, she is one happy woman.

She is one of the founders/publishers of Amethyst Press, home of groundbreaking authors Dennis Cooper, Kevin Killian, Mark Ameen, Stan Leventhal and Patrick Moore. She is a strong advocate for independent booksellers and worked with Carol Seajay on the Feminist Bookstore Network. She is a curator of Outspoken, a nationwide LGBTQI literary series that helps new and established voices reach a wider audience. As publisher at Bywater Books, she published many award winning authors.