Thursday May 23 | GalleyCat
Kathleen Schmidt Joins Weinstein Books as Director of Publicity
Kathleen Schmidt will be the new publicity director of Weinstein Books. She will join the publisher on July 1. Currently, Schmidt runs her own publicity firm, KMS Public Relations-working with around 120 books a year.
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Excerpt: 'The Summer of Beer and Whiskey'
Excerpted by arrangement with PublicAffairs, a member of The Perseus Books Group.