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Pellien Public Relations isn't your typical book publicity firm; we're your strategic partner for comprehensive success. What sets us apart is our commitment to being your one-stop shop for a spectrum of marketing activities, including publicity and media outreach, digital and grassroots marketing, expert event planning, engaging book tours, and hands-on social media support. We offer the freedom to customize your approach with à la carte services or opt for an all-inclusive campaign that maximizes attention for your book.

Say goodbye to cookie cutter book publicity.

We know that there are no one-size-fits-all solutions when it comes to book PR, so let us unlock the potential of your book with our unparalleled publicity campaigns. We start by listening to your goals and engaging deeply with your ideas, so we can craft that one-of-a-kind campaign that could only belong to you and your book.

Find your audience wherever they are with targeted marketing strategies.

Our approach is simple yet powerful: we drive marketing strategies that work by tailoring them to the unique needs of book authors. We understand that every author and their book is distinct. That's why we craft personalized campaigns that amplify your message, engage your target audience, and ensure your book's success.

Take the guesswork out of social media.

You don’t have to be a social media guru; we’ve got that covered. Our social media support options are designed to be an author's best ally. Let us craft compelling content and eye-catching graphics that reflect your unique voice and resonate with your audience. Trust us to expertly curate your online presence, so you can focus on what you do best—writing exceptional books.

What we do

Join Our Team: Marketing Coordinator

Position Type: US-based, Part-time, Hourly, Remote

Hours: 25 hours/week

Pay: $30/hour

Employment classification: 1099 contractor 

Target Start Date: November 16, 2026 (target)

Application Deadline: October 30, 2026

Overview

Pellien Public Relations is seeking a Marketing Coordinator to lead graphics, video, and social media production for our author clients, while also serving as a confident, author-facing point of contact for creative guidance and step-by-step support.

Responsibilities

  • Design graphics for author events at bookstores, libraries, and other venues

  • Edit light video content for social media and promotional use

  • Manage and produce social media content and campaigns for clients

  • Conduct social media audits and provide strategic recommendations ahead of book launch and/or brand building

  • Build and/or update client websites as needed

  • Offer website advice and guidance to clients

  • Create social media graphics packages for new authors (banner images, profile graphics, branded templates, etc.)

  • Develop clear, step-by-step creative instructions and share them directly with authors via email and occasionally via video calls

  • Attend weekly team meetings and come prepared with updates on your creative work for clients

  • Communicate independently and confidently with authors — explaining creative decisions, offering advice, and troubleshooting without requiring a team member present

Qualifications

  • Experience with graphic design tools (e.g., Canva, Adobe Creative Suite)

  • Comfort with basic video editing for social platforms (CapCut, iMovie, Premiere Pro, or similar)

  • Familiarity with website builders/CMS platforms (e.g., Squarespace, WordPress, Wix)

  • Strong social media strategy and audit experience

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially in client-facing settings

  • Ability to work independently, manage multiple client projects, and meet deadlines

  • Experience working with authors, publishers, or in publicity/marketing is a plus

  • Comfortable moving quickly and working with autonomy, especially when managing multiple deadlines at once

Schedule

25 hours/week, hourly pay at $30/hour, remote. Specific weekly schedule to be discussed based on candidate availability.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Pellien Public Relations is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business need.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should submit:

  • Resume/CV

  • Portfolio or website showcasing relevant creative work (graphic design, video, social media, and/or web projects)

  • A brief note on your interest in working with authors and publishers.

  • Final-round candidates will be asked to complete a short creative brief as part of the interview process.

    To apply, please fill out our online application.

Applications close on October 30, 2026, 11:59 PM ET

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Successful collaborations

  • "We are grateful we had Pellien in our court while promoting Rewiring Democracy. Their team's deep experience in nonfiction book promotion showed throughout the process. They were dogged in seeking opportunities on our behalf, highly communicative, and rigorously organized. We hope to have a chance to work with them again."

    Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders, authors of Rewiring Democracy

  • "I could not have asked for a better partner than Pellien Public Relations for my book campaign. They were professional, honest, and deeply motivated to make sure my book was released leveraging every possible community angle and opportunity. PPR brought skill, expertise, and wisdom of professionals who have been steeped in the world of bookselling for ages. What I appreciated most was their cutting-edge innovative thinking that provided opportunities for my book that I could have never imagined."

    Misty L. Heggeness, author of Swiftynomics: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy

  • "I can wholeheartedly recommend the services of Pellien Public Relations, having benefitted in so many ways from one of their media campaigns. Right from the preliminary meetings, Jess and the team threw themselves into the launch of my book with energy and commitment, and thought up potential paths for promotion that never would have occurred to me! Their network of connections is impressive, to say the least. It speaks to a trust that media personalities and outlets have in Jess and her proposals; that trust was clearly years in the making, and it opened doors to my book that its success in the USA has absolutely depended on."

    Danny Bate, author of Why Q Needs U

  • "The months surrounding our book launch were packed with podcasts, bookstore events, and more. We were also thrilled to place excerpts and op-eds, even in the New York Times."

    Michael Brownstein (for Dan Kelly and Alex Madva), co-authors of Somebody Should Do Something

  • “Pellien Public Relations combines real experience with cutting-edge know-how to zero in fast on what will actually move you forward. They don’t do cookie-cutter plans—everything is built around your strengths. The contacts they lined up for me were engaged, enthusiastic, and exactly the right people to champion my work. Some have even become long-term collaborators.”

    Eric Heinze, author of Coming Clean

  • "As a relatively inexperienced author, I found Pellien Public Relations to be a source of wisdom and guidance across the entire process of promoting my book, from identifying social media influencers, to securing traditional print outlets.  They kept me full time busy with podcasts and posting to social platforms. Although it is always difficult to gauge the impact that these activities had on sales, I can say that in terms of followers, mentions and google searches, all of this activity raised my profile significantly. Jessica and her colleagues are patient, knowledgeable and efficient, a pleasure to work with.  I learned a great deal about marketing a non-fiction book, much more than I ever imagined. If you have a book contract from a publisher, you may be surprised at how much you are expected to do on your own, and find that you do not even know where to start.  Check out Pellien PR."

    —David Chaffetz, author of Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires

  • "Jessica Pellien is everything you could want in a publicist - responsible, responsive, well-connected, creative, and caring. Each project she works on is better for her involvement, and her clients learn valuable skills that are applicable in any future endeavors."

    Eric Schwartz, director, NYU Press

  • "Jessica and her team are savvy and dedicated professionals whose vision and verve helped breathe fresh life into my work. They found ways to engage audiences that I’d never anticipated, and the results of the campaign exceeded anything I’d imagined would be possible. Highly recommended!"

    Benjamin Shestakofsky, author of Behind the Startup

  • "The best decision I made regarding marketing my book was to hire Pellien Public Relations. Jessica did an outstanding job designing a highly effective promotional campaign. The digital marketing advertisements, podcast interviews, reviews, and articles that she created or enabled had a tremendous impact on increasing awareness of this new title among its target audience. I highly recommend Jessica and PPR to any author or publisher seeking to maximize sales of their work."

    Bill Mills, author of Agent of the Iron Cross

  • "Working with Jess and Kailey was a very productive and enjoyable experience. They are true professionals: creative, competent, and caring. They were able to promote my book in many excellent places I could never have landed on my own, including bookstores, podcasts, and radio shows."

    Gerald Epstein, author of Busting the Bankers' Club

  • "Jessica and Kailey did an outstanding job in the publicity of my book. In particular, they were very proactive in thinking about how to hook my book to current news events, and reaching audiences beyond my traditional strike zone of economics and business."

    Alex Edmans, author of May Contain Lies

  • "What's so good about working with Jessica on a book publicity campaign? Where do I start? First, she made the effort to truly understand the book and its audience. She GOT us -- and that was extremely important to us. Because of that, she didn't try to push us to do publicity that wouldn't really find our audience, but she was laser focused. She introduced us to a variety of opportunities and tools that we would never have thought of on our own and she has great relationships with high profile media. She was a true partner throughout -- and even after book launch. I know she was genuinely rooting for us the whole time. I can't say enough good things about working with Jessica. Highly recommend!"

    Karen Dillon, NY Times best-selling author, partner on Harvard Business Review Family Business Handbook

  • "Jessica and her team are true public relations pros who leave no stone unturned. They both dig into the subject matter of a book and an author's expertise as well as ALL the media possibilities and with the added benefit of their wonderful relationships with the media and superior knowledge of marketing, they have produced great campaigns for several of our UC Press books. We look forward to continuing to work together!"

    Emily Grandstaff, publicity director, University

    of California Press

  • "Jessica played such a key role in making my book a success. She brought an array of connections that resulted in podcast interviews, live show appearances, and blogs that drove word of mouth sales. Most importantly, she took the time to read my book, understand it, and really invest in it emotionally. She's such a dedicated hard worker, I'd highly recommend getting her on your team to promote your book!"

    Rob Chesnut, former General Counsel and Chief Ethics Officer at Airbnb and author of the Bestseller Intentional Integrity: How Smart Companies Can Lead An Ethical Revolution

  • "Jessica's wisdom helped me understand my agency as an author to proactively collaborate on the outward-facing narrative and get the most out of every PR engagement. I felt ready thanks to Jessica's counsel!"

    Kevin Bethune, author of Reimagining Design: Unlocking Strategic Innovation

  • "Working with Jessica was a real pleasure. A true professional with so many contacts and great ideas. Highly recommended!"

    Eric Cline, author of 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed

  • "What an adventure we had! Of all the book publicity professionals I’ve worked with, Jessica really went the extra mile. She took the time to get to know me and my book, and promoted us both with genuine belief and a passion bordering on obsessiveness. No potential reviewer was allowed to slip through her net! I’ll treasure the memory of the accolades stacking up and the reviews pouring in. No book could have a better debut, and no author could wish for a better advocate."

    Katrina Van Grouw, author of The Unfeathered Bird

  • “We had the privilege of working with Jessica on promoting our graphic novel, Power On! She was always a creative, wise cheerleader for our work and one who fully understood our larger mission: to spark important conversations among youth, educators, and their families about issues of equity and ethics in tech. She was sensitive to our mission and helped us forge and support partnerships that would help market our book to wider audiences. Jessica is also a great communicator, responsive, and wonderful to collaborate with. We highly endorse her PR work!”

    Jean Ryoo and Jane Margolis, authors of Power On!

  • "Jess worked tirelessly and brilliantly to promote two of my books, both of which sold more copies that I ever thought possible. I couldn't believe the number of media events she landed. She really understood the books, wrote great pitch materials, then brought them into the world as if they were her own. When I was just starting out a friend said 'nobody will work harder for your book than you will.' He hadn't met Jess."

    Lee McIntyre, author of Post-Truth, How to Talk to a Science Denier, The Scientific Attitude, and On DIsinformation

  • "There is serious power on the Pellien PR team! Jessica and Kailey have gone above and beyond at all stages of our campaign collaboration, from the relationships to the results. They are thoughtful, responsive, creative publicists with sharp instincts for all facets of book and author promotion. An in-house publicist's dream partner!"

    Katryce Leslie, senior publicist, University of California Press

  • "Jessica did a fantastic job helping raise awareness, obtain interviews and book reviews for my book. No doubt I would hire her again in a minute!"

    Howard Friedman, author of Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life

  • "Jessica and her team successfully increased my media coverage by 20 times! And that is not an exaggeration. The attention she generated not only increased book sales, but it also helped me forge connections with prominent thought leaders in my field. Jessica is the perfect combination of kind and assertive. I could not recommend her services more!"

    Caroline Fleck, PhD, author of Validation

  • "Pellien represented me for a number of months recently. I couldn't believe the results. I got one after another podcast interview with podcasters representing different (but related) topics that my book that they were promoting for me, covered. There were articles for mainstream media, press releases, regular meetings with the team, and lots of other work going on in the backround. The one down side was I ended up with a full diary of commitments! Such lovely people too. I highly recommend them."

    Sami Timimi, author of Searching for Normal

  • "With my co-author Olivier Bonnassies, I wrote God, the Science, the Evidence, which was first published in French in 2021 and has been an unexpected success, selling 500,000 copies worldwide to date. When the book was translated into English and published in the US by Abrams in 2025, we looked for a publicist and advisor to help with its promotion. We have been fortunate to meet and work with Jessica Pellien for more than a year and a half now, and I am happy to say that Jessica is extremely professional, clever, and full of original ideas. Her work is always precise and on time. We have now reached 45,000 copies sold in English, which is remarkable for just 10 months, especially for authors who are French and completely unknown in the US — this success is clearly thanks to her work."

    Michel Bolloré, author of God, the Science, the Evidence: The Dawn of a Revolution

  • “Working with Jessica and her team was a joy. They were on my side, always went the extra mile, and much extended the outreach that my book achieved.”

    Mark Vernon, author of Awake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination

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Books shown are projects I’ve worked on in the past, but are not current clients of Pellien Public Relations.

Rewriting the book on book promotion, one successful campaign at a time.

This is a photo of books like How to Clone a Mammoth and The Alchemy of Us held between bookends that look like the front and back of a bicycle. It is taken outside on a sunny day.

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There are a lot of publicity firms out there. Let us show you what makes PPR special. We’d welcome an opportunity to discuss your next book or project. Please use the contact form or email us at hello@pellienpr.com.

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