FIRST SPEAKERS BUREAU FOR NOVELISTS

FIRST SPEAKERS BUREAU FOR NOVELISTS TO LAUNCH JANUARY 1, 2007

Glass Road Public Relations is thrilled to announce the launch of its newest venture—a proactive speakers bureau solely for novelists. Bureau members will be presented to a wide range of speaking engagement outlets, including churches, civic organizations, themed events, and professional venues.

“We thought about having a speakers bureau like the others, where the firm gets a percentage of each engagement fee and just reacts to calls that come in rather than seeking out venues,” said Rebeca Seitz, President and Founder of Glass Road Public Relations. “But then we realized—we don’t publicize like anybody else, why run a speakers bureau like them?”

Instead, members will pay a flat yearly Bureau fee and receive all proceeds from their speaking engagements. GRPR will arrange the engagement and, if it is open to the public, media coverage of the event. If the client desires, GRPR will also coordinate the presence of a bookseller at the engagement.

“We want to ensure we’re not taking business from booksellers by having our clients hand-sell their own books at speaking engagements,” Seitz said. “It’s always a partnership with the bookseller.”

The bureau will officially launch January 1, 2007 but has already begun signing up novelists. To be considered for membership, novelists must send in a tape or CD of themselves speaking in a public setting along with the speakers bureau application, which can be obtained on the firm’s website.

“Novelists are storytellers,” Seitz said. “And storytellers can entertain an audience while conveying truth. We just wanted to provide a home for those novelists who have the desire to speak and be represented by a firm that understands the power of story to transform lives.”

GRPR is the only publicity firm of its kind dedicated solely to representing novelists writing from a Christian worldview. It currently represents best-selling and award-winning novelists from a variety of publishing houses, including Zondervan, Tyndale, Harvest House, Howard Books, NavPress, Barbour Publishing, Faithwords, and Waterbrook-Multnomah. To learn more, visit www.glassroadpr.com.