Book Promotion

It's every author's nightmare. You spend years writing a book only to see it disappear a month after publication amid the celebrity tell-alls and diet books. As authors who are also organizers, we use our activist skills to bring a book to its natural audience. We have a more than a decade of experience maximizing our own books’, creating book tours, and DIY marketing—working with writers like Laura Flanders and filmmaker Sam Feder—and we would love to teach these skills to you.

Why learn to empower yourself? Because publishing companies can no longer afford to (and choose not to) promote anything other than the sure-fire best-sellers or famous authors. Soapbox: Speakers Who Speak Out Inc. can deploy a wide range of contacts—that reach far deeper and wider than book reviewers—to outreach  on your behalf, affording you the opportunity to build connections and a sturdy platform for your book. Our philosophy? In a single meeting or a series of brief, efficient calls, we share our book-selling philosophy and help you connect with the audience that needs to read your book.

Events Consulting

A good event of any size is touching, inspiring, fun—and really hard to do. Face it, most fundraisers, galas, and panels are obligatory and dull rather than riveting and historic. We've produced events ranging from a feminist reading featuring Gloria Steinem, Andrea Dworkin, Kate Millett, and Farai Chideya at a downtown nightclub to a fundraiser for 300 people, and worked with partners such as the Third Wave Foundation, 92-Street Y, and The New School. We can brainstorm or produce an event for you that is maximum impact, minimum stress.

Organizational Development

Soapbox's founders have worked with most major and minor organizations in the women's movement, as well as other social justice organizations. We can help you build your board (as we did for Sadie Nash Leadership Project), create an advisory or editorial board (as we did for the Feminist Press), design and initiate signature programs and products (as we did for the Third Wave Foundation), and write speeches, annual reports, and promotional materials (as we did for the Ms. Foundation).

Fees vary, so please contact jenandamy@soapboxinc.com for more details.