Michael Taeckens Marketing & PR

Clients

CURRENT

  • Sarah M. Broom (The Yellow House, Grove Atlantic, August 2019; shortlisted for the National Book Award, cover of the New York Times Book Review)
  • Leslie Jamison (Make It Scream, Make It Burn, Little, Brown, September 2019)
  • Adrienne Brodeur (Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me, HMH, October 2019; 2 starred pre-pub reviews)
  • Paul Lisicky (Later: My Life at the Edge of the World, Graywolf Press, March 2020)
  • Mark Doty (What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life, Norton, April 2020)
  • Natasha Trethewey (Memorial Drive: A Memoir, Ecco, July 2020)
  • Kevin Young (year-round marketing work)
  • The Whiting Foundation (year-round, including the Whiting Awards, Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grants, and Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes)

FORMER

  • Nicole Dennis-Benn (Patsy, Liveright/Norton, June 2019) – 2 starred pre-pub reviews
  • Namwali Serpell (The Old Drift, Hogarth) – cover of the New York Times Book Review (reviewed by Salman Rushdie); 4 starred pre-pub reviews
  • Elizabeth McCracken (Bowlaway, Ecco) – 5 starred pre-pub reviews
  • Ada Limón (The Carrying, Milkweed Editions) – winner of the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry; $75,000 PEN Jean Stein Award finalist; an NPR, PBS, Atlantic, Washington Post, Lit Hub, Autostraddle, Chicago Review of Books, and Publishers Weekly “Best Book of 2018”; a Lit Hub “Best-Reviewed Poetry Book of 2018”
  • Luis Alberto Urrea (The House of Broken Angels, Little, Brown) -National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; Rittenhouse Award winner; 2019 Guggenheim Fellow; cover of the New York Times Book Review; New York Times Notable Book; New York Times Editors’ Choice selection; Indie bestseller; an NPR, PBS, New York Times, Newsday, San Francisco Chronicle, BuzzFeed, and Bookpage “Best Book of 2018”
  • Leslie Jamison (The Recovering: Addiction and its Aftermath, Little, Brown) – New York Times and Indie bestseller; an NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Real Simple, Guardian, Boston Globe, Vogue UK, Nylon, Bustle, Electric Literature, Thrillist, The Fix, Mental Floss, Autostraddle, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Shelf Awareness “Best Book of 2018”; Lit Hub‘s #1 “Best-Reviewed Memoir of 2018”
  • Kevin Young (Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News,  Graywolf Press) – Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction winner; National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; $75,000 PEN/Jean Stein Award finalist; National Book Award longlist; New York Times Notable Book; New York Times Editors Choice selection
  • Megan Abbott (Give Me Your Hand, Little, Brown) – New York Times Editors’ Choice selection; finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; an NPR, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Guardian, Boston Globe, Marie Claire, Vulture, Bustle, and CrimeReads “Best Book of 2018”; Lit Hub’s #1 “Best-Reviewed Mystery/Crime/Thriller Book of 2018”
  • Tom Perrotta (Mrs. Fletcher, Scribner) – cover of the New York Times Book Review; New York Times Editors Choice selection; New York Times and Indie bestseller
  • Natasha Trethewey (Monument: Poems New and Selected, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) – longlisted for the National Book Award; a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection; an NPR “Best Book of 2018”
  • Edward Carey (Little, Riverhead) – 4 starred pre-pub reviews; 2019 Guggenheim Fellow; an NPR, Real Simple, Bookpage, Oregonian, and Kirkus “Best Book of 2018”; (Heap House, Overlook Press) – a New York Times Notable Book and NPR Best Book of 2014
  • Jordy Rosenberg (Confessions of the Fox, One World/Random House) – shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize; Lambda Literary Award finalist; New York Times Editors’ Choice selection; a New Yorker, BuzzFeed, HuffPost, Electric Literature, Autostraddle, and Kirkus “Best Book of 2018”
  • Nicole Dennis-Benn (Here Comes the Sun, Liveright/W. W. Norton) – Lambda Literary Award winner; Center for Fiction First Novel Prize shortlist; National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award finalist; Young Lions Award finalist; New York Times Notable Book; New York Times Editors’ Choice selection
  • Mary-Louise Parker (Dear Mr. You, hardback and paperback editions, Scribner) – New York Times and Indie bestseller; New York Times Editors’ Choice selection
  • Vikram Chandra (Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty, Graywolf Press) – NBCC Award in Criticism finalist; New York Times bestseller; New York Times Notable Book; New York Times Editors’ Choice selection; NPR Best Book of 2014 selection
  • Lidia Yuknavitch (The Book of Joan, Harper) – cover of the New York Times Book Review; New York Times Notable Book; New York Times Editor’s Choice selection
  • Chelsey Johnson (Stray City, Custom House/HarperCollins) – New York Times Editors’ Choice selection; a Real Simple and Autostraddle “Best Book of 2018” selection
  • Kristen Radtke (Imagine Wanting Only This, Pantheon) – New York Times Editors’ Choice selection; a BuzzFeed, Entertainment Weekly, Forbes, Nylon, Barnes & Noble, Kirkus, and Booklist best book of the year
  • Max Porter (Grief is the Thing with Feathers, Graywolf Press) – New York Times Editors’ Choice selection
  • Belle Boggs (The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood, Graywolf Press) – PEN Award for the Art of the Essay finalist; cover of the New York Times Book Review
  • Matthew Zapruder (Why Poetry, Ecco) – New York Times Editors’ Choice selection
  • Lauren Grodstein (Our Short History, Algonquin Books)
  • Christopher Bollen (The Destroyers, Harper) – New York Times Editors’ Choice selection
  • Sunil Yapa (Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist paperback edition, Lee Boudreaux Books/Little, Brown)
  • Adam Grant (Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World, Viking) – #1 New York Times bestseller
  • Cary Fowler (Seeds on Ice: Svalbard and the Global Seed Vault, Prospecta Press)
  • The American Booksellers Association
  • Tim Johnston (Descent, Algonquin Books) – New York Times Editors’ Choice selection; New York Times, USA Today, and Indie bestseller
  • Amy Goldman (Heirloom Harvest: Modern Daguerreotypes of Historic Garden Treasures, Bloomsbury)
  • Sara Gruen (At the Water’s Edge, Spiegel & Grau/Random House) – New York Times, USA Today, and Indie bestseller
  • Janice Nimura (Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back, W. W. Norton) – a New York Times Notable book
  • Margo Rabb (Kissing in America, HarperCollins)
  • Michael McGriff and J. M. Tyree (Our Secret Life in the Movies, A Strange Object)
  • Margaret Gibson (Broken Cup, LSU Press).
Dear Mr. You

“Having Michael in your corner is an invaluable boon that continues long after the release of a book, and I now can’t imagine making an important literary decision without him. His wisdom is topped only by his humanity, which is profound. I’ve never met anyone who doesn’t refer to him with deep respect; his name doesn’t come up without all agreeing that there’s no one who accomplishes what he does with that level of thoughtful consideration. I feel so blessed to have had his particular grace and gravitas associated with my book. ”

—Mary-Louise Parker, author of the New York Times bestseller Dear Mr. You