Michael Taeckens Marketing & PR

Clients

CURRENT

  • The Whiting Foundation (year-round, including the Whiting Awards)
  • 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”
  • Elizabeth McCracken (Bowlaway, Ecco, February 2019) – three starred pre-pub reviews
  • Namwali Serpell (The Old Drift, Hogarth, March 2019)
  • Nicole Dennis-Benn (Patsy, Liveright/W. W. Norton, June 2019)
  • Leslie Jamison (Make It Scream, Make It Burn, Little, Brown, October 2019)
  • Kevin Young (year-round marketing work)

FORMER

  • Edward Carey (Little, Riverhead) – four starred pre-pub reviews; an NPR, Real Simple, Bookpage, Oregonian, and Kirkus “Best Book of 2018”
  • Ada Limón (The Carrying, Milkweed Editions) – an NPR, Washington Post, Lit Hub, and Publishers Weekly “Best Book of 2018”; a Lit Hub “Best-Reviewed Poetry Book of 2018”
  • Megan Abbott (Give Me Your Hand, Little, Brown) – New York Times Editors’ Choice selection; an NPR, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Guardian, Vulture, Bustle, and CrimeReads “Best Book of 2018”; Lit Hub’s #1 “Best-Reviewed Mystery/Crime/Thriller Book of 2018”
  • Jordy Rosenberg (Confessions of the Fox, One World/Random House) – shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize; New York Times Editors’ Choice selection; a New Yorker, BuzzFeed, HuffPost, Autostraddle, and Kirkus “Best Book of 2018”
  • Luis Alberto Urrea (The House of Broken Angels, Little, Brown) – cover of the New York Times Book Review; New York Times Notable Book; New York Times Editors’ Choice selection; Indie bestseller; Rittenhouse Award winner; an NPR, New York Times, Newsday, 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, Vogue UK, Bustle, The Fix, Mental Floss, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Shelf Awareness “Best Book of 2018”; Lit Hub‘s #1 “Best-Reviewed Memoir of 2018”
  • Chelsey Johnson (Stray City, Custom House/HarperCollins) – New York Times Editors’ Choice selection; a Real Simple and Autostraddle “Best Book of 2018” selection
  • 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; PEN/Jean Stein Award finalist; National Book Award longlist; New York Times Notable Book; New York Times Editors Choice selection
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Adam Grant (Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World, Viking) – #1 New York Times bestseller
  • Edward Carey (Heap House, a New York Times Notable Book and NPR Best Book of 2014; Foulsham; and Lungdon, Overlook Press)
  • 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
  • Belle Boggs (The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood, Graywolf Press) – PEN Award for the Art of the Essay shortlist; cover of the New York Times Book Review
  • Sunil Yapa (Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist paperback edition, Lee Boudreaux Books/Little, Brown)
  • 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).
The Empathy Exams

“Michael Taeckens is simply extraordinary at bringing books to their broadest possible readerships. He’s passionate, intelligent, and committed—he brings an incredible array of skills into singular chorus. I watched my own book turn into a minor phenomenon under his careful curatorial skill and magical midwifery; it was nothing short of astounding. I was able to see what ‘buzz’ really means, and how it can work on behalf of a book—I felt Michael cultivating and sustaining a steady groundswell of excitement. He’s truly a tireless advocate, fueled by genuine passion and seasoned by years of experience. He works from the heart, for books he believes in, and I felt the impact of his work on deep levels—not just as a writer but as a human being.”

—Leslie Jamison, author of the New York Times bestsellers The Empathy Exams and The Recovering