Michael Taeckens Marketing & PR

Clients

CURRENT

  • Namwali Serpell (The Old Drift, Hogarth, March 2019) – cover of New York Times Book Review (reviewed by Salman Rushdie); 4 starred pre-pub reviews
  • Nicole Dennis-Benn (Patsy, Liveright/W. W. Norton, June 2019) – 2 starred pre-pub reviews
  • Sarah M. Broom (The Yellow House, Grove Atlantic, August 2019)
  • 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)
  • 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

  • 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).
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