Michael Taeckens Marketing & PR

Clients

CURRENT

  • Nicole Dennis-Benn (Patsy, Liveright/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)
  • 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)
  • 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

  • Namwali Serpell (The Old Drift, Hogarth) – cover of 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).

“Michael Taeckens is by far one of the most hardworking and dedicated people I know. Because of his thoughtful diligence, my book not only reached the masses in America, but created a seismic impact worldwide, including my home country of Jamaica. Not only did he take the time to groom me as a new author, prepping me for interviews and panels, but he made sure that my book got into the right hands. I never expected such an exceptional launch. My book made every major list there was, and is still being listed; and as a result, publishers abroad and Amazon Studios paid attention. I’m beyond grateful to him for being instrumental in the takeoff of my literary career.”

—Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of the New York Times Notable Here Comes the Sun