“Michael Taeckens is passionate about the books he loves, and I cannot overstate how far that goes in such a passion-fueled industry. He was an instrumental part of the team that put Water for Elephants on the map—landing coverage on NPR and in the New York Times Book Review, People, USA Today, the New Yorker, Entertainment Weekly, and much more—and for that, I’ll be forever grateful. He is an exceptionally talented, well-connected publicist who is also such a stand-up guy you can’t help but love him.”

—Sara Gruen, author of the New York Times bestseller Water for Elephants