Julie Broad
Founder of Book Launchers
Book LaunchersJulie Broad is an Amazon Overall #1 Best Selling Author, an International Book Award Winner, and recipient of the Beverly Hills Book Award for Best Sales book.
As an entrepreneur and successful real estate investor, she was also awarded the Top 20 under 40 Award. Founder of Book Launchers, she started the company to help busy entrepreneurs and professionals build their brand and boost their business by writing, publishing, and selling a top quality book. In 2017, she also became a new Mom and moved from Vancouver Island, Canada to Los Angeles, California.
Jaqueline Kyle
Book Production Manager
Book LaunchersJaqueline Kyle is our master of checklists, deadlines and to-do’s. She has a ridiculous attention to detail and finds immense pleasure in watching her clients unbox their print proofs.
She has worked with over 150 authors to realize their dream of becoming published.
Jaqueline dreams of one day swimming the English Channel, sailing around the world, and finally mastering the two-finger whistle.
Jaqueline dreams of one day swimming the English Channel, sailing around the world, and finally mastering the two-finger whistle.
Sarah Bean
Book Marketing Manager
Book LaunchersSarah Bean is Book Launchers’ marketing professional with over 14 years of entertainment and publishing experience. She started her career in the literary
department of a worldwide agency, before becoming a speaking agent with a roster of best-selling authors, celebrities, athletes and business leaders. She has managed NY Times best-selling authors, produced live events like TEDx and covered TV/film news and red carpet interviews for leading entertainment websites. Sarah volunteers for LA-based arts education nonprofit Young Storytellers and catches as many nerdy TV shows as she can. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter.
Tim Testa
Story Expert
Book LaunchersTim’s light-hearted technology book concept was turned into the show, “Home Computing” which aired nationwide and ran for seven years. He was nominated
for an Emmy for writing, has written and produced documentaries, as well as over 130 light-hearted segments for cable shows. Tim became a headlining comedian and opened in concerts for Ray Charles, Ellen DeGeneres, Louis Anderson, Brian Regan, Larry the Cable Guy, and more. He has written and performed in thousands of custom shows for corporations.
Tim has been hired to write manuals, articles, software, commercials, jokes, comedy shorts, television shows, and films. He has also been a professional pilot and has a degree in aerospace science and computer science.
Angela Jones
Executive Assistant Operations
Book LaunchersAngela has a passion for books, has been a member of the same book club for over a decade now, and has worked with Anna LeBaron (author of The Polygamist’s Daughter)
to promote and market soon-to-be and newly released books. She is detailed-oriented and came from an Agent Services Manager position at a fast-paced, highly producing real estate office in Frisco, Texas. Angela is based in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. As a Texan, she has a love of tacos (Taco Tuesday is a must) and good ol’ Texas barbecue.
Zach Fromson
Book Marketing Assistant
Book LaunchersZach Fromson is a lifelong book nerd and a successful author with a passion for literary advocacy. A native of Los Angeles, he earned his bachelor’s in Creative Writing from
California State University Northridge in 2009, and his Masters in Creative Writing from the University of California Riverside’s Palm Desert MFA program in 2014. In 2013 he founded a literary nonprofit that seeks to encourage reader engagement with new authors through live reading events. He also runs the Notable Los Angeles blog for The Rumpus.
Melissa Sobey
Client Care Specialist
Book LaunchersMelissa Sobey loves books and the written word and has since elementary school. She’s worked behind the scenes as a freelance ghost writer and content creator
and takes pride in helping people bring their vision to fruition. She’s a Southern Californian by way of Texas (with a Creative Writing degree from the University of Texas to prove it). She spends her free time reading, writing, chasing her mischievous cat and dog around the house, and making music with her talented guitar playing boyfriend.
Kelly Ragan
Master of Manuscripts
Book LaunchersKelly Ragan is passionate about good storytelling and getting the facts straight. She loves to help authors develop their ideas so they feel proud to print the books on which they’ve worked so hard.
She began as a content editor at Book Launchers in 2018. Before she joined the Book Launchers team, she worked as an award-winning journalist in Colorado, with pieces published in USA Today, The Denver Post, the Fort Collins Coloradoan, the Greeley Tribune and more.
Jacob Pinkney
Course Creator and Digital Marketing Specialist
Book LaunchersJacob is a digital marketer with a wealth of experience in inbound and outbound marketing communications. Over the past half-decade, he’s driven over $10 million in marketing ROI for companies in three different countries.
He is passionate about SEO and data driven decisions. TV and Movies aren’t as interesting to him as Amazon Ads and Google Analytics. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in communications from Howard University and Florida International University, respectively. He currently lives in North Carolina but calls Florida home.
Ashley Catone
Copywriter
Book LaunchersAshley is an experienced writer who loves puzzle-piecing words together to make an impact. She earned a Bachelor’s in Liberal Studies: Creative Writing Emphasis from the University of Iowa in 2017 and is currently pursuing a Master’s in Strategic Communication from Penn State.
Before Book Launchers, she was a senior consultant for an author services company, where she developed and negotiated publishing contracts for authors all over the world. She lives in Pennsylvania with her three misbehaved cats. Ashley enjoys listening to a true-crime podcast or escaping into a historical fiction novel with a good cup of coffee.
Who we are…
We love books. We love story. And we believe that YOUR story belongs in a book that you can be proud to pass along to anyone you meet.
Book Launchers founder, award winning author Julie Broad, knows the challenges authors face. Writing a book is hard enough. Navigating the crazy confusing waters of self-publishing can overwhelm the most motivated authors. Then, you have to sell
your book! Many companies help you with various pieces of your self-publishing journey, but few companies work with an author side by side, ensuring a book is not just written well, published professionally and available for sale, but that the author achieves their goals for their business with the book by creating a strong platform, marketing the book and getting it in the hands of their ideal readers.
Build your brand, boost your brand and leave a great legacy by putting your story, expertise and experience in a book! We’d love to help you take your book from a concept to copies in readers hands.
What we do…
We are your personal and professional publishing team. We aren’t your publisher. What’s the difference? You own your work and keep all the royalties! You ALWAYS have complete creative control of your project. If you want to sell the rights to your book overseas or print 100 copies to give away, you can. It’s all yours. We aren’t just teaching you the steps to take – we do a lot of the work for you! We know you’re busy.
And, even if it takes you 18 months to complete your book project, our low cost monthly payment plans will make your project affordable while never skimping on quality. Your finished book will look just like a book published by a traditional big five publishing company.
Your clients, friends and family don’t need to know your book was self-published if you don’t want to tell them.
Plus, if you’re a platinum level client, we’re going to get our hands dirty to help you sell your book! We want to do everything possible to ensure you reach your business goals with your book.
Your project isn’t a success until we’ve helped you get copies into readers hands and your overall objective is reached!
How it works…
We’re focused on your goals. Whether you want to write a book to boost your business, build your brand, leave a legacy or become a best selling author – we will work with you to achieve your goals.
To start, we’ll work with you to create a personalized publishing plan – including planning for the promotion of your book. Because – what’s the point of writing a book that nobody will know about?
Working with us, you’ll write a book that
people will want to read … and you’ll be supported to promote it so lots of people DO read it!
Depending on what membership plan you’re on and what phase you’re in, you’ll be working with one of our professional team members who will help you and your manuscript move forward to the next phase of your project. From a writing coach, to editors, to designers and marketing experts, you’ll have an entire team of people available to help you take your book project through the five phases:
- Pen to Paper (Writing Your Book)
- Process (Editing)
- Publishing (Design, Layout, & Set Up with Printing and Distribution)
- Platform (Building the business around the book including website, social media,and other services offered around the book)
- Promote (Selling the book).
Your Book Launchers membership means that our professional publishing team is YOUR professional publishing team.
The pricing is pretty darn affordable if you compare it to hiring these folks separately and doing it all on your own, so you might be asking … what’s the catch? There isn’t one really. We love books and we want to help you to get yours into the world!
The only thing you really need to know is that only one person from our professional team will work on your book at a time as it moves through the phases. This keeps the project clearly on track and minimizes communication issues.
Just because only one person on our team is working on your book at any one time, that doesn’t mean YOU can’t work on things to keep the project moving forward. In your plan you’ll have ideas and tasks to build your author platform and get things ready for your promotional plan. You can do that while our editor is hard at work, or while the cover designs are being dreamed up for you! And, of course, when our team is done, you’ll need to review everything to make sure your book is exactly the way you want it!
Unlike traditional publishing … this is YOUR BOOK, YOUR WAY. You have total creative control AND you keep 100% of the royalties.
And, if you have questions at any time while you’re a client, your dedicated Client Care Specialist will always get back to you within 2 business days (if not MUCH faster!).
You could be celebrating the launch of your book and enjoying all the profits in 2019. Whether you want to write your non-fiction book yourself, or you want to work with our writers, we have a great solution for you to write, publish, and sell a book to grow your brand and business in 2019. Let’s chat about it!