Stephanie Barko’s award-winning clients include traditional publishers and their authors, small presses, and independently published writers. She promotes nonfiction & historical fiction exclusively, nonfiction subgenres being spirituality, history, business/career, memoir, and biography. Spiritual subject matter and debut authors are especially welcome this year.

Stephanie Barko

Ms. Barko was invited into the publishing industry after many years in high tech marketing. She has presented on book marketing & publicity at national conferences including the Writers’ League of Texas and Women Writing the West. Her articles and book reviews have been published in Western American Literature, Roundup Magazine, Book Marketing Matters, San Francisco Book Review, and the Texas Book Marketing Directory. She was a 2010 Finalist in More Magazine’s Reinvention Story Competition, nominated by her peers as 2010 Book Publicist of the Year, and was voted Preditors & Editors 2010 Best Book Promotion Service. 

Stephanie has degrees in Business & Sociology and is based in Austin. Since 2005, she has moderated a nonfiction book group that has hosted such nationally known authors as Paul Woodruff and Gilbert Tuhabonye.

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