Leah Paulos
@leahpaulos.bsky.social
Book publicist. Founder PressShopPR.com, helping authors get high-profile media coverage. Founder BookPublicitySchool.com, leading book PR workshops. [email protected]
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Leah Paulos
@leahpaulos.bsky.social
· Nov 26
Otherppl with Brad Listi
Books Podcast · 1,081 Episodes · Updated Semiweekly
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I’ve been a fan of Brad Listi's Otherppl podcast (@otherppl.bsky.social ) forever — his incredible guests, the free-wheeling literary conversations … his mellifluous voice! So I was absolutely THRILLED to join him for a Craftwork episode to discuss all things book publicity!
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WARNING: This horrific video by a war correspondent reporting from the front lines of war ravaged Portland is not for the squeamish. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👇
October 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
WARNING: This horrific video by a war correspondent reporting from the front lines of war ravaged Portland is not for the squeamish. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👇
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Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
September 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
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This CNN segment! We could not have asked for a better piece about DEFIANT: The Story of Robert Smalls, which comes out this week from @strangercomics.bsky.social and @legionmofficial.bsky.social just in time for Juneteenth.
bit.ly/4n6bzEE
bit.ly/4n6bzEE
June 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This CNN segment! We could not have asked for a better piece about DEFIANT: The Story of Robert Smalls, which comes out this week from @strangercomics.bsky.social and @legionmofficial.bsky.social just in time for Juneteenth.
bit.ly/4n6bzEE
bit.ly/4n6bzEE
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BONIUS Episode: Book Promotion 101 with @leahpaulos.bsky.social of Press Shop PR!
Lead time for promotion, selling journalists on covering our book, the cost of publicity, your job as your own publicist, and lots more.
Here is the episode:
ronitplank.com/2025/06/05/l...
Lead time for promotion, selling journalists on covering our book, the cost of publicity, your job as your own publicist, and lots more.
Here is the episode:
ronitplank.com/2025/06/05/l...
Episode 175 ft. Leah Paulos of Press Shop PR
Leah Paulos of Press Shop PR joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about 2 things writers can do right now to help launch their book successfully, how to find your targeted readers and effectivel...
ronitplank.com
June 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
BONIUS Episode: Book Promotion 101 with @leahpaulos.bsky.social of Press Shop PR!
Lead time for promotion, selling journalists on covering our book, the cost of publicity, your job as your own publicist, and lots more.
Here is the episode:
ronitplank.com/2025/06/05/l...
Lead time for promotion, selling journalists on covering our book, the cost of publicity, your job as your own publicist, and lots more.
Here is the episode:
ronitplank.com/2025/06/05/l...
Interview with NYT-bestselling author Lynne Olson about her new book SISTERS OF RAVENSBRUCK @randomhouse.bsky.social "How Women Imprisoned at an All-Female Concentration Camp Resisted the Nazis" bit.ly/4kOL8RN
The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück's Story of Resistance
A new book profiles the women who resisted in an all-female Nazi concentration camp
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June 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Interview with NYT-bestselling author Lynne Olson about her new book SISTERS OF RAVENSBRUCK @randomhouse.bsky.social "How Women Imprisoned at an All-Female Concentration Camp Resisted the Nazis" bit.ly/4kOL8RN
What a treat it is to work on our first His & Hers book publicity campaign combo! Shelley Fisher Fishkin and James S. Fishkin are married, and both are lovely, insightful Stanford professors — with two very different books being published around the same time.
June 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a treat it is to work on our first His & Hers book publicity campaign combo! Shelley Fisher Fishkin and James S. Fishkin are married, and both are lovely, insightful Stanford professors — with two very different books being published around the same time.
It is great to be back in the graphic novel space again. Hard copies of DEFIANT: The Story of Robert Smalls (Stranger Comics; June 10) just arrived and they are gorgeous! It tells the incredible — and largely unknown — story of one of the most courageous and daring acts in American history.
May 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
It is great to be back in the graphic novel space again. Hard copies of DEFIANT: The Story of Robert Smalls (Stranger Comics; June 10) just arrived and they are gorgeous! It tells the incredible — and largely unknown — story of one of the most courageous and daring acts in American history.
Happy pub day to Abigail Leonard and her book FOUR MOTHERS from @algonquinbooks.bsky.social! Publishers Weekly called it “an enthralling and kaleidoscopic view of modern motherhood” in a starred review, and Abigail spoke w/ Ms. Mag about what it means to parenting around the world: bit.ly/3GIzw46
May 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Happy pub day to Abigail Leonard and her book FOUR MOTHERS from @algonquinbooks.bsky.social! Publishers Weekly called it “an enthralling and kaleidoscopic view of modern motherhood” in a starred review, and Abigail spoke w/ Ms. Mag about what it means to parenting around the world: bit.ly/3GIzw46
Happy pub day to Shelley Fisher Fishkin & her book JIM @yalepress.bsky.social. In this brilliant, scathing op-ed @sfchronicle.com, she uses Mark Twain's words to clarify our moment: "We've never had a president before who was destitute of self-respect & of respect for his high office" bit.ly/3Y1m4OD
Mark Twain on ‘idiot’ politicians and our current predicament
"We are by long odds the most ill-mannered nation, civilized or savage, that exists on the planet today. Our president stands for us like a colossal monument."
bit.ly
April 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Happy pub day to Shelley Fisher Fishkin & her book JIM @yalepress.bsky.social. In this brilliant, scathing op-ed @sfchronicle.com, she uses Mark Twain's words to clarify our moment: "We've never had a president before who was destitute of self-respect & of respect for his high office" bit.ly/3Y1m4OD
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How to leak to a journalist!
featuring a bunch of good advice from those who know: @marisakabas.bsky.social @amandabecker.bsky.social @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social @rmac.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social @juliaangwin.com @benmullin.bsky.social & @maxtani.bsky.social
featuring a bunch of good advice from those who know: @marisakabas.bsky.social @amandabecker.bsky.social @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social @rmac.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social @juliaangwin.com @benmullin.bsky.social & @maxtani.bsky.social
How to leak to a journalist
Planning to leak? Read these tips first.
www.niemanlab.org
April 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
How to leak to a journalist!
featuring a bunch of good advice from those who know: @marisakabas.bsky.social @amandabecker.bsky.social @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social @rmac.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social @juliaangwin.com @benmullin.bsky.social & @maxtani.bsky.social
featuring a bunch of good advice from those who know: @marisakabas.bsky.social @amandabecker.bsky.social @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social @rmac.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social @juliaangwin.com @benmullin.bsky.social & @maxtani.bsky.social
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Tell Congress to protect library funding and the communities it supports: bit.ly/ProtectLibraryFunding
March 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Tell Congress to protect library funding and the communities it supports: bit.ly/ProtectLibraryFunding
They are coming after knowledge, wherever it lives.
🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
March 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
They are coming after knowledge, wherever it lives.
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So glad my son, a Jewish student at Columbia, will face worse educational options because of this massive cut in federal dollars. All in the name of making things better for Jewish students at Columbia!
New: The administration—through DOJ, HHS, ED, and GSA—says it has canceled ~$400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University.
March 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
So glad my son, a Jewish student at Columbia, will face worse educational options because of this massive cut in federal dollars. All in the name of making things better for Jewish students at Columbia!
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Massive encroachment by Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section - makes clear dissenting views will not be published
I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know
I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know
February 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Massive encroachment by Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section - makes clear dissenting views will not be published
I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know
I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know
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The Trump administration is canceling presentations including book talks on important civil rights issues at the Carter Center & possibly elsewhere. Let’s celebrate these authors by buying & reading their books. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/a...
Amid Changes at the National Archives, the Carter Library Cancels a Civil Rights Book Event
After President Trump put in new leadership at the National Archives, the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library in Atlanta abruptly canceled several events.
www.nytimes.com
February 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The Trump administration is canceling presentations including book talks on important civil rights issues at the Carter Center & possibly elsewhere. Let’s celebrate these authors by buying & reading their books. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/a...
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Yes. “People are doing things. You will meet them when YOU start doing things.”
Lots of information and resources in this one.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Lots of information and resources in this one.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Democracy is Crumbling. Is Anybody Doing Anything?
Yes. And You Can Too.
open.substack.com
February 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Yes. “People are doing things. You will meet them when YOU start doing things.”
Lots of information and resources in this one.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Lots of information and resources in this one.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Derek Black, author and Director of the University of South Carolina’s Constitutional Law Center, lays out the legacy of a robust federal presence in education which dates back to the country's founding and underscores how its demise would be a tragedy in @slate.bsky.social:
Trump Wants to Abolish the Department of Education. The Founders Would Have Something to Say About That.
From the very start, the founders and Congress knew that schools were federal business.
slate.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Derek Black, author and Director of the University of South Carolina’s Constitutional Law Center, lays out the legacy of a robust federal presence in education which dates back to the country's founding and underscores how its demise would be a tragedy in @slate.bsky.social:
A must-read from Ezra Klein: "Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. He is trying to substitute perception for reality. He is hoping that perception then becomes reality. That can only happen if we believe him."
Opinion | Don’t Believe Him
Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 1:33 PM
A must-read from Ezra Klein: "Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. He is trying to substitute perception for reality. He is hoping that perception then becomes reality. That can only happen if we believe him."
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Now that’s a newspaper
January 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Now that’s a newspaper
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Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."
January 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."
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Just listened to another episode of @otherppl.bsky.social's "craftwork" series, this one on prepping for your book launch, with @leahpaulos.bsky.social. Really interesting. Appreciated the advice at the end about keeping a spreadsheet, esp. if you're DIY. Great way to end the ep on a bang, IMO!
January 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Just listened to another episode of @otherppl.bsky.social's "craftwork" series, this one on prepping for your book launch, with @leahpaulos.bsky.social. Really interesting. Appreciated the advice at the end about keeping a spreadsheet, esp. if you're DIY. Great way to end the ep on a bang, IMO!
I've been trying to manage my despair yesterday and today, and had been sort of, kind of succeeding... until I saw this from Sgt. Aquilino Gonell. We worked on his book last year -- straight testimony from 1/6, a harrowing account from a Capitol Police officer. It is staggering this could happen.
January 22, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I've been trying to manage my despair yesterday and today, and had been sort of, kind of succeeding... until I saw this from Sgt. Aquilino Gonell. We worked on his book last year -- straight testimony from 1/6, a harrowing account from a Capitol Police officer. It is staggering this could happen.
The Winter session of Book Publicity School's 6-Week Intensive starts on Weds. This isn't your average AI-infused book marketing course! We share all the expertise we've developed from our work publicizing books at Press Shop PR.
We have 2 open seats! More info: www.bookpublicityschool.com
We have 2 open seats! More info: www.bookpublicityschool.com
Book Publicity School: Six Week Intensive — Press Shop PR
Our six-week workshop offers high-quality, affordable publicity coaching, teaching you the basics of book promotion directly from a top literary publicist.
www.bookpublicityschool.com
January 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The Winter session of Book Publicity School's 6-Week Intensive starts on Weds. This isn't your average AI-infused book marketing course! We share all the expertise we've developed from our work publicizing books at Press Shop PR.
We have 2 open seats! More info: www.bookpublicityschool.com
We have 2 open seats! More info: www.bookpublicityschool.com