A woman with shoulder-length red hair, glasses, and a red lipstick smiling at the camera in front of a bookshelf filled with books and decorative items.

Meet Brooke Parsons

Brooke Parsons has more than 15 years of experience publicizing award-winning and New York Times best-selling books at major publishing houses including Macmillan Publishers, Penguin Random House, and Hachette Book Group. Before branching out on her own, she spent time at Fortier Public Relations, where she worked on books with Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins Publishers, and academic and indie presses.

She specializes in nonfiction book publicity with an emphasis on social issues, current events, foreign affairs, history, science, and memoir.

She holds a Bachelor of Journalism with an emphasis in Strategic Communication from the University of Missouri. She lived in New York for a decade and now resides in Nashville.

Services

Full Campaign

Perfect for clients in need of a comprehensive, personalized end-to-end publicity strategy. Brooke will work
with you to create pitching materials — including press kit, talking points, and Q&As — and an overall media plan encompassing customized outreach for interviews and reviews across print,
web, radio, television, and podcasts;
op-ed and essay development and placement; media training; and event planning and execution. A full-service campaign typically starts four to six months before publication and continues one month after.

Partial Campaign

If you have more specific goals in mind, whether that’s dedicated podcast outreach, regional press, or niche and trade media, Brooke will build a focused plan around what matters most to you. This tier is ideal for clients who want strategic, high-quality media support without the scope (or cost) of a comprehensive campaign.

Ad Hoc

Sometimes you need help with just one specific thing. Whether you want interview training, messaging development, op-ed consulting, or other single-session consultations, Brooke will give you expert guidance exactly where you need it — without a long-term commitment.

PLEASE NOTE: Brooke does not work on self-published or hybrid published books.

Select Campaigns

  • Book cover features a woman with short, light brown hair and glasses, wearing a purple top, smiling. The title reads "A Fighting Chance" by Elizabeth Warren, with the subtitle "With a New Afterword" and a quote from The New York Times Book Review.

  • Book cover titled "The Moscow Rules" with a red background and a black star with a red hammer and sickle symbol in the center. Text includes "The secret CIA tactics that helped America win the Cold War" and authors Antonio and Jonna Mendez with Matt Baglio.

  • Book cover titled "The Great Successor" featuring an illustration of Kim Jong Un wearing sunglasses with a red background.

  • Book cover titled 'Dirtbag Billionaire' by David Gelles, featuring an older man with a serious expression, bald with a slight smile, standing outdoors with a cloudy sky and rocky landscape in the background.

  • Book cover titled 'The New India' by Rahul Rhaula Bhatia, featuring large orange text on a black background with a faded image of an Indian palace or monument in the background.

  • Book cover titled "The Folly of Realism" by Alexander Vindman, with a black and white portrait of a man with an eye and beard visible.

  • Book cover of 'Ask Me About My Uterus' by Abby Norman, featuring large white letters on a teal background and a subtitle about making doctors believe in women's pain.

  • The cover of a book titled 'Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams' by Louisa Thomas, featuring a portrait of a woman in 19th-century attire with curly hair, sitting and holding a flower.

  • Book cover titled 'In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked' by Jonna Mendez, with various black-and-white photos at the top showing women in different settings, including an office, outdoor scene, and interview.

  • Book cover for 'Agent Josephine' featuring a black and white photo of a woman with short hair, dark lipstick, and a sleeveless dress, over a pink diamond shape with title and author information, against a dark blue background with a cityscape at the bottom.

  • Book cover titled 'Our Fragile Moment' with a rainbow gradient background, subtitle 'How Lessons from Earth's Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis,' author Michael E. Mann, and a line drawing of the Earth.

  • Book cover titled 'Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age' by Sherry Turkle, featuring two wooden chairs facing each other.

  • Book cover titled 'The Jakarta Method' by Vincent Bevins, with a subtitle about Washington's anticommunist crusade and mass murder program that shaped the world, featuring a bold red, black, and white design.

  • Book cover titled 'Stakes is High: Life After the American Dream' by Mychal Denzel Smith. The cover features a silhouette of power lines and utility poles at sunset with a black background and an orange and yellow color scheme.

  • Book cover for 'Modern Romance' by Aziz Ansari featuring a man in a suit holding a phone with pink heart icons over his eyes.

  • A woman in a white long-sleeve shirt and blue jeans stands beside a horse with a saddle, in an outdoor setting with trees in the background. Text on the image reads "Leaving Before The Rains Come". The book cover includes the author's name, Alexandra Fuller, and mentions it is a New York Times bestseller.

  • Book cover of 'Hero of Two Worlds' by Mike Duncan featuring a portrait of Marquis de Lafayette with a historical military uniform, a large American flag in the background, and the title and author's name.

  • Book cover image of 'The New Climate War' by Michael E. Mann. climate change, environment, science

  • Book cover for "Code Over Country" by Matthew Cole, progressive book, military, narrative, investigative journalism

  • Book cover with orange background. Text reads 'Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling. Includes a new afterword with more bears. A Libertarian walks into a bear. The Utopian plot to liberate an American town and some bears.' politics, nature

  • Book cover for 'Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst' by Robert M. Sapolsky, biology, science, human behavior

  • Book cover titled 'No Good Men Among the Living' by Anand Gopal. The cover features a quote from The New York Times Book Review and a medal indicating a national book award finalist. Afghanistan, human interest

  • Book cover titled "Our Dear Friends in Moscow" by Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, Russia, Kremlin, expose, expat, patriot

Select Media Placements

MS Now logo with a stylized red and blue 'E' and the text 'MS NOW' in blue.
Sign reading 'Fresh Air' with black text on a blue and white background.
Logo of USA Today with a blue circle and the words USA TODAY in black capital letters
The NPR logo with lowercase letters 'n', 'p', and 'r' on red, black, and blue backgrounds respectively.
PBS NewsHour logo with the words 'NEWS HOUR' in red and a black PBS logo with a stylized face.
Red letter A with the text 'The Atlantic' underneath.
The word "Amanpour" in bold red letters.
Smithsonian Magazine logo in black text on a white background.
WNYC logo with red and white design.
New York logo in black cursive font
Silhouette of the Statue of Liberty holding a microphone, with the words 'DEMOCRACY NOW! DEMOCRACYNOW.ORG' in bold red letters.
Rolling Stone logo with bold red and black text.
Logo of The New Republic with black stylized text on a white background.
The logo of The Nation with a large red 'N' and black text.
Text reading "The Cut" with "The" underlined
A circular emblem featuring a horse and rider with a lion and a serpent, with the Latin inscription 'COVY', above the words 'Foreign Affairs' in bold capital letters.
The New Yorker magazine logo in black text.
The Washington Post logo in blackletter font
The New York Times logo in black Gothic font on a white background.
Logo of Scientific American with large black text on a white background
Large multicolored text spelling "Outside" in yellow with red outline.
Financial Times logo with beige background and black text
The logo of The Wall Street Journal with large black letters 'WSJ' and the journal's name at the top.
The phrase "The Gilded Age" in large black text on a transparent background.
Sun with a face and sun rays next to bold black text that reads 'Sunday Morning'.
Book cover titled 'Fared Zakaria' with a blue background, featuring a red square in the top left corner with 'GPS' written inside in white text.
Logo for The Daily Show with red and light blue text on a white background.
Kara Swisher hosting her podcast 'On with Kara Swisher' with a headset and microphone
The image shows the red TIME magazine logo on a white background.
Large black text reading 'Bloomberg' on a white background.
CNN logo in red.
The logo of People magazine in blue text on a white background.

Testimonials

  • Brooke is a champion for all her books, and I’m glad we had the chance to work together. Anyone would be lucky to work with her.

    —Dr. Michael Mann, Presidential Distinguished Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania

  • The book took on a life of its own because Brooke believed in it, in me. She was a source of support and guidance through all the ups and downs.

    —Abby Norman, author of Ask Me About My Uterus

  • Brooke is a delight. We had fun promoting two of my books, traipsing around Manhattan from interview to interview. She's a personable yet professional advisor. I loved working with her and would do so again in a heartbeat.

    —Jonna Mendez, former Chief of Disguise for the Central Intelligence Agency and author of several books, including most recently In True Face

  • Brooke Parsons supported me in every way—she was tenacious in supporting and advocating for my work—and she did something that went altogether beyond that: she helped me see new dimensions to what I had done that increased my ability to communicate about it.

    —Sherry Turkle, New York Times bestselling author; Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology; Founding Director, MIT Initiative on Technology and Self

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