Stephanie Barko - Literary Publicist

Stephanie Barko’s award-winning clients include traditional publishers and their authors, small presses, and independently published writers.

She promotes nonfiction & historical fiction exclusively, including history, business, career, memoir, biography,
how-to, and spirituality.

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, Oklahoma Writers Federation, and Women Writing the West to name a few.

Her articles and book reviews have been published in
Western American Literature, Roundup Magazine, Brian Jud’s Book Marketing Matters,

San Francisco Book Review, and the Texas Book Marketing Directory. Stephanie 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 Best Book Promotion Service in their 2011 Readers Poll.

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 (as seen on Moyers) and Gilbert Tuhabonye (HarperCollins - Tutsi genocide memoir by world-class runner).