has been in publishing since graduating from Boston University in 1990. Most recently she was the Director of Publicity at Spiegel & Grau, a division of Random House where she worked on Suze Orman’s New York Times bestsellers Women & Money, and Suze Orman’s 2009 Action Plan, Artie Lange’s #1 New York Times bestseller Too Fat To Fish, Matt Taibbi’s New York Times bestseller The Great Derangement, Jessica Queller’s memoir Pretty is What Changes, and Janelle Brown’s debut novel All We Ever Wanted Was Everything to name just a few. Prior to joining Spiegel & Grau in May of 2006, she was the Associate Director of Publicity at Viking Books/The Penguin Group where she worked for 8 years with bestselling authors such as Jane Green, Terry McMillan, Nathaniel Philbrick, Melissa Bank, Mary Karr, A.M. Homes, Moby, Jasper Fforde, Peggy Noonan, Robert Greene (The 48 Laws of Power), Roddy Doyle, William Kennedy, and many others. Prior to joining The Penguin Group, Gretchen held publicity positions at Delacorte, Knopf, Farrar, Straus & Giroux and Bantam. Other authors Gretchen has worked with include: Robert Pirsig, Dr. Andrew Weil, Carl Hiaasen, Maeve Binchy, Elmore Leonard, and Sharon Olds.
Gretchen has been a book lover since the early days of Go Dog Go and Fun with Dick and Jane and considers herself lucky to be in a profession that allows her to work closely with authors every day. When her free time is not occupied by the demands of two small children, four dogs and one bad tempered cat, she loves to read. She lives just outside of New York City.
has spent the last 17 years in book publishing, all of them in marketing roles. Most recently she was the Director of Marketing at Spiegel & Grau, a newly formed division of Random House. Prior to joining S&G, Meg spent 9 years as the second-in-command in the Putnam marketing department at Penguin Group (USA). She got her start in 1992 in college textbook publishing at Prentice Hall (since renamed Pearson Education) where she worked in ad/promo for 6 years. During her exhilarating tenure at S&G, Meg crafted the national marketing campaigns for Suze Orman’s million-copy New York Times bestseller Women & Money, Artie Lange’s #1 New York Times bestseller Too Fat to Fish, and Matt Taibbi’s New York Times bestseller The Great Derangement, among many others. During her tenure with Random House, Meg also pinch hit on the occasional Doubleday and Broadway title including the mega-selling Clapton: The Autobiography by Eric Clapton on which she worked hand-in-hand with Warner Bros. Records to build a fully integrated campaign. While at Penguin, Meg worked on the Putnam, Riverhead, Tarcher, and Avery imprints including books by such authors as Patricia Cornwell, Tom Clancy, Nora Roberts, Clive Cussler, Catherine Coulter, John Sandford, Sue Grafton, Robert B. Parker, Lance Armstrong, Khaled Hosseini, Chang-rae Lee, Nick Hornby, and Suze Orman.