DEBARTLO & CO. is a full-service boutique publicity and marketing firm that collaborates with authors, agents and publishers to build awareness for books through traditional and digital media. Our vast experience in book PR and book marketing, unrivaled network of contacts, creativity, enthusiasm, and doggedness underpin all our projects.
WHAT
WE DO
COLLABORATE
We work with you to deliver smart, customized, effective publicity and marketing initiatives that align with your objectives.
FIND YOUR AUDIENCE
We write press materials, create websites, and produce videos. We media coach and advise on social media to raise your profile, establish your authority, and create a connection to your target audience.
SECURE EVENTS
We set up events at bookstores, libraries, festivals, conferences, colleges and universities, cultural centers, professional organizations and businesses.
STRATEGIZE
We craft the right message and deliver it to the right people. We use a range of different strategies, creative ideas, and our extensive contacts to get you and your book front and center.
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ENDORSEMENTS
“Dee Dee DeBartlo is simply the best in the business. We’ve worked together for ten years and I’ve been ever more impressed with her diligence, her persistence and her professionalism. She has helped move three of my books onto the Best Sellers list as she carefully chooses appearances that will be worth my time. In the swirl of a frantic national book tour, she never drops the ball—plane tickets, cars, hotels, phone numbers, all are painstakingly provided and always accurate. And Dee Dee is a delight to work with. It’s because she’s so much fun, while being a thorough-going professional, that she has so many contacts in the media and event world. Those contacts are worth gold when promoting a book.”
— Cokie Roberts
author and news analyst
“It’s true that Dee Dee is creative, connected, and hard-working, but she also possesses something unique, something I can’t quite put my finger on, that makes her so successful at what she does.”
— Stephen Dubner
author of Freakonomics
“Dee Dee’s passion, creativity and savvy have helped put many of our books on the Best Sellers list. She has deep relationships across the media and publishing worlds and those who’ve worked with her respect her judgment and ideas. She knows how to bring out the best in every one of her projects whether it’s fiction or non-fiction. She’s collaborative and engaged and that’s why people love working with her.”
— Michael Morrison
President of HarperCollins
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WHO WE ARE
Before launching her own business Dee Dee DeBartlo was a Senior Director of Publicity at William Morrow/Harper Collins where she worked for twelve years. She created and directed the publicity campaigns for best sellers including Freakonomics, Mavericks at Work, The Lean, Founding Mothers, Three Seconds and many others. She has worked with notable authors and personalities including economist Steve Levitt, political analyst Cokie Roberts, filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer, lifestyle expert Kathy Freston, and celebrated crime writer Elmore Leonard. She sits on the board of Women’s Media Group where she serves as programming chair. She studied literature and creative writing at the University of Connecticut and lives in Manhattan with her husband and two children.
PROJECTS
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The New York Times Good Morning America Washington Post SiriusXM New York Post 50+Secured Media 50+Secured Events
New York Times Bestseller Latino USA - NPR National Geographic Last Call w/ Carson Daly New York Post WTF w/ Marc Maron StarTalk w/ NDT Team Coco - Digital The onion/AV Club Chicago Tonight NAMI Partnership JED Partnership +Events
Good Morning America Fox News Thrive Global
NPR Washington Post PBS
Chicago Tribune San Francisco Chronicle Milwaukee Journal Sentinal
New York Times Philadelphia Inquirer WNYC - Leonard Lopate Los Angeles Times The Advocate Out Magazine Washington Post San Francisco Examiner
New York Times
Due out September 26th! Media to come
Coming September 15th! Media to come.
New York Times SiriusXM Cheddar TV 1-month blitz campaign
Oregonian Flavorwire XRAY Radio Great Falls Tribune The Montanan The Tennessean Santa Ynez Valley News Santa Maria Times Missoula Independant Willamette Week Santa Barbara Ind. +12 city tour
Featured on The Daily Show, Nightline Today Show Charlie Rose CBS Sunday Morning The Washington Post 20/20 Fox News The New York Times The Wall Street Journal USA Today The New Yorker.
