LAURA PILLAR KAPLAN, Director of Publicity

Laura Pillar Kaplan is the Director of Publicity for Goldberg McDuffie Communications, Inc. In addition to working on general non-fiction and fiction titles, Laura heads up GMC’s Business Division. Since joining the company in 2006, Laura has worked with a number of prominent authors, including Jeffrey Archer (The Gospel According to Judas, by Benjamin Iscariot), Barbara Ehrenreich (Dancing in the Streets), Jim Kilts (Doing What Matters), Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton (The Carrot Principle), Michael Oren (Power, Faith, and Fantasy), G. Richard Shell and Mario Moussa (The Art of Woo), David Zinczenko (The Abs Diet for Women), and Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, and David Maxfield (Influencer).

Before joining Goldberg McDuffie Communications as Associate Director of Publicity, Laura was Publicity Manager at Doubleday Broadway where she represented Roger Ebert (Great Movies II), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Brothers in Arms), Carlos Ghosn (Shift), Keith Ferrazzi (Never Eat Alone), Ann Louise Gittleman (The Fast Track One-Day Detox Diet), Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval (The Power of Nice), and Ed Viesturs (No Shortcuts To The Top). She began her career at Planned Television Arts, a division of Ruder Finn and worked in both their New York and Chicago offices. Laura graduated from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business with a BS in Marketing and International Studies.