Meet Our Staff

Marketing
The NBN Marketing Force—Driving Our Message in the Marketplace
Even a casual observer of book publishing realizes that marketplace dynamics are constantly changing. NBN's Marketing Force has a solid and enviable reputation for delivering cutting-edge programs and services that adapt to these changes. With seasoned members of the NBN marketing staff available to every publisher, the expertise of our marketing team is readily available through frequent telephone and in-person consultations. We provide our clients with expert guidance on product positioning, promotion, publicity, design, packaging, and pricing.
Miriam Bass In Memoriam
Miriam Hope Bass
Vice President
Miriam Bass, 32 Years as Bookseller, Publisher, Marketer and Enthusiast-in-Chief. Your candle burned brightly. Lighting the way for your colleagues and friends. Revelled in your irreverent humor. Were elevated by your infectious enthusiasm. Dazzled by your brilliance. Humbled by your knowledge. Moved by your decency.
God Bless our Lovely Miriam
Cassie Copper Cassie Copper
ccopper@nbnbooks.com
Executive Sales and Marketing Assistant, Cassie Copper provides administrative support to both our sales and marketing teams. Cassie's background includes a variety of administrative positions at organizations in the Annapolis area.

Account Management
  Jeanne Kramer
jkramer@nbnbooks.com
Widely recognized as a savvy book marketer, Jeanne Kramer, Vice President of Marketing, heads up NBN's Account Management department. With over twenty-five years of book sales, marketing and publishing experience in a variety of executive positions with Random House, Simon & Schuster and Prentice-Hall, she and the account managers work as a team to provide marketing and publicity consultation to our clients. Jeanne has served as an Adjunct Instructor of "Marketing for Publishing" at the NYU School of Professional Studies.
Jessica Kennedy Richard Lowe
rlowe@nbnbooks.com
Richard Lowe is Director of Account Management and will be assisting key publisher clients with marketing, sales, and publicity. Richard has over 30 years experience in bookselling as a store manager, merchandise director, and senior buyer with Kroch's and Brentano's (Chicago), Crown Books (corporate), and most recently, Smithsonian Business Ventures.
Tracy Fortini Tracy Fortini
tfortini@nbnbooks.com
Account Manager, Tracy Fortini, as many of you may know her from her work as a Senior Buyer at Waldenbooks and the Nature Company and she helped develop products and bought for the Discovery Channel Stores. For more than three years, she worked with clients on strategic planning, new title development and all aspects of sales and marketing. Tracy brings exceptional category experience in children's books, cookbooks, travel, spirituality, health and many other categories to our NBN client publishers.

Co-op
Shana Logan Shana Logan
slogan@nbnbooks.com
NBN Co-op Assistant, Shana Logan, works with publishers, sales reps, and our accounts to process all the paperwork related to cooperative advertising transactions. She coordinates closely with NBN's accounting department to make sure all publishers are rebilled and accounts credited appropriately. Shana is currently working on a degree in finance.

Marketing Programs
Davida Breier Davida Breier
dbreier@nbnbooks.com
Davida Breier, Marketing Director, oversees marketing programs including advertising, trade shows and sales conferences. Davida also writes the seasonal News Breaking Now client newsletter and is the Account Manager for several NBN publishers. Davida started with Biblio Distribution (NBN’s sister company) in 2003 as its Sales and Marketing Director. Davida is a published author (Vegan & Vegetarian FAQ, 2001), speaks frequently at industry seminars on marketing and distribution and has been actively involved in the book industry and publishing since she was a child.
Theresa Thomas Theresa Thomas
tthomas@nbnbooks.com
Theresa Thomas, Administrative Assistant to Davida Breier, provides administrative support for our marketing initiatives. Theresa's background includes administrative positions at healthcare organizations on Maryland's Eastern Shore.

New Business Development
Ginger Miller Ginger Miller
gmiller@nbnbooks.com
New Business Development Manager, Ginger Miller, works closely with publishers who want to join the NBN family of clients, getting them the information they need and then helping orient them to the NBN organization. Ginger came to NBN with 17 years experience working in Washington, DC in senior administrative fields at the White House and the U.S. House of Representatives.

Production
Tressa Shelko Tressa Helvey
thelvey@nbnbooks.com
NBN's Senior Director of Production, Tressa Helvey is responsible for managing the team that prepares the critical sales kits and seasonal frontlist, backlist, and specialty catalogs as well as a variety of ordering and selling materials. With over 23 years experience in publishing production, she also oversees the development and maintenance of accurate title information that is sent to all of our accounts.
Patty Keppert Patty Keppert
pkeppert@nbnbooks.com
Patty Keppert, NBN's talented graphic designer, has many years of experience in graphic design. She, with assistance from the production staff, designs and produces NBN's seasonal frontlist catalogs, order forms, specialty catalogs, brochures, and various other marketing pieces.
Liz Moffit Liz Moffit
lmoffit@nbnbooks.com
NBN Production Manager, Liz Moffit, is the newest member of the NBN Production team. Liz's primary responsibility is to act as a liaison between NBN's client publishers and NBN's graphics department to prepare sales and marketing materials, including the seasonal frontlist catalogs, order forms, and a variety of special sales materials.
Olakunle Omolabi Olakunle Omolabi
oomolabi@nbnbooks.com
Kunle Omolabi joined NBN's production team in early 2007. He quickly mastered the marketing database and now is respnsible for maintaining the integrity of the data that is used to export to the accounts and to post on the NBN website. In addition to Kunle's database responsibilities, Kunle helps Liz with catalog production and with sales kits.