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.

 

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 Bussink
lbussink@nbnbooks.com
Liz is the newest member of the NBN Marketing Production Team. Her primary role is liaison between NBN client publishers and the NBN Marketing Team for all catalogs and other marketing collateral.