Meet the Team.
Let us be your cheerleaders, your advisors, your advocates, your publishing, publicity and social media experts! We all come to book promotion from different backgrounds, talents and skills, but we work hard to get the word out and create some buzz about your book. We're a great team and we look forward to working with you.
Louise Crawford
Senior Publicist
A naturally enthusiastic person and a writer, Louise founded Brooklyn Social Media in 2012 to promote authors and entrepreneurs. After a career as a film editor (Blackwood Productions), a documentary filmmaker (In a Jazz Way) and a video producer (Batwin + Robin Production, Zacks and Perrier Productions), she began writing and developing content for websites (Red Sky and Sequel Studio). From 2001-2008, she was co-editor of The Link, a newsletter for FDNY families who lost loved ones on 9/11, a project funded by the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation. In 2004, she founded Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn, a seminal (and popular) hyperlocal blog. Soon after, she organized the Brooklyn Blog Fest, an annual gathering of Brooklyn bloggers. From 2005-2010, she wrote Smartmom, a weekly humor column about parenting and modern life for the Brooklyn Paper. For many years, she curated Brooklyn Reading Works, a monthly thematic reading series at The Old Stone House. Featured in The New York Times not once but five times, Louise is on the board of the New York Writers Coalition and a recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Council for the Humanities and Brooklyn Arts Council. She loves the North Fork of LI, riding her bike, and spending time with her friends and family.
Email: louisecrawford@gmail.com
Phone: 718-288-4290
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Linda Quigley
Publicist
Detailed-oriented, strategic, and creative, Linda was born to do PR. For thirty years she worked as a manager in the public sector. In recent years she has immersed herself in the arts. Since 2009, she has led and revitalized the book group at Congregation Beth Elohim (CBE), the largest Reform congregation in Brooklyn. A few times a year, she hosts in-person or virtual author events; past authors have included Stuart Rojstaczer, Mary Morris, Jamie Bernstein, Matti Friedman, Yousef Bashir, Helen Fremont, David Maraniss, Julie Metz, and Sherry Turkle. She has been a facilitator for CBE’s Race in America book discussion series; a facilitator for a CBE-sponsored, community-wide discussion of Ibram X. Kendi’s How to Be an Antiracist; and a facilitator for CBE’s series of antiracism community conversations. At Brooklyn Social Media since October 2015, she lives in Brooklyn and East Hampton and loves to attend theater and cinema, read, and write poetry.
Email: linda.quigley298@gmail.com
Phone: 917-622-8936
Edward Velandria
Creative Director
An immensely talented graphic and digital designer, Ed works closely with clients to create memorable user experiences. Listening and learning is how he helps BSM clients connect their brand to their audience – by balancing big picture concepts and pixel perfect details. When he’s not designing, you can find him sketching and painting around NYC or mentoring the next generation of young artists.
Phone: 718-208-8291
Meg Fidler
Publicist
A freelance writer for the past decade, Meg was previously executive director of the Petra Foundation, a national nonprofit honoring grassroots leaders making distinctive contributions to human and civil rights. As creative director at a boutique ad agency, Meg
led a team responsible for promotions in all media for such clients as The New Yorker,
Rolling Stone, Staples and The First Edition Library. A voracious reader of
contemporary fiction, Meg brings her gift for the well-turned phrase and her editor’s eye to
her work at Brooklyn Social Media. She lives in New York City and enjoys streaming
Nordic noirs, going to the beach and volunteering for social justice organizations.
Nancy O. Graham
Publicist
A conscientious wordsmith, Nancy O. Graham is a lover of people as much as books. She pursued a career in alternative film, media, and literature after studying literature at Muhlenberg College and cinema at NYU. Nancy moved to the river valley north of New York, unschooled two kids, returned to an early love of performance, and began acting professionally onstage and in movies under the name Noa Graham. Sprinkled throughout were positions as a teacher and mentor in creative writing, an editor, and nonprofit administrator. As a poet and writer, Nancy has published in a variety of venues and is a frequent exhibitor with neighbors in the galleries of The Lace Mill, the artists’ community they call home. Some favorite activities include walking, exploring new towns, and playing with small ensembles.
Email: nanograham14@gmail.com