Suzanne Balaban
"It was a pleasure working with you. We were very pleased with the results.”
-Robert Weil, Editor-in-Chief, W.W. Norton & Co., Liveright Books, publisher of The Compete Works of Primo Levi
Suzanne Balaban with former NY Times executive editor, Howell Raines at the launch party for The One That Got Away (Scribner)
Photo: Tony Rinaldo
“The Balabans are early-21st century magicians. And I’m immensely grateful that I fell under their spell.
I came to them after having published several books, all with academic presses, and with my latest coming out under the Liveright/WW Norton imprint. I sensed the potential for its somewhat wider reach, and meeting the Balabans I quickly recognized that the word “somewhat” wasn’t one they ever used. Theirs is a universe of expansiveness, of marquees -- none of these ungainly, but all far larger than I would have anticipated on my own.
Charming they are, and connected in ways that help both overtly and less than obvious but whose contribution to the birth of a book is undeniable.”
- Stephen J. Zipperstein, Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University and author, most recently, of Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History (Norton/Liveright).
Diamond and Silk (seen here portrayed as “Crystal and Caviar” on Saturday Night Live), live-stream video bloggers, political activists, and authors of National Bestseller Uprising: Who the Hell Said You Can’t Ditch and Switch (Regnery).
Balaban Media Management
BMM Worldwide is a literary promotion house that works holistically with leading authors, agents, and publishers as book publicists and author brand developers.
Led by partners Suzanne Balaban and Elliot Balaban, clients include W. W. Norton & Company, St. Martin's Press, Regnery Publishing, agent/author Betsy Lerner, #1 New York Times best selling author, Eric Metaxas, and Stanford University historian Stephen J. Zipperstein.
Alongside its midtown Manhattan office, BMM has a presence in London and Jerusalem. Meet the team. Learn about our corporate practice.
Trailer for River by Shira Nayman (Guernica Editions.)
Trailer for In Sickness by Barrett Rollins (Post Hill Press/Simon & Schuster.)
Suzanne and Elliot have also worked with: author, Stephen King; Harvard University Professor of Comparative Literature, Ruth Wisse; New York Times editor and columnist, Gail Collins; American television host and author, Jedediah Bila; former New York Times executive editor, Howell Raines; Israeli political phenomenon, Rivka Ravitz; former NASDAQ Stock Market vice chairman and president, Alfred R. Berkeley III; Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, Frank McCourt; political scientist, Yoram Hazony; historian and diplomat, Michael Oren; British author and screenplay writer, Frederic Raphael; GE Capital Corporation; Peter Thiel; and Fox News political commentator, Juan Williams.
In Sickness: A memoir by Barrett Rollins (Post Hill Press/Simon & Schuster)
Alongside its Manhattan headquarters, BMM Worldwide has a presence in London and Jerusalem.
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Dear Hartley: Thoughts on Character, Kindness, and Building a Brighter World by Jedediah Bila (Center Street)
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“Suzanne Balaban is an astonishing and wonderful force of nature!"
- Jeannette Walls, New York Times Best Selling author of The Glass Castle (Scribner)
“Creative, tireless, connected, collaborative. A pleasure to work with on every level."
- Betsy Lerner, poet, agent and author of The Bridge Ladies (HarperCollins)
“I am so grateful for the Balabans having such seriously wonderful thoughts I can’t say enough… I very sincerely hope we might arrange for you to help me with another book or three in the future. So grateful for Regnery finding you two; and to be continued asap please.”
- Eric Metaxas, nationally syndicated host of the Eric Metaxas Show, #1 New York Times Best Selling author of Fish Out of Water (Salem Books)
Ruth Wisse, Harvard University Professor of Yiddish and Comparative Literature Emerita and author of Free As A Jew (Wicked Son) with American novelist and Nobel Prize winner, Saul Bellow.
The Balaban family's involvement in books dates to 1840 when Yehudah Leib Balaban founded Balaban Press in Lemberg. Pictured above the title page of the Kedushas Levi by Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev.