About Stephanie

Stephanie Barko’s award-winning clients include traditional publishers and their authors, small presses, and independently published writers. She promotes nonfiction & historical fiction exclusively, including spirituality, history, business/career, memoir, and biography. Debut authors and spiritual subject matter are especially welcome this year.

Ms. Barko was invited into the publishing industry after many years in high tech marketing. She has presented on book marketing & publicity at Oklahoma Writers Federation Conference, DFW Writers Conference, Writers’ League of Texas Conference and Women Writing the West Conference. Her articles and book reviews have been published in Western American Literature, Roundup Magazine, Book Marketing Matters, San Francisco Book Review, and the Texas Book Marketing Directory. She was a 2010 Finalist in More Magazine’s Reinvention Story Competition, nominated by her peers as 2010 Book Publicist of the Year, and was voted Preditors & Editors Best Book Promotion Service in 2011.  Stephanie is a Recommended Associate at Author U and an Industry Expert at Author Learning Center.

Stephanie has degrees in Business & Sociology and is based in Austin. Since 2005, she has moderated a nonfiction book group that has hosted such nationally known authors as Janet Conner, author of Writing Down Your Soul, Gilbert Tuhabonye, Founder of Gilbert’s Gazelles and The Gazelle Foundation, and Paul Woodruff, a TV guest of Bill Moyers.