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About Us
Terra Communications, Inc. was started by Dawn G. Stuart in 1990 as a California-based corporation. Ms. Stuart worked in outside sales, then as a marketing consultant for several years while living in Southern California. In 1995, having moved back to her home town in Central Oregon, Dawn combined her sales and marketing background with her love of writing and the outdoors. She founded Oregon Outdoors Magazine and was its publisher until its sale in 1998. After several years as a freelance adventure travel writer, Dawn established Terra Communications as a book marketing company. The publishing and software products components are being integrated into the company in order to provide some of the most progressive and strategic book marketing services in the Northwest.
Our primary goal is to support and enhance the quality of literature produced in the Pacific Northwest by offering sophisticated and progressive marketing, publishing and educational services. We work to support independent booksellers and publishers by emphasizing our connection with these institutions.
Our Company
We are a small but talented company dedicated to helping keep quality literature alive. We accomplish this goal by offering our marketing services to small publishers and authors on a consultative basis. We believe we can provide the best marketing and publicity support in the Northwest.
Our staff is passionately committed to maintaining the finest traditions of the book industry along with providing sophisticated, aggressive and professional marketing support. We firmly believe that good marketing is the key to selling more books, and that it is a neglected element in the small publishing industry.
We prefer to work with small publishers or new authors on a long-term basis. This enables us to become more closely associated with titles, ensuring our effectiveness. This also enables us to offer our services at affordable rates. From manuscript development, to pre-press input and securing reviews, to media outreach and the actual selling of your book, we can do it all—or just help out in the areas where you need it most.
Our Staff
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Dawn G. Stuart is a professional marketing consultant with 20 years of sales and marketing experience. She studied literature and journalism for six years at the University of Nevada - Reno, worked as a newspaper and magazine journalist for several years, and is the author of BOOK MARKETING FOR NEW AND EMERGING AUTHORS (due Spring 2006). Ms. Stuart assesses and edits manuscripts from a marketing perspective. In addition she has created several unique and strategically-designed marketing models that ensure exciting book sales. She is the marketing and publicity director for the company. Aside from being a published author, Dawn is passionate about good literature, nature, travel, and outdoor adventure.
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Robert Rogers, with his degree from Oregon State University, is the company’s website master, resident techie, AND grammar guru. In addition to micro-editing manuscripts, Robert is a computer software designer and developed BookDex™, an exceptionally useful and efficient book-selling database. In his free time he traverses the globe, surfing and asserting his Scrabble™ acumen on his fellow travelers.
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Aleta Raphael-Brock is a Media Associate for the company. With a journalism degree from the University of Oregon, she has worked as a freelance journalist for newspapers and a regional travel book and as an event and publicity organizer for a statewide public advocacy organization. She appreciates good literature and thriving artistic communities. In her free time she enjoys practicing and instructing yoga, mountain biking and reading.
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Allyson Kissell, our Events Scheduling associate, has planned events ranging from intimate dinners to international gatherings. Though her formal education resulted in degrees in business management and administration, Allyson's fortes are in planning and organization. She is an avid reader, a habit that grew from living in Europe as a young teen, and she is rarely without a book in hand. In addition to reading. Allyson enjoys gourmet cooking, travel and exploring new places.
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Association Memberships
Publishers Marketing
Association--PMA
Pacific Northwest Booksellers
Association—PNBA
Northern California Book
Publicity and Marketing Association--NCBPA
Northwest Association of
Book Publishers—NWABP
Pacific Northwest Writers
Association
Willamette Writers
Writers Northwest
LiteratiNorthwest.net
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