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Shari Stauch |
Shark Marketing Co. CEO Shari Stauch has been involved in publishing, marketing and PR for 30 years.
She is the co-creator of Pool & Billiard Magazine, now celebrating 28 years as the sport's oldest monthly magazine.
In 2004 Shari retired from the Women's Pro Billiard Tour after a successful 20 year career as a top player and marketer/co-creator of the tour (inducted into the WPBA Hall of Fame in 2007) to pursue development of Shark Marketing Co. and serve a growing community of writers and authors.
Stauch and fellow writer Brenda McClain produced the South Carolina Writers Conference in 2004, setting new attendance/income records. As a board member of Charleston's Center for Women, she is a moderator for the Center's Women's Writer Series, and conducts seminars for the Center on social marketing and image branding.
In 2008, Stauch signed on as Co-Director of Programming for Words & Music: A Literary Feast in New Orleans, and worked with team member Kendra Haskins to re-launch the organization's website.
Stauch continues to work with the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society as well as with agents, editors, writers and aspiring authors throughout the U.S., using her marketing and PR talents to help authors broaden their audiences and realize greater sales potential for their books.
But New Orleans and the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society are nearest and dearest to her heart. "From my first time attending Words & Music in 2003, I knew I HAD to be part of this amazing event," said Stauch. "The generosity of spirit of the agents and editors here, the stimulating discussions from the best literary minds, and all of it in the city of New Orleans -- rich fodder for any writer -- it's an unbeatable combination!"
Stauch is a certified executive coach, an award-winning essayist and fiction writer, 2x essay finalist in the Faulkner-Wisdom competition (one honorable mention and 2010's 1st runner-up); 2x finalist for Novel in Progress (once as 1st runner-up) and author of three non-fiction books, with a fourth under contract with publisher Human Kinetics for a 2010 November release.
Her recent op-ed piece on the Pirates Alley Faulkner Society drew national attention on the pages of AOL News (Click Here to view). Shari is working on completion of a novel set in her hometown of Chicago, IL.
Juleps in June
Words & Music
W&M Author Faculty
W&M Agent/Editor Faculty
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