Coriolis Company
Book Marketing Consultant for Academics, Thought Leaders, and Public Intellectuals
Before booking, please watch this video to learn more about how these sessions work.
$500 / 60 minutes
Most authors and academics spend years learning — often the hard way — how to secure media coverage, land speaking invitations, and expand their public impact. This session distills the most effective strategies into one focused hour, saving you time, frustration, and costly missteps. Whether you move forward with a Coriolis campaign or not, you’ll leave with strategic insights that would otherwise take months or even years to figure out alone.
Your research, book, or expertise deserves to be part of public conversations, but securing media coverage, landing speaking engagements, and reaching the right audiences requires more than just great work. It requires strategy.
A consultation with Coriolis is not a sales pitch. It is a working session designed to give you clear, actionable answers about how to position yourself for greater visibility, influence, and impact.
Some academics book a session as the first step toward a larger publicity campaign. Others use it as a standalone opportunity to refine their approach to media, events, and long-term engagement. Wherever you are in the process, this session is designed to provide immediate strategic insights tailored to your goals, led by a seasoned book marketing consultant who has worked with 300+ authors like you.
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What You’ll Get From Your Marketing Strategy Session
In our 60-minute working session, you’ll receive personalized, strategic guidance tailored to your goals. Depending on your needs, we may cover:
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A targeted media strategy, including which outlets, journalists, and event organizers align with your work
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Messaging refinement to clearly articulate your expertise to both academic and general audiences
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Tactical, actionable recommendations you can implement immediately and over the long-term
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A realistic, experience-based understanding of what’s possible based on your publisher, book type, and career stage
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A blueprint for sustaining visibility beyond a book launch or major media event
If you are interested in a full Coriolis publicity campaign, we can also discuss what that collaboration could look like — but the focus of this session is delivering immediate value, regardless of next steps.
This Marketing Strategy Session Is For:
Professors, researchers, thought leaders, and authors looking for expert guidance from a book marketing consultant on
- How to engage the media and determine which outlets and journalists align with their expertise
- Refining their message so it resonates with both academic and public audiences
- Strategic positioning to stand out in their field and become a go-to expert
- Which conferences and speaking opportunities are worth pursuing
- Sustaining a book‘s visibility long after publication
- How to work with their university’s PR team
- Managing media attention when covering politically sensitive topics
- Writing op-eds, essays, and articles that amplify their expertise
- Improving media interviews and developing a confident presence
- Determining the next steps in their publicity journey, whether through independent efforts or a full campaign with Coriolis
This is not generic PR advice. It is a focused one-on-one session tailored to your work, challenges, and ambitions.
Book Your Consultation
$500 / 60 minutes
Sessions are conducted over Zoom. Once booked, you will receive a short intake form so I can prepare in advance and we can maximize our time together.
Please note that I will not be reading your book or conducting external research in advance; the session is built around your intake form and our live discussion. You are paying for one hour of my time only. If you need me to read your book or conduct outside research (e.g. visit your website, read your essay), contact me for a quote.
Meet Nanda Dyssou
Founder and Lead Strategist at Coriolis Company
I founded Coriolis Company to help scholars, thought leaders, and experts bring their work into public conversations—not just within academia, but in the media, at conferences, and in policy spaces where their ideas can shape real-world discussions. I have worked with authors from the Big Five, top academic presses, and independent publishers, securing national media coverage, major speaking engagements, and long-term literary visibility. Publishers often refer to me as the “author whisperer” for my ability to guide authors through the intricacies of the publishing process and help them navigate the ever-evolving landscape of publicity, marketing, events, and media.
My approach is practical and strategic, never vague PR advice. I help clients refine their messaging, navigate media, and identify the right opportunities to ensure their expertise reaches the audiences that matter. With a BA and MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California, Riverside, as well as certifications in marketing, publicity, and social media management, I develop tailored, effective strategies that go beyond the book or project at hand. If you’re ready to raise your profile and make a lasting impact, let’s talk.
Note: This Is Not a "Discovery Call"
Many publicists and book PR companies offer free “discovery calls” and those calls are designed to sell you their service. That is not what I do.
You can find dozens of testimonials and case studies from happy authors and publishers on our website. A consultation with me is a paid, working session designed to provide immediate strategic value, not a sales pitch.
If you choose to move forward with a Coriolis campaign, the consultation fee is applied to your first month’s retainer. If not, you will still leave with insights that would take years to figure out alone.
Let’s Get Your Work the Recognition It Deserves
If you are ready for clear, strategic insights on how to expand your public reach, let’s talk.
Why Work with Coriolis?
Coriolis Company is a premier book publicity and media training firm known for working with academics, thought leaders, and some of today’s leading public intellectuals. Our clients include award-winning scholars, bestselling authors, and high-profile experts in history, politics, sociology, race and gender studies, business, science, law, and literary fiction.
Coriolis specializes in securing top-tier media coverage in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, NPR, BBC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, The Guardian, The New Yorker, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Times Literary Supplement, and more.
We also provide expert positioning, media strategy, and branding for scholars and public intellectuals, helping them extend their influence beyond academia. What sets Coriolis apart is our practical, strategic approach:
- We tailor media strategies to each client’s goals and strengths — no templates or generic advice
- We refine messaging so your expertise resonates across audiences
- We offer realistic, insider guidance on how to navigate publishing, media, and speaking opportunities
- We build frameworks for long-term visibility, not just launch moments
When you book a consultation, you are not getting surface-level advice. You are getting guidance from a firm that has helped hundreds of scholars expand their public reach.
Frequenty Asked Questions
1. Are these publicity and marketing consultations for academics only?
No. While Coriolis works primarily with professors and scholars, we also have novelists, poets, and nonfiction experts or thought leaders as clients. Consultations are open to any author.
2. Can my university pay for this consultation?
Yes. Many clients use professional development funds, research grants, or other funds, and Coriolis can issue an invoice directly to your institution if needed.
3. How far in advance should I book a session?
You can book at any stage, but earlier is usually better. Most authors schedule a consultation six to nine months before publication to ensure their timeline, messaging, and outreach strategy are realistic. With that said, we have any who book calls in the last minute and in a bit of panic to see if we can still help them, either with a full book publicity campaign or with some quick advice. Depending on the book, we’ll be able to do at least one (quick advice) and if it’s an especially timely book with great potential, possibly the other (a last-minute or even post-publication book publicity campaign) too.
4. How should I prepare for the session?
Coming up with a list of questions will make your session infinitely more productive and useful to you. Have more questions than you anticipate having time to ask.
5. Will Nanda review my book or materials before the session?
No. The consultation is built around what you share in the intake form and what’s discussed live. If you’d like Nanda to read your manuscript, visit your website, read your marketing material, or do other preparation beforehand, that can be arranged for an additional fee if requested in advance.
6. What’s Nanda’s approach during the session?
If you have prepared questions, Nanda’s goal is to focus all of them, drawing on her experience, as that’s what you’re paying for. If you don’t have questions prepared, she will ask you focused questions to understand your goals and challenges, then outline concrete next steps based on what’s realistic for your book, publisher, and field. You will receive her advice, “straight, no chaser,” as a client once said, because the goals are maximum clarity and valuable directions, not vague encouragement.
7. What will I receive afterward?
You’ll get a short summary of key recommendations and next steps after the call, as well as a recording and transcript of the call.
8. What kinds of results have clients seen after a book marketing or publicity consultation?
Many have gone on to finally place their op-eds in major outlets based on the adjustments made to their pitch, secured speaking invitations with venues recommended, landed national media coverage with their improved PR material, knew what questions to ask their press after the consultation to work together more effectively, built stronger partnerships with their university PR offices, improved their website from a branding standproint and in terms of findability, and more. The main outcome they often mention is clarity, knowing what’s worth your time and what’s not, what is an immediate priority and what can wait, and who to turn to for help in various areas of the book publishing process.
9. Does a consultation guarantee becoming a Coriolis publicity client?
No. A consultation is a one-hour working session with Nanda, who has served as a book publicist for more than 300 academics, thought leaders, and literary authors, and who has given book marketing advice to dozens of publishers. If it feels like a good fit on both sides, we can discuss a full campaign, but a consultation does not guarantee further work with Nanda or the company.
10. Why doesn’t Coriolis offer free introductory calls?
Because free introductory calls are either a blatant sales pitch (which no one likes to give or be on the receiving end of) or a one-sided deal, where the author gets free access to a professional’s time and the publicist or marketing professional loses an hour that could have gone toward pitching clients or interacting with the media instead. In this case, Nanda reserves her time for authors who’re no longer in the “collecting free information” stage. They have done their research, looked through the Coriolis website in detail, read the case studies, watched the testimonials, and understand what the company does. They have determined that they share enough similarities with Coriolis’s clients to make this session valuable for them, and they want a real, substantive conversation.
11. Can we meet in person?
Consultations take place on Zoom so that wherever you are, you have access to Coriolis’s expertise, and so that they can be recorded for your later re-watching. We work with clients across the United States and internationally, and virtual meetings make it possible to connect with everyone efficiently and consistently. They also save time on commuting, which everyone who is used to the horrendous LA traffic appreciates.
