Book & Author Publicity
With more than 25 years of media and publicity experience, Kaye McKinzie founded Quatrain PR to provide custom publicity programs that meet an author’s timeline and budget.
Book cover titled 'The Coconut Latitudes' by Rita M. Gardner, featuring a beach scene with palm trees and a black and white photo of a young girl sitting on a boat.
Close-up of a hand holding a golf ball on a tee with the words 'A TIGHT GRIP' written on it. Grass in the background. The book title and author are at the bottom with a purple border.
Book cover titled 'Blood Line' by John J. Davis, with a dark background and a fiery bullet shot through the title.
Book cover titled 'The Blue Recl Girl' by William Goodson, with background images of papers and notes.
Book cover for 'Conjuring Casanova' by Melissa Rea, featuring a canal scene with colorful buildings, a flying bird, and quote text over the water.
A person in a tuxedo and gloves holding a plate with a crocodile shaped object and vegetables, with a cover overlayed that reads "Your Crocodile Has Arrived," a book titled by Laurie McAndish King.
Book cover titled "A Cup of Redemption" by Carole Bumpus, featuring a red coffee mug with "A Novel" written on it, placed on a stack of newspapers, with the Eiffel Tower in the background.
Book cover featuring an orange flower with the title "from sun to sun" and author Nina Angela McKissock, RN, along with a quote and subtitle about hospice nursing.
Book cover for 'Gap Year Girl' by Marianne C. Bohr, featuring a smiling woman with long blonde hair, sitting by a fountain with a large ornate sculpture, wearing a purple top and black skirt, carrying a red backpack.
Open book titled 'Give War and Peace a Chance' with colorful pages inside, promoting Tolstoy's wisdom for troubled times.
Cover page titled 'The Goodbye Year' with subtitle 'wisdom and culinary therapy to survive your child's senior year of high school (and reclaim the you of you)', authored by Toni Piccinini. Includes a graduation cap, books, sneakers, and a smartphone at the bottom.
Cover of a book titled "Drone Baloney" with a black drone silhouette at the top, large stylized title text, and a desert scene with cacti at the bottom.
Book cover titled 'Kissing the Sky' with a photo of a cloudy sky over the ocean.
Book cover for "Lost Kidnapped and Eaten Alive!" by Laurie McAndish King, featuring a dragonfly perched on a green leaf with a yellow background.
Book cover for "Love You Bye" by Rossandra White, featuring a yellow-brown dog, a colorful background with trees and sky, and the title in large yellow and red text.
Book cover titled 'Mermaids and the Vampires Who Love Them' by Brittan Charntine, featuring a mermaid tail and ocean background.
Book cover titled "Odessa, Odessa" by Barbara Arston with a photo of a crowd of people, some raising hats, in front of a river with the Statue of Liberty in the background, all in a blue tint.
Book cover for 'One Shoe' by John Hewitt, featuring a yellow background, a large worn brown boot on a stone pedestal, with a green snake coiled around the boot and under the pedestal, and the title in large red and black letters.
Book cover titled 'One American Woman Fifty Italian Men: A Journey of Cycling, Love, and Will' by Lynne Ashdown, featuring a group of older men and women in cycling gear at a gathering, outdoors.
Book cover titled 'Passing on Curves While Death Rides Shotgun', a memoir by Craig McLaughlin. The cover features an illustration of a winding two-lane road with double yellow lines, surrounded by green hills and trees under a blue sky.
Book cover for 'The Price of Blood' by Patricia Bracewell, showing a woman in medieval attire with her back turned, standing before a group of soldiers with flags, against a sunset sky.
Book cover of 'Red Fire' by Wei Yang Chao, featuring a large crowd of people in red scarves and flags, with portraits and Chinese flags above them, and a gradient background transitioning from red to yellow.
Book cover for 'Seeing Red' by Lone M. Orc with a black-and-white photo of a person walking through a wooded area viewed from inside a tunnel.
Book cover titled "Shelter of Leaves" by Lenore H. Gay, featuring a yellow and orange background with an image of an old house roof, chimney, a window, and a bird flying in the sky.
Book cover titled "Shooting Genji" by Richard Voorhees, featuring a sketch of five people in vintage attire around a table.
Book cover image titled "Sisterhood in Sports" featuring three female runners competing on a trail, with the subtitle "How Female Athletes Collaborate and Compete" and author name Joan Steidinger.
Book cover titled 'The Women's Eye Spotlights: 20 Women Changemakers Taking Action Around the World' featuring portraits of diverse women from around the world.
Welcome to Quatrain PR
Authors who focus on content and forget marketing find that few readers ever hear about their book.
Whether you have a publisher or self-publish, you’ll need promotion to get the attention your book deserves.
With more than 30 years of experience, Kaye McKinzie founded Quatrain PR to offer authors custom publicity for their timeline and budget.
Here are services we offer nation wide:
publicity to spotlight the author, book and genre
book tours and creative launch events
readings in bookstores, libraries, academic and private venues
book reviews, author interviews and speaking engagements
print and digital media coverage
Can publicity really make or break your book launch? Find out how Quatrain PR can increase your success, book a free consultation.
Testimonials
Kaye helped me launch two books in eighteen months, meeting challenges with panache. Thoughtfully and respectfully, she led me through the hurdles of twenty-five separate and speaking events, and provided local publicity for bookstore readings at home and across the nation. She also promoted my food and cooking school events, and help me redesign my website for more efficiency and better visibility. Without Kaye in my corner, my books would not be the award-winning books they have become.
—Carole Bumpus, Author of A Cup of Redemption, and a companion cookbook, Recipes for Redemption
Kaye helped me through my first self-publishing venture with patience, fortitude and humor. She instructed me in the required phases, kept me to a schedule, returned all calls in a timely fashion, and arranged a reading tour for me involving bookstores in New York, Minnesota, and LA, as well as a wonderful SF Bay Area book launch. She also guided me through the review process. Her help was invaluable.
—Doreen Stock, Poet and Essayist, In Place of Me
What I loved best was Kaye’s clarity. We discussed my goals and budget, and then she put together a list of the publicity she would do within my budget. She delivered on everything and often went beyond, helping me with all aspects of my launch and my multi-state book tour. She was an invaluable partner throughout the entire process.
—Craig McLaughlin, Author of Passing On Curves
About Quatrain PR
Quatrain PR founder Kaye McKinzie was trained in journalism and communication at UC Berkeley. In her career she has represented clients in technology, biotechnology, healthcare, education, documentary film and publishing. Her experience includes work with agencies and companies in North America and beyond, creating public relation strategies, managing media tours, and news coverage. Her experience and knowledge of several industries now helps authors from many walks in life get their books successfully published.