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Jane Ubell-Meyer
Founder
Connecticut

Jane Ubell-Meyer, former television and film producer is the founder of the nationally acclaimed, award-winning Madison & Mulholland programs.  Jane founded Bedside Reading® in 2017. The program partners with the world's leading publishers including Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, as well as many others independent publishers and authors. 
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​Our company's mission is to help authors build their fanbase by connecting their books to readers and providing hotel guests the opportunity to unplug and delve into the world of words at some of the most sought after destinations in North America. Coming in 2019: Toronto, London, Chicago and San Francisco.

​We would love to hear from you!
Founder, Jane Ubell-Meyer 917 848 3353

​Lisa Rosenstein
Co-Founder Bedside Reading/on the download
Connecticut

Lisa loves a good start-up! From children's clothing to an organic drink mix and most recently an all women speaker agency called Chasing Light Speakers, she thrives on making magic through connections. Joining Bedside Reading and working alongside Jane Ubell-Meyer to create /onthedownload, Lisa is drawing on a multitude of her passions. She is thrilled to collaborate, share ideas and create programs that unite writers and clients to impact the global conversation and spread the WORD!

​Elisa Fershtadt
Media & Publicity
New York

Elisa Fershtadt, based in New York, is a public relations and marketing communications specialist with extensive travel and tourism experience. Her far-reaching media contacts with leading print, electronic and on-line media as well as leading influencers, have placed her clients in front of a national and international audience through all mediums. Feature coverage and articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and USA Today and on NBC’s TODAY Show, ABC’s Good Morning America, CBS Sunday Morning and Fox Business News as well as major tourism blogs, Instagram posts and stories, trade and business outlets. Luxury travel features have appeared in Departures, Architectural Digest, Cigar Aficionado, Elite Traveler, The Robb Report, Blackbook, Flaunt, Private Clubs, New York Times “T” Magazine among others. She also has an expertise in marketing promotions, partnerships and product placement as well as crisis communications. Partnership promotions and connections include relationships and programming with Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York City’s Broadway community, ArtHamptons and Central Park Conservancy’s “Taste of Summer.”

Sabrina Trueheart
Social Media
Connecticut

 Sabrina's love for words and storytelling began when she started writing songs when she was 10 years old. Since then, she has grown to love all forms of writing, including poetry, novels and blogs. She is a recent graduate of Fairfield University, where she studied English and music. She has held internships as a social media coordinator and copywriter in the greater New York City area. In her spare time, she enjoys practicing yoga and cuddling with her two cats, Novella and Fable.

​Debbie Esko Gold
VP Resorts & Tourism
Florida

Debbie Esko Gold is a business-minded executive with more than 20 years experience moving people, products and brands forward. Debbie has spent her career holding a number of senior strategic positions in marketing, event planning and business consulting. During that time she has worked with many industries such as entertainment, travel, health & wellness and higher education.  She currently serves on the board of Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Broward County. In addition, she has produced three short films, one of which was purchased by HBO in 2019. ​

​Casey Skeen
Executive Book Curator
​North Carolina

Casey is an avid reader and owns over 600 books. She has reviewed many ARC books for different authors and publishers.  She has been in sales and management for 15 years. In addition to reading she enjoys spending time with her family, along with homeschooling her daughter. 

Susan Tackenberg
Head of Business Development - Europe, UK
​Germany

​Susan has been in publishing and film production since the 80s, when she was Business Manager of a publishing company in Johannesburg, South Africa.
 
Her interests embrace immersive and interactive technologies and their deployment in widely diverse fields (health, educa- tion, leisure etc.), and she has curated, moderated and addressed numerous conferences on these topics across Europe, e.g. at the Berlinale film festival, Helsinki’s Nordic Digital Business Summit and gamescom in Cologne.
 
As a fervid reader, Susan is happy to live in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, home to the world’s largest book fair.

Dr. Jeffrey Magee
Member Advisory Board

Laura Sherman
Intern
Ohio

Laura Sherman is currently a senior at Indiana University studying merchandising and media analytics. She loves all fiction books and has just finished Where the Crawdads Sing. As the PR intern and newest addition to the team she is excited to learn more about the worlds of marketing and publishing.