Monteiro and Company/Testimonials

"I'd like to thank Barbara Monteiro of Monteiro and Company, who organized the publicity and the book tour for the hardcover edition, for making a cause out of this book and making an extraordinary effort on its --and my--behalf."
    — Paul Krugman, Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Princeton University and New York Times op.ed columnist (From THE GREAT UNRAVELING, paperback edition, "Acknowledgements")

"Had it not been for Jon Elliott, talk-show radio host on the West Coast, and Barbara Monteiro, a publicist from New York, I never would have written this book. Not only did they encourage me but they also put me in contact with Carroll & Graf, which started the ball rolling."
     — Ambassador Joseph Wilson, THE POLITICS OF TRUTH

"Barbara knows everyone worth knowing in business book publishing. I've known Barbara and her firm for a number of years and consider her at the top of the game."
    — John A. Byrne, Executive Editor, Business Week

"Harvard Business School Publishing Co. benefited from working with Barbara Monteiro and her firm, as well as enjoying the experience. She's sharp, responsive, and thoroughly knows the worlds of book publishing and the business media."
— Walter Kiechel, Editor at Large, HBSP

"Barbara Monteiro and her associates are skilled and passionate promoters of cutting-edge books that matter. She facilitated my acquisition of Ambassador Joseph Wilson's THE POLITICS OF TRUTH, and then did a great job of helping us make it a national bestseller, one of the proudest moments of my career. I regularly recommend her firm to my authors seeking publicity efforts to supplement that of my own company, and urge other publishing houses to do the same."
    —Philip Turner, Publisher, Union Square Press, Sterling Publishing Co.
(Editor of the bestseller THE POLITICS OF TRUTH)

"Monteiro & Company is passionate about the books that they represent. Barbara Monteiro worked closely with Paul Krugman and helped to build his visibility to a point where he became a natural for a New York Times OpEd columnist, then took him on to national bestselling author. We consider Barbara and her colleagues to be honorary members of our department."
    — Louise Brockett, Vice President, Director of Publicity, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

“You made the absolute, most efficient use of every minute in each of the cities I visited. You are a great publicist – and I will be sure to keep that in mind if there is ever a sequel to Bloomberg by Bloomberg!”
   — Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg

"I benefited enormously from working with Monteiro and Company. They have great insights and tremendous knowledge about the book business."
     —David Cutler, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for Social Sciences at Harvard University, and author of YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE

"To Barbara 'pit bull' Monteiro. Thanks for all your support. What a joy to work with you!"
    — Ken Blanchard

"To Barbara Lombardo, and all the talented folks at Monteiro & Co., how blessed I am to have found you. You're the best publicist an author could ever wish for. I adore working with you."
    — Barbara Stanny, author of OVERCOMING UNDEREARNING, and SECRETS OF SIX-FIGURE WOMEN

"You created a great campaign for my Elizabeth I, CEO: witty, fun, and very, very memorable, with some of the best press I've ever had. Who could ask for more?"
     — Alan Axelrod, author

" From the beginning I have been impressed by the intelligence and savvy you and yours brought to the project. You understood the book, and ways to market it, extremely well. Your advice has always been right on. You're nice people. And I've always felt I was safely in the hands of real, top of the line professionals with heart and brains."
     — Mitchell Wade, co-author of GOT GAME

"We appreciated the professionalism of Monteiro & Company during the launch of Stuart Levine's THE SIX FUNDMENTALS OF SUCCESS first edition. Their creativity helped us gain publicity and we enjoyed our experience, too."
     —Harriet Levine, President, Stuart Levine & Associates LLC

“Thank you so much for making my time in NYC so productive. And thanks for sending the book to 500 on Amazon too!”
     — Mary Hunt, author of DEBT PROOF YOUR MARRIAGE

“It was a great event and we had over 800 people and sold 100 books, great sales for a book that we had already sold over 300 copies. I thank you for all of your work in helping us put this together. It was a great event and worth every second of planning. It was wonderful working with ”
     — Cleve Corner, Events Coordinator Politics and Prose Bookstore

“Just wanted to follow up and thank all of you for helping put together the November 19th education conference call. The feedback has been great. We ended up with about 20 institutional investors on the phone with managers/analysts from major accounts, including Fidelity, Neuberger Berman, JPMorgan Investment ”
     — Barton Crockett, Equity Analyst JPMorgan