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Springboard Press

Springboard Press’s mission is to publish quality prescriptive and narrative nonfiction books for the roughly 77 million Baby Boomers who are in search of inspiration, entertainment, and reinvention in their lives. The categories of these books, by authoritative and celebrated authors, range from memoir and popular culture to beauty, well-being, inspiration, relationships, and career.

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Karen Murgolo is the founding Editorial Director of Springboard Press, an imprint of GCP.  She acquires and edits books that will entertain and inform readers in midlife. Among the authors she’s worked with are Bobbi Brown (Bobbi Brown Living Beauty), Kathleen Turner (Send Yourself Roses), Charles Grodin (If I Only Knew Then…Learning from Our Mistakes), Charla Krupp (How Not to Look Old), and Barbara Corcoran (Nextville: Amazing Places to Spend the Rest of Your Life).  In the past, Karen has also edited award-winning cookbooks and lifestyle and pop culture books.

Springboard Press
  • The Shiniest Jewel
  • The Shiniest Jewel
  • By Marian Henley ,

  • Great Gift! A moving "coming of middle age" graphic memoir that poignantly recounts Marian Henley's trials adopting a baby from Russia and deciding to marry her younger boyfriend, all while coping with her father's illness.

  • Measure of the Heart
  • Measure of the Heart
  • By Mary Ellen Geist ,

  • Well-loved WCBS radio anchor Mary Ellen Geist will inspire the thousands of people taking care of aging parents as she shares her experience on leaving a high-powered job to take care of her father suffering from Alzhiemer's.

  • Bobbi Brown Makeup Manual
  • Bobbi Brown Makeup Manual
  • By Bobbi Brown ,

  • Great Gift! Bestselling author and top name in makeup, Bobbi Brown shares all her secrets--and complete, step-by-step instructions-so every woman can put on makeup like a pro.

  • Bobbi Brown
  • Get To Know

  • Bobbi Brown
  • Bobbi Brown is an internationally renowned makeup artist and CEO of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics. Her products are sold in more than 400 stores and 20 countries worldwide. Bobbi is also the exclusive beauty editor of NBC's TODAY show and a frequent guest on E! and the Style channels.

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Manuscript Submissions

Due to the volume of submissions we receive, the editorial department of Springboard Press is unable to accept unsolicited material. While we cannot recommend an agent, agent lists can be found in such resources as the Literary Market Place, available in most public libraries or on literarymarketplace.com.

 

Contact Information

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