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Since 2002, in addition to working almost exclusively with authors, Adrienne's scope of projects has also included doing PR and events management for cultural arts fundraisers like Poetry for Water, launching an International Buddhist Film Festival, soliciting silent
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auction items and securing publicity for a fundraising event for Habitot children's museum, doing PR and guest list cultivation for the opening of an upscale tea shop, booking print and radio interviews to promote two sold out Great Night series poetry reading performances, promoting a line of hand-blended personal care products, proofreading half a dozen trade books, promoting 60 individual contributors from Chronicle Books' biggest title ever, and handling author relations and PR outreach for headline musicians such as Damian Marley, Angelique Kidjo, Paula Cole, Jefferson Starship and many other notable performers for the 30th anniversary of a popular three-day Northern California music festival. Adrienne
graduated from Pepperdine University with a B.A. degree in Humanities and
Violin Performance. Previous publicity positions include Lucasfilm, Lucas
Digital Ltd. and Stork Site, a pregnancy site now part of Women.com. Adrienne
enjoys reading, traveling, playing violin, meditation,
indie films, gardening, and watching her pre-teen daughter grow up. One of
her greatest joys and motivations
is providing quality information to the people who
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Adrienne
Biggs is
a former Publicity Manager for Jossey-Bass, a company of John
Wiley & Sons. During her four years there, Adrienne created
the publicity plans for several hundred trade and professional
books in the areas of parenting, psychology, spirituality, education,
health, nonprofit and business, among other subjects. Adrienne
launched Biggs Publicity in early 2002, with
the intention of taking on only projects which
served "the greater good" for people on a path of reflection, self improvement or spiritual growth. Since 1999, Adrienne has been an active member of NCBPMA, the Northern California Book Publicity and Marketing Association, and has been interviewed about her work in a variety of media outlets including Glamour and Family Circle magazines.