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Sandra Goroff & Associates is a Boston-based public relations agency and national PR network specializing in books, art, lifestyle, design and architecture, and author publicity. Through national tours, promotional campaigns, product and personality publicity, and integrated marketing, SGMA serves the needs of both literary and non-literary clients.

SG founder Sandra Goroff served as a director of publicity at Houghton Mifflin Company’s Trade and Reference Division in Boston for 12 years. During her tenure at Houghton Mifflin, Advertising Age chose her as one of the top marketers of the year. While at Houghton Mifflin Goroff also received Northwestern University’s (Medill School of Journalism) National Integrated Marketing “Out of the Box” Award, a Mercury Award, and numerous Bell Ringer Awards in the categories of product publicity, press kit design, and marketing communications from the Publicity Club of New England.

Goroff has earned recognition in the industry for her promotion of such authors and individuals as Tom Peters, IDEO’s Tom Kelley, antiques expert UK-based Judith Miller, auction house Skinner, Arden Gallery, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Tracy Kidder (House and Among Schoolchildren), 1966 National Book Award recipient James Carroll, best-selling author Clive Cussler (Flood Tide—#1 on the New York Times Bestseller List), trial attorney and author Gerry Spence, Elvis Presley biographer Peter Guralnick (Last Train to Memphis), and famed ornithologist, the late Roger Tory Petersen. Goroff has also worked with such authors and individuals as former President Jimmy Carter, Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox, singer Judy Collins, former CEO of American Motors, Gerald Meyers, former CEO of Ford Motor Company, Donald E. Petersen, Dr. Jane Goodall, and Steven Callahan (Adrift: 76 Days Lost at Sea).

Clients of Sandra Goroff have included: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Watson-Guptill Publications, Harvard Business School Press, Crown Publishing Group, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Doubleday, Houghton Mifflin Company, Henry Holt & Company, Hearst Books/William Morrow, St. Martins Press, Picador USA, Simon & Schuster, Rizzoli International, Oxford University Press, Little Brown & Company, Viking, Beacon Press, Ballantine Books, Clarion Books, Delacorte, Congressional Quarterly Books, American Psychiatric Press, KQED Books, WGBH Publishing, Northeastern University Press, Steerforth Press, and Microsoft.