Phildelphia, PA November 07, 2026 --(PR.com)-- Jeanie Bailey, Lara Butler-Montague, and Meredith Johnson join the firm TGC Worldwide, the author platform, publishing strategy, and speaker management firm behind national bestseller campaigns, today announced three appointments that bring insider expertise to every stage of a book's life: the decision to acquire it, the decision to stock it, and the media that moves it.
Jeanie Bailey joins as Advisory Board Member and Director of Retail and Publishing Partnerships, bringing more than 40 years of leadership across retail, wholesale, publishing, and e-commerce, including three tenures at Books-A-Million spanning retail operations, book purchasing, and wholesale. Before retiring, she served as Senior Director of E-Commerce Sales and Operations, leading bestseller campaigns with authors and publishers. She also held Director of Mass Market Sales roles at DK Publishing, Thomas Nelson, and Parragon, and served as Vice President of U.S. Operations for Make Believe Ideas.
Lara Butler-Montague rejoins TGC as Director of Client Services, expanding its script-to-screen activations. As Creative Director at Redirect Marketing Group, she ran bilingual TV, radio, and digital campaigns end to end, from scripting and production to paid media and sales reporting. Earlier at TGC, she managed author and executive accounts and secured broadcast and podcast placements. She holds marketing and photography degrees from Drexel University.
Meredith Johnson joins as Account Manager, bringing editorial and acquisitions experience from Springer Nature, Rizzoli International Publications, and Wiley. As a Commissioning Editor at Springer Nature, she hit her 2025 acquisition targets a quarter early and ran data-driven competitive analysis. Her earlier work spans contract negotiation, international rights acquisition, and production across nineteen books. She is a Columbia Publishing Course graduate.
"Most authors fight battles they can't see: winning over a publisher, a retailer, and the media," said Charlie Fusco, Founder and CEO of TGC Worldwide. "Our team has now sat on every side of that table."
Bailey will architect exclusive retail and media partnership packages across national, wholesale, independent, and e-commerce accounts. Johnson will manage client campaigns, applying editorial and rights fluency to positioning and publisher negotiations.
"I spent four decades watching strong books fail because nobody built the retail plan," said Bailey. "TGC treats a launch as an operating system, not a publicity moment."
"Airtime only matters if it moves books," said Butler-Montague. "Every placement we build should connect to a measurable sale."
"Publishers decide in weeks what an author has worked on for years," said Johnson. "Knowing how that decision actually gets made changes how you build the book and the pitch."
About TGC Worldwide
TGC Worldwide helps authors and executives convert visibility into sales, media, and speaking opportunities through book development, author platforms, launch PR, retail strategy, book tours, script-to-screen activations, and speaker representation.
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