Founded in 2018, Schulman PR Inc. is a boutique public relations firm focusing in book publishing, with a specialization in non-fiction/memoir campaigns and a particular expertise in assisting writers, agents, and publishers edit and place essays and op-eds. 

Founder and President Moshe Schulman’s diverse professional background informs all publicity campaigns. His strong media contacts from over fifteen years in the hospitality, film, and publishing industries help secure top-tier media. Before founding Schulman PR Inc., Moshe worked for a variety of literary PR firms in New York City and was also the director of marketing and publicity for a hospitality group in Manhattan where he secured over 150 media placements. 

Moshe Schulman has worked on national bestsellers like AJ Mendez Brooks’ Crazy Is My Superpower (Crown) and Salt in My Soul (Random House); with award-winning authors Bram Presser (National Jewish Book Award Winner), Alicia Jo Rabins (Honickman First Book Award from the American Poetry Review); and debut authors like Ann Shoket (former Editor-in-Chief of Seventeen Magazine), Benjamin Valenta (FOX Sports SVP), Dr. David Weill (former Director of the Center for Advanced Lung Disease and the Lung Transplant Program at Stanford), among many others.  

Schulman PR Inc publicity campaigns have landed authors national coverage in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, People Magazine, NPR, Oprah Daily, The Kelly Clarkson Show, Good Morning America, The Joe Rogan Podcast, WTF w/ Marc Maron, SiriusXM, and hundreds of other sought-after print, digital, TV, radio, and podcast outlets. We have also helped shape, edit, and place more than 60 personal essays and op-eds in top-tier publications like The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, TODAY, Los Angeles Times, The Hill, The New York Times’ Modern Love column, Salon, HuffPo, TIME, Oprah Daily, LitHub, USA Today, Tablet, STAT, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, ThinkNBC, Directors & Boards, Fortune, and elsewhere. 

Schulman holds a BFA in Screenwriting and Directing from School of Visual Arts in New York City. He is also an essayist and opinion writer, having published in outlets like The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, The Atlantic, and featured on NPR’s The Moth Radio Hour. He is also the recipient of literary grants from Tin House, Squaw Valley, and Bread Loaf. He recently completed a memoir about his experience leaving the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community of Monsey, N.Y. Learn more here.  

Leslie Gauthier is a writer, playwright and actor. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Paste Magazine and she's held two creative residencies at SPACE on Ryder Farm. As an actor, she's performed at Lincoln Center, St. Ann's Warehouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and her short film The Astronaut Hour received numerous awards including Best Screenplay, Best Actress and Best Short Film and Best Original Score in 2020 and 2021. She has worked on TED's editorial team editing, fact-checking and blog writing for six years. Leslie is now an MFA Playwriting candidate at Brooklyn College and a recent recipient of the Rona Jaffe Fellowship for Creative Writing. Her passion for helping other writers coupled with her own experience pitching and editing has helped her in placing client's work at TeenVogue and Locus Magazine, among others. She is always proud to strategize, pitch and ultimately amplify others' voices.

Julie Coryell is a literary publicist and book reviewer based in Los Angeles. After graduating from UC Berkeley with a degree in Foreign Languages and Literature, Julie worked at INTERPOL in France as a project manager and communications consultant. Upon her return to the US, she began reviewing books online as @bookchew and became a bookseller at East Bay Booksellers. Julie soon joined Heyday—a nonprofit publisher in Berkeley—as their in-house marketing and publicity manager, before becoming the director of digital marketing and publicity for the literary PR firm Wildbound. In addition to press campaigns, Julie specializes in social media management and event production. She loves connecting readers with the books that will move them, as well as collaborating with authors throughout their publishing journey, from finding unexpected story angles to developing a cohesive visual identity on social media and beyond.