Jana Muntsinger
Jana landed in publicity because of her hair. As an on-camera TV intern, she was disappointed to find management more concerned with her hair than her stories. A wise professor directed Jana to public relations – the career that lets you manage everyone else’s appearance.
Jana has worked in Public Relations since graduating Baylor University. Her career began in Washington, DC, with Hill & Knowlton and the American Cancer Society, then she headed back to Texas where she joined Word Publishing. A self-described book nerd and compulsive reader, Jana considers book publicity a “career jackpot.”
Jana is the party-loving, extroverted wife of a Christian minister. She regularly supplies books for Dave’s sermon preparation and contributes real-life cautionary tales by simply living life. Dave mostly changes names to protect the innocent.
Jana loves to entertain, travel and cook…and because of the first three…exercise. She lives in Spring, Texas, with her husband of more than 25 years. They are the proud parents of Jack, Ford, and Kate, three pretty remarkable people.
Pamela McClure
All those years of burying her nose in books – and regaling her family with book reports over dinner – was finally paying off. Literally. Turns out that publishers hire people to read and talk about books all day. They call it “publicity.”
Pamela discovered a little slice of heaven when she joined the publicity department at Word Publishing in 1991. Not only did she get to learn from marketing legends Susan Ligon and David Moberg, but she also met fellow Texan and publicist extraordinaire Jana Muntsinger. Eight years later, Jana and Pamela launched McClure Muntsinger Public Relations, a boutique literary PR agency specializing in personalized campaigns for hand-selected clients.
MMPR just celebrated its 25th anniversary, and Pamela still loves to read and talk about books. And she is immensely grateful for an extroverted business partner who is practically perfect in every way. Pamela lives and works in Franklin, Tennessee, just three hours from her three young adult children in Knoxville.