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WMS. provides agenting, marketing and publicity services for non-fiction authors and small publishing houses. The agency was launched in 2002 by Liz Williams Harrison, formerly division Vice President of Random House, Inc. and Associate Publisher of Sounds True, Inc.
As a literary agency, WMS. helps authors shape manuscripts, write effective proposals, and presents material for sale to publishing houses throughout America.
WMS.'s marketing and publicity services help already published authors maximize sales and exposure for their books through creating custom marketing plans designed to sell more books.
About Liz Williams Harrison,
President and Founder of WMS.:
Liz Williams Harrison started her career in publishing in 1981 with Selma Shapiro Public Relations, a boutique agency in New York City that specialized in promoting books, authors, publishing houses and magazines. She moved to Ballantine/Del Rey/Fawcett/Ivy Books, a division of Random House, in 1984. In 1989 she opened their first West Coast office in Los Angeles, which she ran for almost a decade. In 1993 she was named Vice President, the first woman to achieve that title outside of their New York headquarters.
In 1998 she moved to Boulder, Colorado to join Sounds True as their first Associate Publisher, working with the leading teachers and writers in the fields of spirituality, creativity, meditation and Buddhism.
Over the course of two decades in publishing, Harrison worked with close to one thousand authors, helping bring their work to national attention. Some of the most notable writers include Michael Crichton, Dean Koontz, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Jane Smiley, General Colin Powell, NAACP President Kweisi Mfume, Andrew Weil, M.D., actresses Lauren Bacall and Roseanne Barr, and humorist Dave Barry.
Harrison was called "a sales and marketing pioneer" by Publishers Weekly, and has lectured widely on publishing topics throughout the West, including UCLA, The University of Southern California, PEN Center West and The Learning Annex. She was a founding Board member of the Los Angeles Times Book Festival and Literary Publicists of Los Angeles.
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