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Springboard Press

Springboard Press’s mission is to publish quality prescriptive and narrative nonfiction books for the roughly 77 million Baby Boomers who are in search of inspiration, entertainment, and reinvention in their lives. The categories of these books, by authoritative and celebrated authors, range from memoir and popular culture to beauty, well-being, inspiration, relationships, and career.

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Karen Murgolo is the founding Editorial Director of Springboard Press, an imprint of GCP.  She acquires and edits books that will entertain and inform readers in midlife. Among the authors she’s worked with are Bobbi Brown (Bobbi Brown Living Beauty), Kathleen Turner (Send Yourself Roses), Charles Grodin (If I Only Knew Then…Learning from Our Mistakes), Charla Krupp (How Not to Look Old), and Barbara Corcoran (Nextville: Amazing Places to Spend the Rest of Your Life).  In the past, Karen has also edited award-winning cookbooks and lifestyle and pop culture books.

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Featured Books

  • Career Comeback
  • Career Comeback

  • By Lisa Johnson Mandell ,

  • An invaluable guide to looking younger, fresher, and savvier, on paper, online, and in person, to compete in today's youth-driven job market. A HOW NOT TO LOOK OLD for your career.

  • How Not to Look Old
  • How Not to Look Old

  • By Charla Krupp ,

  • The bestselling boot camp for a younger, hipper makeover, packed with no-holds-barred advice on little beauty and fashion changes that pay off big time, from the former on-air style expert for "The Today Show"--now in an updated paperback edition.

  • Let It Bleed
  • Let It Bleed

  • By Ethan A. Russell ,

  • Intimate, never-before-seen photographs and personal stories from the infamous 1969 Let It Bleed Tour that culminated in the concert at Altamont and the end of the innocence of rock and roll.

  • The Gift of an Ordinary Day
  • The Gift of an Ordinary Day

  • By Katrina Kenison ,

  • Through her own story of midlife upheaval, the author of the beloved MITTEN STRINGS FOR GOD invites mothers to rediscover the wonder of ordinary days with their families as they approach the "letting go" that comes with raising teenagers.

Featured Books

  • Nextville
  • Nextville

  • By Barbara Corcoran ,

  • The leading real-estate guru in the U.S. gives boomers the inside scoop on the best places to retire--and offers the retirement rules they can't afford to miss, now in paperback for perennial backlist sales, and updated to reflect the current financial and real estate climates.

  • Bobbi Brown Makeup Manual
  • Bobbi Brown Makeup Manual

  • By Bobbi Brown ,

  • Bestselling author and top name in makeup, Bobbi Brown shares all her secrets -and complete, step-by-step instructions-so every woman can put on makeup like a pro.

  • How I Got to Be Whoever It Is I Am
  • How I Got to Be Whoever It Is I Am

  • By Charles Grodin ,

  • The sarcastic but sweet curmudgeon finally tries to understand himself by telling the stories he's never told--from his childhood in Pittsburgh, young romantic dalliances, his amazing 50-year career in show business, to what exactly he's been doing the last 10 years!

  • When the Time Comes
  • When the Time Comes

  • By Paula Span ,

  • An informative, inspiring narrative by an award-winning journalist about how average families are coping with and finding joy in helping their parents age with dignity and caring.

  • Throw Out Fifty Things
  • Throw Out Fifty Things

  • By Gail Blanke ,

  • "The Motivator" columnist at Real Simple and life coach for Fortune 500 companies, Gail Blanke, offers inspiring ways to clear away the debris of your life-both physical and mental-to help you find peace, energy and a better vision of who you are.

Featured Authors

  • Lisa Johnson Mandell

  • Get To Know

  • Lisa Johnson Mandell

  • Lisa Johnson Mandell is an award-winning entertainment reporter and film critic who gives daily reports on 16 Entercom radio stations and runs Filmazing.com.  She has appeared on news and talk shows including NBC's Today Show, CBS's The Early Show, Dr. Phil, Inside Edition, CNBC, CNN, Rachael Ray, Fox News, and others.  Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Mademoiselle, Forbes, and on the AP Wire service.  She is a popular lecturer at The Learning Annex.  She is the author of the tongue-in-cheek book How to Snare A Millionaire (St. Martin's Press) and is co-author with Patti Stanger of Become Your Own Matchmaker (Atria, January '09).

  • Katrina Kenison

  • Get To Know

  • Katrina Kenison

  • Katrina Kenison is the author of MITTEN STRINGS FOR GOD: REFLECTIONS FOR MOTHERS IN A HURRY  (Warner Books, 2000). She has appeared on Oprah and other shows.  Her writing has appeared in O, Real Simple, Family Circle, Redbook, Better Homes and Gardens, Health,and other publications. From 1990 until 2006, Kenison was the series editor of THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES, published annually by Houghton Mifflin.  She co-edited, with John Updike, THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY  (Houghton Mifflin, 2000). She wrote, with Rolf Gates, MEDITATIONS FROM THE MAT: DAILY REFLECTIONS ON THE PATH OF YOGA (Random House, 2002).

    Check out her video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olSyCLJU3O0

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Manuscript Submissions

Due to the volume of submissions we receive, the editorial department of Springboard Press is unable to accept unsolicited material. While we cannot recommend an agent, agent lists can be found in such resources as the Literary Market Place, available in most public libraries or on literarymarketplace.com.

 

Contact Information

For inquiries regarding Grand Central Publishing and all of its imprints, please email grandcentralpublishing@hbgusa.com