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

  • Throw Out Fifty Things
  • Throw Out Fifty Things

  • By Gail Blanke ,

  • The former "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--now in trade paperback!

  • 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.

  • 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 to Never Look Fat Again
  • How to Never Look Fat Again

  • By Charla Krupp ,

  • The new style-guide from bestseller author Charla Krupp on how to look 10 pounds lighter, 10 years younger and 10 times sexier every day, all year--in summer, winter, even at the gym!

Featured Books

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

Featured Authors

  • Charla Krupp

  • Get To Know

  • Charla Krupp

  • Charla Krupp has appeared for ten years on the Today show and on more than thirty national TV shows including The Oprah Winfrey Show, The View, Tyra, CBS Early Show, Entertainment Tonight, and Access Hollywood.  She is a contributing editor to People: Style Watch, and was formerly beauty director at Glamour, senior editor at InStyle, and contributing editor at More.

  • Kim Johnson Gross

  • Get To Know

  • Kim Johnson Gross

  • Kim Johnson Gross has worked in the fashion industry for over 30 years, as a Ford model, an editor at Town & Country, Style Director at Avenue, and Fashion Director at Esquire.  She is author of The Chic Simple books, which were international bestsellers and inspired the popular Chic Simple Solutions column that appeared for five years in InStyle.  Gross wrote the "What to Wear for the Rest of Your Life" column in More for two years. She's been interviewed as a style expert on the Today show, CNN, the CBS Morning Show, Good Housekeeping, AARP, Business Week, Dove.com and About.com.  She was recently a contributor to Better Homes and Gardens (circulation 7.6 million).

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

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