Nettie Hartsock

Nettie Hartsock is the Principal and founder of Hartsock Communications – a highly regarded independent PR and blog consultancy focused at helping book authors make the most of their blogs, and online PR outreach.

Nettie helps individuals, authors, and companies focus on conveying their message to the world and creates actionable how-to-programs which establish a powerful base for attracting both bloggers’ and journalists’ attention.

For two years, Nettie was the Public Relations Senior Contributor with her blog at Allbusiness.com’s Professional PR, as well as the creator and Senior Contributing Blogger for Allbusiness.com’s Must Read Business Books blog. Even now, Nettie is a very active and devoted business book journalist and publishing commentator.

Nettie’s stories and essays have been featured in leading writing sites, including Freelance Writers Online, Hysteria, AbsoluteWrite, BookPitch, Publish and others. Her own blogger story can be found here, and she is listed on the W Magical List of Women Bloggers.

In her years as a journalist, Nettie has interviewed Salman Rushdie, Erica Jong, Michael Chabon, Doris Kearns Goodwin and notable performers including Christopher Guest, Frances McDormand, Debra Winger, Jamie Foxx, Vince Vaughan, Amy Poehler, Jimmy Kimmel, Ben Stein, and others.

Nettie has covered the Internet as a journalist since 1993 and has amassed over 3,000 published pieces on the World Wide Web, including feature articles, interviews, case studies, news stories, and more. Her name can even be Googled with some notable results.

Nettie speaks regularly on utilizing social media tools, blogging, online PR and outreach, and has been featured as an interviewee in several online blogs focused on branding and marketing authors. She is a member of the Online News Association and the Internet Press Guild.

She is always still a writer at heart, as well, and is currently completing her own one woman show and her book on being a successful freelance writer titled, “Pitch and Swerve.”