Random Speaks Echoing Harper’s move this May to establish an in-house speakers bureau, the Random House Publishing Group announced today an affiliation with the Boston-based American Program Bureau. Random House and Ballantine authors confirmed as joining the lecture agency’s roster include Salman Rushdie, Gail Sheehy, Jonathan Harr, ADD expert Edward M. Hallowell M.D., Matthew Pearl, Lisa See, and Valerie Hemingway. Random’s executive director of publicity and public relations Carol Schneider will coordinate the publisher’s involvement in the program. While Harper positioned their initiative as a revenue generator, Random is looking to their alliance primarily for promotion. Schneider says, “There’s a […]