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    Curious City is a children's book consulting duo building creative marketing projects and outreach for authors, illustrators, and publishers.

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    "Wake up, they're ain't no freakin' wizard." --Winston Salem Ad

    "I get up every morning determined both to change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day difficult." --E.B. White

    "You've got to be bloody-minded and stay bloody-minded. It's a paradox: you have to have a lot of self-belief but at the same time you can't expect life to kiss you on the nose every morning. It's really pretty brutal.” –Robyn Hitchcock on being a professional creator in today's culture

    ""If we expose our kids to books and art, nothing but good can come from it." –Author / Illustrator Kevin Henkes

    "Not every book is right for every person, but for every person exists the perfect book." –Teresa Schauer, Librarian and Diva of Book Trailers for All

    “…I write books for teenagers because I vividly remember what it felt like to be a teen facing everyday and epic dangers. I don’t write to protect them. It’s far too late for that. I write to give them weapons–in the form of words and ideas-that will help them fight their monsters. I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.” –Sherman Alexie in the Wall Street Journal

    "Everything is sweetened by risk." –Alexander Smith

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Curious City is a children’s book consulting duo building creative marketing projects and outreach for authors, illustrators, and publishers.  To learn more about our philosophy and projects, visit Marketing Projects & Outreach.

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Kirsten Cappy is the owner of Curious City.  Formed to tackle projects that forge a stronger relationship between children and the literature created for them, Curious City designs and implements creative theme-based marketing for children’s authors and illustrators.

Kirsten Cappy has been a part of the book industry for more than 18 years.  Starting out as a bookseller, she quickly became a buyer, and then a sales representative helping select books for stores throughout the Northeast.  Working with more than 200 bookstores, she observed what forms of outreach by authors worked for booksellers and what forms of outreach by booksellers worked for readers.

After discovering that bookstores and libraries only reached a small percentage of potential readers, though, she formed Curious City to help children better access their literature and children’s book authors and illustrators better access their readers.

Through Curious City, Kirsten has created the marketing plans for countless board, picture, chapter, and young adult books.  Each marketing plan is a unique approach based on the book’s story and potential readership.  To keep both ideas and tools fresh, Kirsten follows marketing trends, publishing trends, and new technologies.

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Mark Mattos is the lead partner in Curious City.  With over 30 years experience in small business, Mark has an uncanny ability to turn a project concept into an operating plan.   An avid follower of new technology and a collector of old, Mark can solve almost any conundrum or challenge.

Mark is also a photographer and a creative thinker whose insight and ideas drive many of Curious City’s projects.  Mark splits his time between Curious City and AudioFile Magazine where he is the Web Manager.

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