Who We Are

Susan Kammeraad-Campbell — Publisher/Editor in Chief
Shanna McGarry — Associate
Mary Lynn Kohl — Sales
Carley Wilson Brown — Design Director
Cyndi Boots — Business and Distribution Manager
William Campbell — Distribution
Mike Coker — Acquisitions Editor, history
John Costa — Web Master/Designer
Ellie Maas Davis — Acquisitions Editor, general
Katherine Giles — General Editorial
Courtney Rowson — Designer
Sally Weber — Acquisitions Editor, general
Marjory Wentworth — Acquisitions Editor, poetry

Affiliations and Memberships

Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce

Publisher/Editor in Chief
Susan Kammeraad-Campbell

Susan Kammeraad-Campbell is founder and publisher of Joggling Board Press. As editor-in-chief, she has guided all JBP titles from concept to print including a number of award-winning books – “On the Eve of the Charleston Renaissance” (2005), “Transfer of Grace” (2007), “The Boathouse: Tales and Recipes from a Southern Kitchen” (2006), “Dirty Secrets, Dirty War” (2008), “Swallow Savannah” (2009), “Armageddon Conspiracy” (2009), “The Lonely Shadow” (2009). She also is award-winning author and journalist. Her book, Doc: The Story of Dennis Littky and His Fight for a Better School (Contemporary Books 1988; Plume 1989; ASCD 2006) became an NBC movie of the week called "A Town Torn Apart." As a journalist, she worked for United Press International, and for newspapers in the Midwest and New Hampshire. She has served as a news reporter, dance critic, editorial writer and is an occasional theater critic for the Charleston Post and Courier. For five years, she served as director of publications for the Medical University of South Carolina, including editor in chief of a 110,000-circulation magazine, the largest circulation magazine in the South Carolina Lowcountry.

In addition, Susan has worked on initiatives with the Miami University, the College of Charleston, Charleston Southern University, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Currently, she is a research associate with the Community and Regional Resilience Institute (CARRI), administered by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and funded by the Department of Homeland Security. Kammeraad-Campbell is a key player in the case study evaluating and developing the resilience of the Charleston, SC, and in the development of a national common framework for resilience. Go to www.resilienceus.org.

E-mail: susan@jogglingboardpress.com

Associate
Shanna McGarry

The multi-talented Shanna McGarry served as director of sales and general manager of JBP for three years before deciding to take a well-earn hiatus to travel. Shanna continues to provide development and design support to JBP. She is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. Prior to moving to Charleston in 2004 to pursue a career in graphic design, she worked as an account executive at Lindstrom Beatty Public Relations, where she served a distinguished roster of arts and non-profit clients and helped create and launch the Women's Resource Fairs marketing cooperative in several Chicago-area communities. While in-house graphic designer at the South Carolina Historical Society, Shanna earned a 2007 Graphic Design USA award for her production of the membership publication Carologue, and her personal photography has won recognition in the Charleston City Paper's Annual Photo Contest.

E-mail: shanna@jogglingboardpress.com

Sales Representative
Mary Lynn Kohl

Mary Lynn Kohl is the senior sales representative for JBP focusing primarily on the Charleston, Mt. Pleasant and the Grand Strand. Growing up in a small Mississippi town, Mary Lynn felt she must travel. After college at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, she worked as a flight attendant for almost a decade with Delta Air Lines. Here, she quenched her travel thirst and acquired lots of customer service and public relations skills.

Mary Lynn moved to Charleston from New York City in 2001. Seeing a need for busy parents, seniors and everyday folks, she started a personal assistant business, Charleston Gal Friday, in 2006. She has also been spotted a few nights a week pouring glasses of wine and serving up interesting cheeses at O’Hara and Flynn’s. Her love of books and people drew her to JBP in 2007. She and her husband just gave birth to a baby girl.

E-mail: marylynn@jogglingboardpress.com

Design Director
Carley Wilson Brown

Carley Wilson Brown has more than 25 years experience in advertising and graphic design, half of those years in book publishing. She is a Lowcountry native and has lived and worked in other places since her formative years in Moncks Corner, including Columbia, Los Angeles and Atlanta. She has some perspective now. In Atlanta, she was marketing art director for Turner Publishing, a division of TBS which published more than 200 titles including several NY Times Bestsellers. In 1997, Turner’s publisher, Michael Reagan, asked her to join him as design director for Lionheart Books, Ltd., an Atlanta-based book packager. Working with trade publishers that included Andrews McMeel, Running Press and Time-Life Books, she spent 10 eventful years making books ranging from oversized monographs to gift book minis. Carley returned to the Lowcountry in 2007 on a mission: to immerse herself in the region’s culture, history, and natural environment that she so dearly missed. She was naturally drawn to Joggling Board Press for these reasons and continues to endeavor in the art and teamwork of making books.

E-mail: carleybrown@bellsouth.net

Distribution
William Campbell

William R. Campbell, Ph.D., is a political scientist with a flair for the absurd and a knack for what matters. His skills are diverse (he speaks four languages), as is his ability to aid and abet the vagaries of a small, but feisty, independent press. If you call JBP, he is likely the one to answer. Word to the wise: Beware.

E-mail: bill@jogglingboardpress.com

Business and Distribution Manager
Cyndi Boots

Cyndi Boots likes to say that for JBP she handles the books and the books. Cyndi keeps all accounts and bookkeeping matters in order, but also sees to it that books are shipped and distributed in a timely fashion. She has lived most of her life in the Charleston area and considers herself one of the rare natives. She graduated from College of Charleston with a Bachelor’s in Psychology. When Cyndi’s not working hard, you will probably see her around Charleston doing karaoke contests, sunning on the beach or hiking the Appalachian trail.

E-mail: cyndi@jogglingboardpress.com

Acquisitions editor, history
Mike Coker

Acquisitions editor for historical fiction and non-fiction, Mike Coker has served as publications consultant and visual materials curator for the South Carolina Historical Society since 2000. He is co-author of Historic South Carolina (Lammert Inc. Historical Publishing Network, June 2007) and served as image editor of The Encyclopedia of South Carolina History (University of South Carolina Press, October 2006 .) His articles on Southern history have appeared in numerous magazines, journals and newspapers, including frequent contributions to Charleston Magazine. His areas of specialty are the Civil War, the American Revolution and American Folklore.

E-mail: michael@jogglingboardpress.com

Web Master/Designer
John Costa

John Costa was born and raised in the bucolic splendor of New Jersey. He is a graduate of Ohio University's E.W. Scripps School of Journalism. After graduating college, he moved to Charleston where he worked as the Visual Communications Manager for the Medical University of South Carolina's Office of Enrollment Management. John also did volunteer graphic design work for Save the Light, Inc, a non- profit organization dedicated to the preservation of the Morris Island Lighthouse at Folly Beach, SC. John finally realized his dream of living in "a big city" and moved to Chicago, IL in the fall of 2006. The distance has not prevented John from continuing his relationship with Joggling Board Press.

Generial Editorial
Ellie Maas Davis

Ellie Maas David provides editorial and acquisition services to JBP. Educated at Southern Methodist University, University of Kansas and University of Witswatersrandin Johannesburg, Ellie Maas Davis is co-founder and principal of Pressque Editing, a manuscript editing and publishing consultation firm. Davis has worked for environmental and human rights issues with Amnesty International and the Black Sash Trust. The founder and co-producer of Monday Night Blues, the longest running weekly literary event in Charleston, she is published in a number of anthologies and journals, is an active member of the Charleston Poetry Society and sits on the board of directors for the Lowcountry Initiative for the Literary Arts. She lives on James Island with her family.

E-mail: ellie@jogglingboardpress.com

General Editorial
Katherine W. Giles

Katherine W. Giles grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and published her first book in Mrs. Hampton’s first-grade language-arts class. After graduating from the University of Georgia, she worked as a book reviewer and assistant buyer for Bas Bleu, Inc., a mail-order book catalog company in Atlanta. Although she loved being paid to read, she relocated to Charleston in 2007 to escape Atlanta traffic. In addition to her work with Joggling Board Press, she is the assistant editor of publications at the South Carolina Historical Society, editor of the cookbook Food for Thought: Brain Food, Soul Food, Comfort Food, and a writer-for-hire.

E-mail: katherine@jogglingboardpress.com

Designer
Courtney Rowson

www.gunterdesign.com

Acquisitions Editor, general
Sally Weber

Sally A. Weber is an inveterate reader. Anything that comes across her plate she devours with Manichean glee. Being a native of the wooly winters of Michigan, Weber happily consumes what lands in the slush pile with a ferocity that belies her mild-mannered ways. Point is, if you send us a manuscript we didn’t ask for, Weber is likely to read it. So be nice and follow her rules (See submission guidelines).

E-mail: sally@jogglingboardpress.com

Publicist, Advisor
Marjory Wentworth

Marjory Wentworth has been involved with JBP nearly from its beginning, offering her vast knowledge of the publishing world and working as lead publicist on many JBP titles, including “The Boathouse,” “Dirty Secrets, Dirty War,” “The Lonely Shadow,” “Armageddon Conspiracy,” and “Dead Weight.” Marjory is poet laureate of South Carolina, a position she has held since 2003. Educated at Mt. Holyoke College and Oxford University, she received her M.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing from New York University. Her poems have appeared in numerous books and magazines, and she has twice been nominated for The Pushcart Prize. Her children’s book, “Shackles,” was released by Legacy Publications in 2009. Marjory teaches poetry in an arts and healing program for cancer patients and their families at Roper Hospital in Charleston, S.C. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Lowcountry Initiative for the Literary Arts (LILA), The Poetry Society of S C, and the University of SC Poetry Initiative and was the poetry column for the Charleston Post and Courier.

For more than 20 years, Wentworth has worked for numerous publishers and authors organizing publicity and marketing campaigns. Based in New York City for ten years, she served as the U.S. PR/Marketing Director for London-based Reader's International (associated with Amnesty International), Serpent's Tail Press, and Persea Books. During that time she facilitated a one-million-dollar library marketing grant from the Rockefeller Foundation and established herself as a freelance book and author publicist. In addition to consulting with Joggling Board Press, Wentworth has worked as a consultant for numerous publishers including Harper Collins, Grove Atlantic, Berkley Publishing, Thomas Nelson and Sleeping Bear Press. Since moving to South Carolina in 1989, she has specialized in regional author tours. Her Lowcountry clients include Mary Alice Monroe, Thomas Blagden Jr., Beth Webb Hart, Gary Smith, Dorothea Benton Frank and Gordon Rhea.

E-mail: marjory@jogglingboardpress.com