Lauren Ortiz hosted our Instagram on October 16th for our weekly #SalaSundays series. Below are a few questions that we asked Lauren.
Latinx in Pub (LxP): What do you do?
Lauren Ortiz (LO): I am a publicist at Little, Brown and Company, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, working specifically on the Voracious and Little, Brown Spark imprints.
LxP: How did you get started?
LO: I started my career in publishing in September of 2020. I was lucky to be connected to the publicity team at Little, Brown for an associate role and we hit it off right away!
LxP: What do you wish you knew before getting into the industry?
LO: Before getting into the industry, I had no idea how many incredible people were involved in creating a book, from managing editorial, to designers, to marketing, and more. It takes a village to publish great books!
LxP: What book are you currently working on or reading?
LO: I am currently working on the memoir for Outlander’s Sam Heughan, titled WAYPOINTS, and a fun interactive cocktail book called POUR ME ANOTHER by J.M. Hirsch.
Lauren Ortiz joined Little, Brown in 2020 as an Associate Publicist with Little, Brown Spark and Voracious imprints focusing on lifestyle, cooking, health and wellness, science, and psychology titles. Prior to joining Little, Brown, she worked at NBCUniversal as a Page in NBCU’s Page Program and later as a publicity coordinator with NBC Entertainment, where she assisted in publicity campaigns for late night and prime time television shows including Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Law & Order: SVU, and The Blacklist. In her time at Little, Brown, she’s had the opportunities of working with talented authors such as Sam Heughan, Leah Thomas, Mamadou Ndiaye, Christopher Kimball, among others. A graduate of Rutgers Business School – New Brunswick, she earned her BS in Business Marketing.
