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“Sandi and the team are brilliant in every possible way. There’s know-how there, thought-through thinking and nobody thinks inside any box. It’s a pleasure to work with them.”

“Alan and I love working with Hilsinger-Mendelson. Hip, cool under fire and just pushy enough; and do we ever have fun celebrating our best sellers and the growth of our brand together.”

“This team, headed by the brilliant and indefatigable Sandi Mendelson, introduced my brand to the U.S. and has been smartly building on our first success since then. They are the perfect blend of savvy intelligence, promotional gusto, and genuine warmth.”

“Sandi and Judy are the publicists that all authors and agents want in their corner. They’re smart, dedicated, and orchestrate campaigns that garner high visibility and media response where it matters most. Above all they are that rare thing in our business: publicists who really, truly understand how books are sold. That’s why they are my go-to strategists and communicators.”

“I have worked with Hilsinger-Mendelson as President of Random House and as an author myself. I was most impressed by their energies, initiatives, and judgment on the most suitable venues for publicity across the whole spectrum from print and broadcasting to digital.”

“Sandi and her team are complete professionals across the board. I always love working with her on projects.”

“Sandi Mendelson is a delight to know and work with–a great publicist with a great heart. Sui Generis.”

“I love hunting for treasures and in Sandi Mendelson and Judy Hilsinger, I found the real deal—they delivered smart and savvy coverage, all the time working this brilliant publicity strategy seamlessly into my high pressure, fast-paced schedule. The best part is the joy of working with true pros.”

“Sandi Mendelson and her team are the best collaborators you could ask for: savvy, attentive, creative, and indefatigable champions of the work they represent. We should all be so lucky as to have a Sandi in our corner.”

“Sandi and Judy are masters at helping create overall marketing strategy, as well as executing the publicity and promotion components which comprise it. They are effective at branding authors, helping to launch an author’s profile, and sustaining his/her presence in the marketplace. Most impressive of all, no detail is too small for their attention.”

“In a world of PR Pretenders, Sandi and Judy are the Real Deal.”

“Authors and their agents are in the very best of hands with this team. Sandi deftly manages media and digital opportunities to build careers and strengthen brands on behalf of all those she represents, from debut to high profile authors.”

“Imaginative, collaborative, dogged and effective, Hilsinger-Mendelson is the gold standard of public relations.”

“Hilsinger-Mendelson represented Perseus Book Group and me in the launch of my first novel, Keys to the Kingdom. I could not have been more pleased — through its efforts I appeared on many of the network and cable talk shows, and participated in numerous radio and press interviews. In all of these, the Hilsinger-Mendelson personnel were professional, organized and a joy to work with.”

“I went to Hilsinger-Mendelson to do the national media launch for World Book Night in the U.S., and Sandi could not have been more enthusiastic about our cause and professional in her approach. We have been rewarded with the best possible wisdom, guidance, and creativity at every step of the way. Along with the every supporter of this ambitious campaign to get a half million free books to those in need on one day, I am enormously grateful to Sandi and her terrific team. Deeply and happily grateful.”

“Hilsinger-Mendelson East has been one of our key partners as we have grown RosettaBooks into the leading independent ebook publisher. The team of Sandi Mendelson, Dave Kass and Deborah Jensen have helped us maximize key opportunities like a never-published Kurt Vonnegut novella, the works of Winston Churchill and Arthur C. Clarke, a series with Harvard Medical School and the reinvention of Ball Four, the classic baseball book by Jim Bouton. And as importantly, we have gotten consistently excellent advice on when and where to push and when not to – first rate strategy, as well as execution.”

“I’ve always found working with Hilsinger-Mendelson to be a very good experience. They’re a professional team that is always up-front, always co-operative and more than helpful in getting what we need for the show. We’ve always gotten a terrific response after airing a piece produced in conjunction with Judy and Sandi and their clients.”

“If there were a Congressional Medal for book publicity, I would nominate Sandi Mendelson and David Kass. They’re creative, hardworking, and generous with their time—going far beyond their job descriptions to make sure that your project receives maximum exposure. You probably devoted years of your life to your book; you owe it to yourself to hire the team that will make sure all that time doesn’t go to waste and get your book in front of the people who need it.”

“Sandi knows how to help authors and publishers reach their target audience by honing an author and book’s message, and getting that message out through the media. Her team moves quickly but think long term; they’re dogged when they need to be, but move on and try something new when something’s not working. More than anything, their passion for the authors they take on is evident to anyone they interact with.”