An Imprint of Collaborative Experience
Julia D. Shaw & Toni Coleman Brown are business partners who are doing well by doing good. Together they have over 40 years of experience in the publishing industry. If there is one thing that we do, we create bestselling book projects. Julia is an established event manager and literary publicity consultant. Toni was responsible for establishing Black Expressions Book Club for Doubleday Direct, which was one of the most successful clubs in the history of the company generating over $25 million in sales.
Over the past three years the Collaborative Experience has published four book anthologies, which included the Delayed But Not Denied Series Books 1-3 and Our Stories, Our Voices: Black Men Speak Their Truth. In addition to these successful book projects, the company has helped several authors independently publish their own single title books.
They have been featured in and across a variety of media outlets and are both residents of Southeast Queens and combined are the mothers of four beautiful daughters.
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