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TGC Worldwide Adds Three Hires Spanning Retail, Publishing and Screen Deals
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TGC Worldwide, a firm that manages author platforms, publishing strategy and speaker representation, has appointed three new team members covering retail placement, editorial acquisitions and script-to-screen media, according to the company’s announcement.
Jeanie Bailey joins as an advisory board member and director of retail and publishing partnerships. Per the announcement, she brings more than 40 years in retail, wholesale, publishing and e-commerce, including three separate tenures at Books-A-Million in retail operations, book purchasing and wholesale. Before retiring, she served as senior director of e-commerce sales and operations there, and earlier held director of mass market sales roles at DK Publishing, Thomas Nelson and Parragon, plus a vice president post overseeing U.S. operations for Make Believe Ideas.
Lara Butler-Montague returns to TGC as director of client services, a role the company says will expand its work connecting books to screen and broadcast media. She previously served as creative director at Redirect Marketing Group, where she ran bilingual television, radio and digital campaigns from scripting through paid media and sales reporting. In an earlier stint at TGC, she managed author and executive accounts and secured broadcast and podcast placements. She holds marketing and photography degrees from Drexel University.
Meredith Johnson joins as account manager, bringing editorial and acquisitions experience from Springer Nature, Rizzoli International Publications and Wiley. The announcement states she met her 2025 acquisition targets a quarter early as a commissioning editor at Springer Nature and has worked on contract negotiation, international rights acquisition and production across nineteen books. She is a graduate of the Columbia Publishing Course.
"Most authors fight battles they can’t see: winning over a publisher, a retailer, and the media," said Charlie Fusco, founder and CEO of TGC Worldwide, in the announcement. "Our team has now sat on every side of that table."
According to the company, Bailey will build exclusive retail and media partnership packages across national, wholesale, independent and e-commerce accounts, while Johnson will apply her editorial and rights background to client campaign management and publisher negotiations. "I spent four decades watching strong books fail because nobody built the retail plan," Bailey said. "TGC treats a launch as an operating system, not a publicity moment." Butler-Montague framed her focus around measurable results: "Airtime only matters if it moves books. Every placement we build should connect to a measurable sale." Johnson, for her part, pointed to the acquisition side of the business: "Publishers decide in weeks what an author has worked on for years. Knowing how that decision actually gets made changes how you build the book and the pitch."
TGC Worldwide describes its broader business as helping authors and executives turn visibility into sales, media coverage and speaking engagements, through services spanning book development, launch publicity, retail strategy, book tours and speaker representation.
Studio CarryOnHarry sees this as a staffing move built around a specific pitch: that a launch succeeds or fails on retail and editorial relationships as much as on publicity, and three hires with direct experience on those sides of the business is how a mid-sized author-services firm tries to prove that case to prospective clients.
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Br. Chris Sweeney, SC, published "Ride for Reid: 6,000 Miles for Love, Faith, and Family," documenting a cross-country cycling expedition undertaken to raise awareness and support for his nephew Reid, who has Down syndrome. The book is out now through Covenant Books.
Sweeney, a member of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart for 34 years, rode from Florida’s coast to California’s redwood forests, a route the book describes as roughly six thousand miles. According to the publisher’s description, the trip included searing heat, freezing cold, mechanical breakdowns, saddle sores and a crash just miles from the finish.
Before the ride, Sweeney spent decades teaching in Catholic high schools across Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi, followed by twelve years as a missionary in Mozambique, where he worked on farming projects, grant writing and feeding boarding students at his school. He holds a bachelor’s degree in physical education from the University of New Orleans and a master’s degree in Catholic School Leadership from the University of San Francisco.
The publisher describes the book as combining travelogue, memoir, and spiritual reflection with candid observations on faith and encounters with strangers during the journey. "Every mile reminded me that we are never truly alone, and that love is the most powerful fuel on any journey," Sweeney said, according to the announcement.
"Ride for Reid" is available through Covenant Books and major retailers including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google Play and the Apple iTunes Store.
Studio CarryOnHarry sees this as part of a familiar but durable genre, the faith-driven endurance memoir, and one where the specificity of Sweeney’s own background, missionary work, decades of teaching, a family motive, gives it more grounding than most.
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Br. Chris Sweeney, SC, has published "Ride for Reid: 6,000 Miles for Love, Faith, and Family," a book recounting a solo cross-country cycling trip he undertook to raise awareness and support for his nephew Reid, who has Down syndrome, according to the publisher, Covenant Books.
The book follows Sweeney’s route from Louisiana to California, passing through Florida’s coastline, mountain passes, and what the publisher describes as searing heat and bone-chilling cold along the way. The announcement states Sweeney faced mechanical failures, saddle sores, and a crash just miles from the finish line before completing the roughly 6,000-mile journey.
According to the book’s synopsis, the project began as a way to honor Reid, described as a boy whose smile could light up a room, and grew into what Sweeney frames as a broader meditation on faith and service to others. The publisher categorizes the book as part travelogue, part memoir, and part spiritual reflection, pitched at cyclists and general readers alike.
Sweeney is a member of a religious community, indicated by the "SC" designation following his name, and the book situates his physical endurance test within a framework of Christian faith throughout the ride.
For Studio CarryOnHarry, the story worth watching isn’t the mileage, it’s whether a personal fundraising ride like this translates into sustained attention or support for Down syndrome advocacy beyond the book’s release.
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