Marketing
for Books, Courses, Films and Authors
Our Publications, Outreach
and Media Channels…
WATERSIDE NEWSLETTER
Waterside features its authors, books and films in its monthly newsletter, sent to over 10,000 industry leaders, publishers, editors and authors.
WATERSIDE SUMMITS
Coming Soon: Waterside Summit Series featuring its top authors and creators in professionally moderated interviews on today’s hottest topics. Health, Love & Relationship, Meditation & Mindfulness…and many other topics of interest.
Earth Gratitude
Our Earth Gratitude Project features authors, filmmakers, speakers, peacemakers and futurists — each giving their greatest wisdom and strategies for a better world and a safer humanity. The project includes regular eZine publications, a video docuseries and an active social media footprint.
We frequently post new author releases and updates on our Facebook page. Check us out there and follow us to get all our updates.
We’re ramping up our Instagram presence with new videos and announcements. If you’re an author, you’ll want to follow us there.
Our Podcast
Liquid Bliss Worldwide isn’t just a podcast—it’s a living conversation, a space where consciousness, creativity, and transformation collide. Every week, host Dominic Flores welcomes thought leaders, artists, and visionaries—many of whom are part of Gayle’s literary family—authors, seekers, and explorers of the unknown. No rigid schedules. No formulas. Just real, in-the-moment dialogue with some of the most fascinating minds out there. What is emergent intelligence? What happens when new creative frequencies meet ancient wisdom? The only way to find out is to tune in, stay present, and see what unfolds.
Distribution Channels
for Your Work…
BLACKSTONE AUDIO
For audio books we work with Blackstone Audio, one of the largest audio publishers in the world. They create physical audio cds and downloads for sale throughout the world. Only a select number of print authors are chosen for our special audio publishing relationship with Blackstone Audio.
Waterside Publishing Foreign Rights
All titles published by Waterside Publishing are represented by Waterside foreign rights, one of the strongest foreign rights agencies in the world with a network of international agents in all major foreign languages and territories. Waterside foreign rights has placed editions in dozens of countries for hundreds of individual titles generating in excess of fifty million dollars for authors in foreign rights income.
WATERSIDE EDUCATION
Turn your work into a lucrative online course with Waterside Education’s course development, publishing and marketing programs. Courses are distributed through our network of course publishers and through our own Waterside Education course platform.
INGRAM PUBLISHING SERVICES/TWO RIVERS DISTRIBUTION
Two Rivers Distribution is Ingram’s premier distribution service. With more than fifty sales reps their powerful reach is world wide. Two Rivers Distribution is reserved for authors whose books merit a minimum initial printing of at least five thousand copies.
Marketing Experts Available
to Waterside Authors…
Fauzia Burke
Our online publicity campaigns help increase author visibility, create a relationship with readers, and launch books on the web. We help authors cut through the noise in today’s competitive market by reaching out to hundreds of websites in the targeted communities. It is our job to develop a strategy, shape a consistent message, work with the media, and create exposure.
Christopher Van Buren
All Waterside authors receive a free marketing consultation with Christopher Van Buren, where they’ll get clarity about their top priorities to achieve their goals. Each session is a personal, one-on-one consultation designed to give authors a roadmap to their best activities, given their current situation.
Christopher Van Buren has worked in online marketing and media for over 20 years, as a publisher, marketing director, campaign manager, and launch strategist. He is an expert in content marketing, affiliate marketing and online strategies. Chris has written numerous books in the technology, travel and self-help markets and spent eight years as a literary agent, helping authors get their books published.
Dea Shandera-Hunter
Dea Shandera-Hunter has consulted in every area of the entertainment and communications businesses from publicity to production through distribution for books, products, films and television. The mission of Spirit Rising Productions is to use all forms of technology and media to inspire, uplift and entertain humanity worldwide.
MISSION STATEMENT Waterside’s mission is to help authors and publishers create and distribute books that bring knowledge, joy, and wisdom to the world.
WHAT WE DO Waterside publishes ebooks, audio books, print on demand and traditional print books. We have been honored for several years by Amazon as their preferred white gloves partner for non-fiction ebooks. We have a unique relationship with Blackstone Audio to distribute audios and with Two Rivers Distribution to distribute books to retail bookstores. Blackstone and Two Rivers have more than one hundred sales reps and distribute product internationally. Waterside Publishing titles have sold millions of copies and our primary focus is on authors who have established audiences and are able to promote their books aggressively.
WILLIAM GLADSTONE
Bill Gladstone founded Waterside Productions, Inc. in 1982 and has personally placed more than 5000 titles with dozens of publishers. He has represented stars of the technical world ranging from Peter Norton to Linus Torvalds and was responsible for selling the first “For Dummies” book, DOS for Dummies by Dan Gookin, which led to the phenomenal series which now has sold over 200 million copies.
Currently Mr. Gladstone personally represents individual authors such as spiritual teachers Eckhart Tolle, Dr. Barbara DeAngelis, and Neale Donald Walsch, radio talk show host Thom Hartmann, international peace advocate Dr. Ervin Laszlo, philanthropist Shari Arison, New York Times bestselling author Victor Villasenor, environmental activists Michael Tobias, Paul Ehrlich, Hunter Lovins, and many other outstanding authors and professionals dedicated to creating books which inspire and improve the world. Mr. Gladstone is also the author of DR. AND MASTER SHA: MIRACLE SOUL HEALER, the best-selling novels THE TWELVE and THE POWER OF TWELVE, co-author with Jack Canfield of THE GOLDEN MOTORCYCLE GANG as well as producer of the film TAPPING THE SOURCE and co-author of the book TAPPING THE SOURCE (released in paperback as THE COMPLETE MASTER KEY SYSTEM). Mr. Gladstone is the host for the public television series Inside Wellness and also the series Soul Healing Miracles with Dr. and Master Sha.
GAYLE GLADSTONE
Gayle Gladstone has worked as a TV and film producer and talent manager including managing the career of actor, musician, and songwriter Hoyt Axton. As a film producer, her film Tapping the Source won international acclaim and numerous awards.
Gayle focuses on publishing books from authors who are pushing the boundaries of awareness. Gayle delights in books that bring joy and wisdom to others. Gayle’s philanthropic activities include working with children and victims of sexual abuse.
Gayle is the pillar of her family which includes eight children and step children and more than a dozen grandchildren and step grandchildren. Gayle has unique intuitive abilities and is dedicated to bringing kindness to the world.
Pub Site is the new easy-to-use website builder
designed specifically for books and authors.
Special Discount exclusively for Waterside authors – Read info below
Pub Site is the new easy-to-use website builder designed specifically for books and authors. It supports social media, author tours, blogging, online bookseller links, and even ecommerce! It’s so easy to use that anyone can have a professional looking website up and running in minutes!
Pub Site allows authors to easily:
Customize a design and layout
Easily add bookseller buy buttons
Display and link to social media pages
Add a mailing list sign-up
Start a blog or import an existing one
Add video and audio
Post appearances
Use your own domain name or ours
Implement analytics and SEO
and even ecommerce!
Pub Site scales to fit the needs of all authors—whether they have published one book or fifty.
You can set up a site yourself or we have packages starting at $299 to set it up for you. There is a 14-day free trial, no credit card required. Waterside Press authors get a discount of $14.99 for the first year by signing up.
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