Jim Bergman, President
Jim is a former journalist whose feature articles on a wide variety of topics—from education to show business—appeared in mainstream publications running the gamut from The Sunday Observer Magazine (in London) and Penthouse to The Saturday Evening Post. In 1990, Jim and his wife Carol established Mediacs, a full-service design and editorial company whose clients included two nonprofits—the 92nd Street Y and The International Women’s Writing Guild. In 2016, they founded MediacsBooks, a traditional independent publishing company based in New Paltz, N.Y.
Carol Bergman
Carol is a former Adjunct Associate Professor of writing at New York University’s College of Applied Liberal Arts (1997-2020) and a founding faculty member of the Gotham Writers Workshop. Her short story, “Objects of Desire,” published in Lilith and the Whetstone Literary Review, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in nonfiction. She also compiled and edited “Another Day in Paradise,” (Orbis Books) an anthology of writing by humanitarian relief workers with a foreword by John Le Carré that was nominated for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize. While a resident in London for a decade, Carol regularly contributed articles and book reviews to The Times Educational Supplement. Her articles, essays, short stories, poems, reviews and interviews have appeared in numerous publications all over the world. Carol also teaches private by-invitation-only writing workshops and helps writers develop their projects from inception to submission for publication.
Matthew Frederick
Matthew Frederick is an independent graphic designer with a passion for book design. He recently graduated with a BFA in Graphic Design from the State University of New York at New Paltz. Matthew offers services for a range of media including print, websites, photography, and illustration. View more of his work at mattfrederick.design.
Chloe Annetts
Chloe is the owner and designer of Chloe Art and Design, a graphic design company specializing in high quality, affordable design services for web and print. Chloe is a highly trained graphic designer and visual artist. She is partnering with MediacsBooks to provide the same quality of work to our clients. You can view Chloe’s work by visiting her website at chloeartdesign.com
Carol Klenfner
Owner of Carol Klenfner PR, Carol brings 25 years of varied experience handling high-profile public relations clients. Her abilities as a generalist – expert in identifying each client’s story and effectively telling it – spans a range of personalities and enterprises including Ronnie Spector, Christine Ebersole, Rock & Roll Fantasy Camp, ABC Carpet & Home, the Fortune Society and Pilot Pen. Recent book publicity projects include “Belushi: A Biography” by Judith Belushi and Tanner Colby and “Rock Seen” by legendary rock and roll photographer Bob Gruen.
Carol’s career in publicity began in music as the go-to rock and roll publicist whose clients included everybody who was anybody. The Rolling Stones, The Who, Elton John, The Doors, Cat Stevens, Aerosmith, Pink Floyd and many others, hired her to help create and preserve an image, run interference, and when necessary, unleash damage control. The bands, their entourages, and the press, all came to know and respect Klenfner who continues to publicize clients such as Bob Gruen, who was the personal photographer to John Lennon.