Crown Holders Transmedia and EDC Creations Media Group has evolved from a one-person event planning operation to one of the nation’s leading African American, woman owned, Internet publicity and book promotion firms.

Crown Holders Transmedia and EDC Creations Media Group are a marketing, branding, and PR firm that specializes in Internet book promotions, Internet 3.0 marketing campaigns for artists in film and music, brand coaching and RSS feed syndication for small to medium-size businesses, new authors and individuals.

Transmedia storytelling is the technique of telling a single story or story experience across multiple platforms and formats using current digital technologies. And we are the BEST of the BEST!

We are dedicated to serving individuals and companies in need of creative and rewarding marketing strategies that will make their business grow. We can leverage the power of the new media, book club partnerships and Internet mediums to promote their books or business and its “brand" through effective marketing campaigns.

Meet Ella D. Curry

Ella D. Curry is the president of Crown Holders Transmedia Group and EDC Creations Media Group. She brings more than twenty-five years of PR and marketing experience to clients in film, music, publishing and corporate event planning. Her expertise, as well as her love for all things literary has earned her a reputation as a respected leader in the publishing/marketing industry.

Widely recognized as a leading expert on African American book promotion, she is asked to speak and/or moderate panels at literary events and conferences across the nation.

Her client list reads like the Who’s Who Elite of publishing and with good reason.

EDC Creations uses the latest technology and proven business models to create golden success behind every project and book Ella launches into the world!

Crown Holders Transmedia is the parent company of EDC Creations Media Group, the Sankofa Literary Society, the Black Authors Network Radio Show and Black Pearls Magazine. The Sankofa Literary Society empowers independent and/or self-published authors through mentoring programs.

The popular Black Authors Network radio program offers new authors a chance to showcase their books to thousands of international readers weekly. Black Pearls Magazine, is an online literary destination for thousands book clubs and social network fans around the globe.

As the host of award-winning BAN Radio Show and editor of Black Pearls Magazine, Ella has interviewed award winning authors, celebrated journalists, and community leaders such as: the legendary Dr. Maya Angelou, Alexis M. Herman former U.S. Secretary of Labor, The View’s co-host Sherri Shepherd, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Leonard Pitts Jr., New York Times bestselling authors Walter Mosley, Kimberla Lawson Roby, Mary Frances Berry, Brenda Jackson, Mary B. Morrison, Francis Ray, Wahida Clark and Mary Monroe.

In addition to interviewing change agents, she has showcased such top-selling authors as: Sue Monk Kidd, Dr. Daniel Black, Dr. Cornell West, Paula Giddings, Haki R. Madhubuti, Marita Golden, Dr. Lakesia D. Johnson, Sonia Sanchez, social activists Dr. Dorothy Irene Height and Jayne Cortez, social psychologist Wade W. Nobles, Olympian Devon Harris, children’s book author Eloise Greenfield, and Dr. Bernard Walker former US astronaut.

While providing media coverage for the Congressional Black Caucus Author’s Pavilion and Book Expo America for  five years, Ella has found that interviewing profound community leaders shaped her own life and business.

She has interviewed and learned from: Dr. Julianne Malveaux, political commentator and 15th president of Bennett College, award-winning journalist Gwen Ifill, Dr. Brenda Greene, Exec. Dir. of the Center for Black Literature, Medgar Evers College, Annette Gordon-Reed, and American historian and Harvard Law School professor and Lynn Richardson, the The Mortgage Guru and leader of MC Lyte’s Hip Hop Sisters Foundation.

Ella D. Curry has also interviewed award-winning actors and actresses such as Hill Harper, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson, Dakota Fanning, Tristan Wilds, Tanya Wright, Tyrese Gibson, Bern Nadette Stanis, Pam Grier, Winter Ramos of Love & Hip-Hop NY and international, motivational speaker Lisa Nichols from the Secret DVD.

She has also been honored with interviews with musical artists jazz great Ron Carter, MC Lyte, and the celebrated drummer Cora Coleman-Dunham.

Ms. Curry lives in Maryland with her daughter. When she’s not working, she loves to travel, write short stories, and chat in Internet groups with her international group of friends. As her entrepreneurial spirit guides the way upward, she continues to involve herself in challenging, life enhancing projects.

If you would like more information or have comments, you may reach her via email at: elladcurry@edc-creations.com