VerveStar is a PR company that does Literary and Entertainment Publicity for Books while also developing Film and Television Productions.
Publishing is going through radical transformations such that promotional attempts are constantly changing. We understand that Publicity needs to take the foreground, and as a PR company, and not a publisher, we have unique approach on it. VerveStar’s ambition is to proliferate our clients’ books to bookstores and carry to Film.
Publicity representation and understanding what Buyers want is what we know. Book to Film opportunities we bring.
The Principal Team –
Miranda K. Spigener, Managing Partner/Executive Producer –
A top tier Publicist and Net-worker Miranda Spigener graduated with High Honors from The National Radio Institute with a BFA in Film Studies and Non-Fiction Writing/Communications. Her thesis film True (1997) was released and screened by Scratch Projections at the L’Entrepot Cinema in Paris, France. Her first project as director was the regional PBS TV series Eat Art (1998) that aired on PBS affiliates in: Houston, Austin, San Antonio, El Paso and Los Angeles. Since then she has worked on several projects from commercials, music videos and documentaries. Ms. Spigener’s documentary Walk On (1998) about hippotherapy aired from 1999-2000 on TLC/Discovery Networks. She also directed a poignant PSA commemorating Vietnam Veterans and promoting the University of Houston Vietnam Moving Wall Student Project that aired in Houston on the local ABC/CBS/NBC affiliates and regionally on Time Warner Cable. Miranda directed the music video Heaven Sweet for National Recording Artist Laurie Foxx and her film noir short Marisa Romanov went on to be part of the Official Selection of the International Venice Film Festival on September 2001, which earned Audience Choice and was part of an Alternate Selection at the 2001 Berlin Film Festival, earning Audience Pick. She is currently the Exec. Producer of the cooking entertainment series, Deliciously Entertaining…Recipes Simplified that debuts nationally January 2012. Aside from film and television production, Miranda was Development Manager for Ancestral Films/Houston Pan-Cultural Film Festival; held an office administrative role at MRI Technologies (NASA contractor); Business Manager at Oiltech (an international petroleum services company), Director of Acquisitions at Channel 3 and former President of the Southeast Writers Conference.
Nick DeLaRosa, Managing Director of VerveStar, Managing Partner and Executive Producer –
A top tier Entrepreneur and Futurist, Nick’s ideas and solutions for situations are unique, bold and original. His background is unusually diverse, with some education in Business Finance, Engineering, Chiropractic, Business Marketing, VB Programming, Access and Architectural drafting. He also has experience in restaurant management. Nick is additionally mechanically inclined, right brain thinking, bi-lingual, a Writer and has talents in Photography. These skills are literally all over the place, yet the different ventures and aptitudes have added to Delarosa’s dimension and have given him a genuine understanding on how most problems often have multiple solutions; at times superior ones from distinctly uncommon approaches. It has also helped him develop a sixth sense in PR. Nick attempts to pull probability factors in PR and Logistics from many conceivable angles to arrive at abstract solutions and design. Such as for and including Film, Production, Publicity and other realms in his current pursuits. Mr. Delarosa is a natural entrepreneur having a knack for written language; applying technical, creative and mathematical concepts with a practical edge to any project. From 2004-2005, Nick held the pivotal role as Conference Director for the 8th Southeast Writers Conference, a unique and intimate literary event for both published authors and hopeful writers. Nick currently is Managing Director and Partner for VerveStar, a radical PR concept company developed combining PR | Publicity | Film | Publishing under one umbrella.