Susan Harrow was born to a gypsy mother who read people's futures on their faces. She inherited her mother's gift for seeing what is most important in a person. Her father was a marionette maker who taught Susan to go through life with no strings attached.

She uses her own life, which explodes with contradictions, to help others make sense of theirs for the media.

She has lived the life of a celibate monk, a wild woman, a vegetarian, a carnivore, an au pair in Paris, an English teacher, a tennis pro, a jewelry designer, a sales rep, a publicist, a media coach and marketing strategist, and is constantly discovering new roles to try.

She was almost sold into slavery to a Bedouin Sheik in Israel for 10 camels and a mule, chased by elephants in Africa, loved by the leader of the Anarchist party in Italy, narrowly escaped drowning while rafting down the Zambezi river in class five rapids, recruited by the CIA but decided she didn't want to leap tall buildings in Bolivia in a single bound, and so elected to teach English at Mission High School in San Francisco, instead. On her first day of teaching she saved a student from being knifed in the hallway, and miraculously escaped her tenure there without any visible flesh wounds.

Which all made the perils of publicity seem sweet.

For the past fifteen years, Susan Harrow has run a media coaching and marketing firm which specializes in promoting executives, authors, speakers, entrepreneurs, and dot coms whose projects have a lot of passion and heart.

Her clients include PlanetRx, iVillage, Random House, Celestial Arts, Peachpit Press/Addison-Wesley, Gibbs-Smith, Bill Graham Presents, the North Face, best-selling authors Carol Adrienne and Larry Magid, among others. She also consulted with Pacific Bell Directory, The Yellow Pages, throughout California for over nine years.

Susan Harrow is the publicist for several best-selling books and has given a number of previously unknown clients much more than their fifteen minutes of fame.