About

Beaufort Books

Beaufort Books is an independent publisher based in New York City. Beaufort publishes a mix of non-fiction and fiction titles, with about 15–20 new titles each year. Beaufort has published four New York Times bestsellers since 2007: If I Did It by the Goldman Family, Hide!!! by Jeff Foxworthy, The Comeback by Consumer Electronics Association President Gary Shapiro, and One Nation Under Taught by Dr. Vince M. Bertram.

Beaufort favors a collaborative process in which the publisher and the author work together to create a beautiful book and design unique publicity, marketing, and sales plans that make sense for each book.

Beaufort Books has two imprints: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries and Papier-Mache Press.

The Team

Eric M. Kampmann – CEO

Eric Kampmann has worked in book publishing since 1970 at Viking, St. Martin’s, and later Simon & Schuster. He has worked with independent publishers since 1981. Eric is the founder of Midpoint Trade Books, a sales and distribution company for independent publishers. Eric has also taught book publishing courses at Harvard, Columbia, Hofstra, and NYU. Eric has owned Beaufort Books since the 1980s.

Alec Klein – Publisher

Bio coming soon.

Alexa Schmidt – Senior Editor

Bio coming soon.

Kaylee Lovato – Marketing and Publicity Associate

Kaylee first served as an intern for Beaufort Books in the Fall of 2022, later acquiring a bookselling position at Barnes and Noble where she worked for over a year earning the lead bookseller title in the Children’s department. She joined the Beaufort team after a position opened up in the Summer of 2024 as the part-time Marketing and Publicity Associate. 

Prior, she graduated with a Master’s degree in Book Publishing from Portland State University, where she worked as a staff member at Ooligan Press, the student-run trade publisher on campus. If Kaylee isn’t snuggled up with her cat reading, you can probably find her taking pictures of her books for her bookstagram, in the kitchen baking something sweet, or spending time with her friends and family.