Michael DiMarco (About)

About

Michael DiMarco is CEO & Publisher at Hungry Planet, an independent publishing imprint and communications company that helps authors, publishers and retail distributors reach a visually-engaged culture. Michael also has authored or co-authored a number of books including Marriable: Taking the Desperate Out of Dating, The Art of… dating series, All In, Almost Sex, B4UD8(Before You Date), and God Guy. He is married to an even more bestselling author, Hayley DiMarco, and father to their daughter Addison.

Michael’s background includes a degree in mass communication, hosting talk radio, coaching volleyball at the university level, working in digital publishing and ebooks at the largest Bible software company in the world, and stints as a marketing and creative consultant for some of the largest organizations and ministries around.

Now as Publisher and Creative Director for Hungry Planet, he partners with publishers as packager and content provider to produce books concepts that connect with teens and adults that live life with a multi-tasking mindset.

Hungry Planet’s first book Dateable: are you? are they? hit shelves in Fall 2003. In the short span since, Hungry Planet has published more than three dozen titles and has sold over 800,000 books. In addition, over seventeen titles have appeared on the CBA Young Adult Bestseller list. Four of the past five years have seen a Hungry Planet title named as a finalist for the Christian Book Award for Youth, with Sexy Girls winning the award in 2007.

On average, Hungry Planet publishes between 4-6 books a year; books known for their cutting edge interior design and award-winning covers.

Hungry Planet – “Feeding the World’s Appetite for Truth”