Black Chateau Enterprises

About the agency

Black Château Enterprises is an author and publishing-focused marketing and public relations business founded in April 2016 by Desireé Duffy. Its agency-controlled historical launch announcement explains that it began as a small press and marketing firm before expanding into broader digital media, publicity and event services. Originally based in Southern California, the company now identifies Auburn, Alabama as its headquarters and describes working virtually with authors worldwide.

The business operates three related but distinct brands: Black Château, offering publicity and marketing services; Books That Make You, a reader-facing media and podcast platform founded in 2018; and The BookFest Adventure, a recurring virtual literary event founded in 2020. Black Château's Author Network combines author interviews, book reviews, articles, events and other marketing activities around book launches. This mix of owned publishing channels and external publicity is central to the company's model.

The founder's biography cites a 2022 Webby Award for a Books That Make You newsletter and a 2021 Webby nomination for The BookFest. Those are company-published recognition claims and are not treated as proof of independently earned media articles. The precise 2016 agency founding, 2018 media-platform founding and 2020 event founding should remain distinct in the directory.