About Lissy Peace

As President of Blanco & Peace, Lissy runs the national public relations company based in Chicago and represents clients throughout the world. A seasoned public relations, promotion and marketing executive with two decades of diversified experience, Ms. Peace has spearheaded and coordinated promotion and publicity campaigns for a vast spectrum of projects including, entertainment venues and productions, manufacturers and retail entities, creative properties, global events, high profile restaurants, chefs and cookbooks, authors, entrepreneurs and producers, and world recognized personalities among many others.
As the company has developed a powerful niche in the book publishing industry, Lissy has spearheaded numerous campaigns and tours developing innovative marketing strategies to add to the success of each project. From a local author campaign to a nationwide multi-city tour, Lissy has successfully orchestrated and manages one of the most impactful components for marketing a book. She has continually put books on the New York Times bestseller list in addition to the many other lists of accomplishment.

One recent book campaign she lead was taken to the QVC network. On the first showing, the author sold 2,000 books after appearing on air for 8 minutes in the wee-early morning hours. This author has gone on to appear several times and has sold thousands of books. Lissy continues to work with QVC on several books and other projects as well.

She coordinated the campaign for legendary writer, author, reverend and activist William Sloane Coffin. His book "Credo" was featured in the Washington Post, the New Yorker, the Boston Globe, and the New York Times, along with a one-hour special by Bill Moyers on the PBS network nationwide. The book was nominated for a Christopher Award.

She publicized the launch of the new Nancy Drew graphic novel series which hit the front page of the USA Today, and was featured in New York Times magazine, Chicago Sun Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle among many others.

Lissy has toured with Lake Wobegone's Garrison Keillor, working to promote his live performances and book, "The Book of Guys." His shows were sell-outs and his book hit the New York Times best-seller list after a half-page story in USA Today ran (which Lissy coordinated) and remained on the list for weeks.

She has collaborated on publicity campaigns with such formidable entertainment entities as Paramount Pictures, Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, New Line, Tribune Entertainment, Landmark Entertainment Group, All American Television, Universal Studios and Trimark. Her alliance with 20th Century Fox has with stood the test of time in which she has overseen numerous different projects around the country for this huge media conglomerate.

Representing one of the top visual effects houses based in Los Angeles, Lissy has publicized the visual and digital effects work on such films on numerous films. Blanco & Peace worked directly with Universal Studios, Jersey Films, and Comic Relief executive director Bob Zmuda on the Milos Forman directed Andy Kaufman biopic, MAN ON THE MOON.

Among the many television projects, Lissy has worked on every genre of television programming in syndication, cable or network over the years, from talk to game show, mini-series to action adventure, children's to erotic thrillers, cooking to political debates. She has launched the merchandising and licensing campaign of an animated children's television series which met with enormous success one year before the actual premiere of the series. The licensing campaign was featured in USA Today on several occasions in the Life section over the course of the television shows broadcast run.

Her passion for food and wine has lead her to numerous gourmet, themed and family friendly restaurants where she has orchestrated openings and on-going publicity efforts throughout the country. She has worked on restaurant projects with large public companies such as P.F. Chang's, Famous Dave's and Hard Rock Cafe, smaller family owned operations such as Sweets & Savories, Barcello's and quick service favorites such as Al's Beef, Home Run Inn, and Portillo's. She spearheaded the grand opening celebrations and publicity for the globally successful RAINFOREST CAFE. Working with creator Steven Schussler, Lissy came on board shortly after its flagship launch at the Mall of America.

She has also represented four television cooking series on various networks with one receiving the James Beard Award for Best Cooking Program in the United States. She frequently coaches chefs and restaurant executives on the skills needed to perfect an on-air interview, personal appearance and/or demonstration. Lissy has consulted and represented numerous chefs and cooks on their cookbook endeavors with extraordinary success.

Lissy started working in the entertainment arena at WTTW/PBS in Chicago. It was here at PBS that Lissy's instinct and acumen for promoting children's properties. During her tenure at WTTW, Ms. Peace introduced the hit series WILD CHICAGO and WTTW JOURNAL, two of the station's highest rated local programs. She masterminded a WILD CHICAGO merchandising campaign that met with unprecedented success.

After 20 years working on sets and managing the public relations of television programs and feature films, Lissy has stepped into the role of television producer. She currently has three television programs under her belt. She currently is producer of the Television Library Network's "Ask The Author" program.