President

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.

Director of Sales and Marketing

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 and from there has moved into the Director of Sales and Marketing position.

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. 

You're organizing a literary dinner party. Which three writers, dead or alive, do you invite? John Keats, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Taylor Swift