MEET THE TEAM

Before establishing MerryMedia in 2002, Merry served as a network television promotion executive, an entertainment publicist and professional journalist.

Merry spent eight years as a director in NBC’s department of Affiliate Marketing, producing national promotions for all dayparts. Before that, Merry was a Press Manager for NBC, directing publicity campaigns for numerous series, movies and specials.

Her public relations background includes being part of the team that launched the Fox Broadcasting Company and the now defunct Nashville Network. In addition, she directed publicity for the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP).

Merry is the co-author of The Public Relations Writer’s Handbook, The Digital Age. The book is based on a course she originated at New York University, her alma mater, and later taught in the UCLA Extension program. The book has become an industry standard reference.

Before entering public relations, Merry worked as an entertainment journalist in New York City and her feature articles and theater reviews appeared in various national publications including USA Today, Harper’s Bazaar and Cosmopolitan. She also served as a writer for Good Morning America along with several syndicated TV shows.

Merry is passionate about Yoga and has co-written and edited several books on the subject, among them are Yoga Rx and Yoga After 50 for Dummies.

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Maryann Ridini Spencer founded the Ridini Entertainment Corporation (REC), a public relations, marketing and TV/film production company, to pursue her creative passions.

Additionally, working as a former Director of Publicity and SVP of Publicity at major Hollywood studios and agencies, she has managed numerous publicity campaigns for TV series, movies, national and international consumer brands, and various California cities. She also excels at screenwriting and TV and film production.

Among her most well-known TV productions is the award-winning Hallmark Hall of Fame movie, The Lost Valentine starring the late Betty White. Maryann’s screenplay was based on the James Michael Pratt novel and the broadcast was one of the highest-rated in the history of the CBS Television Network.

Other productions have been broadcast in foreign theatrical markets and, domestically, her productions have appeared on Showtime, TMC, plus the SyFy and USA Networks.

Her passion for food and cooking opened yet another career path as a food and lifestyle journalist serving as a freelance writer and editor for such publications as Palm Springs Life, Desert Magazine, LA Magazine, Ventura County Star, and others. She is also the on-air host of the award-winning series, Simply Delicious Living with Maryann® (2011 to present).

That series is broadcast on the PBS-TV station KVCR in Southern California, DirecTV, and DishTV and to a global audience on YouTube, and on Maryann’s blog SimplyDeliciousLiving.com.

In addition to cookbooks, Maryann is the author of four Kate Grace Novels: Lady in the Window, winner of the 2018 American Fiction Visionary Award; the 2019 Amazon Bestseller, The Paradise Table; Secrets of Grace Manor, a 2021 Best Book Finalist; and Under the Tropical Skies (2022), a 2023 Book Excellence Award Finalist for Christian Fiction which also ranked as an Amazon Top 10 “Hot New Release,” #1 on the Women's Christian Fiction list and #3 on the Women's Historical Fiction list. Her latest novel in a new mystery series, Lavender Hill Cove, was an Amazon bestseller and winner of the 2024 Book Excellence Award (Christian Fiction).

My best dish is mixing up farm-to-table ingredients to make every meal healthy as well as simply delicious. No ingredients you can't pronounce on my table!

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