Nea Simone

Nea Simone is a New York Times bestselling author, Executive Producer, media strategist, and Founder & CEO of Bespoke Media Marketing, a strategic entertainment marketing and audience development agency working across film, television, documentary, animation, publishing, and IP-driven ventures.

Her work sits at the intersection of storytelling, ownership, audience, and infrastructure. Across publishing, media, technology, and global entertainment markets, Nea has built a career around a central belief: stories do not reach their full power through visibility alone. They require structure, strategy, audience alignment, and ownership models designed to help them endure.

Author & Storyteller

As an author, Nea Simone’s fiction and nonfiction have reached readers across genres, markets, and communities. Her work spans literary fiction, personal development, media strategy, creator ownership, and children’s literature, with each body of work grounded in narrative discipline, cultural relevance, and emotional truth.

Her literary foundation includes The Mignon Samuels Trilogy: Reaching Back, Reborn, and The Substance of Things. Across three volumes, the trilogy explores identity, inheritance, faith, consequence, self-determination, and the generational forces that shape a woman’s becoming.

Her personal development work includes Finding Y.E.S.: Your Essential Self, a guided journal and reflection-based work created to support self-discovery, clarity, purpose, and intentional living.

Her strategic nonfiction work includes NOW PLAYING: From Script to Screen — Web3 Film Funding Playbook, Vol. 1, which expands her authorship into creator ownership, digital assets, film funding, and the future of media finance.

Children’s Literature & Family IP

Nea is also the creator of The Adventures of SAP, a children’s book and family IP world launched with SAP and the Kindness Ring: A Super Awesome Powers Adventure.

The series introduces young readers to SAP, a joyful hero discovering that kindness, courage, imagination, and community are superpowers we all carry within us. Created for children, families, classrooms, and storytime spaces, The Adventures of SAP is designed as an expanding story world across books, activities, animation, and screen-based storytelling.

Media Strategy & Audience Development

Through Bespoke Media Marketing, Nea helps creators, producers, companies, and cultural institutions bring stories to audience through the “We Find Your Tribe” framework.

Bespoke Media Marketing identifies and connects projects with their intended audiences, develops market-readiness and release strategies, supports visibility and activation, and can serve as a project or program management partner across campaign execution, coordination, and rollout.

Her strategic work spans independent film, television, documentary, animation, publishing, children’s IP, emerging media, and global market positioning. Whether advising on release strategy, audience development, cultural resonance, or market readiness, Nea’s work is grounded in helping stories move with purpose.

Web3, Film3 & Creator Ownership

Nea’s early work in Web3 and blockchain positioned her at the intersection of media, ownership, and emerging technology. She founded Melanated Studios, reported as the first Black woman-owned blockchain services firm in the United States, and later founded NFT ATL CON, a DEI-centered Web3 convening focused on access, education, and creator participation in emerging digital economies.

Her Web3, Film3, and digital ownership work has been featured or cited by outlets and platforms including Variety, CoinTelegraph, CoinDesk, NFT Plazas, Film3, Finance Magnates, Yahoo Finance, and others.

She was cited in the CoinDesk/CRADL report on Black adoption of Web3 and served as a judge for the CoinDesk Consensus Webathon Hackathon. She has also been interviewed by industry voices including Charlie Shrem and David Meltzer on blockchain’s transformative potential for creators and the Global African Diaspora.

Speaking, Advisory & Global Engagement

As a speaker and advisor, Nea Simone has appeared at or contributed to programs including Cannes Marché du Film / Pavillon Afriques, Cartoon Business Belgium, Georgia Film Day at SCAD for Georgia Production Partners, the African Cinema Summit in Accra, Sound & Screen Forum, F3ST, NFT ATL CON, and the Mandela Washington Fellowship.

She serves on the Executive Advisory Board for the Clark Atlanta University School of Business and was inducted as an honorary member of Beta Gamma Sigma.

Whether working with books, films, series, children’s IP, emerging technology, or cultural platforms, Nea’s work remains rooted in one central question:

How do stories become durable cultural and economic assets — and who gets to own the value they create?

Selected Recognition & Leadership

• New York Times bestselling author
• Founder & CEO, Bespoke Media Marketing
• Founder, Melanated Studios
• Founder, NFT ATL CON
• Executive Producer and media strategist
• Executive Advisory Board, Clark Atlanta University School of Business
• Honorary member, Beta Gamma Sigma
• Speaker, Cannes Marché du Film / Pavillon Afriques
• Speaker, Cartoon Business Belgium
• Speaker, Georgia Film Day at SCAD for Georgia Production Partners
• Speaker, African Cinema Summit, Accra
• Judge, CoinDesk Consensus Webathon Hackathon
• Cited in CoinDesk/CRADL report on Black adoption of Web3

Areas of Focus

• Story ownership and IP infrastructure
• Film, television, animation, and publishing strategy
• Audience development and market readiness
• Creator ownership and media innovation
• Web3, Film3, blockchain, and digital asset education
• Book-to-screen and character-world development
• Cultural strategy and narrative economy
• Strategic communications and campaign architecture

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