Participate in the CBSD Galley Box and send copies to the top 50 or so Open Letter bookstore accounts: City Lights, McNally Jackson, Elliot Bay, etc. Approximately 200 advance copies sent to primary publications. This list includes: New York Times, SF Chronicle, LA Times, n+1, New York Review of Books, The Nation, Bookforum, The Believer, Atlantic Monthly, New Yorker, Rain Taxi, Time Out New York/Chicago, World Literature Today, Flavorwire, Washington Post, BOMB, Literary Review, Complete Review, Words Without Borders, B&N Review, Harper's, Shelf Awareness, Quarterly Conversation, Chicago Tribune, Typographical Era, Slate, Salon, etc. Also sent to the following trade publications: Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Booklist, Library Journal. Advance copies also sent to members of the NBCC Award Committee and the Best Translated Book Award Fiction Committee. Giveaway of 25 copies on Goodreads. Promote on Three Percent and on social media via Open Letter's FB & Twitter accounts (almost 6,500 likes on FB; over 11,500 followers on Twitter). Ebook available and will be mentioned on all press release materials, Open Letter website, etc.
Will try to get blurbs from both Dubravka Ugresic and Valeria Luiselli--two authors interested in the history of readers at cigar factories. (A semi-invented history of this practice is contained within Island of Point Nemo.) This is a great book for submitting to prizes, since it's enjoyable, funny, and smart, without being too erudite or complex. Hannah Chute will interview Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès for a potential feature on the New Yorker's "Page Turner" blog. If this interview can't be placed there, or at LitHub, we will run it on Three Percent. Either way, it will be included in all mailings to booksellers and reviewers. Thanks to Other Press's work in getting Blas de Roblès's first English novel into the hands of so many reviewers, we have a lot of goodwill and interest to build upon. Possibility of an author tour, if the French Government decides to include him as one of their "missions.
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