Distribution of early galleys (starting in fall 2019) and ARCs (starting spring 2019) to media outlets, reviewers, bloggers, magazines, and key booksellers and librarians Reviews targeting Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Library Journal, Booklist, Bookforum, O Magazine, People, and others Coverage targeting women’s lifestyle publications Advertising including PNBA Holiday Catalog and PNBA bookseller promotions Bookseller outreach, including ABA Advance Access, PNBA appearance, and galley mailings to booksellers who have enjoyed other titles Pacific Northwest tour with a focus on bookstores, libraries, local and reading series Writing classes taught by the author will underpin all out-of-area events to maximize attendance and sales In conversation events about the childless choice and abortion with Forest Ave author Jackie Shannon Hollis (This Particular Happiness) Regional coverage targeting Portland-area media, including the Oregonian, Portland Mercury, Portland Monthly, Portland Tribune, Eugene Register-Guard, Willamette Week, KBOO’s “Between the Covers,” and OPB’s State of Wonder Other coverage targeting The Rumpus, Entropy Magazine, Huff Post, Fiction Writers Review, Writing Under Pressure, Lit Reactor, and more Excerpts of A Small Crowd of Strangers targeted to magazines and websites Book club outreach with a focus on women’s book clubs Author interviews: radio, TV, print, and online venues NetGalley, Edelweiss, and Goodreads ARC giveaways Social media including blog appearances, excerpts, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram Promotions on author's website and the publisher's website Publicity and promotion in conjunction with author's speaking engagements

Marrying the wrong man is easier than leaving him. How does a librarian from New Jersey end up in a convenience store on Vancouver Island in the middle of the night, playing Bible Scrabble with a Korean physicist and a drunk priest? She gets married to the wrong man for starters—she didn't know he was 'that kind of Catholic'—and ends up in St. Cloud, Minnesota. She gets a job in a New Age bookstore, wanders toward Buddhism without realizing it, and acquires a dog. Things get complicated after that. Pattianne Anthony is less a thinker than a dreamer, and she finds out the hard way that she doesn't want a husband, much less a baby, and that getting out of a marriage is a lot harder than getting into it, especially when the landscape of the west becomes the voice of reason. A Small Crowd of Strangers, Joanna Rose’s second novel, is part love story, part slightly sideways spiritual journey.