Galley mailing to key reviewers and media outlets 4-5 months prior to publication.
Advanced review copies and press materials sent to a targeted list of 150-200 reviewers. Additional review copies available by request: [email protected].
National advertising: Poets & Writers.
Outreach to online media and bloggers including BuzzFeed, Bustle, Book Riot, Literary Hub, etc.
Buy-ins to relevant academic conferences, trade shows, and publications: American Library Association Annual Meeting, CBSD Sales, and Academic catalogs, etc.
Spring book announcements submitted to Publishers Weekly.
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Full-page feature in publisher’s in-house catalog.
E-postcards will be sent to the author’s professional contacts as well as BOA’s academic contacts, reviewer contacts, bookstore contacts, and literary bloggers.
Personalized physical postcards will be sent to the author’s 500-person mailing list.
Simultaneous ebook and print publication. Ebook ISBN will be included on all press materials, author and publisher websites, and whenever print ISBN is listed.
“A vital voice in the short story, telling us new truths with deep humanity."
–George Saunders
Celebrated Nigerian-born writer E.C. Osondu delivers a short-story collection of nimble dexterity and startling originality in his BOA Short Fiction Prize-winning Alien Stories.
These eighteen startling stories, each centered around an encounter with the unexpected, explore what it means to be an alien. With a nod to the dual meaning of alien as both foreigner and extraterrestrial, Osondu turns familiar science-fiction tropes and immigration narratives on their heads, blending one with the other to call forth a whirlwind of otherness. With wry observations about society and human nature, in shifting landscapes from Africa to America to outer space and back again, Alien Stories breaks down the concept of foreignness to reveal what unites us all as ‘aliens’ within a complex and interconnected universe.
