-Collaboration between Barbara Sapienza and Eva Zimmerman PR in order to capitalize on the author’s network and connections in both the art world and writing communities in the Bay Area and in Boston, MA. -Long Lead ARC/galley mailings, review submissions, and follow up to book review editors at publishing industry trade magazines like Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Shelf Awareness, Library Journal, among others. -Long Lead pitching to book reviewers at select magazines that speak to themes within Anchor Out, like: Ms. Magazine, Women’s Review of Books, Boating World, Guideposts Magazine, AARP Magazine, Catholic Digest, and Woman’s Day, among others. -Short Lead Outreach to blogs like: PsychCentral.com, Patheos.com, Beliefnet.com, PsychologyToday.com, HuffPost 50, A Boomer’s Life After 50, Fab After 50, among others. -Short Lead Outreach to radio programs like: KQED’s “Forum” and suggestions for a potential “Perspective” and women’s interest radio programs like “The Women’s Room” on WGLS. -Short Lead Outreach to Bay Area and Boston regional media: Marin Independent Journal, The Marine Scope, Twin Cities Tim, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle’s book reviews editor, among others. -Select events in the Bay Area and Boston to coincide with pub month, according to the author’s schedule, interest, and availability.

Sixty-year-old Frances Pia lives alone on a thirty-foot sailboat anchored near Sausalito, where she communes with the fog, sea lions, cormorants, and two sailor friends, Otto and Russell. She performs random acts of public defacement—painting drainpipes, public restrooms, and murals on the sides of houses—which she believes are beautification projects, and struggles with bouts of depression and mania. Frankly, she’s a bit of a nutcase. But Frances wasn’t always this way. She was once a Catholic nun with a sister, Anne, who loved her dearly. But then she slept with her brother-in-law, Greg—and ashamed and pregnant, she fled, leaving Anne, her art, and her vocation behind. When she also lost her baby, Nicola, in a freak accident, she lost faith in God and became a keeper of sorrows. Through a series of wacky adventures, including bouts with the cops and the sea, Frances opens her heart to love for the first time in years—and begins to really paint the town, redeeming herself with Anne and freeing herself from her guilt over Nicola’s death along the way.