Digital galleys available on Edelweiss+ approximately 5-6 months prior to publication.
Advanced review copies and press materials will be sent to a targeted list of 120-150 reviewers in February 2022. Additional ARCs available by request: [email protected].
Giveaways planned through ABA Advance Access, LibraryThing, and BOA’s Instagram.
National advertising: Poets & Writers.
Outreach to online media and bloggers including BuzzFeed, Bustle, Book Riot, Literary Hub, and The Rumpus.
Buy-ins to relevant academic conferences, trade shows, and relevant publications. Currently considering: American Library Association Annual Meeting, CBSD Sales and Academic catalogs, etc.
Spring book announcements submitted to Publishers Weekly.
Online/social media campaign: Extensive promotion through BOA's website, blog, e-newsletter (3.7K+ active subscribers), Facebook (7.6K+ followers), Twitter (11.8K+ followers), and Instagram (4.7K+ followers) accounts.
Promotion through author’s website: https://gabriellelucillefuentes.com.
Moving between Cuba and the U.S., the stories in Are We Ever Our Own trace the paths of the women of the far-flung Armando Castell family.
Related but unknown to each other, these women are exiles, immigrants, artists, outsiders, all in search of a sense of self and belonging. The owner of a professional mourning service investigates the disappearance of her employees. On the eve of the Cuban revolution, a young woman breaks into the mansion where she was once a servant to help the rebels and free herself. A musician in a traveling troupe recounts the last day she saw her father.
Linked by theme and complex familial bonds, these stories shift across genres and forms to excavate the violence wreaked on women’s bodies and document the attempt to create something meaningful in the face of loss. They ask: who do we belong to? What, if anything, belongs to us?
