Co-op available Significant galley printing. Special postcard promotion and ARC mailing to independent booksellers, soliciting quotes for the Indie Next list (note: booksellers Carl Annarummo (Brookline Booksmith), Jeff Waxman (formerly of 57th Street Books/Seminary Co-op), and Michele Filgate (Community Bookstore) are all fans of Lock’s writing) Tour will include bookstore appearances in New York City ARCs distributed at ALA Midwinter, MLA and AWP National print, public radio, and online campaigns targeting: feature coverage in trade publications; NPR and public radio affiliate interviews; reviews and “Best Spring Books”/ “Father’s Day” special coverage in all major newspapers and magazines; reviews, author contributions, and giveaways through significant literary, speculative fiction, and Twain fan blogs Reading group guide development and book club outreach Simultaneous eBook publication and promotion Pre-publication serial excerpt and interview in Construction magazine (October 2013). Other pre-pub excerpts and related features possible in Slice magazine, Brooklyn Rail, AGNI, North American Review, Indiana Review, Southern California Review, Missouri Review and The Common Giveaways through Goodreads and LibraryThing Promotion through the author’s website (www.normanlock.com) and through BLP’s website (www.blpress.org) and social media networks (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube) Endorsed by Pulitzer Prize winners Gilbert King and David Oshinsky. Blurbs also possible from novelists Phillip Roth and Rebecca Makkai, literary critic Sven Birkerts, and UCLA professor/Twain scholar Thomas Wortham Marketing and publicity efforts supported by Molly Mikolowski of A Literary Light

"Make[s] Huck and Jim so real you expect to get messages from them on your iPhone." --SCOTT SIMON, NPR Weekend Edition "Brilliant...The Boy in His Winter is a glorious meditation on justice, truth, loyalty, story, and the alchemical effects of love, a reminder of our capacity to be changed by the continuously evolving world 'when it strikes fire against the mind's flint,' and by profoundly moving novels like this." --JANE CIABATTARI, NPR Launched into existence by Mark Twain, Huck Finn and Jim have now been transported by Norman Lock through three vital, violent, and transformative centuries of American history. As time unfurls on the river's banks, they witness decisive battles of the Civil War, the betrayal of Reconstruction's promises to the freed slaves, the crushing of Native American nations, and the electrification of a continent. Huck, who finally comes of age when he's washed up on shore during Hurricane Katrina, narrates the story as an older and wiser man in 2077, revealing our nation's past, present, and future as Mark Twain could never have dreamed it. The Boy in His Winter is a tour-de-force work of imagination, beauty, and courage that re-envisions a great American literary classic for our time. Norman Lock is the award-winning author of novels, short fiction, and poetry, as well as stage, radio, and screenplays. His recent works of fiction include the short story collection Love Among the Particles, a Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year, and three books in The American Novels series: The Boy in His Winter, a re-envisioning of Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; American Meteor, an homage to Walt Whitman and William Henry Jackson named a Firecracker Award finalist and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year; and The Port-Wine Stain, a gothic psychological thriller featuring Edgar Allan Poe. Lock lives in Aberdeen, New Jersey.