Galley mailing to key reviewers and media outlets 4-5 months prior to publication.
Advanced review copies and press materials sent to targeted list of 150-200 reviewers. Additional review copies available by request: [email protected].
National advertising: Poets & Writers, American Poets, and the Academy of American Poets newsletter.
Outreach to online media and bloggers including BuzzFeed, Bustle, Book Riot, Literary Hub etc. for features on immigration, LGBTQ issues, 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.
Online/social media campaign: Extensive promotion through BOA's website, blog, e-newsletter (7,400+ subscribers), Facebook (6,800+ followers), Twitter (8,000 followers), Instagram (2,200+ followers), and Pinterest (840+ followers) accounts.
Full-page feature in 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.
Simultaneous ebook and print publication. Ebook ISBN will be included on all press materials, author and publisher websites, and whenever print ISBN is listed.
Book launched planned for Chicago. Additional events planned for San Francisco, New York City, and Seattle. Author has strong personal and professional connections in all four cities.
Promotion through the author’s website: [URL TK in August 2018]
“As a Filipino-American conscious of his multiple identities and the trove of experiences and external forces that shaped him, Gray uses the unfettered landscape of poetry to release himself and others from the limitations that aggrieve undocumented immigrants.” —New City Lit
Rooted in the experience of living in America as a queer undocumented Filipino, Documents maps the byzantine journey toward citizenship through legal records and fragmented recollections. In poems that repurpose the forms and procedures central to an immigrant’s experiences—birth certificates, identification cards, letters, and interviews—Jan-Henry Gray reveals the narrative limits of legal documentation while simultaneously embracing the intersections of identity, desire, heritage, love, and a new imagining of freedom.
