• 7-city tour planning in Lexington, KY, Louisville, KY, St. Louis, MO, Memphis, TN, Lakeville, CT, Asheville, NC, and New York, NY (all of which Collins has connections to and in).
• Significant bound galley printing for booksellers and reviewers. Additional eGalley distribution to media, booksellers, and librarians through Edelweiss and targeted e-mailings.
• Co-op available
• National advertising targeting Poets & Writers and The Believer
• National print campaign targeting major trade and national publications, including Salon, HuffPost, and McSweeney’s, all of which Collins used to write for.
• Social media campaign
• eBook available at time of print publication
• Promotion through author website: http://www.whitneycollins.com/

From Whitney Collins, the award-winning author of Big Bad, come twenty-three new dark and derelict (and hilarious) tales about—you guessed it—love. 

With Ricky, Collins applies her sharp eye, black humor, and generous heart to love stories (and the stories we tell ourselves about love). Among the wacky, tacky, lovesick, and lovelorn characters are: Ilona, the misanthropic mother and unhappy fiancé who is increasingly transfixed by a rash of local shark attacks; Imogen, the sperm bank client who cultivates the love she madly desires inside herself; and Aurora Flood, the coma survivor on a mission to plant a sacred seed from the Olive Garden. Blending elements of southern gothic, speculative fiction, and horror, Ricky & Other Love Stories is political and personal, bitter and sweet: ultimately, a lot like love.