AUTHOR HIRED: Frazier Public Relations • Book launch at a children’s bookstore in SC or NC (author is working with a few bookstores and will commit to dates soon). • Goodreads promotional package. • Advertising on The Point local radio with 25 Weekday spots/10 Weekend Spots/Nine Minute on-air interview. • NPR Atlanta print banner ad in December. • Annie Jenkins Radio Blitz. • Targeted print and email mailer to all members of Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance. • Targeted mailer to all children’s bookstores in North Carolina and South Carolina. • Reviews in Kirkus Reviews and Midwest Book Review. • In-person author events at children’s bookstores across the state of North Carolina. • Targeted campaign to middle grade book bloggers, family bloggers and children’s content blogs. • Ad campaign via email to all independent bookstores nationwide. • Ad in Ingram Holiday Guide.

Ever since eleven-year-old Dexter Duckworth and his brother, Dougal, lost their mom, everything has been different. But “different” takes on a whole new meaning when, one day just before Christmas (or Kissmas, as they call it), Dexter finds a golden rock in the forest that hatches into an adorable alien. Gobbledy is smarter than he seems and is lost on planet Earth. Before long, Gobbledy takes Dexter, Dougal, and their best friend Fi on an adventure of friendship, family, and loss—one that requires them all to stay out of trouble, protect Gobbledy from a shadowy group called the Planetary Society, and prepare for their school’s Winter Extravaganza Play, where Dexter has to be a dreaded Gingerbread Man.

Gobbledy is a fun-filled holiday story that adds up to two brothers, three friends, unlimited jars of peanut butter, a ketchup factory, and one little alien far, far from home.