• Partnering with BookSparks to secure tour bookings, reviews, and content in national and regional print and online media. • Book launch party in New York. • Targeted East Coast, West Coast, and Texas tour. • Appearances at bookstores, art galleries, and private homes for book clubs and author salons in locations including New York, Westchester County, Hamptons, Boston, DC, Philadelphia, Martha’s Vineyard, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Austin, Houston, and San Antonio. • Promotion through author e-mail blasts and author blog. Promotion via social media: Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, and Pinterest. • Blog tour. • Targeting author interviews and book profiles on sites with a focus on contemporary women’s fiction, Southern literature, Southwestern literature, Texan literature, African American fiction, and African American culture. • Targeting author appearances at conferences and conventions of African American organizations, book clubs, and professional groups, including AKA sorority, the Links, Jack & Jill, The Girl Friends, the Boule, National Book Club Conference, National Black Book Club Festival, National Black Writers Conference, Corporate Counsel Women of Color Conference, Harvard Law School Black Alumni Celebration, and Essence Music Festival. • Appearances at regional book festivals and creative events, including Texas Book Festival, Dallas Book Festival, Dallas Arts & Letters Live, Brooklyn Book Festival, Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival. • Targeting African American radio networks through author’s connections with large Black syndicated broadcasting network.

Named a “Top Pick” by RT Book Reviews Named a “Fall Must-Read” by RedbookMag.com * PopSugar * Parade Magazine * Brit + Co * SoulCycle Hailed as a “Best Fiction Book by Women of Color” at Bustle.com Pitched as “a poor man’s Halle Berry,” forty-one-year-old soap star Jo Randolph, has successfully avoided waiting tables since she left Midland, Texas at eighteen. But then, in the span of twenty-four hours, Jo manages to lose her job, burn her bridges in Hollywood, and accidentally burn down her lover/director’s beach house—after which she is shipped home to Texas by her agent to stay out of sight while she sorts out her situation. The more Jo reluctantly reconnects with her Texas “roots” and the family and friends she left behind, the more she regains touch with herself as an artist and with what is meaningful in life beyond the limelight. The summer of 2007 is cathartic for Jo, whose career and lifestyle have allowed her to live like a child for forty years, but who now must transition to making grown-up decisions and taking on adult responsibilities. In the Heart of Texas is a wry, humorous commentary on the complexities of race, class, relationships, politics, popular culture, and celebrity in our current society.