Co-op available Significant bound galley printing for media and booksellers. Additional bound galley giveaways at the American Library Association Midwinter conference. eGalley distribution to media, booksellers, and librarians through Edelweiss National print, public radio, and online campaigns, targeting NPR and public radio affiliate interviews; reviews and “Spring Books” preview coverage in all major newspapers, magazines, poetry outlets, and trade publications; special National Poetry Month coverage; and reviews, author contributions, and giveaways through significant literary websites Tour to include events in Boston and New York Simultaneous eBook publication and promotion Postcards available Reading group guide in development Academic marketing plans include Consortium Required Reading newsletter advertising and outreach to prominent Literature and Poetry programs Giveaways through Goodreads and LibraryThing Blurbs possible from authors and Dickinson scholars Brenda Wineapple, Christopher Benfey, Susan Howe, Marta Werner, Polly Longsworth, Susan Snively, and Jane Wald, Executive Director of the Emily Dickinson Museum Promotion through the author’s website (www.jeromecharyn.com), dedicated Twitter account (@EmilySecretLife), and BLP’s social media networks and website (www.blpress.org) Marketing and publicity efforts supported by Rachel Tarlow Gul of Over the River Public Relations (OTRPR) and Molly Mikolowski of A Literary Light

PEN/ Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Longlist O, The Oprah Magazine "Best Books of Summer" selection "Magnetic nonfiction." --O, The Oprah Magazine "Remarkable insight ...[a] unique meditation/investigation...Jerome Charyn the unpredictable, elusive, and enigmatic is a natural match for Emily Dickinson, the quintessence of these." --Joyce Carol Oates, author of Wild Nights! and The Lost Landscape We think we know Emily Dickinson: the Belle of Amherst, virginal, reclusive, and possibly mad. But in A Loaded Gun, Jerome Charyn introduces us to a different Emily Dickinson: the fierce, brilliant, and sexually charged poet who wrote: My Life had stood--a Loaded Gun-- ...Though I than He-- may longer live He longer must--than I-- For I have but the power to kill, Without--the power to die-- Through interviews with contemporary scholars, close readings of Dickinson's correspondence and handwritten manuscripts, and a suggestive, newly discovered photograph that is purported to show Dickinson with her lover, Charyn's literary sleuthing reveals the great poet in ways that have only been hinted at previously: as a woman who was deeply philosophical, intensely engaged with the world, attracted to members of both sexes, and able to write poetry that disturbs and delights us today. Jerome Charyn is the author of, most recently, Bitter Bronx: Thirteen Stories, I Am Abraham: A Novel of Lincoln and the Civil War, and The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson: A Novel. He lives in New York.