• Early reviewer promotion through advance copies to encourage reader reviews and generate buzz.
• National review outreach to trade and print publications (PW, Kirkus, Booklist, Library Journal, Foreword, New York Times) and online (Spirituality & Practice, Book Riot)
• Social media campaign featuring video content and images with blurbs and reviews of the book as well as designed graphics of select poems on publisher’s Twitter feed (@skinnerhouse), Instagram page (@skinnerhouse), Facebook page (/skinnerhouse), Tumblr page (@skinnerhousebooks), and Pinterest (@skinnerhousebks)
• Advertising in print publications (full page ad in April Issue of Poets & Writers and featured in the spring Great Reads section in Sojourners) and online (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Sojo mail)
• Promotion during National Poetry Month, Pride Month, Disability Pride Month, and more.

The light must spill to shine. The thing you must be is yourself.

Intimate and uncompromising, Rev. Julián Jamaica, Soto’s debut collection Spilling the Light, is a luminous offering to their communities and a defiant declaration of their worth in a world hostile to their queer, disabled, and brown being.

“America, is this freedom?” they ask. “I cannot prove to you that / I am a person,” writing boldly of identity, community, liberation, and erasure through a prism of tender moments and powerful reckonings. These are poems of broken hallelujahs and codes/witching, of hunger and fire, of hope and resilience. They are complex, tender, and empowering. They embolden us to become our truest selves, willing us to survive.