JKS Communications is providing comprehensive literary publicity efforts before, during and after the book's launch. The campaign work includes: • Developing press materials, including a news release and a pre-written interview • Compiling a tailored list with media targets that include local, regional, and national outlets, including book industry targets, book bloggers, bookstagrammers, and others. The list will include print, broadcast and online media, as well as Amazon reviewers. JKS is personally reaching out to media for reviews, interviews, giveaways, and other featured coverage. • Placing guest articles written by author to establish her personal brand as an author (topics fed by her well-received blog as well as independently generated) • Developing unique content for author social media accounts, as well as supporting her on the JKS channels • Pitching author to book festivals, bookseller conferences, book clubs, author luncheons, and other event opportunities that will put her in front of potential new fans • Reaching out to Chicago-area bookstores for stock signings and meet and greets to encourage them to stock the book • Coordinating a launch event to celebrate the book's release • Continuing to build her email contact list, creating a virtual street team of supporters to help spread the word about the book • Connecting author with other authors across the country for networking, blurbs, events, and other crossover promotional opportunities • Conducting an audit of her website • Organizing a series of promotional book giveaways on GoodReads to encourage reviews • Voting the book on to various reading lists on GoodReads to boost the book's online presence • Submitting the book to literary award contests • Exploring digital advertising through Facebook, NetGalley, and popular price drop newsletters to build online buzz • Personal tours and activities being set up by the author in venues ripe with age and like minded audience members—her alma mater (the model for the fictional Central Illinois University of the novel), her high school, from which so many were drafted (a 50th reunion coincides with the book publication), as well as with her rich associations professionally (global PR firms, literary (she is a Ragdale and University of Chicago certificate program in writing alumni), and locally (member of Chicago Writers Association, Her Chapter, etc.) • Promotion by those who have participated in the author’s biannual series of Literary Salons, held in her home over the past eight years to introduce new books and authors to avid readers, via extended readings, guaranteed sales, and word of mouth, as well as more active support.

A Readers' Favorite Book Award Finalist and Best Book Awards Finalist * Featured in Ms. Magazine, Brit + Co, Hypertext Magazine, BookTrib, Publishers Weekly, Writer's Digest and more! An enthralling historical novel about brave women set during the peak of the Vietnam War and told through the rare perspective of a young woman, who traces her path to self-discovery and a 'Coming of Conscience.' If you loved Kristin Hannah's latest novel The Women, this one's for you. On September 14, 1969, Private First Class Judy Talton celebrates her nineteenth birthday by secretly joining the campus anti-Vietnam War movement. In doing so, she jeopardizes both the army scholarship that will secure her future and her relationship with her military family. But Judy's doubts have escalated with the travesties of the war. Who is she if she stays in the army? What is she if she leaves? When the first date pulled in the Draft Lottery turns up as her birthday, she realizes that if she were a man, she'd have been Number One - off to Vietnam with an under-fire life expectancy of six seconds. The stakes become clear, propelling her toward a life-altering choice as fateful as that of any draftee. Judy's story speaks to the poignant clash of young adulthood, early feminism, and war, offering an ageless inquiry into the domestic politics of protest when the world stops making sense.