• Tailored publicity campaign through BookSparksPR including national print, public radio, and online campaigns; content strategy; and social media outreach • Regional tour in Southern California, including a launch event in Laguna Beach and a book event in Columbus, Ohio, where the author has numerous contacts • Author will participate in book group discussions via Skype and in person • Targeted mailing to key booksellers to encourage hand-selling and IndieNext solicitation • Goodreads giveaway • Promotion to author’s extensive list of personal and professional contacts • Book trailer • Simultaneous e-book publication and promotion • A digital galley will be made available through NetGalley • Promotion via author’s website, www.kairarouda.com, where she has a regular newsletter and blog • Promotion via social media: author has more than 18,000 followers on Twitter and 6,000 fans on her Facebook fan page, Kaira Rouda Books • Author is a speaker at the RWA National Conference in July and is building a loyal romance readership • Author is also releasing a nonfiction title, Real You with Kids: 8 Essentials for Busy Moms

As featured in: Working Mother * Woman's Day * Redbook * Chico's * Sunset magazine * Coastal Living * SheKnows * Woman's World * Yahoo! Beauty * Fox 28 * The Berry Melanie, a perfectionist mom who views the approaching end of parenting as a type of death, can’t believe she has only one more year to live vicariously through her slacker senior son, Dane. Gorgeous mom Sarah has just begun to realize that her only daughter, Ashley, has been serving as a stand-in for her traveling husband, and the thought of her daughter leaving for college is cracking the carefully cultivated façade of her life. Will and his wife are fine—as long as he follows the instructions on the family calendar and is sure to keep secret his whole other life with Lauren, the woman he turns to for fun (and who also happens to have a daughter in the senior class). Told from the points of view of both the parents and the kids, The Goodbye Year explores high school peer pressure, what it’s like for young people to face the unknown of life after high school, and how a transition that should be the beginning of a couple’s second act together—empty nesting—might possibly be the end.