• Media and marketing tie-in to World Maternal Health Day on May 3, 2018. Aiming for reviews but also features/interviews around the subjects of post-partum psychosis, women’s medical history, women’s rights, and the fact that the novel is based on a true story. These subjects are key hooks for media and marketing, in general. • Publishers Weekly and other trade publications • Women’s magazines, websites—O magazine, Elle, Vogue, other • Media in Oregon—The Oregonian, Willamette Week, Portland Mercury, Portland Monthly, Pamplin Media, etc. • Podcasts/radio—NPR, NPR West, KBOO, KOPB, etc. • Regional media—NW Book Lovers, Seattle Times, Eugene Register-Guard, KUOW, etc. • Book bloggers—historical fiction, general fiction, literary fiction • Literary media, including Rain Taxi, The Rumpus, The Nervous Breakdown, etc. • Alumni media • Historical Novels Review • Psychology Today • Writing blogs and websites • Media around events / event promotion • Press release at publication to media, booksellers, and to Hedgebrook, Soapstone, etc. • Content placement with essays, articles, and/or guest posts, considering places such as VELA, VIDA, etc. • Features on author website, www.ellennotbohm.com, and e-mail blasts to author’s subscribers • Book club outreach and marketing • Downloadable reading group guide • Marketing collateral • Possible collaboration with PSI—Post-Partum International, located in Portland, OR • Collaboration with Willamette Writers and Oregon Literary Arts • Collaboration with Hedgebrook artist-in-residency and Soapstone.org (author is alumna of both residency programs) • Social media to author’s 9000+ followers, especially Goodreads giveaway • Events: bookstores such as Powell’s, Elliot Bay, book festivals such as Wordstock and Montana Festival of Books, Multnomah County Library and other libraries, PNBA annual trade show, Oregon Historical Society Annual Celebration of Oregon Authors, women’s groups/women’s studies classes, other • Outreach to libraries and organizations where the book was researched on site, including Montana Historical Society Research Library and bookstore, Hearst Free Library of Anaconda MT, Montana State Hospital, Pioneer Museum of Glasgow MT, Oregon Historical Society Research Library, Edmonton Public Library, City Archives and Historical Society, Provincial Archives of Alberta, Byrnes-Quanbeck Library of Mayville State (ND) University, Carnegie Regional Library of Grafton ND, Grand Forks ND Public Library.

For fans of Paulette Jiles and Marisa de los Santos

Winner of the Sarton Women’s Book Award and the Western Writers of America Spur Award

Annie Rushton leaves behind an unsettling past to join her brother on his Montana homestead and make a determined fresh start. There, sparks fly when she tangles with Adam Fielding, a visionary businessman-farmer determined to make his own way and answer to no one. Neither is looking for a partner, but they give in to their undeniable chemistry.

Annie and Adam’s marriage brims with astounding success and unanticipated passion, but their dream of having a child eludes them as a mysterious illness of mind and body plagues Annie’s pregnancies. Amidst deepening economic adversity, natural disaster, and the onset of world war, their personal struggles collide with the societal mores of the day. Annie’s shattering periods of black depression and violent outbursts exact a terrible price. The life the Fieldings have forged begins to unravel, and the only path ahead leads to unthinkable loss.

Based on true events, this sweeping novel weaves a century-old story, timeless in its telling of love, heartbreak, healing, and redemption embodied in one woman’s tenacious quest for control over her own destiny in the face of devastating misfortune and social injustice.