National Advertising: Academy of American Poets Newsletter; Spring book announcements submitted to Publishers Weekly.
Excerpts in various journals including New England Review, Eureka Literary Magazine, Nimrod International Journal, Green Mountains Review, and The Southern Review.
eBook will be available on the publication date. eBook ISBN will be included on all press materials and on BOA’s website. BOA and author will promote eBook on social media.
Promotion through author’s website (georgelooney.org).
Buy-ins to relevant academic conferences, trade shows, and relevant publications. Currently considering: American Library Association Annual Meeting, CBSD Sales and Academic catalogs, etc.
Online/social media campaign: Extensive promotion through BOA’s website, blog, e-newsletter, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts. Giveaway and takeover planned through BOA’s Instagram.
From poet George Looney comes a new short story collection that explores the essential nature of faith while plumbing the gritty secrets of the human heart.
With swamps, alligators, revival tents, faith healers, sex, death, guilt, sin and snakes, Looney leads us through a dark landscape brimming with the miraculous and the peculiar alike. A man from a fire shows up on someone's doorstep, covered in ash and barely alive. One man’s actions make an entire town question its own violence. A healer is bitten in half by an alligator as a crowd looks on. Dripping with Southern gothic, The Visibility of Things Long Submerged gazes at the obscure and obscene.
Densely populated with characters that know intimately the trials of life and the restorative powers of love, these stories are filled with a deep longing for something beyond the restless disquiet.
