*Regional author tour including Washington, Oregon, California, Texas, and Arkansas *Promotion and coverage through local and hometown media outlets, including Tacoma News Tribune, Seattle Times, The Stranger, and the Fayetteville Flyer *Timed publication of excerpts, reviews, essays, and features in outlets where the author has connections, including Arkansas International, Seattle Review of Books, Prairie Schooner, Monkeybicycle, Vol 1 Brooklyn, Portland Mercury, American Book Review, The Believer, Bookslut, Diagram, Electric Literature, Los Angeles Review of Books, Necessary Fiction, and PANK *Dedicated outreach to book clubs including The Rumpus Book Club, NW Book Lovers, Seattle Public Library Evening Book Club, Elliott Bay Book Group, Queen Anne Book Company, Phinney Neighborhood Book Club, and Ridge Readers *Bookseller outreach to the author's home bookstores - Elliott Bay Books, Phinney Ridge Books Seattle, Third Place Books, and Nightbird Books in Arkansas - among others *Forthcoming blurbs from Karan Mahajan, Mauro Javier Cardenas, Rebecca Brown, Molly Giles, Rilla Askew, and Padma Viswanathan *Advance copies available in the ABA galley room at BookExpo *Advertising Budget Available *Co-op Budget Available *Major National Review Push *Mass Galley Mailing *Giveaways through Instagram and Amazon *Egalleys available on Edelweiss

Winner of the Dzanc Books Prize for Fiction Winner of the VCU Cabell First Novel Award A Kirkus Best Books of 2019 pick An Indies Introduce pick A September Indie Next pick "Hugely important, hauntingly brutal—Englehardt has just announced himself as one of America’s most talented emerging writers." —Kirkus starred review Bloomland opens during finals week at a fictional southern university, when a student walks into the library with his roommate’s semi-automatic rifle and opens fire. When he stops shooting, twelve people are dead. In this richly textured debut, John Englehardt explores how the origin and aftermath of the shooting impacts the lives of three characters: a disillusioned student, a grieving professor, and a young man whose valuation of fear and disconnection funnels him into the role of the aggressor. As the community wrestles with the fallout, Bloomland interrogates social and cultural dysfunction in a nation where mass violence has become all too familiar. Profound and deeply nuanced, Bloomland is a dazzling debut for fans of Denis Johnson and We Need to Talk About Kevin.