AUTHOR HIRED: Caitlin Hamilton Summie, Caitlin Hamilton Marketing & Publicity, LLC

• Broader media campaign (to a larger number of outlets than the smaller package): print, online media, broadcast, including local, regional, and national
• NetGalley for one month. (No fee. NetGalley is a website that makes digital galleys available to librarians, reviewers, bloggers, educators, and booksellers.)
• Pursuing up to six events (we may pitch more than six but hope to land six).
• Content marketing (advising on and editing articles, guest posts, etc. for placement, pitching pieces for placement)
• Marketing advice:
• Ads (placement advice, design advice, scheduling ads and designers, etc.)
• Marketing collateral (advice on content and design of bookmarks, one sheets, postcards, etc.)
• Awards (advice on where to nominate, assistance with nominations, etc.)
• Social media consult with Musubu or another social media expert, paid by our firm
• Press release at launch
• Press kit
• Website (reviewing website for effectiveness, suggesting content, etc.)

2024 IPPY Awards Gold Winner in Best First Book (Nonfiction/Personal) By age four, Claudia Marseille had hardly uttered a word. When her parents finally had her hearing tested and learned she had a severe hearing loss, they chose to mainstream her, hoping this would offer her the most 'normal' childhood possible. With the help of a primitive hearing aid, Claudia worked hard to learn to hear, lipread, and speak even as she tried to hide her disability in order to fit in. As a result, she was often misunderstood, lonely, and isolated - fitting into neither the hearing world nor the Deaf culture. This memoir explores Claudia's relationships with her German refugee parents - a disturbed, psychoanalyst father obsessed over various harebrained projects and moneymaking schemes and a Jewish mother who had survived the Holocaust in Munich - and with her own identity. Claudia shares how she emerged from loneliness and social isolation, explored her Jewish identity, struggled to find a career compatible with hearing loss, and eventually opened herself to a life of creativity and love. But You Look So Normal is the inspiring story of a life affected but not defined by an invisible disability. It is a journey through family, loss, shame, identity, love, and healing as Claudia finally, joyfully, finds her place in the world.