Endorsements (potential): Ben Percy, Kathryn Davis, Amelia Gray 400+ Galleys by October 2013 National print, radio, and online campaign Targeted bookseller mailing Excerpts under consideration at The New Yorker Advertising: Bookforum, Shelf Awareness Promotion at: BookExpo America, Winter Institute, ALA Annual, Twin Cities Book Festival Promotion on Coffee House Press e-newsletter, website, and social media channels Giveaways on Twitter, Goodreads, and LibraryThing Simultaneous print and e-book release, with e-book ISBN to be included on all press materials, author and publisher websites, and whenever print ISBN is listed Targeted publicity to promote author's speaking engagements Promotion via the author's website, http://www.katebernheimer.com/

Elegant and brutal, the stories in Kate Bernheimer's latest collection occupy a heightened landscape, where the familiar cedes to the grotesque and nonsense just as often devolves into terror. These are fairy tales out of time, renewing classic stories we think we know, like one of Bernheimer's girls, whose hands of steel turn to flowers, leaving her beautiful but alone. Kate Bernheimer is the author of the short story collection Horse, Flower, Bird and the editor of My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales and the journal Fairy Tale Review.