The Beautifully Worthless

We'll release e-book version simultaneously and will promote it along with the paperback edition in the following ways: PRINT CAMPAIGN: We will pitch a combination of reviews/interviews/excerpts to SF Chronicle, SF Bay Guardian, SF Weekly, East Bay Express, Bay Area Reporter, 7x7, San Francisco Magazine, The Believer, Associated Press (LGBT reporter), Bay Citizen/NY Times Bay Area Advance copies to: Curve, Advocate, Out, Gay and Lesbian Review, Lambda Book Report, Passport Magazine, Lambda, Windy City Times (Chicago), Gay City News(NY), Bitch, Bust, Ms Magazine. We'll send to the trades: PW, Booklist, and Library Journal. BLOG, WEB, AND SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN: Rumpus, BOMB, Identity Theory, NYer's Book Bench, Bookslut,Shelf Awareness, Goodreads, Wikipedia. We'll promote it on City Lights' Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, Tumblr, Pinterest, blog and web site, and on Wikipedia. Promotion through the author’s website: http://www.aliliebegott.com RADIO CAMPAIGN: We'll pursue interviews at radio stations in the cities where Sister Spit travels, focusing on queer and women's programs. Shows to include: CA: KQED Forum & KQED California Report(San Francisco), KALW Your Call & KALW Out in the Bay (San Francisco), KPFA Cover to Cover (Berkeley), KPCC Airtalk (Los Angeles) ENDORSEMENTS: Will approach Justin Chin, Matthew Zapruder (poet, winner of the 2007 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society), Marie Howe, Claudia Rankine, Maggie Nelson, Rae Armantruot, Brenda Shaughnessy, Jen Benka, Anne Carson, Juliana Spahr, Ariana Reines

A tender, tragic, absurd and highly original voice, Liebegott's award-winning epic road poem has been compared to Kerouac and Wojnarowicz.Winner of the 2005 Lambda Literary Award for Debut Lesbian Fiction. "The Beautifully Worthless is an outrageous act of kindness."--Eileen Myles "She's insanely talented, it's mad. The Beautifully Worthless crisscrosses the USA, like Close to the Knives, like Kerouac, desperately seeking out everything occluded and driven, a frenzy of seeking frozen into poetry."--Kevin Killian "Ali Liebegott's books evoke a life-affirming sensation that comes from embracing the pendular. Her ability to hit the right tone is scientific, almost violent in its precision--a single word or observation, well-placed, can have a reader crying or laughing aloud."--Evan Karp, Bomb Magazine A runaway waitress leaves her lover, grabs her dog, and hits the highway. Ali Liebegott maps her travels in a series of hilarious and heartbreaking letters to the girl she left behind, and some of the most exquisite poetry written about love, heartache, and madness.