Once in the Blue Moon

• Serial rights targeting Literary Hub, Texas Monthly, D Magazine, and others
• Print and digital publicity targeting Texas Monthly, Dallas Morning News, KERA, Electric Literature, Book Riot, Rain Taxi, Full Stop, The Millions, D Magazine
• Outreach to regions and communities where author has strong ties: Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico
• Promotion at or events pitched for Texas Book Festival, Winter Institute, and other regional book festivals
• Review copies will be sent targeting all major print and digital literary media outlets, reviewers, and booksellers; additional copies available upon request
• Promotion on the publisher’s website (deepvellum.org), Twitter feed (@deepvellum), and Facebook page (/deepvellum); and publisher’s e-newsletter

Set in 1940s Oklahoma on a red dirt cotton farm, Once in the Blue Moon is grounded in the realities of life near the end of World War II.

Maggie and her family are forced to endure a season of fear and failure as they face the loss of their home and their once-amazing Daddy to the whiskey bottle. Up against terrible truths and unforeseeable accidents, Maggie struggles in the dark and lonesome farmhouse.

When all seems lost, Maggie, her sisters, and her mother band together to overcome humiliation and tragedy. A tale of willpower in ordinary people who act with courage and grit, this story is ultimately one of resilience, forgiveness, and redemption.