Those the Future Left Behind

• School tour in Minnesota where author has numerous contacts from his work as a teacher (book promotion can be folded into writing workshops/co-taught classes/speaker presentations). • Targeted mailing to top librarians to encourage acquisition and participation in LibraryReads. Author is personally connected with 4+ librarians in Minnesota and Texas, including an acquisitions librarian in Hennepin County. • Books for a cause: increased awareness of book sales through PR campaign to support various charities benefitted by author’s own earnings from sales. Author plans on contributing 50% or more of earnings to charities related to issues discussed in novel. • Goodreads and LibraryThing giveaway. • Book readings and signings at local bookstores. • Tailored publicity campaign through a publicist including national print, blog tour, online campaigns, content strategy, and social media outreach. • Book trailer. • Simultaneous e-book publication and promotion.

In a near future in which overpopulation, resource depletion, and environmental degradation have precipitated a radical population control program, people can volunteer to be culled at a young age in exchange for immediate wealth.The ever-increasing socioeconomic disparity between people on Earth has grown to the point that governments are now implementing a radical program: submit your life for “Collection” at a young age, and you’ll gain access to immediate wealth—with some strings attached. For many from marginalized communities, this is barely a choice, as they would rather live an abbreviated life fulfilling their dreams than an elongated one scratching out a meager existence in the gutter.

Unpackaged from the first-person account of a neurodiverse Collector, an employee of the government who is charged with the execution of contracted individuals upon the conclusion of their allotted time, Those the Future Left Behind is a work of speculative science fiction that explores what life might be like on an Earth suffering from resource depletion and overpopulation—an Earth plagued by the same problems we continually brush off today on the chance that others will solve them for us tomorrow.