Orange Crush

* Academic initiative to Women's Studies Programs * Initiative to reach feminist readers * Muench to keep up a very active personal Website and online profile * Huge launch party to take place in Chicago * Forthcoming blurb by Yusef Komunyaka * Muench is a tried and true Sarabande author; will build on the audience she acquired with Lampblack & Ash (publicity included a review in the New York Times Book Review) * Total season's marketing budget of $18,000; individual book budget of $3,000 * Newsletter and catalog feature mailed to contacts on Sarabande database as well as many contacts as Muench provides * 2,000 postcards mailed to MFA programs, bookstores, and libraries as well as many contacts as Muench provides * Internet marketing campaign to include announcement on Sarabande national listserv, as well as review copy mailing to online journals and blogs. Author and tour info will be updated regularly on Sarabande Website and other online venues.

Fiercely intelligent tribute to the "orange girls" of London who sold oranges (and themselves) outside 19th-century theaters."Muench's lush figures give great pleasure to both ear and eye, and her imaginative leaps can feel both mysterious and inevitable, in a way that recalls not only Desnos, but also Neruda."—The New York Times Book Review "Her language is refreshing, musical, attenuated."—Anne Waldman Simone Muench lives in Chicago.