An Orchard in the Street

Galleys available: national mailing to key review/media outlets 4-5 months prior to publication. National advertising: Poets & Writers, Rain Taxi, and Redactions. National print campaign: 100+ finished books will be mailed to key review outlets, specifically targeting Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The LA Times, Poets & Writers Magazine, The Rumpus, Huffington Post Poetry, Bookforum, LA Review of Books, PBS Newshour, NPR, etc. Additional review copies will be sent to Chicago Tribune, Chicago Review of Books, Kirkus, Harper’s, The Nation, Midwest Book Review, The Nervous Breakdown, Choice, and TriQuarterly. Outreach to bloggers, reviewers and online outlets for category features, including Buzzfeed, Bustle, etc. for such themes as meditation, memory, childhood and adolescence, and urban fiction. Buy-ins to relevant academic conferences, trade shows, and publications: American Library Association Annual Meeting, CBSD Sales and Academic catalogs, etc. Fall announcements will be submitted to Publishers Weekly. Online/social media campaign: Extensive promotion through BOA's website and blog; Facebook (6,600+ followers), Twitter (6,700+ followers), Instagram (1,700+ followers), and Pinterest (550+ followers) accounts; print and e-postcards; print and e-materials; and print and e-catalogs. Electronic postcards to announce book publication will be sent to Gibbons’s academic contacts, bookstore contacts, and literary bloggers. Electronic newsletter feature will be emailed to BOA's database of 7,100+ contacts. Ebook will be available at the same time as print publication to maximize sales. Ebook ISBN will be included on all press materials, author and publisher websites, and whenever print ISBN is listed. Publisher and author will be promoting both e and p through social media. Author will attend the AWP Conference 2018 in Tampa, FL, where he will have an author signing. Plans for a multi-city book tour, including such places as New York City, Boston, Washington, D.C., Denver, Chicago, San Antonio, TX, Austin, TX, and Houston, TX. Possible joint readings with Naomi Shihab-Nye, Chris Albani (Akashic), Angela Jackson (Northwestern University Press; Beacon), Stuart Dybek (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Alan Shapiro (University of Chicago Press), Tony Fitzpatrick, and Reginald Dwayne Betts (FourWay Books). Promotion through the author's social media platforms and website: http://www.reginaldgibbons.northwestern.edu/

Evocative, playful, masterful brief fictions that explode with imagery detailing love, denial, and the squandered opportunities waiting around every corner.This new collection by award-winning author Reginald Gibbons explores human experience and memory in ordinary settings—city apartments, rural roads, soap operas, and juvenile court—as way to understand the depths of thought and feeling in our everyday encounters. These narrative meditations explode with imagery, looking and listening deeply into our everyday experience—the extraordinary within the ordinary, the impossible within the possible. Reginald Gibbons is the author of numerous collections of poetry and fiction. His book Creatures of a Day was a poetry finalist for the National Book Award. He lives in Evanston, IL, where he teaches at Northwestern University.