Permanent Exhibit

Galley mailing to key reviewers and media outlets 4-5 months prior to publication. Advanced review copies sent to key review outlets such as Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The LA Times, The Rumpus, Poets & Writers, Huffington Post Poetry, BookForum, LA Review of Books, PBS NewsHour, NPR, etc. National advertising: Poets & Writers, American Poets, and the Academy of American Poets newsletter. Outreach to online media and bloggers including BuzzFeed, Bustle, Book Riot, Literary Hub etc. Buy-ins to relevant academic conferences, trade shows, and publications: American Library Association Annual Meeting, CBSD Sales and Academic catalogs, etc. Fall book announcements submitted to Publishers Weekly. Online/social media campaign: Extensive promotion through BOA's website and blog: Facebook (6,800+ followers), Twitter (8,000 followers), Instagram (2,200+ followers), and Pinterest (840+ followers) accounts; print and e-postcards; and print and e-catalogs. Electronic book announcement postcards will be sent to author’s list of academic contacts, reviewer contacts, bookstore contacts, and literary bloggers. Electronic newsletter feature will be emailed to BOA's database of 7,500+ 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 electronic and print editions via social media. Matthew will attend and sign books at the 2019 AWP Conference in Portland, OR. Matthew will read from and promote this title at the Clemson Literary Festival in Clemson, SC, in April 2018. Plans for a multi-city book tour, including readings in Boston, MA, Asheville, NC, Roanoke, VA, Charlottesville, VA, Washington, DC, Rochester, NY, and New York, NY. Possible joint readings/events with Erika Meitner. Promotion through the author's website and social media feeds. Website: matthewvollmer.com Twitter: @matthewvollmer Instagram: @thematthewvollmer

Brief collage-style essays that explore the ephemeral and fractured nature of life in the digital age.Matthew Volmer fuses the insight of extended meditation with the immediacy of social media in his new collection Permanent Exhibit. These collage-style essays experiment with stream-of-conscious musings as Vollmer opens a browser window into his own mind: letting his thoughts wander through a fast-forward montage of flying snakes, mass shootings, emojis, pop stars, stargazing, ghosts, circuses, and a hundred other things. Full of keen observations and unexpected insights, Permanent Exhibit reclaims the art of letting one’s mind wander in the age of the status update.