Sacrificed

200 review copies (100 prepub, 100 postpub) sent to reviewers, booksellers, librarians, bloggers, others. Available as an e-ARC on Edelweiss. 3-week, 15-blog blog tour with book giveaways. Goodreads giveaway. We will seek to host an author Q&A chat on Goodreads. We will reach out to Sisters in Crime for marketing possibilities, as well as to International Thriller Writers (Chanette is already a member). We will seek features on Chanette and guest articles from national publications, tying in to the end of apartheid, the start of democracy, and themes of racial identities and politics that are related both to the novel, to her experience of South Africa, and supremely relevant to the U.S. right now. 2018 is 25th anniversary of S. Africa’s transition to “democracy" as well as Mandela's winning of the Nobel Peace Prize. We will send copies to authors whose work has common ground--e.g., Barbara Kingsolver, Zakes Mda, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jodi Picoult, and seek blurbs wherever possible. We will seek out book clubs who are interested in the book and offer the chance to win a SKYPE visit with the author. Promotion at book fairs and trade shows We will submit the book for relevant awards. Promotion online via Catalyst's website, email lists (in development) and social media (blog, twitter, facebook, instagram, and youtube) with author and publisher interviews, chats, and guest posts. Simultaneous e-book and print release.

Congo’s diamond mines. Belgium’s art galleries. South Africa’s racist past. Caz’s family tree ushers deadly consequences into the present.Rejected by everyone except her extraordinary daughter, Caz lives a secluded life in rural South Africa. But a single phone call from her estranged sister shatters this refuge. This phone call is the first step down an ever-widening tunnel into Caz's painful past. From the Congo's sparkling diamond mines to Belgium's finest art galleries, from Africa's civil unrest to its deeply spiritual roots, Sacrificed seamlessly crosses borders and decades with a fiercely captivating story. Chanette Paul has published forty-one bestselling romance, thriller, and crime novels in her native Afrikaans in South Africa. This is her first book to be translated into English.