Madame Livingstone

200 review copies (100 prepub, 100 postpub) sent to reviewers, booksellers, librarians, bloggers, others. We will seek early blurbs from graphic novelists and writers such as Loyiso Mkize and Marguerite Abouet. Available as an e-ARC on Edelweiss and Netgalley. Leveled and aligned with Common Core. We will seek to host an author Q&A chat on Goodreads. Teaching guide on website and in back of book, included in the page count. We will seek the creation of unit studies curriculum that includes Madame Livingstone as part of it, and/or actively seek the inclusion of Madame Livingstone in unit studies curriculum. Marketing to library market begins with galleys in the Baker and Taylor ARC program. Promoted at Comic Con, ALA annual, mid-winter ALA, NCTE, NCSS, and African Studies Association annual conferences. Blog tour with book giveaways. Goodreads and LibraryThing giveaways. We will send review copies to relevant organizations such as Teaching History, Teaching Ourselves and TeachingBooks.net and seek features in magazines like Teaching Tolerance. We will seek out book clubs who are interested in the book and will create a reading guide for book clubs and others interested in reading the book in a group setting. We will submit the book for all relevant awards. Promotion online via Catalyst's website as well as email lists and social media (blog, twitter, facebook, instagram, and youtube) with author and publisher interviews, chats, and guest posts. Submission to the Junior Library Guild Simultaneous e-book, trade paper, and hardback print release. We will promote and seek ways to promote within the secular, progressive homeschooling community.

Lake Tanganyika, Congo in the year 1915. Two vastly different men in a war that is not theirs, assigned to a virtually impossible mission: sink the German battleship, the Graf Von Götzen.Madame Livingstone is based on the true story of the unlikely partnership between a Belgian and an African who were responsible for the sinking of a German battleship in the Congo during the First World War. Aviator Gaston Mercier, lieutenant in the Royal Belgian Army, arrives at Lake Tanganyika, Congo in 1915 on orders to sink a critical German warship, the Graf Von Götzen. To find out the ship’s exact position, he is assigned a guide, an enigmatic, mixed-race African and the supposed son of the famous explorer David Livingstone who is nicknamed “Mrs. Livingstone” for the Scottish kilt he wears. Little by little, while the war between Belgian and German colonial powers rages on and the pair hunt down the Graf Von Götzen, the young Belgian pilot learns more about the land around him from Mrs. Livingstone and discovers the irrevocable and tragic effects of colonialism on the local people. A historical fiction story of adventure and friendship against the backdrop of World War I in Africa, Madame Livingstone was originally published in France by Glénat in 2014. The graphic novel is authored by historian and comics specialist Christophe Cassiau-Haurie and Congo's unique beauty is presented in full color illustrations by beloved Congolese artist Barly Baruti.