Yours, Jean

National galley mailing, with an emphasis on major national review outlets that have previously covered Lee’s work, including the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, Washington Post, and more Author tour including Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Texas, and New York Festival and conference appearances, including AWP, the Ohioana Book Festival, BEA, and Printers Row Outreach to MIBA and GLIBA, with nominations aimed at a Midwest Connections and Great Lakes Great Reads pick Targeted galley mailing and outreach to author’s local papers, including The Columbus Dispatch, The Sumner Press, The Lawrenceville Daily Record, The Olney Daily Mail, The Vincennes Sun-Commercial, and Columbus Alive Targeted bookstore mailing with Indie Next ambitions to Politics & Prose, Left Bank, Grammercy Books, Prairie Lights Books, Square Books, and Excelsior Bay Books Targeted galley mailing to review outlets that previously covered Lee’s work and have strong connections to the press, including PopMatters, Alternating Current, Crazyhorse, The Coachella Review, Electric Lit, Lit Hub, Poets & Writers, Largehearted Boy, The Medium, Brooklyn Rail, The Rumpus, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Barrelhouse, Shelf Awareness Blurb requests out to Richard Ford, Andre Dubus III, Margot Livesay, Jacqueline Mitchard, Bernice McFadden Book club outreach University reading series promotion and course adoption push Major awards push, including the The Ohioana Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Award Electronic galleys available on Edelweiss

"When she refused me," Charlie says at his trial. "Well, I had that gun. What else was I to do?"Lawrenceville, Illinois, 1952: Jean De Belle, the new high school librarian, is eager to begin the next phase of her young life after breaking off her engagement to Charlie Camplain. She has no way of knowing that in a few short hours, Charlie will“When she refused me,” Charlie says at his trial. “Well, I had that gun. What else was I to do?” Lawrenceville, Illinois, 1952: Jean De Belle, the new high school librarian, is eager to begin the next phase of her young life after breaking off her engagement to Charlie Camplain. She has no way of knowing that in a few short hours, Charlie will arrive at the school, intent on convincing her to take back his ring. What happens next will reverberate through the lives of everyone who crossed paths with Charlie and Jean: the hotel clerk who called him a cab, the high school boy who became his getaway driver, and the English teacher who was Jean’s landlady, her confidant, and perhaps more. Based on a true crime and ideal for readers of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers and Elizabeth Strout’s beloved Anything Is Possible, Pulitzer Prize finalist Lee Martin's Yours, Jean is a powerful novel about small town manners and the loneliness that drives people to do things they never imagined.