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ST. MARTIN'S PRESS MAY 2015 Beach Town Mary Kay Andrews A delightful new novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Save The Date. Greer Hennessy is a struggling movie location scout. Her last location shoot ended in disaster when a film crew destroyed property on an avocado grove. And Greer ended up with the blame. Now Greer has been given one more chance—a shot at finding the perfect undiscovered beach town for a big budget movie. She zeroes in on a sleepy Florida panhandle town. There’s one motel, a marina, a long stretch of pristine beach and an old fishing pier with a community casino—which will be perfect for the film’s climax—when the bad guys blow it up in an all­out assault on the FICTION / CONTEMPORARY townspeople. WOMEN St. Martin's Press | 5/19/2015 9781250065933 | $26.99 / $31.50 Can. Greer slips into town and is ecstatic to find the last unspoilt patch of the Florida Hardcover | 400 pages | Carton Qty: 12 gulf coast. She takes a room at the only motel in town, and starts working her 6.1 in W | 9.3 in H | 1 lb Wt charm. However, she finds a formidable obstacle in the town mayor, Eben Other Available Formats: Thinadeaux. Eben is a born­again environmentalist who’s seen huge damage done Audio ISBN: 9781427261007 Ebook ISBN: 9781466872912 to the town by a huge paper company. The bay has only recently been re­born, a Hardcover ISBN: 9781250077233 fishing industry has sprung up, and Eben has no intention of letting anybody screw with his town again. The only problem is that he finds Greer way too attractive MARKETING for his own good, and knows that her motivation is in direct conflict with his. *National One­Day Laydown *National Author Tour *National Print Publicity Will true love find a foothold in this small beach town before it’s too late and *Online Publicity disaster strikes? Told with Mary Kay Andrews inimitable wit and charm, Beach *National Print Advertising Town is this year’s summer beach read! *Massive Online Advertising Campaign *E­Newsletter Advertising *Blog Outreach PRAISE *Online Promotion *Email Marketing Campaign Praise for Save The Date *Ebook Promotion *Social Media Campaign *Facebook.com/marykayandrewsauthor "Delicious…Laugh­out loud humor, overwrought bridezillas and a runaway puppy…an (117K+likes), absolute delight!" —AARP *Twitter @mkayandrews (3300+ followers) *Pinterest: pinterest.com/mkayandrews "Andrews's latest and possibly greatest book yet." —Bookreporter 4K *Author Website: MaryKayAndrews.com *Available on CD from Macmillan Audio "Funny, witty, tender, and compelling." —RT Book Review "Storytelling at its best." —Delta Magazine ALSO AVAILABLE Save the Date "Charming." —Booklist 5/2015 | 9781250019707 Trade Paperback | $15.99 / $18.50 Can. MARY KAY ANDREWS is The New York Times bestselling author of Save the Date, Ladies' Summer Rental Night, Spring Fever, Summer Rental, The Fixer Upper, Deep Dish, Blue Christmas, Savannah 5/2015 | 9781250067289 Breeze, Hissy Fit, Little Bitty Lies, and Savannah Blues. A former journalist for The Atlanta Journal Mass Market | $7.99 / $9.99 Can. Constitution, she lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Save the Date 6/2014 | 9781250019691 2 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS MAY 2015 Born of Defiance Sherrilyn Kenyon The next novel in the blockbuster League series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon! Born an Outcast, Talyn Batur has spent the whole of his life fighting against the prejudice of his people. An Andarion without a father is not something anyone wants to be. But when his companion’s brother draws him into a plot against the Andarion crown, he finds himself torn between the loyalty to their planetary government that his mother has beaten into him and his own beliefs of justice and right. Now, he must decide for himself to remain a pawn of their government or to defy FICTION / ROMANCE / FANTASY everything and everyone he’s ever known to stand up to tyranny. It’s a gamble St. Martin's Press | 5/12/2015 9781250042989 | $27.99 / $32.50 Can. that will either save his life or end it. And when old enemies align with new ones, Hardcover | 688 pages | Carton Qty: it’s more than just his own life at risk. And more than just his homeworld that will 6.1 in W | 9.3 in H | 1 lb Wt end should he fail. Subrights: UK: Trident Media PRAISE Translation: Trident Media A] publishing phenomenon . [Sherrilyn Kenyon is] the reigning queen of the wildly Other Available Formats: Mass Market ISBN: 9781250073068 successful paranormal scene . Just one example of arguably the most in­demand and Audio ISBN: 9781427262066 prolific authors in America these days." —Publishers Weekly Ebook ISBN: 9781466840966 MARKETING "Kenyon's writing is brisk, ironic and relentless imaginative. These are not your *National One­Day Laydown mother's vampire novels." —Boston Globe *National Print Publicity *Online Publicity Campaign *National Cinema Advertising "[An] engaging read." —Entertainment Weekly *Major Online Advertising *Video Trailer New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon is a regular in the #1 spot. This extraordinary *Event Advertising: Comic Con, Dragon Con bestseller continues to top every genre in which she writes. More than 60 million copies of her *Ebook Promotion books are in print in more than one hundred countries. Her current series include The Dark­Hunters, *Email Marketing Campaign The League, and Chronicles of Nick. Her Chronicles of Nick and Dark­Hunter series are soon to be *Heroes & Heartbreakers Promotion major motion pictures. *Online Marketing Campaign: Kenyon Rewards Program *Social Media Campaign: including multi­ month preorder campaign, sweeps, excerpts, fan engagement and more *Facebook: facebook.com/AuthorSherrilynKenyon, 191,000 *Twitter: @kenyonsherrilyn, 39,0... 3 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS MAY 2015 Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams, and Drugs with the Grateful Dead Bill Kreutzmann with Benjy Eisen On their 50th anniversary, a ground­breaking rock and roll memoir by one of the founding members of the Grateful Dead The Grateful Dead are perhaps the most legendary American rock band of all time. For thirty years, beginning in the hippie scene of San Francisco in 1965, they were a musical institution, the original jam band that broke new ground in so many ways. From the music to their live concert sound systems and fan recordings, they were forward­thinking champions of artistic control and outlaw artists who BIOGRAPHY & marched to the beat of their own drums. AUTOBIOGRAPHY / COMPOSERS & MUSICIANS / Bill Kreutzmann, one of their founding members and drummer for every one of GENERAL their over 2,300 concerts has written an unflinching and wild account of playing in St. Martin's Press | 5/5/2015 9781250033796 | $27.99 / $32.50 Can. the greatest improvisational band of all time. Everything a rock music fan would Hardcover | 416 pages | Carton Qty: 16 expect is here, but what sets this apart is Bill's incredible life of adventure that 6.1 in W | 9.3 in H | 1 lb Wt was at the heart of the Grateful Dead experience. This was a band that knew no Includes 30 black­and­white photographs throughout plus one 16­page color photograph limits and Bill lived life to the fullest, pushing the boundaries of drugs, drums and insert high times, through devastating tragedy and remarkable triumph. Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press But at this book's beating heart is the music­­theirs and others. Some of the Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press greatest musicians and concerts were a part of the Grateful Dead's career, from Other Available Formats: sharing the stage with Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, and The Who, to playing in the Ebook ISBN: 9781250033802 Acid Tests, The Monterey Pop Festival, Woodstock and Altamont. Bill's life is a Audio ISBN: 9781427261519 chronicle of American music and pop culture history and his epic personal journey is one of sonic discovery and thrilling experiences. MARKETING *National Broadcast Publicity *National Radio Publicity BILL KREUTZMANN co­founded the Grateful Dead in 1965 with his musical cohorts Jerry *National Print Publicity Garcia, Bob Weir, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, and Phil Lesh. As the drummer in that band for all 30 *Major Promotion with DEAD.net years until they disbanded in 1995, he performed more than 2,300 concerts and played on every *National Radio Advertising one of their albums. He continues to play music in various bands including Billy and the Kids. He *National Print Advertising *Library Marketing Campaign lives on an organic farm in Hawaii. *National IndieBound Campaign *Extensive Blog Outreach BENJY EISEN has written for Rolling Stone, Esquire, Relix and so on. He lives in San Francisco... *Early Reader Review Campaign *Email Marketing Campaign *Social Media Campaign Facebook.com/BillKreutzmann: 28K fans Twitter.com/BKreutzmann: 10K followers *Author website: BillKreutzmann.com 4 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS MAY 2015 The Scarlet Gospels Clive Barker Showcasing Barker's iconic characters, Pinhead and Harry D’Amour featured in the Hellraiser movies, in a good vs. evil saga that goes straight to Hell, Barker's first novel for adults since '07. The Scarlet Gospels takes readers back many years to the early days of two of Barker's most iconic characters in a battle of good and evil as old as time: The long­beleaguered detective Harry D'Amour, investigator of all supernatural, magical, and malevolent crimes faces off against his formidable, and intensely evil rival, Pinhead, the priest of hell. Barker devotees have been waiting for The Scarlet Gospels with bated breath for years, and it’s everything they've begged FICTION / HORROR / GENERAL St. Martin's Press | 5/19/2015 for and more. Bloody, terrifying, and brilliantly complex, fans and newcomers 9781250055804 | $26.99 / $31.50 Can.
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