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FORGE BOOKS Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered The Definitive How-To Guide Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark The highly anticipated dual memoir by the beloved hosts of the #1 hit podcast My Favorite Murder Sharing never-before-heard stories ranging from their struggles with depression, eating disorders, and addiction, Karen and Georgia irreverently recount their biggest mistakes and deepest fears, reflecting on the formative life events that shaped them into two of the most followed voices in the nation. In Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered, Karen and Georgia focus on the importance of self-advocating and valuing personal safety over being ‘nice’ or ‘helpful.’ They delve into their own pasts, true crime stories, and beyond to discuss meaningful cultural and societal issues with fierce empathy and unapologetic frankness. KAREN KILGARIFF is a stand-up comedian and television writer. She was the head writer for the first five years of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, with credits on scripted shows including Portlandia and Baskets. GEORGIA HARDSTARK is a host for the Cooking Channel, a performance storyteller, and a recurring guest monologist on Drunk History. My Favorite Murder is the hit comedy true crime podcast. Since its inception in early 2016, the show has regularly landed on iTunes' Top 10 Most Downloaded list. The show has sparked an enthusiastic, interactive fan base of self-proclaimed "murderinos" who come out in droves for Karen and Georgia's regularly sold-out nationwide tours. 2 MAY 2019 MARKETING Plans: -National publicity including morning and late-night TV appearances -Select author appearances -Massive preorder campaign: Landing page with extra content * preorder signage and giveaway at authors’ Fall 19 tour stops * My Favorite Murder starter kits * Promotion via My Favorite Murder podcast and My Favorite * Murder social media platforms * Preorder sweepstakes * Social media and newsletter images available for accounts -Major prepublication trade and consumer advertising -Early reader trad... PRAISE Praise for Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: “All the best advice your mother never told you.” —Jenny Lawson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy “Kilgariff and Hardstark bring a much needed dimension to our current, true crime fever dream—an empathetic, slangy dose of acidic humor, weary compassion, and nervous hope. Their podcast is a joy to listen to and this book captures its BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / energy and hilarity perfectly.” —Patton Oswalt, New York PERSONAL MEMOIRS Forge Books | 5/28/2019 Times bestselling author of Silver Screen Fiend 9781250178954 | $24.99 / $32.50 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 304 pages | Carton Qty: “In addition to being laugh-out-loud funny, smart, and 20 incisive, Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered is so interesting and 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W 10 pieces of original art; photos throughout insightful that it made me a) want to be best friends with the authors and b) for real ask them to take me on as a therapy Other Available Formats: patient. This book is hilarious, honest, insightful, and clever Ebook ISBN: 9781250178961 Audio ISBN: 9781250222299 as hell. Do yourself a fun favor by buyi... Audio ISBN: 9781250222282 3 FORGE BOOKS MAY 2019 Exile James Swallow The nuclear sequel to the internationally bestselling thriller, Nomad A vicious Serbian gang whose profits come from fake nuclear weaponsA disgraced Russian general, with access to the real thing. A vengeful Somali warlord, with a cause for which he'd let the world burn. A jaded government agency, without the information to stop him. Only one man sees what's coming. And even he might not be able to prevent it . FICTION / THRILLERS / ESPIONAGE Racing breathlessly from uncharted CIA prisons to the skyscrapers of Dubai, Forge Books | 5/14/2019 from stormbeaten oil rigs off the African coast to the ancient caverns beneath the 9780765395146 | $29.99 / $38.99 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 448 pages | Carton city of Naples, Marc Dane returns in the explosive new thriller from the Qty: 16 internationally bestselling author of Nomad 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Other Available Formats: PRAISE Ebook ISBN: 9780765395160 Audio ISBN: 9781250223098 For the Marc Dane series: Audio ISBN: 9781250223081 "Britain's answer to Jason Bourne. Fast-moving and fun." —Daily Mail, on Exile MARKETING “Ian Fleming meets John Le Carre: vivid andgritty with nonstop action.” —David Plans: Hagberg, on Nomad - Targeted consumer mystery/thriller advertising across multiple platforms - Digital publicity campaign to include “Unputdownable. A must-read.” —Wilbur Smith, on Nomad features and giveaways - Digital promotion across Forge’s extensive online platforms JAMES SWALLOW is an author and scriptwriter with over fifteen years of experience in fiction, television, radio, journalism, new media, and video games. He is a three-time New York Times bestselling author of thirty-eight novels with over 750,000 books currently in print, in nine different worldwide territories. He was nominated by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts for his writing on the critically acclaimed Deus Ex:Human Revolution, 2013’s blockbuster video game with over 2.18 mil... 4 FORGE BOOKS MAY 2019 First Kill A Kirk McGarvey Novel David Hagberg First Kill tells the origin story for CIA assassin Kirk McGarvey in this prequel to the New York Times bestselling series It is the beginning of Kirk McGarvey's career as a CIA black ops officer. Fresh out of the Air Force OSI, he receives his first assignment: assassinate a Chilean general known as the Butcher of Valparaiso, a monster who has tortured and killed more than one thousand dissidents at a soccer stadium in Valparaiso. McGarvey manages to cross the border over the mountains from Argentina without being discovered, and even makes his way to the general's remote FICTION / THRILLERS / compound. But the odds are stacked against him. Chile's National Intelligence ESPIONAGE Agency, the ANI, has been warned of his approach and wants him to fail—and Forge Books | 5/7/2019 9780765337337 | $27.99 / $36.50 Can. someone back home in Washington is working to make sure he does. Hardcover with dust jacket | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 24 For this newly-minted assassin, killing the butcher is only the beginning. 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Other Available Formats: PRAISE Ebook ISBN: 9781466834385 “Hagberg writes the most realistic, prophetic thrillers I have ever read.” —Stephen Coonts, New York Times bestselling author MARKETING Plans: “The grand master of the contemporary thriller.” - Targeted advertising to mystery/thriller —Douglas Preston, #1 New York Times bestselling author readers across multiple formats - Review attention - Digital promotion across Forge’s DAVID HAGBERG is a former Air Force cryptographer who has traveled extensively in Europe, extensive online platforms the Arctic, and the Caribbean, and has spoken at CIA functions. He has published more than seventy novels of suspense, including Flash Points, Tower Down, and the bestselling Allah’s Scorpion, Dance with the Dragon, and The Expediter. He makes his home in Sarasota, Florida. ALSO AVAILABLE Tower Down: A Kirk McGarvey Novel 2/2018 | 9780765378729 Mass Market | $9.99 / $12.99 Can. End Game: A Kirk McGarvey Novel 8/2017 | 9780765369994 Mass Market | $9.99 / $13.99 Can. 5 FORGE BOOKS AUGUST 2019 Nottingham Nathan Makaryk With the scope and depth of Ken Follett and Edward Rutherford, debut novelist Nathan Makaryk weaves a complex and compelling retelling of the legend of Robin Hood England, 1191. King Richard is half a world away, fighting for God and his own ambition. Back home, the country languishes, bankrupt and on the verge of anarchy. People with power are running unchecked. People without are growing angry. And in Nottingham, the largest and wealthiest shire in England, a dangerously passive sheriff seems intent on doing nothing. As the leaves turn gold in the Sherwood Forest, the lives of six people—Arable, Forge Books | 8/6/2019 a servant girl with a secret; Robin and William, soldiers running from their 9781250195609 | $26.99 / $34.99 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 496 pages | Carton pasts; Marion, a noblewoman working for change; Guy of Gisbourne, a Qty: 16 beleaguered guard captain; and Elena Gamwell, a brash, ambitious thief— 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W become intertwined. Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250195623 And a strange story begins to spread . Audio ISBN: 9781250222428 Audio ISBN: 9781250222411 Both a gripping historical epic and fascinating deconstruction of the Robin Hood legend, Nathan Makaryk’s Nottingham mixes history and myth into a complex study of power—one that twists and turns far beyond the traditional tale of MARKETING Sherwood Forest’s iconic thief. Plans: -National print and online advertising campaign PRAISE -Extensive reviews and feature coverage both in print and online “Who doesn’t like Robin Hood? The list is dangerously long, as revealed in this -Prepublication campaign, including trade dark romp through Sherwood Forest.” —New York Times bestselling author and consumer advertising -Early reader trade and consumer review Elizabeth Cobbs campaign: major ARC mailings and giveaways, NetGalley, Shelf Awareness Nathan Makaryk is a theater owner, playwright, director and actor, living in southern California. for Readers, and GoodReads Nottingham is his first novel. -Online publicity campaign to include podcasts, interviews, reviews and giveaways -“No King. No Rules.” digital marketing campaign to include social media engagement campaign, au... 6 FORGE BOOKS JUNE 2019 The Shallows Matt Goldman "Irreverent and insightful" Nils Shapiro returns in this stellar mystery, fulfilling the expectation that he is "sure to be a fan favorite" (Harlan Coben on Gone to Dust) In the words of Lee Child on Gone to Dust, “I want more of Nils Shapiro.” New York Times and Emmy Award-winning author Matt Goldman happily obliges by bringing the Minneapolis private detective back for another thrilling, stand alone adventure in The Shallows.