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120 morris street durham, nc 27701 Publicity and Rights: [email protected] Trade Orders: Consortium Book Sales and Distributions Ingram Content Group Phone: 800-283-3572 Individual Orders: [email protected] 919-682-0555 1 Holding On To Nothing elizabeth chiles shelburne Lucy Kilgore has her bags packed for her escape from her rural Tennessee upbringing, but a drunken mistake forever tethers her to the town and one of its least-admired residents, Jeptha Taylor, who becomes the father of her child. Together, these two young people work to form a family, though neither has any idea how to accomplish that, and the odds are against them in a place with little to offer other than bluegrass music, tobacco fields, and a Walmart full of beer and firearms for the hunting sea- son. Their path is harrowing, but Lucy STATUS: FORTHCOMING and Jeptha are characters to love, and 9781949467086 • Pub Date: 10/22/19 US $25.95 Hardback • 262 Pages readers will root for their success in a Fiction 6” x 9” • E-book available novel so riveting that no one will want to turn out the light until they know MARKETING PLANS whether this family will survive. • Advance reader copies • National and regional print and online In luminous prose, debut novelist campaign • Outreach to regional media Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne brings us • Social media campaign a present-day Appalachian story in the • 6-city regional Southeastern/Appalachian/ tradition of Lee Smith, Silas House, Northeastern tour and Ron Rash, cast without sentiment • Promotion at regional festivals • Regional bookseller catalog ads or cliché, but with a genuine and pro- • Giveaways found understanding of the place and its people. elizabeth chiles shelburne grew up reading, writing, and shooting in East Tennessee. After graduating from Amherst College, she became a writer and a staff editor at the Atlantic Monthly. Her nonfiction work has been published in the Atlantic Monthly, Boston Globe, and Globalpost, among others. She worked on this novel in Grub Street’s year-long Novel Incubator course, under Michelle Hoover and Lisa Borders. Her essay on how killing a deer made her a feminist was published in Click! When We Knew We Were Feminists. 2 Step into the Circle Writers in Modern Appalachia edited by amy greene and trent thomson In this beautiful book of photographs and short essays, some of Appalachia’s best-known writers profile each other and the place they call home. Edited by Bloodroot novelist Amy Greene and her husband Trent Thom- son, this book also features Wendell Berry, Lee Smith, Crystal Wilkinson, Ron Rash, Wiley Cash, Silas House, Jason Howard, Adriana Trigiani, and others. Part photo book, part essay collection, and all praise for the mountains and valleys of the region, this book collects some of the region’s STATUS: FORTHCOMING greatest literary treasures for a genera- 9781949467123 • Pub Date: 10/29/19 tion of readers. US $34.95 Hardback • 140 Pages Biography/ Autobiography MARKETING PLANS 8” x 10” • National and regional print and online campaign • Social media campaign Also available: Trade paper • 9781949467130 • Promotion at regional festivals $24.95 • Regional author talks and photo exhibitions • SIBA featured book amy greene’s first novel Bloodroot was a New York Times and national bestseller. In 2010 Greene won the Weatherford Award for Appalachian Fiction. Her second novel Long Man was a Washington Post Top Book of the Year. In 2016 Greene won the Willie Morris Award for Southern Literature and was inducted into the East Tennessee Literary Hall of Fame. Greene is cofounder of Bloodroot Mountain, a nonprofit organization based in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains. trent thomson is cofounder of Bloodroot Mountain, a nonprofit organization based in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains. He holds a MA in Literature and Theology from the Sewanee School of Letters. Thomson edited A Week in Waiting, a collection of poems by Fr. Anthony Delisi, a Trappist monk. He has published scholarly work on Thomas Merton and Wendell Berry on their shared sacramental worldview. 3 Seaside Spectres daniel w. barefoot Seaside Spectres collects ghost stories from the coastal region of North Carolina as part of the Haunted North Carolina series. This book includes stories told around beach campfires, in grandma’s attic, and on nighttime drives to the coast. There are thirty-three stories in all, one for each coastal county, including tales of ghosts, witches, demons, spook lights, unidentified flying objects, unex- plained phenomena, and more. Seaside Spectres contains a new fore- word by Scott Mason, WRAL’s “Tar Heel Traveler” and author of three North Carolina guidebooks. Other STATUS: FORTHCOMING books in the Haunted North Carolina 9781949467178 • Pub Date: 9/10/19 US $14.95 Trade Paper • 130 Pages series feature tales of the mountains, Fiction Haints of the Hills, and tales of the 5.25” x 8” • E-book available state’s central region, Piedmont Phan- MARKETING PLANS toms. • Local TV and radio campaign • Regional print and online campaign daniel w. barefoot, former mem- • Social media campaign • North Carolina tour ber of the North Carolina Assembly, historian, folklorist, and magician, also available: is the perfect guide to the diverse supernatural history of North Caroli- na. He is the author of twelve books, including Haunted Halls of Ivy: Ghosts of Southern Colleges and Universities, Hark the Sound of Tar Heel Voices, and Spirits of ’76. Haints of the Hills Piedmont Phantoms Trade Paper US $14.95 Trade Paper US $14.95 9781949467154 9781949467147 4 Any Other Place Stories michael croley From Appalachia to South Korea and back, this stunning and relentless collection explores themes of home and displacement. A Korean woman in rural Kentucky clings to the love found in her new mar- riage as the mountain above her washes away. A dutiful daughter struggles to help her father navigate their shared grief—and the sudden release of dangerous, exotic animals. A new father driven by his pride con- fronts Japanese soldiers in a harrowing raid on his home. 9781949467000 • Pub Date: 4/23/19 US $16.95 Trade Paperback • 240 Pages In his debut collection, Michael Fiction / Short Stories Croley takes us from the Appalachian 8” x 5.5” • E-book available regions of rural Kentucky and Ohio MARKETING PLANS to a village in South Korea in thirteen • Winter Institute appearance engaging stories in which characters • SIBA-featured author Southeastern tour find themselves, wherever they are, in to five+ cities • Regional bookseller catalog ads states of displacement. In these settings, • eBlasts to booksellers in other regions Croley guides his characters to some and literary journals semblance of home, where they circle • Goodreads giveaways each other’s pain, struggle to find be- • Galleys available longing, and make sense of the mistakes • AWP appearance • Regional festivals and bad breaks that have brought them there. Croley uses his absorbing prose to https://www.michaelcroley.com uncover his characters’ hidden disquiet and to bring us a remarkable and unique michael croley was born in collection that expands the scope of the foothills of the Appalachian modern American literature. Mountains. The recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Literature in 2016, his stories and essays have appeared in Narrative, Catapult, Blackbird, Kenyon Review Online, Virginia Quarterly Review, the Paris Review Daily, and elsewhere. He teaches creative writing at Denison University. 5 Cape Fear Rising philip gerard When black citizens win elected offices in 1898 Wilmington, NC, white citi- zens stage a coup. Based on real events. Twenty-fifth anniversary edition. In August 1898, Wilmington, North Carolina, was a mecca for middle-class black citizens. Many of the city’s law- yers, businessmen, and other profession- als were black, as were all the tradesmen and stevedores. The black community outnumbered the white community by more than two to one. But white civic leaders, many descended from the ante- bellum aristocracy, did not consider this progress. They looked around and saw working-class white citizens out of jobs. 9781949467024 • Pub Date: 5/7/19 They heard black citizens addressing US $18.95 Trade Paper • 432 Pages Fiction / African American white neighbors “in the familiar.” They 9” x 6” • E-book available hated the fact that local government was run by Republican “Fusionists” sympa- MARKETING PLANS: thetic to the black majority. In this roil- • Regional bookseller catalog ads ing environment, the newspaper office • Print advertising in regional magazines • Community read event in Wilmington turned into an arsenal, secret societies • NC State-wide tour with Civil Rights activists espousing white supremacy were formed, and musicians and isolated acts of violence ensued. The http://philipgerard.com situation was inflamed further by public speeches from both sides. One morn- ing in November, the almost inevitable gunfire began. By the time it was over, Philip Gerard is the author of a government had fallen, citizens died five novels, eight works of non- or dispersed, and Wilmington would fiction, and numerous essays on never be the same again. Based on actual history, music, and writing craft. He events, Cape Fear Rising tells a story of teaches in the BFA and MFA Pro- one city’s racial nightmare—a nightmare grams of the Department of Cre- that was repeated throughout the South ative Writing at the University of at the turn of the century. Although told North Carolina Wilmington, where as fiction, the core of this novel strikes at he has won a number of awards for the heart of racial strife in America. teaching excellence. 6 Gullah Days Hilton Head Islanders Before the Bridge, 1861-1956 thomas c. barnwell jr., carolyn grant, emory shaw campbell Gullah culture, though borne of isolation and slavery, thrived on the US East Coast sea islands from pre-Civil War times until today, and nowhere more prominently than on Hilton Head Island, SC.