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NEWEST PRESS CATALOGUE SPRING•2020 PUBLISHER INFORMATION Ordering Information For more information, questions, or for further promotional materials, please contact NeWest Press at [email protected] Matt Bowes (he/him) Claire Kelly (she/her) General Manager Marketing and Production Ph: 780.432.9427 Coordinator [email protected] Ph: 780.432.9427 [email protected] Christine Kohler (she/her) Isabel Yang (they/her) Office Administator Marketing Assistant Ph: 780.432.9427 Ph: 780.432.9427 [email protected] [email protected] Sponsor Logos 1 newestpress.com CONTENTS Publisher Information ..................................................................................................................1 Contents ......................................................................................................................................2 Rolling Thunder ...........................................................................................................................3 In Veritas ......................................................................................................................................4 Hunger Moon ..............................................................................................................................5 The Response of Weeds .............................................................................................................6 Lullabies in the Real World .........................................................................................................7 Accolades ...................................................................................................................................8 Backlist .........................................................................................................................................9 Distribution ................................................................................................................................10 2 newestpress.com NEW TITLE INFORMATION Rolling Thunder by A.J. Devlin Will “Hammerhead” Jed find the missing roller derby coach, or is he just spinning his wheels? Former pro wrestler “Hammerhead” Jed Ounstead, now a fully-fledged private investigator, is riding high after his first successful case. In this second episode, Jed leaves the wrestling realm to enter a new arena: women’s flat-track roller derby. When old acquaintance Stormy Daze seeks his help finding her team’s missing coach, Jed discovers that the turnbuckle-and-metal-chair mayhem of the wrestling ring pales in comparison to roller derby’s four-wheeled ferocity. As his search intensifies, Jed is drawn into the criminal orbit of a shady entrepreneur who doubles as a late-night TV personality, a high-class bookmaker with a yen for racing dachshunds, and a kinky painter with a special technique for producing art. When the thunder rolls, Jed finds he needs more than a few of his beloved banana milkshakes to solve this case. Trade Paperback / May 15, 2020 Rolling Thunder continues A.J. Devlin’s hard-hitting, award-winning mystery isbn 10: 1-988732-86-7 series with its unbeatable one-two punch of over-the-top-rope humour and isbn 13: 978-1-988732-86-2 elbow-to-the-face adventure. BISAC 1: FIC022090 BISAC 2: FIC022010 272 pp / 5 x 8 / $18.95 CDN $15.95 USD “Rolling Thunder is sheer fun. The dialogue is snappy, the action fast-paced. A.J. Devlin is the Canadian Carl Hiaasen. In fact, America will trade you Carl Hiaasen for him. I feel that strongly about this kid’s future.” ~ The New York Times bestselling author and humorist Andrew Shaffer About The Author A.J. Devlin grew up in Greater Vancouver before moving to Southern California for six years where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Screenwriting from Chapman University and a Master of Fine Arts in Screenwriting from The American Film Institute. After working as a screenwriter in Hollywood he moved back home to Port Moody, BC, where he now lives with his wife and two children. Cobra Clutch, the first book in the “Hammerhead” Jed Mystery Series, was released in May 2018 and won the Best First Crime Novel at the Arthur Ellis Awards. For more information on A.J. and his books, please visit www.ajdevlin.com. ADDITIONAL SALES POINTS • Blurbed by Andrew Shaffer, Cat Power (wrestler), Jenna Hauck • Taps into the rollicking world of roller derby. (former Roller Derby skater), and Niall Howell. • Previous novel won Best First Crime Novel at the Arthur Ellis • Launch events in Vancouver, Port Moody, Calgary, Edmonton, Awards and was nominated for Best Debut Mystery Novel at the and San Diego, as well as promotional evens at Fan Expos and Lefty Awards. Roller Derby and Wrestling matches. MARKETING PLAN MARKETS • Early ARC and international press release mailout. • National trade: mystery • Announcement of book’s release on NeWest Press Facebook • US and UK trade: mystery group, website, email newsletter and Twitter page. • Vancouver / urban • Podcast reading/interview posted on iTunes, RSS feed, Facebook, and NeWest website. COMPARISON TITLES • Press releases and review mailouts to various CBC outlets across • Cut You Down by Sam Wiebe (978-0-345816-29-0, Random the nation, both radio and television. House Canada, 2018) • Submit to all eligible awards. • Bad Monkey by Carl Hiassen (978-0-446556-15-6, Grand Central • Ads in subTerrain, Alberta Views (Read Alberta Books Publishing, 2015) Campaign), Prairie Books Now, CNQ: Canadian Notes and • Metro Girl by Janet Evanovich Queries, Glass Buffalo, and Mystery Scene. (978-0-060584-02-3, HarperCollins Publishers, 2005) 3 newestpress.com NEW TITLE INFORMATION In Veritas by C.J. Lavigne Verity Richards must protect those who cannot endure in our world of ever-present technology. “Things that are and are not, she thinks, and the dog is a snake.” In this fantastic and fantastical debut, C.J. Lavigne concocts a wondrous realm overlaying a city that brims with civic workers and pigeons. Led by her synesthesia, Verity Richards discovers a hidden world inside an old Ottawa theatre. Within the timeworn walls live people who should not exist—people whose very survival is threatened by science, technology, and natural law. Verity must submerge herself in this impossible reality to help save the last traces of their broken community. Her guides: a magician, his shadow-dog, a dying angel, and a knife-edged woman who is more than half ghost. In the literary style of Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus and with the playful transformation of place in Lauren B. Davis’s The Grimoire of Kensington Trade Paperback / May 1, 2020 Market, In Veritas explores the nature of truth and the complexities of human isbn 10: 1-988732-83-2 communication. isbn 13: 978-1-988732-83-1 BISAC 1: FIC009060 BISAC 2: FIC009010 352 pp / 6 x 9 / $21.95 CDN $19.95 USD “Reading this was like looking through my glasses right after I’ve cleaned them. I’ll never look at my city in quite the same way again.” ~ Kate Heartfield, the Nebula-nominated author of Armed in Her Fashion About The Author C.J. Lavigne was born in Kingston, ON, but grew up all over Canada, from Comox, BC to Barrington Passage, NS. Since 2007, she has divided her time between Ottawa, ON, and Red Deer, AB, where she currently resides and works as a professional communications scholar who writes on television, gaming, and popular culture; at other points in her life, she’s been a barista, tech support supervisor, marketing manager, freelance editor, and—briefly—radio DJ. In Veritas is her first novel and is part of the Nunatak First Fiction Series. ADDITIONAL SALES POINTS • Launch events in Red Deer, Edmonton, Calgary, Ottawa, • Part of the Nunatak First Fiction Series, Canada’s longest-running Montreal, Kingston, and Toronto, as well as various Fantasy/Sci-Fi debut fiction series. conventions and conferences. • Book will appeal to those who enjoy Urban and Contemporary Fantasy. MARKETS • National trade: urban fantasy/literary fantasy MARKETING PLAN • US and UK trade: urban fantasy/literary fantasy • Early ARC and international press release mailout. • Ottawa • Announcement of book’s release on NeWest Press Facebook group, website, email newsletter and Twitter page. COMPARISON TITLES • Podcast reading/interview posted on iTunes, RSS feed, • The Grimoire of Kensington Market by Lauren Davis (978-1- Facebook, and NeWest website. 928088-70-7, Wolsak & Wynn, 2018) • Press releases and review mailouts to various CBC outlets across • The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (978-0-385671-73-6, the nation, both radio and television. Doubleday Canada, 2012) • Submit to all eligible awards. • All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders • Ads in subTerrain, Alberta Views (Read Alberta Books (978-0-765379-95-5, Tor Books, 2017) Campaign), Prairie Books Now, CNQ: Canadian Notes and Queries, Glass Buffalo, and On Spec. 4 newestpress.com NEW TITLE INFORMATION Hunger Moon by Traci Skuce Thirteen stories brimming with complex hunger and desire. Traci Skuce’s Hunger Moon is a collection of stories that echo with the yearning to be replenished, to be made full. Here are characters at cusp-points in their lives, attempting to shift their trajectories: to cease wrapping up heart’s desire in a pink bubble by launching it into the universe. Some turn to ESP, some to a belief in ghosts, some to the future caught inside a glass bottle, each character taking the hackneyed adage “Follow Your Bliss” too literally when they blissfully follow their own storyline. Emotionally charged, evocative, and lush, Hunger Moon’s