Promotional Information

Co-op is available.

Reviews and Publicity:

We will be hiring an outside publicist to complement our own in house publicity. Galleys will be mailed to 200 reviewers and also available for request. Periodicals and webpages who will be receiving copies are The New York Times, Coldfront, The New Yorker, Rumpus, Boston Review, Vice, Los Angeles Times, Rain Taxi, Bookslut, Paris Review, Rolling Stone.

Media:
A trailer for the book itself plus multiple videos for select poems will be produced.
Galleys and Reviews:


Video:
Professional videos for both a single poem from the collection and a trailer for the general book will be made.


Different celebrities from the TMR family will be contacted to participate.We will be approaching several celebrities and writers to record and/or blurb DeColo's poems, such as:

John Waters
Carrie Brownstein (Sleater-Kinney, Portlandia)
Ron Jeremy
Weird Al Yankovic
David Blaine
Harmony Korine
Jesse Eisenberg
David Berman
Will Oldham
Adrian Matejka
Nick Flynn
David Berman
Patricia Smith
Jamaal May
Tarfia Faizullah


Touring:
DeColo will perform a minimum 30-city national tour to promote the book, including dates at the AWP LA, Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, Mission Creek Festival in Iowa City, and the Pitchfork Music Festival. TMB will also be trying to include DeColo on festival dates with Jack White and other TMR artists. For example, Janaka Stucky and Sampson Starkweather read at the Newport Folk Festival when Jack played in 2014. And performed at Pitchfork 2015 where several TMR artists performed. DeColo has already performed at TMR with rapper Mike Floss.


Social Media:

*TMB and TMR use all social media platforms regularly to post reviews, excerpts and profiles related to TMB authors. We also have sent exclusive audio downloads of select authors to our Vault subscription service. This download is always accompanied by blurbs, photos, links to relevant sites, and author bio.

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About the Author

Kendra DeColo's first collection Thieves in the Afterlife (Saturnalia Books, 2014) was selected by Yusef Komunyakaa for the 2013 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize and named "Favorite Nashville Poetry Book of 2014" by the Nashville Scene. Her poems have appeared in Indiana Review, Copper Nickel, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. She has received awards and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the Millay Colony, and the Tennessee Arts Commission. She is book editor at Muzzle Magazine and guest teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.