Description
Significant Audience: The Accused podcast has been downloaded 430k times on Soundcloud, and topped the American iTunes Chart at #1 in October of 2016.
Global Reach: In addition to its wide-ranging popularity in the U.S., the Accused podcast has charted in the UK, Canada, and Australia.
Topic of Interest: True crime podcast-and-TV-based books are hot right now. Bestselling titles include Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial by Rabia Chaudry (12.6k units Bookscan), He Killed Them All: Robert Durst and My Quest for Justice by Jeanine Piro (9.6k units Bookscan), and The Innocent Killer: A True Story of a Wrongful Conviction and its Astonishing Aftermath by Michael Griesbach (6.1k units Bookscan).
-Support from Cincinnati Enquirer: The Cincinnati Enquirer will feature the book cover, with links to purchase, on their own website, and has committed to help support and drive sales of the book through ongoing cross-promotional endeavors. Diversion plans to release the book to tie in with the new season of the Accused.
-Rich Content with Visual References: The Accused is an intriguing, suspenseful story to which true crime readers will be sure to respond. The Cincinnati Enquirer has agreed to license Diversion visual references such as photographs, images, and case files to help bolster the text.
- Print and e-ARC distribution to trade and consumer media, both traditional and online
- Social media marketing on Facebook, Twitter, and Goodreads giveaways
- Outreach to true crime community for features (fan-oriented sites/publications/media) including Sword & Scale, Dan Zupansky's True Crime Radio, The Lineup, io9 True Crime, and Criminal Element.
About the Author
Amber Hunt is the author of true crime books Dead But Not Forgotten: The True Story of a Cheating Husband, His Stunning Mistress, and a Murder Case Gone Cold (St. Martin's True Crime Library, August 2010), All American Murder (St. Martin's True Crime Library, August 2011), See How Much You Love Me: A Troubled Teen, His Devoted Parents, and a Cold-Blooded Killing (St. Martin's True Crime Library, June 2014), and New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, Kennedy Wives: Triumph and Tragedy in America's Most Public Family (Lyons Press, December 2014). She is a seasoned journalist who handles investigations and consumer affairs issues for The Cincinnati Enquirer. She formerly worked as a crime reporter for the Detroit Free Press and was a 2011 Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, where she studied the importance of empathy in urban crime reporting. She has received numerous awards for her reporting from the Michigan Associated Press and won the 2005 Al Nakkula Award for Police Reporting. She has appeared in several television shows highlighting true crimes, including Dateline NBC and A&E's Crime Stories. Amanda Rossmann is a photojournalist and multimedia producer visually documenting life and events in her hometown of Milford, Ohio.
Book Information
ISBN 9781635764543
Author Amber Hunt
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint Diversion Books
Publisher Diversion Books
Global Reach: In addition to its wide-ranging popularity in the U.S., the Accused podcast has charted in the UK, Canada, and Australia.
Topic of Interest: True crime podcast-and-TV-based books are hot right now. Bestselling titles include Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial by Rabia Chaudry (12.6k units Bookscan), He Killed Them All: Robert Durst and My Quest for Justice by Jeanine Piro (9.6k units Bookscan), and The Innocent Killer: A True Story of a Wrongful Conviction and its Astonishing Aftermath by Michael Griesbach (6.1k units Bookscan).
-Support from Cincinnati Enquirer: The Cincinnati Enquirer will feature the book cover, with links to purchase, on their own website, and has committed to help support and drive sales of the book through ongoing cross-promotional endeavors. Diversion plans to release the book to tie in with the new season of the Accused.
-Rich Content with Visual References: The Accused is an intriguing, suspenseful story to which true crime readers will be sure to respond. The Cincinnati Enquirer has agreed to license Diversion visual references such as photographs, images, and case files to help bolster the text.
- Print and e-ARC distribution to trade and consumer media, both traditional and online
- Social media marketing on Facebook, Twitter, and Goodreads giveaways
- Outreach to true crime community for features (fan-oriented sites/publications/media) including Sword & Scale, Dan Zupansky's True Crime Radio, The Lineup, io9 True Crime, and Criminal Element.
About the Author
Amber Hunt is the author of true crime books Dead But Not Forgotten: The True Story of a Cheating Husband, His Stunning Mistress, and a Murder Case Gone Cold (St. Martin's True Crime Library, August 2010), All American Murder (St. Martin's True Crime Library, August 2011), See How Much You Love Me: A Troubled Teen, His Devoted Parents, and a Cold-Blooded Killing (St. Martin's True Crime Library, June 2014), and New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, Kennedy Wives: Triumph and Tragedy in America's Most Public Family (Lyons Press, December 2014). She is a seasoned journalist who handles investigations and consumer affairs issues for The Cincinnati Enquirer. She formerly worked as a crime reporter for the Detroit Free Press and was a 2011 Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, where she studied the importance of empathy in urban crime reporting. She has received numerous awards for her reporting from the Michigan Associated Press and won the 2005 Al Nakkula Award for Police Reporting. She has appeared in several television shows highlighting true crimes, including Dateline NBC and A&E's Crime Stories. Amanda Rossmann is a photojournalist and multimedia producer visually documenting life and events in her hometown of Milford, Ohio.
Book Information
ISBN 9781635764543
Author Amber Hunt
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint Diversion Books
Publisher Diversion Books
