Description
Additional promotion: Publicist Lauren Cerand has been hired represent TheTruth Is We Are Perfect. Lauren has done publicity work for several other Consortium titles including the most recent Atticus Lish book. http://laurencerand.com/ Galleys and Reviews: Time Out New York and Poetry Magazine have both solicited advance review copies. Galleys are being mailed to 400 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, and more. Video: Professional videos for both a single poem from the collection and a trailer for the general book will be made. Touring: Stucky will go on a 30-city national tour to promote the book, including dates at the AWP Conference in Minneapolis, Mission Creek Festival in Iowa City, and the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago. We will be trying to include Stucky on festival dates with JAck White where possible. For example, Stucky read at the Newport Folk Festival when Jack played in 2014. Social Media: *TMB and TMR use all social media platforms regularly to post reviews, excerpts and profiles related to TMB authors. For instance, we posted a poem a day from Language Lessons for the month prior and after the release. 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. *Third Man Books Twitter 1,358 Followers *Third Man Records Twitter 118k Followers *Third Man Records FB 135,830 Likes *Third Man Records.com receives an average 3500 visits per day *Third Man Records Instagram has 64k Followers *Third Man Books.com is housed within ThirdManRecords.com The author will be promoting through his own site Janaka Stucky.com, FB, Twitter, Tumblr
About the Author
Janaka Stucky is the publisher of Black Ocean as well as the annual poetry journal, Handsome. He is the author of two chapbooks: Your Name Is The Only Freedom, and The World Will Deny It For You. His poems have appeared in such journals as Denver Quarterly, Fence and North American Review, and his articles have been published by The Huffington Post and The Poetry Foundation. He is a two-time National Haiku Champion and in 2010 he was voted "Boston's Best Poet" in The Boston Phoenix.
Book Information
ISBN 9780991336111
Author Janaka Stucky
Format Paperback
Page Count 92
Imprint Third Man Books
Publisher Third Man Books
Weight(grams) 170g