Description
SOCIAL MEDIA * Print and electronic galleys--including print galleys to West Coast reps in April 2020 * Outreach to friends of author and publisher (e.g. Andrei Codrescu, Mikhail Iossel) to ask them to tweet, review, or otherwise get word out about the book's publication * Facebook boosted ads at preorder and prior to publication * Blurbs and/or reviews by Andrei Codrescu (reading), Gary Schteyngart (reaching out to), and other VIP authors * Bookstore events in key West Coast cities including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Portland * Prepublication excerpts in leading publications. Excerpt forthcoming (as of early 2020) in TrafikaEurope.org
About the Author
Alta Ifland was born in Transylvania (Romania), took part in the overthrow of Romania's communist dictatorship, and experienced two years of postcommunism before emigrating to the United States in 1991. She chose Moldova, Romania's eastern neighbor, for The Wife Who Wasn't because in key ways that country represents the communist world in its most excessive aspects, and as such is the perfect counterpart to California. After a PhD in French language and literature, and several years in academia, she now works as a full-time writer, book reviewer, and translator (from French, Italian, and Romanian). She is the author of two books of short stories-Elegy for a Fabulous World (2010 finalist for the Northern California Book Award in Fiction) and Death-in-a-Box (2011 Subito Press Fiction Prize)-and two collections of prose poems-Voix de Glace/Voice of Ice (bilingual, French-English, winner of the French prize Louis Guillaume) and The Snail's Song
Reviews
"This comedy of errors is a page-turner, where a mail-order bride service, enough love triangles to boggle the mind, a stolen Egon Schiele painting, and a devastating fire lead the worlds of Santa Barbara and Chis ina u to collide."
-Los Angeles Review of Books
Book Information
ISBN 9781734537918
Author Alta Ifland
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint New Europe Books
Publisher New Europe Books