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http://www.etsy.com/listing/94630872/dead-beautiful-a-novel-by-melanie-dugan
Genre: literary fiction/general fiction/fantasy /young adult
ISBN: 978-0-9783774-7-2
Publishing Date: May 2012
Price: CAD 19.95 (ebook CAD 5.99)
Trim: 5.5” x 8.5”
Page Count: 169 pages
Format: Paperback, perfect bound
Contact and Ordering Information:
Christina Decarie
upstartpress@kingston.net
http://www.etsy.com/listing/94630872/dead-beautiful-a-novel-by-melanie-dugan
About the Author: Melanie Dugan is the author of Sometime Daughter (“Stunning debut,” Kingston Whig-Standard) and Revising Romance (“heartwarming, amusing and … downright sexy,” Midwest Book Review). Her short stories have been shortlisted for several awards, including the CBC Literary Award.
Marketing Plans:
- Readings, panels and workshops about publishing in the digital age, publisher/author relationships, writing and publishing in an age of “disappearing” publishing houses, marketing yourself as an author, how to balance a job and the writing life.
- Literary festivals across Ontario
- Reviews in local and national newspapers, magazines, and websites
- Local (Kingston) book launch
- Readings and interviews on local and national radio
- Blog tour
For book clubs:
- Author readings/discussions
- Discounts (ten or more copies)
- “Questions for book clubs”
