As You Were

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*Launch at Magic City Books in Tulsa, OK, will be a Q&A and signing, hosted by Sterlin Harjo, a Native filmmaker
*Virtual event with Brandon Hobson, a 2019 National Book Award finalist and former child social worker for Oklahoma
*Additional events in Oklahoma City, Dallas, Austin, Minneapolis/St.Paul, Denver, Lawrence, KS and author's hometown (Duluth, MN)
*Special outreach to the Institute of American Indian Arts MFA, the UW-Superior Alumni Association, and the Native American Lit Book Club, a joint club of Oklahoma State University-Tulsa Center for Poets and Writers
*Review, interview, and outreach coverage to publications at which Tromblay has strong connections, including PANK and Book Riot, as well as publications in which Tromblay's work has appeared, including Michigan Quarterly Review; RED INK: International Journal of Indigenous Literature, Arts, & Humanities; The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature; Yellow Medicine Review; Open: Journal of Arts & Letters; Watershed Review; FIVE:2: ONE Magazine, and BULL: Men's Magazine
*Author participation at Oklahoma Book Festival, OSU-Tulsa CPW Tulsa LitFest, Southern Festival of Books, Twin Cities Book Festival, and Paper Plains: A Literary Festival
*Indie bookstore special mailing and outreach to Magic City Books (Tulsa), Bliss Books & Bindery (Stillwater), Whitty Books (Tulsa), and Full Circle Bookstore (Oklahoma City) in OK; Deep Vellum Books (Dallas) and The Wild Detectives (Dallas) in TX; Raven Bookstore (Lawrence) and Watermark Books (Wichita) in KS; Zenith Bookstore (Duluth), Birchbark Books & Native Arts (Minneapolis), Magers & Quinn Booksellers (Minneapolis), and Excelsior Bay (Excelsion) in MN; and Nightbird Books (Fayetteville) in AR
*Additional outreach to author's local publications, including the Tulsa Voice, Minnesota Public Radio, Tulsa World, and Duluth News Tribune
*Forthcoming blurbs from Terese Mailhot, Tommy Orange, Brandon Hobson, Toni Jensen, Joan Naviyuk Kane, and Gabino Iglesias
*National awards push, including Northeast Minnesota Book Award, Minnesota Book Award, Oklahoma Book Award, Nonfiction Book Award, and PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
*Electronic galley available through Edelweiss
*Mass galley mailin.