*Award-winning and critically acclaimed author, whose previous awards include the Gulf Coast Prize for Nonfiction, Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award , Denny C. Plattner Award for Creative Nonfiction, VanderMey Nonfiction Prize, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellow, and Milton Fellowship recipient *Significant author connections to regional community and ideal readership groups *National galley mailing and features, interviews, and excerpts outreach, with focus on outlets to which the author has previous connections: Oxford American, River Teeth, Gulf Coast, Arts & Letters, Appalachian Heritage, Image Journal, Still, Ruminate, Blackbird, Antietam Review, New England Review, and reliable literary fiction champions *Outreach through the authors connections to the Appalachian Studies Association Conference and Appalachian literary community, as well as universities and colleges, targeting course adoption; author has strong connection at West Virginia colleges *Independent bookstore mailing and special outreach to local indies, including Book No Further (Roanoke, VA), Taylor Books (Charleston, WV), Prairie Lights, Malaprops, and more *Outreach to regional publications and organizations such as SIBA, Garden and Gun, Southern Living, and local publications including The Roanoke Times (VA), Charleston Gazette-Mail (WV), The Dominon Post (WV) and more *Promotion through author's robust social media channels *Outreach to book clubs and Great Group Reads nomination *Conference participation, virtual or otherwise, at AWP, Virginia Festival of the Book, Southern Festival of the Book, NC Book Festival, and Festival of Faith and Writing *Egalleys available on Edelweiss *Significant awards push