Losing Tim

A Memoir

by Janet Burroway

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Pub Date Jan 23 2014 | Archive Date Aug 16 2014

Think Piece Publishing

Description

Losing Tim carries a lot of pain in its pages. The crisp and artistic prose that fans of Burroway, a National Book Award nominee, have come to expect engages the reader in grieving along with her. It showcases a warm mother’s heart while at the same time offering a steady, observant and intelligent narrative that informs as it affects. As Jonathan Shay, author of Achilles in Vietnam, a highly acclaimed volume on PTSD and a 2007 winner of a Macarthur Foundation “genius grant,” says in the foreword to Losing Tim, “To me, the pain recalls Homer’s Iliad, in which, as James Tatum puts it in The Mourner’s Song, ‘the beauty [of the poetry] is in the killing.’”

Janet Burroway is the author of eight novels and numerous plays, poems, essays, texts for dance, and children’s books. Her novel Raw Silk (to be re-issued by Open Road in the spring of 2014) was runner-up for the National Book Award in 1977. Her Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft, now in its ninth edition, is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and her multi-genre Imaginative Writing is out in a fourth edition. Her most recent novel is Bridge of Sand (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009), and her play Medea with Child was produced in 2010 by Sideshow Theatre Company in Chicago. She has edited a 2014 collection of essays by older women writers, A Story Larger Than My Own (University of Chicago Press) and is at work on both a musical adaptation of Barry Unsworth’s novel Morality Play and a play about her son. She is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor Emerita at the Florida State University.

A Note From the Publisher

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Advance Praise

“This book is both an elegy and a call to action by one of our finest writers, who addresses us from the deepest place imaginable in a voice that is loving, memorable and overflowing with generosity.”

—Madeline Blais, Pulitzer Prize winner, author of The Heart is an Instrument: Portraits in Journalism

“This book brings a piercing clarity to what it means to lose, to grieve, to give everything, and to love.”

—Marya Hornbacher, Pulitzer Prize nominee, author of Madness: A Bipolar Life

“I cannot express my gratitude to Ms. Burroway for writing this soul-searching book, a comfort to no one yet a blessing for all.”

—Bob Shacochis, National Book Award recipient, author of The Woman Who Lost Her Soul

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Marketing Plan

Publicity – We launched a national publicity campaign for Losing Tim at the end January and this will run through the publication date of the book, which is April 7.

This campaign includes:

· Media pitches to the 50 largest newspapers in the country

· Major book media (Library Journal, Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus Review and Shelf Awareness)

· Relevant glossy magazines (Men’s Health, Men’s Journal, O, The Oprah Magazine, Parade, Details, GQ, Esquire, The New Yorker, Paris Review and The Atlantic)

· Radio interviews are being coordinated with American Public Media

· We will be pitching TV shows (60 Minutes, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Kelly and Michael, CBS This Morning, The Daily Show, The Corbert Report, Real Time with Bill Maher, Charlie Rose, Meet the Press, Face the Nation, This Week, Fox News Sunday and State of the Union)

· In addition to these media outlets, we have over 100 print and online media outlets we will be contacting

· We are working on partnerships with over 50 organizations related to PTSD and Military Contractors. The Wounded Warrior Project is going to be getting 5% of the proceeds from Losing Tim.

Author has scheduled appearances at AWP on February 27, The Loft Literary Center in March, Florida State University in April, Northwestern University in April and The Book Cellar in April. We are working on booking other appearances at BEA in May, other universities and with a few organizations.

Copies of Losing Tim are going to be distributed to the academic community at AWP. This will be our first opportunity to get the book in front of this audience.

*Janet is also going to be making joint appearances for Losing Tim and the second edition of her National Book Award finalist Raw Silk

Online Campaign:

Losing Tim is currently on NetGalley and we will be working with bloggers and websites on interviews with Janet. This is part of the plan to make the book more searchable on the web and get it in front of readers so they go into Barnes & Noble to buy the book.

Social Media: Our approach is to post and tweet relevant information and let the readers learn about the book by going to the website and/or viewing our about section. We will be sharing reviews and opportunities of Janet’s to hear her read, but will not force the book down readers throats.

The Think Piece Publishing Twitter page has 6,500 followers.

The Think Piece Publishing Facebook page has 650 followers

Publicity – We launched a national publicity campaign for Losing Tim at the end January and this will run through the publication date of the book, which is April 7.

This campaign includes:

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Available Editions

EDITION	Paperback
ISBN	9780989235235
PRICE	$14.95 (USD)