Go as a River

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General Marketing:

·  Pitch for Read with Jenna, GMA, Oprah, BOM, etc. 

·  Featured author at Winter Institute 2023

·  Push for IndieNext and Indies Introduce  

·  Author video for retailers and consumers

·  ARCs and Digital Galley

 

Advertising:

·  Pre-pub trade advertising

·  On-sale digital ad campaign

·  AMS Pay-per-click campaign

·  Edelweiss360 Campaign

·  Paid social media/digital campaigns

 

Online:

·  Bookstgrammer/BookTok/Influencer Campaign 

·  Goodreads: Giveaway Campaign

·  NetGalley/Edelweiss Promotions

·  Shareable graphics & quote cards

·  Shareable audiograms

 

Publicity:

·  Virtual Pre-Publication Media Event

·  National Print and Online Publicity:

o National Radio and Podcast Interviews

o National Print and Online Media Coverage

o Trade features and review coverage

·  Regional Author Tour:  including bookstores and book festivals 

Autorentext

Shelley Read’s internationally bestselling debut novel, Go as a River, is being translated into over thirty languages and has been optioned for film by Mazur Kaplan in partnership with Fifth Season. She was a Senior Lecturer at Western Colorado University for nearly three decades, where she was a founder of the Environment & Sustainability major and the PRIME program for at-risk students. She holds degrees in writing and literary studies from the University of Denver and Temple University and is a regular contributor to Crested Butte Magazine and Gunnison Valley Journal. She is a fifth-generation Coloradoan who lives with her family in the Elk Mountains of the Western Slope.

Klappentext

LOVE STORY—a poignant story of formative forbidden young love and loss, set against the natural world. 

MOTHER-SON novel—the novel is also an exploration of motherhood, from the points of view of two mothers, one by blood and one adoptive.

STUNNING NATURE WRITING—like Where the Crawdads Sing or The Overstory, the novel is immersed in the natural world—nature itself is almost a character. 

A NOVEL ABOUT HOME—At the beginning of the novel Victoria’s home lies drowned under the lake.  The novel is an exploration of what home means to us and where we can find it.  

WESTERN FICTION—the author is a fourth-generation Coloradan who spends much time in the wilderness, and the story is based on many of her family’s stories and her own experiences.   The Colorado setting will resonate with readers of Kent Haruf and Peter Heller.

BASED ON A LITTLE-KNOWN FASCINATING HISTORICAL EVENT—in 1966 the town of Iola, Colorado, was drowned to create the Blue Mesa Reservoir and today sits at the bottom of the lake. (Pieces of it are beginning to emerge with drought, so this might be an evolving story.) 

MAJOR INTERNATIONAL EXCITEMENT—Translation rights sold in 26 countries in deals valued at more than US $1.6 million--territories include Canada, Germany, UK/NZ/AU, Japan, Greece, Denmark, Norway, France, Holland, Finland, Romania, Sweden, Lithuania, Israel, Hungary, Poland, Spain, Italy and more.

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Finalist for Goodreads Choice Award Colorado Public Radio 2023 Books We Love *

Set amid Colorado’s wild beauty, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story of a resilient young woman whose life is changed forever by one chance encounter. A tragic and uplifting novel of love and loss, family and survival—and hope—for readers of Great Circle, The Four Winds, and Where the Crawdads Sing.

“Beautiful . . . A striking first novel of love and strength and growth, set against the forests and rivers of Colorado’s high country. Read is a gifted writer, and the book is a literary triumph.”—Denver Post

“With gorgeous descriptions of the great outdoors, an illicit love story, and an unforgettable protagonist, Go as a River offers something for everyone.”—Real Simple

Seventeen-year-old Victoria Nash runs the household on her family’s peach farm in the small ranch town of Iola, Colorado—the sole surviving female in a family of troubled men. Wilson Moon is a young drifter with a mysterious past, displaced from his tribal land and determined to live as he chooses.

Victoria encounters Wil by chance on a street corner, a meeting that profoundly alters both of their young lives, unknowingly igniting as much passion as danger. When tragedy strikes, Victoria leaves the only life she has ever known. She flees into the surrounding mountains where she struggles to survive in the wilderness with no clear notion of what her future will bring. As the seasons change, she also charts the changes in herself, finding in the beautiful but harsh landscape the meaning and strength to move forward and rebuild all that she has lost, even as the Gunnison River threatens to submerge her homeland—its ranches, farms, and the beloved peach orchard that has been in her family for generations.

Inspired by true events surrounding the destruction of the town of Iola in the 1960s, Go as a River is a story of deeply held love in the face of hardship and loss, but also of finding courage, resilience, friendship, and, finally, home—where least expected. This stunning debut explores what it means to lead your life as if it were a river—gathering and flowing, finding a way forward even when a river is dammed.