Fall Indie Books
Graywolf
In the Dream House
Carmen Maria Machado (Nov.,
$26, hardcover)
Announced first printing: 40,000
Publicity & marketing plans: Author
tour; advertising; social media campaign;
academic promotion and conference
placement; library marketing.
In this memoir, the author of Her
Body and Other Parties traces the arc
of a harrowing relationship.
“Machado candidly discusses her experience with domestic abuse in themes, thoughts,
and tropes surrounding a relationship and its unraveling,” says Ikwo Ntekim of Books
Are Magic in Brooklyn, N.Y. “No one is spared in her narration of love and loss—least
of all the reader, least of all herself.”
Other Press
I Will Never See the World
Again: The Memoir of an
Imprisoned Writer
Ahmet Altan, trans. from the
Turkish by Yasemin Congar
(Oct., $15.99, trade paper)
First printing: 40,000
Publicity & marketing highlights:
Major review, feature, and serial-
ization push; online, print, and
social media advertising; library
marketing; academic marketing and academic conferences.
Imprisoned on absurd, Kafkaesque charges, novelist Altan (Endgame) is one of a
number of writers persecuted by Turkish president Recep Erdogan’s regime. In a
starred review, PW called this memoir, written in Altan’s tiny prison cell, “a searing
indictment of Turkey’s authoritarian regime and an inspiring testament to human
resilience.”
Potomac Books
Drunk in China:
Baijiu and the World’s
Oldest Drinking Culture
Derek Sandhaus (Nov., $29.95,
hardcover)
Publicity & marketing highlights:
Author appearances on the East
Coast.
“I have learned so much from
Derek Sandhaus over the years,”
says Clay Risen, deputy opinion
editor of the New York Times, “and Drunk in China is no exception. It’s not just about
baijiu—although it offers a master class on the subject. It’s about China and its history,
culture, and relationship with the West.”
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