*Mailings to McSweeney's and Exquisite Corpse readership *Initiative to reach readers of Southern literature through the Oxford American and the Conference for the Book in Oxford, Mississippi *Initiative to reach other readers through Ralph's music fan base. Blurb from well-known folk artist Will Oldham. *Blurb from filmmaker Harmony Korine: "Brett Eugene Ralph can surely write like the dickens and I don't mean Charles. He's a true beast of a man with insight and beauty to spare." *Total season's marketing budget of $18,000; individual book budget of $3,000 *Internet marketing to involve e-mailing announcements to Sarabande listserv and listing title on our Website. Additional review copy mailing to blog reviewers. *Newsletter and catalog feature mailed to entire Sarabande database as well as to Ralph's contacts *2,000 postcards mailed to MFA programs, bookstores, libraries, as well as to Ralph's contacts *Will submit to all qualifying book prizes
Ralph's work has appeared in Conduit, Mudfish, Willow Springs, The American Poetry Review, The McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets, and Thus Spake the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader. Currently, he teaches at Hopkinsville Community in rural western Kentucky. His country-rock ensemble, Brett Eugene Ralph's Kentucky Chrome Revue, can be heard in seedy dives throughout the South.
Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Rain Taxi, The Believer, Oxford American, The Southern Register, Octopus, Poetry
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