Marketing Independent bookstore co-ops available and encouraged Submitting for consideration at Junior Library Guild and the ALA Alex Awards Goodreads, YouTube BookTubers, Instagram, Tumblr, and Shelf Awareness Exploring promotions with Thrasher Magazine Publicity Coverage in top literary publications, newspapers, men's magazines, radio, podcasts, literary blogs Original essay placement in LitHub, Paris Review Online, New Yorker online, Thrasher, Vice Widespread outreach to librarians and book clubs, targeted outreach to YA readers as well Outreach to skateboarding podcasts/blogs/magazines for feature interviews Author is on Twitter at @bmoretimmyreed Author is on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/timmy.reed.961 Author is on Instagram at @tfreed17 Author website is https://underratedanimals.wordpress.com/
Timmy Reed is a writer, teacher, and native of Baltimore, Maryland. He received his MFA from University of Baltimore. Reed is the author of the books IRL, Miraculous Fauna, and The Ghosts That Surrounded Them, and Kill Me Now. His short fiction has been featured in the Wigleaf Top 50 on multiple occasions and has appeared in Necessary Fiction and the Atticus Review among other publications. In 2015, he won the Baker Artist Awards Semmes G. Walsh Award. He teaches English at Stevenson University and Community College of Baltimore County and English as a Second Language at Morgan State University.
Praise for Kill Me Now
One of the Most Anticipated Small Press Books of 2018 (Big
Other)
"Reed convincingly writes a three-dimensional teenager whose
self-consciousness, emotions, and hormones threaten to crush him. .
. . A coming-of-age story capturing male adolescence in all its
disgusting, irrational, and messy glory." -Kirkus
Reviews
"What distinguishes the book is Miles' voice: introspective,
self-aware, wry, and honest . . . The result is a delightful
coming-of-age story." -Booklist
"Reed captures all the hilarious grossness of being a teenage boy
in this solid coming-of-age story." -Publishers Weekly
"What's most impressive about Reed's work is his attention to
detail. From his elaborate descriptions of Baltimore neighborhoods
to evocative scenes of Miles smoking weed with his eccentric old
neighbor (whom his sisters suspect is a serial killer), Reed
meticulously takes readers on a summer-long journey that is as
viscerally awkward as our own teenage years." -Baltimore
Magazine
"Timmy Reed's Kill Me Now captures the feeling of a teenage
summer more thoroughly and successfully than many other novels in
its genre . . . Reed's crowning achievement in Kill Me Now
may be his ability to offer a three-dimensional picture of Miles's
world. . . even though Miles isn't real and the journal is a novel,
it still feels like you've come to know somebody a little better by
the time you finish reading it." -The Michigan Daily
"Through evocative imagery, strong characterizations, and moments
of true tenderness, Reed pieces together a portrait of Miles that
resonates with the experience of adolescence." -Atticus
Review
"Kill Me Now could be the story of Huckleberry Finn's trip
to Hell...or no, just the seamier sides of Baltimore-not so much
the mean streets of The Wire as the post-apocalyptic working
class neighborhoods of Matt Porterfield's Putty Hill. Miles
Lover, a.k.a. Retard, is as crusty a kid as they come, with a taste
for strains of trouble that would stagger an adult. But as much as
he thinks of himself as a moron, his perceptions of the weird world
he lives in are subtly and precisely nuanced, and his story, inside
its scaly carapace, has a surprisingly tender heart."-Madison
Smartt Bell, author of Behind the Moon
"Timmy Reed is one of the best. In Kill Me Now, he has
created one of the great teenage narrators of our time. Like a
modern version of Updike's Sammy, Miles Lover is part philosopher,
part screw up, and part skateboarding prince of Baltimore. He's
wild and buzzing and will say almost anything. Including the
truth." -Scott McClanahan, author of The Sarah Book, Hill
William, and Crapalachia
"There was Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, then J. D. Salinger's
Holden Caulfield, and now there is Timmy Reed's Miles Lover, the
irrepressible narrator of Kill Me Now, which is itself a
funny, compassionate, and twisted take on the coming-of-age
novel."-Michael Kimball, author of Us, Big Ray, and
Dear Everybody
"Kill Me Now is the answer to all the literary fiction that
ever bored you . . . a guide book on how to cheat death, smoke
bowls, tre flip in the pouring rain. Tough, honest, beautiful in
only the way the unashamed ever are. Kill Me Now is an M-80
in an open palm, fuse lit, world holding its breath." -Bud Smith,
author of Work and F 250
"Timmy Reed writes like a whacked-out angel. Miles Lover is the
perfect everykid, overlooked and underestimated and so sharply
observant it makes you wince a little. I loved this book." -Amber
Sparks, Author of The Unfinished World and May We Shed
These Human Bodies
"If George Saunders and Russell Edson had a baby, he'd probably
grow up to write like Timmy Reed." -Jessica Anya Blau, author of
Drinking Closer to Home
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