Shout

📖 The Scoop

• A raw and shocking memoir in verse from the award-winning author of Speak, which has sold over 2 million copies since its release 20 years ago. US publisher Viking will print an initial run of 200,000 copies of Shout
• For readers of the work of Clementine Ford, Maya Angelou, Rupi Kaur and those who loved Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette
• Text will pitch to writers’ festivals in Australia and New Zealand, and events in major cities
• Profile of the author to feature in broadsheet newspaper, extract to be placed in online literary journal such as Kill Your Darlings, major widespread review coverage in broadsheets and women's magazines
• Interview with author on Australian Radio National program such as Life Matters and New Zealand radio program such as Nine to Noon or Saturday Morning
• Broad print and online advertising in literary and current affairs publications such as the Monthly, Big Issue, Scum Mag, lip magazine, The Lifted Brow, Junkee, Goodreads, and major Instagram advertising campaign targeting millennials with a video featuring popular young poets reading an extract from the book
• Early reading copies targeting younger booksellers, significant budget for advertisements in bookseller newsletters and catalogues.

Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs (fancy, right?)