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Expo; to be displayed at multiple trade shows, including
the Small Press Expo.
Publisher: Steerforth
In this moving childhood graphic memoir, Nichols, a
trans man, draws himself as a rag doll, tormented in his
conservative Christian community in rural Louisiana.
This work speaks to “the experience of any reader chal-
lenged by their gender identity, sexuality, and/or con-
flicting religious beliefs,” PW’s review noted.
Publisher: Small Beer Press
Ike’s Mystery Man: The Secret Lives of
Robert Cutler
Peter Shinkle (Dec., $29.95, hardcover)
Announced first printing: 25,000 copies
Publicity & marketing plans:
Three-month
East Coast and Midwest author tour, including an ap-
pearance at the 92nd Street Y in New York City; outside
publicist; large ARC giveaway at the fall regional shows;
audio rights licensed to Blackstone.
Photo: Jen Danier
Terra Nullius
Claire G. Coleman
First printing: 10,000
Publicity & marketing plans: National online
ad campaign through Litbreaker; excerpt on Literary
Hub; reading group guide.
Debut novel about colonization by an indigenous Aus-
tralian author turns Australian’s colonial history on its
head. The Stella Prize judges called it “an arresting and
original novel.... Terra Nullius is a novel for our times,
one whose tone is as impassioned as its message is
necessary.”
This book brings a new dimension to the understanding
of the inner workings of the Eisenhower White House. It
also shines a light on the contributions and sacrifices
made by patriotic gay Americans in an era when Execu-
tive Order 10450 banned anyone suspected of “sexual
perversion” (i.e., homosexuality) from any government
job, and gays in the government were persecuted by
Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn in the Senate and by
J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson at the FBI.
Publisher: University of California Press
Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewrit-
ing the Rules of Work
F ALL 2018
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W RITERS ’ T RICKS OF THE T RADE