Odd One Out

A literal and emotional mystery about a gifted, eccentric Minnesota family navigating a family crisis with humor and passion.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Quinton Skinner is the author of the novels Amnesia Nights and 14 Degrees Below Zero, as well as the nonfiction books Do I Look Like a Daddy to You? A Survival Guide for First-Time Fathers and VH1 Behind the Music: Casualties of Rock. He has written nationally for publications including Variety, Glamour, American Theatre, and in the Twin Cities for all three of its major newspapers. He is currently the senior editor of Minnesota Monthly magazine.

Zusammenfassung

Think Jonathan Tropper meets Little Miss Sunshine.

When a Minnesota father of three awakens his children late in the night with news that their mother has left him and is bound for California, they set off on a hilarious, emotionally charged cross-country road trip to find her. That trip is just the beginning; it takes another decade for the mystery of what really happened to be revealed—and for the healing to begin. Odd One Out traces this compelling story in three parts, told from three points of view, and unravels the chain of events that forever changes this unconventional, brilliant, damaged, and loving family.

Vorwort

National print, broadcast, podcast and blog publicity campaign

Outreach to the author's solid network of media and literary connections

Pub date coincides with Father's Day for a story tie-in (the novel is about a father)

Co-op available

Extensive early galley giveaways to reviewers, booksellers, librarians, etc

Bookseller and library promotions: LibraryThing, Goodreads, and targeted bookseller giveaways

Promotion on the author's website and social media accounts

eBook available at the same time as print book; eBook ISBN to be included on all press materials and wherever print ISBN is listed. Both mediums will be promoted, and publisher will seek eBook promotional opportunities via Nook and Kindle

Publisher and author will explore book club promotions and promotions aimed at indie bookstores and Barnes & Noble

Zusatztext

“Quinton Skinner is like a miner, digging deep into the lives of one family for treasure, and offering it up in lyrical and graceful prose. The characters are endearing and maddening, funny and profane, tender and hopeful—and in Odd One Out, the reader is given both a unique family story and a universal one.”
— Lorna Landvik, author of Once in a Blue Moon Lodge

“Quinton Skinner has written a tragic, antic, unhinged domestic drama filled with pratfalls, puke, and dysfunction galore. Also, it’s funny. You know, just like family. Odd One Out is a delight.”
— Christopher Noxon, author of Plus One

“A philosophy-spouting father drags his three children across the country in a junk food-fueled search for his missing wife... a family drama exploring bonds that hold parents to children and siblings to one another…. The bittersweet conclusion is just right.”
—Pioneer Press

"Wry... compelling... it gains in depth as the family members uncover the mysterious truths of the people they thought they knew best.”
— City Pages

“The novel’s first of three sections follows a young family stuck improvising an answer to two questions (both posed with all the decorum of a midnight break-in): Where did Mom go? And why did she leave? While the father takes it poorly—existentially, really—his kids, each precocious in a different color, fashion their own terms of understanding. Because, as Skinner shows, all kids eventually have to realize that their parents are just people."
—Minnesota Monthly

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Quinton Skinner
• Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.05.2017
• EAN: 9781938849954
• ISBN: 978-1-938849-95-4
• Seiten: 304
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Family Life / General