Something in My Eye - Stories

Michael Jeffrey Lee writes like a redneck Samuel Beckett, sketching dystopias of life along the margins in contemporary New Orleans.

List of contents

Warning Sign
Contemporary Country Music
Something in My Eye
If We Should Ever Meet
Whoring
Five Didactic Tales
1. The Lonesome Vehicle
2. The Great House
3. The Fast Meal
4. The Vengeful Men
5. The Strange Nurse
Repenting
The New Year
The Buddy
Murder Ballad
Last Seen
I Shall Not Be Moved

Summary

Michael Jeffrey Lee writes like a redneck Samuel Beckett, sketching dystopias of life along the margins in contemporary New Orleans.

Foreword

$3000 marketing and publicity budget

Advertising in Poets & Writers, Writers Chronicle, Rain Taxi Review of Books, music publications

Promotion in Sarabande's contest advertising

Promotion targeted to gay community and LGBT bookstores

Promotion targeted to musical community

Publicity and promotion through the author's strong contacts in the writing community

Newsletter and catalog feature mailed to contacts on Sarabande's database as well as contacts provided by Lee

E-postcard and additional promotional material to Lee's contact list

Internet marketing campaign to include announcement on Sarabande's national listserve as well as review copy mailing to online journals and blog

Product details

• Authors: Michael Jeffrey Lee
• Assisted by: Francine Prose (Introduction)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2012
• EAN: 9781936747054
• ISBN: 978-1-936747-05-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, FICTION / LGBTQ+ / Gay