• The author is a well-connected journalist, editor, and author with colleagues at major newspapers, magazines and radio outlets • 100 review copies to be distributed to editorial reviewers and bloggers • Targeted book tour: New York, Baltimore, Northampton, Portland (Maine), San Francisco • Ads on Kindleboards and Goodreads (plus giveaways) • Targeted introduction by a well-respected noir author/scholar • A noir-influenced essay by the author, “He Made Me a Criminal,” will be published in an anthology in 2016, and she will continue to submit and publish other noir standalone pieces to position herself as a noir expert