Booksellers: A New Book from Kalisha Buckhanon

Dear Bookseller, on November 7th, at 7:00 p.m. EST, join author Kalisha Buckhanon and publisher of Mosaic Literary Magazine, Ron Kavanaugh for our virtual book launch and conversation celebrating Running to Fall published by AALBC Aspire. Register ?

Running to Fall is available in hardcover and paperback from Ingram (40% discount, returnable) and Bookshop.org. The audiobook will be available in December and is already up on Libro.fm.

I can offer a 50% discount for orders of the paperback, paid upfront, and nonreturnable. Free shipping for 3 or more copies. Note for Events: If your store is doing an in-store book signing, we will accept returns for books purchased from AALBC directly. The bookstore pays for return shipment for books in resalable (like new) condition.

About Running To Fall:

? The Root, “November 2022 Books by Black Authors We Can’t Wait to Read”
? ESSENCE Magazine’s, “18 New Books We Can’t Wait To Read This Summer”
? Bustle’s, “The Most Anticipated Books Of September 2022”
? The Root, “November 2022 Books by Black Authors We Can’t Wait to Read”
? ESSENCE Magazine’s, “18 New Books We Can’t Wait To Read This Summer”
? Bustle’s, “The Most Anticipated Books Of September 2022”

From the award-winning author of Speaking of Summer comes a suspenseful, truthful look into the lives of women who drink to survive or just to cope, with a provocative narrator who carries readers along an emotional journey to acceptance.

Tragedy and Victor Powell have moved to the desirable but dark Grayson Glens enclave of dream homes just outside of Chicago. Stressed urbanites, they’ve got to live large in real life to stay large online. With only a few blacks in their elite gated community, they settle in but never quite feel at home. Then, a missing young black woman floats up in the Grayson River.

Is the spirit of the mysterious scarlet-lettered woman, Raven McCoy, haunting Grayson during the pandemic?

Tragedy, haunted by her own difficult checkered past versus Victor’s sterling history, thinks so. The pressure to manage his image for profit drives her to drink, even when his trying teen daughter visits. But Victor’s ex-wife, the Grayson gossip and a female detective all close in on Tragedy’s unraveling life. Then Tragedy spirals into addiction, past secrets and the local women’s fight for justice for a woman.

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Fun Fact:
Every professional connected with the production of Running to Fall, publisher, editor, printer, author, and book designer is Black.

Every book you sell tells, not just the story in Running to Fall, but one of Black empowerment.

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Kalisha Buckhanon is the author of the novels Upstate, Conception, Solemn, and Speaking of Summer. Her novels are praised in such places as Essence, ELLE, Time, Entertainment Weekly, and O Magazine with honors from the American Library Association, Hurston/Wright Foundation, Friends of American Writers, and National Book Foundation.

She has appeared on true crime TV shows on BET, ID Channel, and TV-One as a case expert. She has also been a guest on NPR Chicago, BBC London, and more. She lives in Chicago. Visit her website Kalisha.com.

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Peace and Love,
Troy Johnson
President, AALBC.com,LLC

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