Marketing
Endorsements sought from Jesse Michaels, Michelle Tea, and Jonathan
Evison
Goodreads giveaways, Kindle Daily Deal and Nook Deal
nominations
Newsletter co-op available
Publicity
National media outreach to edgy/pop-culture publications (Vice,
Paste, Rolling Stone), along with local media throughout
Seattle
Targeted outreach to publications, radio and local TV based in the
Bay Area, Los Angeles, Portland and Seattle
Outreach to to revolutionary/anarchy audience, sober communities,
fans of existentialist and dark/noir literature
Tom Hansen was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. As a musician in the late 70's and early 80's, he was a pioneer in the punk rock scene in Seattle. Eventually, music gave way to heroin and he turned to dealing to support his habit. He got clean in 1999, returned to school and received an MFA from the University of British Columbia in 2008. He published his first book, the memoir American Junkie, in 2010.
Praise for This Is What We Do
“A compelling, existential thrill ride.” —Booklist
"A tight retro noir that's as equally comfortable channeling The
Stranger as it is George V. Higgins. But there's also a sly
anarchic subtext rumbling below the drugs–and–molls narrative, a
welling need to bring plutocrat America to its knees. Where, of
course, it belongs. This Is What We Do is a love story. Or, to be
more accurate, it's a story that's in love with its own existential
indifference. But it's also Atlas Shrugged jammed in reverse and
with the tires smoked. It's Ayn Rand for people with a brain. And a
gun. It's a kick. Read it.” —Sean Beaudoin, author of You Killed
Wesley Payne and The Infects
"Hansen's debut novel covers even wilder, trickier ground than his
memoir, American Junkie. Anti–hero James Nethery seems an ordinary,
lonely man drinking Coke at the bar, until he meets "Lily," a
Ukrainian prostitute, and what began as a quiet, atmospheric
meditation on down–and–out expats in Paris explodes into a nonstop,
genre–blending
noir–crime–vigilante–political–sexy–nihilistic–almost surreal
thrill ride, infused in equal measures with brutality and beauty."
—Gina Frangello, author of My Sister’s Continent, Slut Lullabies,
and A Life in Men
"There’s what people say, and then there’s what they do. The phrase
will infect your consciousness, contorting and twisting itself
around to take on more and more dimensions. What does it mean to
act on our desires when one person’s wish fulfillment means
another’s nightmare? What does it mean to be free, or to escape? At
its core, This Is What We Do gives us two people left with nothing,
cutting close to the uncoolness of loving without fear." —Grace
Krilanovich, author of The Orange Eats Creeps
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