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We plan to create a website for the book as well as myspace and facebook pages for the author. Gammarino was the guitarist in prog rock band Clockwork in the 1990s, so we'll reconnect him to fans of the band via myspace. We plan to launch the book in Philadelphia, home to the fictional band Agenbite as well as the real band Clockwork. We also have events planned in Hawaii and Seattle. We'll create galleys and solicit reviews nationwide as well as in Japan. Gammarino has published many pieces of short fiction, but this is his first novel. We plan to enter him into as many new novelist competitions as possible. Advice from Consortium on which ones to target would be much appreciated. We also plan to promote his book through ads and announcements in publications where he has published. The complete list, which didn't fit in the author's bio, is here: The New York Tyrant, The Adirondack Review, Word Riot, Elimae, Square One, The Apple Valley Review, Lily Lit Review, Nimble, Sliptongue We also plan to create a study guide for using both Goodbye Madame Butterfly and Big in Japan in university courses. This will appear on both goodbyemadamebutterfly.com and the Big in Japan website. Finally, we plan to target the Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme, which sends hundreds of young Americans to Japan each year and has been operating for 23 years. Many cities have large and active alumni groups that would be interested in the book.

About the Author

M. Thomas Gammarino is the author of the novella Jellyfish Dreams (Amazon Kindle Single, 2012) and the novel King of the Worlds (coming from Chin Music Press April 2016). In 2013 he received the Elliot Cades Award for Literature. He lives and teaches in Honolulu with his wife and kids.

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"In Brain, Gammarino has created a perfect hero for the Age of Anxiety. Propelled by the author's knack for both pitch-perfect dialogue and startling metaphors, the reader follows Brain on an ill-fated tour of the Land of the Rising Sun, where he loses his band but finds himself in slow, painful, hilarious fashion." --Ron Currie Jr., author of Everything Matters! and God is Dead. "This book will make you wonder if you've ever had sex. I mean ever really had sex, and if you haven't, should you? It's a book that takes on the big questions. Can desire be quenched? What is enlightenment? To find out you much become the brains of a rock band that goes sky high while you descend literally to the bowels of the Earth. Above all this is a serious book (by a terrific writer), painful, soulful, and at the same time one of the funniest books I've ever read. Gammarino is first rate." --Robert Shapard, editor of New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond "Think a more jocular Joshua Furst, a much smarter Chuck Palahniuk. Think a hipper cross-cultural version of Tom Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons as narrated by the suitors." -- Kevin T.S. Tang, KGB Lit Journal "Self- and sex-obsessed, Brain is an easy character to despise. It is to Gammarino's credit that we remain interested in him as he spirals downward" -- David Cozy, Japan Times "Gammarino writes with the self-assurance and narrative voice of a well-seasoned (and well-traveled) professional." -- Danielle Dreger-Babbitt, Seattle Books Examiner "Gammarino shows real promise as an author who can crack open the head of a warped individual and show us the rot inside." -- Paul Constant, The Stranger

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