Promotional Information

-Collaboration between Barbara Sapienza and Eva Zimmerman PR in order to capitalize on the author’s network and connections in both the art world and writing communities in the Bay Area and in Boston, MA.







-Long Lead ARC/galley mailings, review submissions, and follow up to book review editors at publishing industry trade magazines like Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Shelf Awareness, Library Journal, among others.







-Long Lead pitching to book reviewers at select magazines that speak to themes within Anchor Out, like: Ms. Magazine, Women’s Review of Books, Boating World, Guideposts Magazine, AARP Magazine, Catholic Digest, and Woman’s Day, among others.







-Short Lead Outreach to blogs like: PsychCentral.com, Patheos.com, Beliefnet.com, PsychologyToday.com, HuffPost 50, A Boomer’s Life After 50, Fab After 50, among others.







-Short Lead Outreach to radio programs like: KQED’s “Forum” and suggestions for a potential “Perspective” and women’s interest radio programs like “The Women’s Room” on WGLS.







-Short Lead Outreach to Bay Area and Boston regional media: Marin Independent Journal, The Marine Scope, Twin Cities Tim, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle’s book reviews editor, among others.







-Select events in the Bay Area and Boston to coincide with pub month, according to the author’s schedule, interest, and availability.

About the Author

Barbara Sapienza is a retired clinical psychologist who practiced in San Francisco. At sixty-six she enrolled in the graduate program in Creative Writing at SFSU. She writes, paints, dances, practices taiji and meditation, and volunteers in a school program in Marin City. She lives in Sausalito with her husband and enjoys her granddaughters, Milla and Isa.

Reviews

2019 Best Book Awards Finalist in Women's Fiction

2017 IPPY Bronze medal Winner in Pacifc West Best Regional Fiction



"Frances Pia del Aqua is a sixty-year old renegade, mystic, artist, ex-nun, and nut case. A chronic run-away, she lives on a tenuously anchored old boat in the middle of Richardson Bay and paddles in to shore for her coffees, conversations, and painting projects. Barbara Sapienza has depicted the life and world of this difficult, loveable, misunderstood woman with a tender sensitivity that is unforgettable."




—Molly Giles, author of All the Wrong Places





"Sapienza explores the difficult task of forgiveness of others and of oneself in this unusual story of Frances, who can't seem to break her fall from grace. She describes the Sausalito waterfront world with a painter's eye and creates vibrant characters with a psychologist's insights. It is a quiet, exquisite novel that invites deep self-reflection."




—Sharmon J. Hilfinger , author of Arctic Requiem: The Story of Luke Cole and Kivalina





"Setting her novel around the cold but welcoming waters of the Golden Gate, Barbara Sapienza paints a picture of what it might mean to fall in love with an imperfect life. "Love is survival," we learn in these pages, and Anchor Out is a beautiful and moving labor of love."




—Camille T. Dungy, author of Guidebook to Relative Strangers