- A powerful
evocation of the brutality and tragedy of slavery and antebellum South and the war, and an
atmospheric portrait of Louisiana, where James Lee Burke grew up

- James Lee Burke is the New York Times bestselling
author of over forty novels, including the Dave Robicheaux series, as well as
the popular standalone novels Every Cloak Rolled in Blood and Another
Kind of Eden

- Burke
has a large and dedicated fan base with over 72k followers across social media
and close to 7k newsletter subscribers. We'll reach his fans via extensive early
advertising, engaging teaser content, and a pre-order push on social media and
Goodreads followed by a robust digital marketing campaign to expand his
audience and bring in new readers, including fans of historical and literary
fiction. 

- Burke is first and foremost a stylist: “Burke’s evocative
prose remains a thing of reliably fierce wonder” (Entertainment Weekly),
and Flags on the Bayou will be positioned as a literary standalone
novel, separate from the Robicheaux series, to attract new readers while still
appealing to Burke’s enthusiastic fanbase

- We will be sending the book to known Burke fans as well as a
wider range of literary authors, including Charles Frazier, Atticka Locke, and
Louise Erdrich

For readers of Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain, Jeff
Shaara’s Gods and Generals, and MacKinlay Kantor’s Andersonville