Promotional Information

Co-op available
Galleys available


Cinco Puntos will send review copies in October to the top sixty bookstores to secure book seller blurbs before sales conferences.
100 galleys going out in January to key booksellers for blurbs, bookstores, and media targeted for reviews.
on Edelweiss
will be marketed at the digital Texas Book Festival

Promotion via:


cincopuntos.com
Cinco Puntos Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
@5puntosbooksCinco Puntos Press newsletter (4,000 active subscribers)
Author's website: www.sergiotroncoso.com
Author's Twitter, Facebook: @sergiotroncoso
Author's Instagram: @stroncoso6


eBook available


Simultaneous print and eBook publication
eBook ISBN will be included in one-sheet and all other promotion
Both author and publisher will promote both physical and eBooks through social media

National media campaign


Radio shows to be targeted for interviews: Latino USA, Fresh Air, Texas Standard, Words on a Wire
Digital sites to be targeted for interviews or author-written pieces: ShelfAwareness, Latinx in Publishing and The Millions
Outlets to be targeted for excerpts: Latinx In Publishing, Lone Star Literary Review and Buzzfeed

About the Author

Sergio Troncoso was born and raised in El Paso, Texas. His previous works include A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son, From this Wicked Patch of Dust, and The Last Tortilla. He often writes about the United States-Mexico border, immigrants, families and fatherhood, and crossing cultural, religious, and psychological borders. Among the numerous awards he has won are the International Latino Book Award for Best Collection of Short Stories, Kay Cattarulla Award for Best Short Story, Premio Aztlan Literary Prize, Southwest Book Award, Bronze Award for Essays from ForeWord Reviews, and the Silver and Bronze Awards for Multicultural Fiction from ForeWord Reviews.

Troncoso has taught fiction and nonfiction at the Yale Writers' Workshop in New Haven, Connecticut for many years. He has served as a judge for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the New Letters Literary Awards in the Essay category. His work has recently appeared in New Letters, Yale Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Texas Monthly, and New Guard Literary Review.

The son of Mexican immigrants, Troncoso grew up on the east side of El Paso in rural Ysleta. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College and received two graduate degrees in international relations and philosophy from Yale University. A Fulbright scholar, Troncoso was inducted into the Hispanic Scholarship Fund's Alumni Hall of Fame and the Texas Institute of Letters (TIL). He currently serves as TIL President.

Reviews

"The castoffs and castaways of Nobody's Pilgrims hit the road in search of the American Dream, a long shot made longer by the pack of human devils hot on their trail. In this superb novel, Sergio Troncoso gives us a fresh take not only on the great American road trip, but on the American Dream itself in all its glorious and increasingly fragile promise. The propulsive force of this novel, and the destination it ultimately brings us to, left me wanting more, and yet feeling completely satisfied. As only the best novels do."
—Ben Fountain, PEN/Hemingway-winning author of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara

“In a world marked by cruelty, corruption, bigotry and disease, Troncoso shows us there’s still room for love. With his finely honed prose style, he takes us on a journey across the country with three young hungry teens whose dreams are the only lifelines they have left. A powerful, compelling read.”
—Octavio Solis, author of Retablos: Stories From a Life Lived Along the Border

"Nobody’s Pilgrims offers a stark vision of a country whose social ills have sullied the path to the pursuit of happiness. Yet its intrepid protagonists Turi and Molly persevere, charting their own map and adapting, like generations of dreamers, immigrants, and adventurers before them, to the latest hurdles of our troubled world. Sergio Troncoso has given us a timely dystopian tale heavy with anguish but invigorated by resilience."
—Rigoberto Gonzalez, author of Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa

"Eloquent, bold and terrifying, Nobody’s Pilgrims is a fresh new take on the ancient themes of innocence pursued by evil, and of the young finding their way through a chaotic and uncertain world. Turi, Arnulfo and Molly are original and uniquely endearing, and they're a pleasure to travel with, even on such a frightening journey."
—Elizabeth Crook, author of and Monday, Monday