The Long Shadow

• The Long Shadow is Buist’s first standalone psychological thriller and her first novel set in rural Australia. It will appeal to fans of Liane Moriarty, Shari Lapena, Sally Hepworth and Robyn Harding.
• Anne Buist is the author of the Natalie King: Forensic Psychologist thriller series and the co-author of the romantic comedy Two Steps Forward, which has film rights optioned by Ellen Degeneres.
• Buist is also a professor, psychiatrist and expert in women’s mental health who has decades of real-life experience working with protective services and the legal system in cases of abuse, kidnapping, infanticide and murder.
• Publicity campaign to include author interviews in weekend newspapers, national radio and podcasts and author op-eds for online publications such as the Guardian and the Conversation.
• Early bookseller mail-out with an intriguing special package; feature title at leading bookseller conferences; striking point-of-sale materials available, including shelf-talkers and posters; print advertising campaign in popular literary and current-affairs publications such as the Big Issue; targeted social media advertising via Text and Better Reading, aimed at fans of crime and thriller novels and films; premier advertising in key trade newsletters; significant budget for bookseller catalogues; digital advertising and a huge giveaway on Goodreads, targeting readers of Australian crime fiction; featured on the Text website and in monthly e-newsletter.