Publisher's Synopsis
Media track record: Victoria Law has been interviewed on Democracy Now!, WNYC, and Melissa Harris-Perry, and has written for outlets such as the New York Times, The Nation, Wired, the Village Voice, and In These Times. Schenwar has been interviewed on C-SPAN, Democracy Now!, Al Jazeera, and MSNBC and has written for outlets such as the New York Times, Mother Jones, The Nation, and The Guardian.
Platform: Schenwar is Editor-in-Chief of Truthout, a news website with over 180k followers on Twitter. Truthout will coordinate with us to promote the paperback edition of Prison by Any Other Name. Maya Schenwar's TEDx talk has over 12,000 views on Youtube.
Sales record: Less than six months since publication, Prison by Any Other Name has sold 4,155 copies combined in HC and Ebook formats.
Praise for hardcover: We have blurbs from Angela Davis, Piper Kerman, Heather Ann Thompson, Dorothy Roberts, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Dan Berger, Dean Spade, Mariame Kaba, James Kilgore, and Erica R. Meiners. The hardcover edition was glowingly reviewed in trade outlets and publications such as Bitch, Brooklyn Rail, and Reason.
