This book publicity case study outlines Coriolis Company’s work for Professor Robin Bernstein’s Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit, published by The University of Chicago Press on May 2, 2024. Freeman’s Challenge unveils a gripping, morally complex tale surrounding murder, greed, race, and the true origins of prison for profit, as presented by award-winning historian Robin Bernstein.
Case Studies
Take a look at our most recent case studies:
Book Publicity for Robin Bernstein (Academic Non-Fiction)
Book Publicity for Laura C. Chávez-Moreno (Academic Non-Fiction)
This book publicity case study outlines Coriolis Company’s work for Professor Laura C. Chávez-Moreno’s How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America, published by Harvard Education Press on October 1, 2024. How Schools Make Race invites educators and scholars to embrace ambitious teaching about the ambivalence of race so that teachers and students are prepared to interrogate racist ideas and act toward just outcomes.
Book Publicity for Brittany Friedman (Academic Non-Fiction)
This book publicity case study outlines Coriolis Company’s work for Professor Brittany Friedman’s Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons, published by The University of California Press on January 7, 2025. Carceral Apartheid delves into how the California Department of Corrections deployed various official, clandestine, and at times extralegal control techniques―including officer alliances with imprisoned white supremacists―to suppress Black political movements, revealing the broader themes of deception, empire, corruption, and white supremacy in American mass incarceration.
Book Publicity for Stephanie L. Canizales (Academic Non-Fiction)
This book publicity case study outlines Coriolis Company’s work for Professor Stephanie Canizales’s Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States, from the University of California Press on August 6, 2024. Sin Padres, Ni Papeles illuminates how unaccompanied teens who grow up as undocumented low-wage workers navigate unthinkable material and emotional hardship, find the agency and hope that is required to survive, and discover what it means to be successful during the transition to adulthood in the United States.
Book Publicity for Marlene Daut (Academic Non-Fiction)
This book publicity case study outlines Coriolis Company’s work for Professor Marlene Daut’s The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe, published by Knopf on January 7, 2025. The First and Last King of Haiti is a riveting story of not only geopolitical clashes on a grand scale but also of friendship and loyalty, treachery and betrayal, heroism and strife in an era of revolutionary upheaval.
Book Publicity for Ericka Verba (Academic Non-Fiction)
This book publicity case study outlines Coriolis Company’s work for Professor Ericka Verba’s Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra from The University of North Carolina Press on January 14, 2025. Drawing on decades of research, Verba paints a vivid and nuanced picture of Violeta Parra’s life. From her modest beginnings in southern Chile to her untimely death, Parra was an exceptionally complex and talented woman who exposed social injustice in Latin America to the world through her powerful and poignant songwriting.
Book Publicity for Donna J. Nicol (Academic Non-Fiction)
This book publicity case study outlines the work Coriolis Company performed for Professor Donna J. Nicol’s book, Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action, published by the University of Rochester Press on May 7, 2024. “Black Woman on Board” offers a rare view inside the university boardroom, uncovering the vital role Black women educational leaders have played in ensuring access and equity for all.
Book Publicity for Sunaura Taylor (Academic Non-Fiction)
This book publicity case study outlines Coriolis Company’s work for Professor Sunaura Taylor’s Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert, published by The University of California Press on May 21, 2024. Disabled Ecologies is a powerful analysis and call to action that reveals disability as one of the defining features of environmental devastation and resistance.
Book Publicity for Lynne Thompson (Poetry Collection)
This case study highlights Coriolis Company’s efforts for Lynne Thompson’s Blue on a Blue Palette, published by BOA Editions on April 16, 2024. The book reflects on the condition of women—their joys despite their histories, and their insistence on survival as issues of race, culture, pandemic, and climate threaten their livelihoods.
Book Publicity for Lamont Jones (Hybrid-Published Non-Fiction)
This book publicity case study outlines the work Coriolis Company performed for Lamont Jones’ book, The Gist of Bid Whist: The Culturally-Rich Card Game from Black America, on February 27, 2024. The Gist of Bid Whist explores the captivating card game’s cultural roots, strategic nuances, and rich history.
Book Publicity for Karl Dunn (Self-Published Non-Fiction)
This book publicity case study outlines the work Coriolis Company performed for Karl Dunn’s How to Burn a Rainbow, published on May 17, 2024. What readers are calling the gay Eat, Pray, Love, How to Burn a Rainbow is a gripping narrative of resilience and courage that dares to ask the hard questions about love, equality, and the price of happiness.
Book Publicity for Alex Cherin (Self-Published Fiction)
This book publicity case study outlines the work Coriolis Company performed for Alex Cherin’s book, The Mighty Six-Ninety (690) on February 20, 2024. The Mighty Six-Ninety (690) unfolds the intertwined stories of a Holocaust survivor, a conflicted schoolboy, an embezzling single mother, and a shattered daredevil as they embark on a $50,000 treasure hunt in Southern California, weaving a narrative of desperation, redemption, and the haunting echoes of their troubled pasts.
