KEY SELLING POINTS:
* There is a hunger for stories about this subject, as is evidenced by the success of recent books like the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller The Sympathizer and Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s breakthrough PBS series Vietnam.
* 1969, the focal time of the book, is a hot year for attention: The Girls was a bestseller, Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming film project is named Manson Family/1969, Stephen Spielberg’s new move The Post is about the Pentagon Papers and Watergate and the Burns documentary devoted an entire episode to 1969.
* There is a huge countdown of media attention on milestones about this timeframe in history. We just celebrated the 50th anniversary of the musical HAIR. We are coming up on the same anniversary for Woodstock, and other seminal events of the time: the Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1968, the Moratoriums against the Vietnam War, the first Draft Lottery, Kent State (which is covered extensively on an annual basis). The media environment will be preconditioning interest in the subject matter of The Fourteenth of September, during the publication timeframe and for years afterwards.
* An estimated 37 million Boomer women live in the US today, and they comprise the largest membership of book clubs.
* As of 2015, an estimated two million women veterans were living in the US.
AUDIENCE:
* Boomer women who lived through or remember Vietnam
* Women in their forties and fifties with grandchildren who will likely face a war in the near future
* All women who have experienced a defining coming-of-age or coming-of-conscience moment in their lives, or who have seen that in their children or grandchildren
* Boomer men, most of whom still remember their lottery numbers
* Children and grandchildren of Vietnam Vets
* Men and women who are interested in war, American history, and American civilization, and those who want to understand the human side of the war at home
