Create a launch-week angle around Birmingham as lived-in contemporary fiction territory: regional identity, social pressure, and the emotional textures of modern adult life. This can support local press, indie bookshop event requests, and author Q&As.
The Birmingham Literature Festival site confirms the city’s strong literary ecosystem and can help frame the author as part of a credible regional conversation, even though the festival itself is in October. This is useful as a regional-story hook rather than an event tie-in.