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About the author
Jessica Schiefauer has established herself as one of Sweden's foremost writers of literary young adult and adult fiction. She has won the August Prize twice for her books Girls Lost and The Eyes of the Lake. Her books have been translated into several languages and adapted into theater and film. She has contributed short stories to the erotica collection Hot (2012) and the science fiction collection Other Ways: Ten New Utopias (2015), among others. Schiefauer holds a teaching degree in Swedish, English, and creative writing. She lives in Gothenberg, Sweden.
Saskia Vogel is from Los Angeles and lives in Berlin, where she works as a writer and Swedish-to-English literary translator. She has written on the themes of gender, power and sexuality for publications such as Granta, The White Review, The Offing, and The Quietus. Her translations include work by leading female authors, such as Katrine Marcal, Karolina Ramqvist and the modernist eroticist Rut Hillarp. Previously, she worked in London as Granta magazine’s global publicist and in Los Angeles as an editor at the AVN Media Network, where she reported on the business of sex work and adult pleasure products. Her novel, Permission,, was published by Coach House Books in 2019.
Summary
An award-winning, magical contemporary novel about three teenage girls whose exploration of fantasy threatens everything they know of reality.
Foreword
• Hiring publicist to give extra promotional push to this book
• Review copies will be sent targeting all major print and digital literary media outlets in late summer 2019 attempting to make Most Anticipated Books of 2020 list; additional review copies available upon request
• Organize movie screenings of the book's adaptation to coincide with events
• Coordinate events with Swedish Embassy & Consulates and cultural organizations in local markets to sponsor events with translator and author together
• Events in public appearances in the US planned for festivals (PEN World Voices targeted for launch), bookstores, and universities throughout 2020
• Extensive outreach to YA reading community, both online, in print, and through libraries
• Serial rights targeting The Paris Review, The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Guernica, Tin House, Words Without Borders, Asymptote
• Print publicity targeting prominent literary journals and newspaper book sections
