The Avian Hourglass

(Paperback)

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• Lindsey is one of Dzancs veteran authors with a wealth of connections and is raring to go on promoting her own book. Shes already reached out to many authors about blurbs, including Lauren Groff, Laura van den Berg, and George Saunders

Review and feature outreach to publications that have published and reviewed Lindseys work previously: The Southern Review, Iowa Review, Conjunctions, Alaska Quarterly Review, Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, TriQuarterly,Brooklyn Rail, Library Journal, The Rumpus, NPR, and others

Indie bookstore push to Lindseys local and regional indies: Kings English bookstore (Salt Lake City), Wellers Books (Salt Lake City), and others. Lindsey will also be doing a joint event at Kings English with Dzanc author Lance Olsen in August, shortly after publication.

Outreach to Lindseys local and regional publications: Toledo Blade (Ohio), Monroe Evening News (Michigan), Detroit Free Press (Michigan), Salt Lake Tribune (Utah), Deseret News (Utah)

Big awards push: Joyce Carol Oates Award, St. Francis Literary Prize, Philip K. Dick Award, PEN/Faulkner Award, Neukom Literary Arts Award For Speculative Fiction, National Book Award, William Saroyan Prize, Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, The Shirley Jackson Award, LA Festival of Books Fiction Book Prize, and others

Mass galley mailing

Emphasis on course adoption and award submissions

E-ARCs available on Edelweiss

Co-op budget available

Reviews

"The Avian
Hourglass is splendidly odd
and arresting. Drager establishes her themes of loss and duplication and
catastrophe and estrangement and connection and sends them orbiting perfectly
around each other, round after round, in an orrery of grieving and
wonder."

--Kevin Brockmeier, author
of The Ghost Variations and The Illumination

"Drager's The
Avian Hourglass has the mingled timbre of Redonnet & Brautigan:
lucid, injured, hope-drunk. It parcels out the world in queries."

--Jesse Ball, author of Census and The Divers' Game

Author Bio

Lindsey Drager is the author of three novels: The Sorrow Proper (Dzanc, 2015); The Lost Daughter Collective (Dzanc, 2017); and The Archive of Alternate Endings (Dzanc, 2019). These books have won a Shirley Jackson Award, been finalists for two Lambda Literary Awards, and are currently being translated into Spanish and Italian. Recent fiction can be found or is forthcoming in Conjunctions, The Iowa Review, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. A 2020 NEA Fellowship recipient in Prose and winner of the 2022 Bard Fiction Prize, she is an assistant professor at the University of Utah and the fiction editor of West Branch.