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Ezra’s Ghosts by Darcy Tamayose In Ezra, everyone is haunted. And everyone haunts. Award-winning author Darcy Tamayose returns with Ezra’s Ghosts, a collection of fantastical stories linked by a complex mingling of language and culture, as well as a deep understanding of grief and what it makes of us. Within these pages a scholar writes home from the Ryukyu Islands, not knowing that his hometown will soon face a deadly calamity of its own. Another seeker of truth is trapped in Ezra after her violent death, and must watch how her family— and her killer—alter in her absence. The oldest man in town, an immigrant who came to Canada to escape imperial hardships, sprouts wings, and a wounded journalist bears witness to his transformation. Finally, past and present collide as a researcher reflects on the recent skinwars that have completely altered the world’s topography. Binding the stories together is an intersection of arrival and departure—in a quiet prairie town called Ezra. Trade Paperback / May 10, 2022 isbn 10: 1-77439- 047-7 isbn 13: 978-177439- 047-4 BISAC 1: FIC009060 BISAC 2: FIC029000 BISAC 3: FIC054000 288 pp / 5.5 x 8.5 / $20.95 cdn $16.95 usd
“[a]n immersive and intelligent page turner.... this is a treasure.” ~ Publishers Weekly
About The Author Darcy Tamayose is a writer, graphic designer, and PhD student. Her work, which includes the novel, Odori, and youth fiction book, Katie Be Quiet received the Canada-Japan Literary Award, and has been shortlisted for both the Alberta Writer’s Guild Georges Bugnet Award and Foreword Indie Juvenile Award. She has worked for over a decade as communications officer for the Faculty of Education at the University of Lethbridge. Born and raised in the prairie landscape of southern Alberta, Tamayose lives there today surrounded by daughter, family, and friends.
ADDITIONAL SALES POINTS • Author is the winner of the 2008 Canada-Japan Literary Award. • Collection will appeal to those who enjoy lyrical urban fantasy and linked short story collections.
MARKETS • National trade: urban fantasy and literary fiction • US and UK trade: urban fantasy and literary fiction • Lethbridge, AB/rural
MARKETING PLAN • Early digital ARC and international press release mailout. • Announcement of book’s release by email newsletter and on the NeWest Press Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter pages. • Podcast reading/interview posted on iTunes, RSS feed, social media, and NeWest website. • Press releases and review mailouts to various CBC outlets across the nation, both radio and television. • Submit to all eligible awards. • Launch events in Edmonton, Calgary, and Vancouver, and online. • Ads in Alberta Views (Read Alberta Books Campaign), Glass Paper, Grain magazine, Library Bound, Prairie Books NOW, PRISM international, and the ULS Super Forthcoming Catalogue.
COMPARISON TITLES • Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (978-0-525541-34-9, Penguin Publishing Group, 2020) • Exhalation by Ted Chiang (978-1-101972-08-3, Knopf Doubleday, 2020) • Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (978-1-400079-27-8, Knopf Doubleday, 2006)
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