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For more details or to schedule an interview, contact Ashley Fortier: 438-338-4591 or publish [at] metonymypress [dot] com.<\/em><\/p>\n

About the Author<\/strong><\/h3>\n

After an accidental debut as a professional tarot reader in 2009, Oliver began doing tarot readings regularly, at bars and in parks and on balconies. At the request of a good friend, Oliver began writing about the Thea\u2019s Tarot deck\u2014a process that was at once prolonged and fruitful.<\/p>\n

Oliver is, more generally, a Montreal-based, trans-identified writer, publisher, and editor. Their work has appeared in\u2028 Lambda Award\u2013winning\u00a0The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard<\/em>\u00a0(Topside Press, 2012) and\u00a0make\/shift<\/em>\u00a0magazine, among other publications. Oliver released\u00a0Gays in the Workplace<\/em> in 2011 and is currently working on a book of short stories.<\/p>\n

About the Book<\/strong><\/h3>\n

A contemporary queer re-visioning of a beautiful feminist tarot deck from the 80s\u2014documenting a conversation across generations and mediums\u2014She Is Sitting in the Night<\/em> emerges as both a tool for tarot reading and a celebration of queer and feminist cultural production, past and present.<\/p>\n

By embracing an older deck and simultaneously developing current and re-visioned ways of interpreting its images and the cards\u2019 meanings, She Is Sitting in the Night<\/i> provides a much-needed informed, aesthetically strong, accessible queer tarot book for feminists, queers, and tarot readers new and old.<\/p>\n

In the Press<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Little Red Tarot<\/a><\/p>\n

Autostraddle<\/a><\/p>\n

Spiral Nature<\/a><\/p>\n

Specs<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Title: <\/b>She Is Sitting in the Night: Re-visioning Thea\u2019s Tarot
\nAuthor:<\/b> Oliver Pickle
\nOriginal art: <\/b>Ruth West
\nTrim size: <\/b>6.9\u2019 x 8\u2019 x 0.524′
\nExtent: <\/b>192 pages
\nSeason: <\/b>Spring 2015
\nPub date: <\/b>April 26, 2015
\nPrice: <\/b>$22.00
\nISBN: <\/b>978-0-9940471-0-6
\nIllustrations: <\/b>Reproduced images of 78-card Thea\u2019s Tarot deck, copyright Ruth West.
\nCategory: <\/b>Adult nonfiction, How-To, Feminism, Occult, LGBTQ
\nTarget Audience: <\/b>1) Feminist and queer communities, 2) Tarot enthusiasts<\/p>\n

Market<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Interest in tarot is evident in the alternative tarot decks and accompanying books that have emerged in recent years. What distinguishes She Is Sitting in the Night<\/i> from its contemporaries, however, is both the cohesiveness of a book and deck featuring illustrations by a single artist, as well as the intergenerational conversation and archiving project at the heart of Oliver Pickle and Ruth West\u2019s collaboration.\u00a0What this project shares with its competition is the intentional rejection of normative readings of the figures and imagery on the decks they discuss.<\/p>\n

See, for comparison<\/b>: The Collective Tarot: A Magical Collaboration;\u00a0<\/i>The Winnipeg Tarot Co: \u201cFortuna & Fabulation for All\u201d <\/i>; the forthcoming Slow Holler tarot deck project.<\/p>\n

Critical Praise<\/strong><\/h3>\n

“She Is Sitting in the Night <\/em>is the tarot book I\u2019ve always wanted to write. It\u2019s a queer tarot guidebook and a celebration of an 80s feminist tarot deck rolled into one; a book of beautiful and radical tarot card meanings, and also an important document, a conversation across generations of feminism and LGBTQ politics.” \u2014 Beth Maiden (Little Red Tarot), Autostraddle<\/em><\/p>\n

About the Artist<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Ruth West, after graduating with a degree in art, created Thea\u2019s Tarot in 1984 in papercut, based on Billy Potts\u2019 A New Women\u2019s Tarot<\/em>. Since then, she has become an internationally recognized artist working with digital art. One of the first graduates with a Master\u2019s of Fine Arts in Computer Graphics, Ruth West\u2019s art has grown steadily along with this medium. She was the first computer artist in residence at Monet\u2019s Garden in Giverny, France, creating an 80-piece series called the Digital Garden. Her work can be seen at ruthwest.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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