{"id":22670,"date":"2016-11-14T16:17:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T16:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/?page_id=22670"},"modified":"2025-05-23T09:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T14:06:09","slug":"fierce-femmes-press-kit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/fr\/fierce-femmes-press-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars Press Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For more details or to schedule an interview, email <a href=\"mailto:publish@metonymypress.com\">Ashley Fortier<\/a> or call 438-338-4591<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jybdotUuOMU\" width=\"525\" height=\"265\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kaichengthom.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kai Cheng Thom<\/a> is a writer, performer, lasagna lover and wicked witch based in Toronto, unceded Indigenous territory. She is the author of several award-winning works, including the poetry collection <em>a place called No Homeland<\/em>, the children&#8217;s book <em>From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea<\/em>, and the essay collection <em>I HOPE WE CHOOSE LOVE: A Trans Girl&#8217;s Notes From the End of the World<\/em>. <em>Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars<\/em> is her first novel.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Accolades<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em>Kai Cheng Thom is the winner of the 2017 <a href=\"http:\/\/writerstrust.com\/News\/News-(1)\/Press-Release-Archive\/Press-Releases\/Dayne-Ogilvie-Winner-(June-3-17).aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Writers&#8217; Trust of Canada&#8217;s Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars<\/em> was nominated for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lambdaliterary.org\/29th-annual-lambda-literary-award-finalists-61452-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">29th Annual Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Selected by <a href=\"https:\/\/quillandquire.com\/omni\/kai-cheng-thoms-fierce-femmes-named-next-title-of-emma-watsons-feminist-bookclub-metonymy-press-prepares-for-the-demand\/\">Emma Watson&#8217;s International Feminist Book Club, Our Shared Shelf<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>About the Book<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In <i>Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl&#8217;s Confabulous Memoir<\/i>, a haunted young girl (who happens to be a kung-fu expert and pathological liar) runs away from an oppressive city where the sky is always grey in search of love and sisterhood\u2014and finds herself in a magical place known only as the Street of Miracles. There, she is quickly adopted into a vigilante gang of glamorous warrior femmes called the Lipstick Lacerators, whose mission is to scour the Street of violent men and avenge murdered trans women everywhere. \u00a0But when disaster strikes, can our intrepid heroine find the truth within herself in order to protect her new family and heal her broken heart? \u00a0Extravagant, unapologetic, and slyly funny, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars is a transgender glam rock coming-of-age story like you&#8217;ve never seen before.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>In the Press<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitchmedia.org\/article\/street-miracles-kai-cheng-thoms-new-novel-trans-femmes-color-save-each-other\">Bitch Media<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.autostraddle.com\/fierce-femmes-and-notorious-liars-372246\/\">Autostraddle<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plenitudemagazine.ca\/a-creation-story-for-transgirls-a-review-of-kai-chengs-fierce-femmes-and-notorious-liars-a-dangerous-trans-girls-confabulous-memoir\/\">Plenitude<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.teenvogue.com\/story\/author-kai-cheng-thom-on-writing-a-new-kind-of-transgender-memoir\">Teen Vogue<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mtlreviewofbooks.ca\/reviews\/fierce-femmes-and-notorious-liars\/\"><em>Montreal Review of Books<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gutsmagazine.ca\/femme-kinship-is-magic\/\">GUTS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/why-we-need-more-trans-protagonists-for-kids\/\">Lithub<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/04\/staff-picks-frick-fierce-femmes-and-fan-fiction\/\">Paris Review<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/24\/books\/trans-lit-transgender-novels.html\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/caseythecanadianlesbrarian.com\/2018\/07\/13\/i-believe-in-dangerous-stories-a-review-of-fierce-femmes-and-notorious-liars-by-kai-cheng-thom\/\">Casey the Lesbrarian<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/books\/emma-watson-selects-fierce-femmes-and-notorious-liars-by-canadian-writer-kai-cheng-thom-for-feminist-book-club-1.5043273\">CBC Books<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quillandquire.com\/omni\/kai-cheng-thoms-fierce-femmes-named-next-title-of-emma-watsons-feminist-bookclub-metonymy-press-prepares-for-the-demand\/\">Quill &amp; Quire<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Specs<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Title: Fierce Femmes and \u00a0Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl&#8217;s Confabulous Memoir<br \/>\nAuthor:\u00a0Kai Cheng Thom<br \/>\nTrim size: 5.25&#8242; x 8&#8242;<br \/>\nExtent:\u00a0200 pages<br \/>\nFormat: Paperback<br \/>\nSeason:\u00a0Fall\u00a02016<br \/>\nPub date:\u00a0November 15, 2016<br \/>\nPrice: $16.95<br \/>\nISBN: 978-0-9940471-3-7<br \/>\nCategory:\u00a0New adult fiction<br \/>\nTarget Audience:\u00a0QTPOC, queers, trans women, young adults<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Market<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Trans teens and young adults need more unapologetic, realistic, and possibly even hopeful representations of responses to systemic violence \u2014 <i>Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars<\/i> is one such offering.<\/p>\n<p>In Thom\u2019s imagined City of Smoke and Lights, hope and cynicism wash through the dark and bejewelled Street of Miracles, setting the scene for this ode to chosen family, fights against the systems that are rigged to destroy us, and growth up and away from the pain that still circles around to nag us in times of vulnerability.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See, for comparison:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Sub Rosa<\/em> by Amber Dawn<br \/>\n<em>Lockpick Pornography<\/em> by Joey Comeau<br \/>\n<em>Lost Boi <\/em>by Sassafras Lowrey<br \/>\n<em>I&#8217;ve Got a Time Bomb<\/em> by\u00a0Sybil Lamb<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Critical Praise<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Kai Cheng Thom&#8217;s girls inhabit a novel surreal and biting and beautiful. I loved reading this book.&#8221; \u2014Casey Plett, author of <i>A Safe Girl To Love<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first lie is that this book is a memoir, the second is that it is not. This is something new, a gorgeous genre breaker, weaving prose, poetry, life lived and dreamt\u2014an incantatory and yes fabulous ode to trans girls of colour, and if you read it right, a DIY instruction manual for changing your sex and the world, a fairy tale for brown girl revolutionaries, sex workers, lovers.\u201d \u2014Trish Salah, author of <i>Lyric Sexology Vol. 1<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard not to love a book about being trans called a memoir that is so utterly different from the conventional trans memoir, partly by being a novel, mainly by being so exuberantly experimental and in love with language for the sake of it&#8230; <em>Fierce Femmes<\/em> has the soul of a rocker: drugs, violence, love, magic, journeys.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014Gabrielle Bellot,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lithub.com\/what-counts-as-transgender-literature\/\"><em>LitHub<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA shimmering oasis of insanity and beauty caught in a web of half-truths and insight, <i>Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars<\/i> is one of the most distinctive books I\u2019ve read in a very long time.\u201d \u2014Gwen Benaway, <a href=\"http:\/\/plenitudemagazine.ca\/a-creation-story-for-transgirls-a-review-of-kai-chengs-fierce-femmes-and-notorious-liars-a-dangerous-trans-girls-confabulous-memoir\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>Plenitude Magazine<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Press Images<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-22670 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/fr\/fierce-femmes-final-full-res_with-stickers\/'><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/fierce-femmes-final-full-res_with-stickers-197x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars book cover\" 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She is the author of several award-winning works, including the poetry collection a place called No Homeland, the children&#8217;s book From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea, and the essay collection I HOPE WE CHOOSE LOVE: A Trans Girl&#8217;s Notes From the End of the World. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars is her first novel. Accolades Kai Cheng Thom is the winner of the 2017 Writers&#8217; Trust of Canada&#8217;s Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars was nominated for the 29th Annual Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction. Selected by Emma Watson&#8217;s International Feminist Book Club, Our Shared Shelf About the Book In Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl&#8217;s Confabulous Memoir, a haunted young girl (who happens to be a kung-fu expert and pathological liar) runs away from an oppressive city where the sky is always grey in search of love and sisterhood\u2014and finds herself in a magical place known only as the Street of Miracles. There, she is quickly adopted into a vigilante gang of glamorous warrior femmes called the Lipstick Lacerators, whose mission is to scour the Street of violent men and avenge murdered trans women everywhere. \u00a0But when disaster strikes, can our intrepid heroine find the truth within herself in order to protect her new family and heal her broken heart? \u00a0Extravagant, unapologetic, and slyly funny, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars is a transgender glam rock coming-of-age story like you&#8217;ve never seen before. In the Press Bitch Media Autostraddle Plenitude Teen Vogue Montreal Review of Books GUTS Lithub Paris Review New York Times Casey the Lesbrarian CBC Books Quill &amp; Quire Specs Title: Fierce Femmes and \u00a0Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl&#8217;s Confabulous Memoir Author:\u00a0Kai Cheng Thom Trim size: 5.25&#8242; x 8&#8242; Extent:\u00a0200 pages Format: Paperback Season:\u00a0Fall\u00a02016 Pub date:\u00a0November 15, 2016 Price: $16.95 ISBN: 978-0-9940471-3-7 Category:\u00a0New adult fiction Target Audience:\u00a0QTPOC, queers, trans women, young adults Market Trans teens and young adults need more unapologetic, realistic, and possibly even hopeful representations of responses to systemic violence \u2014 Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars is one such offering. In Thom\u2019s imagined City of Smoke and Lights, hope and cynicism wash through the dark and bejewelled Street of Miracles, setting the scene for this ode to chosen family, fights against the systems that are rigged to destroy us, and growth up and away from the pain that still circles around to nag us in times of vulnerability. See, for comparison: Sub Rosa by Amber Dawn Lockpick Pornography by Joey Comeau Lost Boi by Sassafras Lowrey I&#8217;ve Got a Time Bomb by\u00a0Sybil Lamb Critical Praise &#8220;Kai Cheng Thom&#8217;s girls inhabit a novel surreal and biting and beautiful. I loved reading this book.&#8221; \u2014Casey Plett, author of A Safe Girl To Love \u201cThe first lie is that this book is a memoir, the second is that it is not. This is something new, a gorgeous genre breaker, weaving prose, poetry, life lived and dreamt\u2014an incantatory and yes fabulous ode to trans girls of colour, and if you read it right, a DIY instruction manual for changing your sex and the world, a fairy tale for brown girl revolutionaries, sex workers, lovers.\u201d \u2014Trish Salah, author of Lyric Sexology Vol. 1 \u201cIt\u2019s hard not to love a book about being trans called a memoir that is so utterly different from the conventional trans memoir, partly by being a novel, mainly by being so exuberantly experimental and in love with language for the sake of it&#8230; Fierce Femmes has the soul of a rocker: drugs, violence, love, magic, journeys.\u201d \u2014Gabrielle Bellot,\u00a0LitHub \u201cA shimmering oasis of insanity and beauty caught in a web of half-truths and insight, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars is one of the most distinctive books I\u2019ve read in a very long time.\u201d \u2014Gwen Benaway, Plenitude Magazine Press Images &nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22595,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22670","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars Press Kit - Metonymy Press<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/fr\/fierce-femmes-press-kit\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_CA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars Press Kit - Metonymy Press\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"For more details or to schedule an interview, email Ashley Fortier or call 438-338-4591 About the Author Kai Cheng Thom is a writer, performer, lasagna lover and wicked witch based in Toronto, unceded Indigenous territory. 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Selected by Emma Watson&#8217;s International Feminist Book Club, Our Shared Shelf About the Book In Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl&#8217;s Confabulous Memoir, a haunted young girl (who happens to be a kung-fu expert and pathological liar) runs away from an oppressive city where the sky is always grey in search of love and sisterhood\u2014and finds herself in a magical place known only as the Street of Miracles. There, she is quickly adopted into a vigilante gang of glamorous warrior femmes called the Lipstick Lacerators, whose mission is to scour the Street of violent men and avenge murdered trans women everywhere. \u00a0But when disaster strikes, can our intrepid heroine find the truth within herself in order to protect her new family and heal her broken heart? \u00a0Extravagant, unapologetic, and slyly funny, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars is a transgender glam rock coming-of-age story like you&#8217;ve never seen before. 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In Thom\u2019s imagined City of Smoke and Lights, hope and cynicism wash through the dark and bejewelled Street of Miracles, setting the scene for this ode to chosen family, fights against the systems that are rigged to destroy us, and growth up and away from the pain that still circles around to nag us in times of vulnerability. See, for comparison: Sub Rosa by Amber Dawn Lockpick Pornography by Joey Comeau Lost Boi by Sassafras Lowrey I&#8217;ve Got a Time Bomb by\u00a0Sybil Lamb Critical Praise &#8220;Kai Cheng Thom&#8217;s girls inhabit a novel surreal and biting and beautiful. I loved reading this book.&#8221; \u2014Casey Plett, author of A Safe Girl To Love \u201cThe first lie is that this book is a memoir, the second is that it is not. 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She is the author of several award-winning works, including the poetry collection a place called No Homeland, the children&#8217;s book From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea, and the essay collection I HOPE WE CHOOSE LOVE: A Trans Girl&#8217;s Notes From the End of the World. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars is her first novel. Accolades Kai Cheng Thom is the winner of the 2017 Writers&#8217; Trust of Canada&#8217;s Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars was nominated for the 29th Annual Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction. Selected by Emma Watson&#8217;s International Feminist Book Club, Our Shared Shelf About the Book In Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl&#8217;s Confabulous Memoir, a haunted young girl (who happens to be a kung-fu expert and pathological liar) runs away from an oppressive city where the sky is always grey in search of love and sisterhood\u2014and finds herself in a magical place known only as the Street of Miracles. There, she is quickly adopted into a vigilante gang of glamorous warrior femmes called the Lipstick Lacerators, whose mission is to scour the Street of violent men and avenge murdered trans women everywhere. \u00a0But when disaster strikes, can our intrepid heroine find the truth within herself in order to protect her new family and heal her broken heart? \u00a0Extravagant, unapologetic, and slyly funny, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars is a transgender glam rock coming-of-age story like you&#8217;ve never seen before. In the Press Bitch Media Autostraddle Plenitude Teen Vogue Montreal Review of Books GUTS Lithub Paris Review New York Times Casey the Lesbrarian CBC Books Quill &amp; Quire Specs Title: Fierce Femmes and \u00a0Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl&#8217;s Confabulous Memoir Author:\u00a0Kai Cheng Thom Trim size: 5.25&#8242; x 8&#8242; Extent:\u00a0200 pages Format: Paperback Season:\u00a0Fall\u00a02016 Pub date:\u00a0November 15, 2016 Price: $16.95 ISBN: 978-0-9940471-3-7 Category:\u00a0New adult fiction Target Audience:\u00a0QTPOC, queers, trans women, young adults Market Trans teens and young adults need more unapologetic, realistic, and possibly even hopeful representations of responses to systemic violence \u2014 Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars is one such offering. 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