{"id":24766,"date":"2019-06-05T08:43:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T13:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/?page_id=24766"},"modified":"2025-05-23T09:05:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T14:05:34","slug":"little-blue-encyclopedia-for-vivian-press-kit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/fr\/little-blue-encyclopedia-for-vivian-press-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) Press Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"

For more details or to schedule an interview, email Ashley Fortier<\/a> or call 438-338-4591<\/p>\n

Listen to Hazel Jane Plante read a brief excerpt of her debut novel<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

Download a two-page PDF press kit or see below<\/a><\/p>\n

About the Author<\/h3>\n

Hazel Jane Plante<\/a> is a queer trans librarian, cat photographer, and writer. In a previous life, she co-founded a micro-press, co-edited a little literary journal, co-hosted a podcast, and released lo-fi albums under the name Sparse. Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)<\/i> is her first novel.<\/p>\n

She currently lives in Vancouver on the unceded ancestral territories of the x\u02b7m\u0259\u03b8k\u02b7\u0259y\u0313\u0259m (Musqueam), S\u1e35wx\u0331w\u00fa7mesh (Squamish), and s\u0259\u0313l\u00edlw\u0259ta\u0294\u026c (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.<\/p>\n

About the Book<\/h3>\n

Winner of the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction and the Expozine Award for English Literature; Finalist for the 2020 Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-variant Literature and the 2019-20 Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes (BC Book Prizes).<\/strong><\/p>\n

The playful and poignant novel Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)<\/em> sifts through a queer trans woman’s unrequited love for her straight trans friend who died. A queer love letter steeped in desire, grief, and delight, the story is interspersed with encyclopedia entries about a fictional TV show set on an isolated island. The experimental form functions at once as a manual for how pop culture can help soothe and mend us and as an exploration of oft-overlooked sources of pleasure, including karaoke, birding, and butt toys. Ultimately, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)<\/em> reveals with glorious detail and emotional nuance the woman the narrator loved, why she loved her, and the depths of what she has lost.<\/p>\n

In the Press<\/h3>\n

Puritan<\/i> Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n

The Vancouver Sun<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

Montreal Review of Books<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Plenitude Magazine<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

Toronto Star<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

Lambda Literary<\/a><\/p>\n

Vox<\/a><\/p>\n

Specs<\/h3>\n

Title<\/strong>: Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)
\nAuthor<\/strong>: Hazel Jane Plante
\nTrim size<\/strong>: 5.25\u2032 x 8\u2032
\nFormat<\/strong>: Paperback
\nSeason<\/strong>: Fall 2019
\nPub date<\/strong>: October 7, 2019
\nPrice<\/strong>: $18.95
\nISBN<\/strong>: 978-0-9940471-9-9 (paperback)
\nCategory<\/strong>: Fiction
\nTarget Audience<\/strong>: LGBTQ readers, lovers of experimental fiction, pop culture enthusiasts<\/p>\n

Market<\/h3>\n

Keywords<\/strong>: First fiction, LGBTQ, contemporary fiction, grief<\/p>\n

Quotable quotes<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you spend hundreds of hours with someone, you have a catalogue of tiny memories. As you live your life, those tiny memories snap and crackle your synapses. It can be overwhelming, like the world is already overlaid with experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBeside me on the desk, I had a to-do list on a sticky note. I added an item to the list: \u2018Turn pain into beauty.\u2019 It seemed as elusive as turning lead into gold, but somehow Viv had done it. And I suppose that on some level I\u2019ve been trying to perform a similar emotional alchemy by turning the pain of losing Viv into a weepy and witty alphabetical elegy. Ranjit Jha was right when she said about her absent husband Captain Alphonse that \u2018we love the dog we love, dirt and all.\u2019 Sometimes we realize too late that we didn\u2019t appreciate the dirt and the darkness.\u201d<\/p>\n

See for comparison:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry<\/i> by Leanne Shapton (ISBN: 978-0-3741753-0-6)<\/p>\n

A Safe Girl to Love<\/i> by Casey Plett (ISBN: 978-1-6-272900-5-0)<\/p>\n

Critical praise<\/h3>\n

“An exquisite, kaleidoscopic novel bursting with ache and delight.” \u2013Zoey Leigh Peterson, author of Next Year, For Sure <\/em><\/p>\n

“Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)<\/em> is gorgeously whimsical, inspired, odd and anguished. Reminiscent of early Jeanette Winterson, but also utterly innovative, this is a love letter to heart break and to art as its only, imperfect salve.” \u2014Trish Salah, author of Wanting in Arabic<\/em> and Lyric Sexology Vol. 1<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cHazel Jane Plante\u2019s debut is fabulously fanciful, all the while telling us that a life recalled can be both encyclopaedic and enigmatic. This gloriously genre-fucking book is an ode and a compendium to this fact of life, this state of knowing.\u201d \u2013Tom Cho, author of Look Who\u2019s Morphing<\/em><\/p>\n

Press images<\/h3>\n