Book News!

Let’s cut to the chase here, since I’m way too excited to share this news and have been waiting (as one does in publishing) for a while.

I’m delighted to share that Tiller Press has acquired my memoir “Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s FIght to End Ableism” for publication in 2021.

Being Seen is the inevitable result of a lot of the work I’ve been doing over the last few years. I’m very excited to be working on a full length work building on many of my personal essays and twitter threads, and to explore new material that hasn’t found a place yet in short work.

What’s it about?

Check out the Publisher Marketplace deal below:

”Hugo Award winner Elsa Sjunneson’s ALONE IN THE LIGHT: SEEING THROUGH ABLEISM, combining memoir and cultural criticism to examine media stereotypes of blind women as sexless, weak, and tragic and analyze how to build an authentic disabled self, to Emily Carleton at Tiller Press, in a nice deal, at auction, for publication in 2021, by Jennie Goloboy at Donald Maass Literary Agency (world English)”