Audiobook Deal with Tantor Media

I signed my first audiobook deal! It’s for my upcoming flash fiction collection Woman of the Hour: Fifty Tales of Longing and Rebellion.

What else is still possible in this ever-changing fascinating publishing world? 

Woman of the Hour: Fifty Tales of Longing and Rebellion is also available in print and as an ebook (from Vine Leaves Press).

Release date is July 29, but preorders are available now.

Some Early Praise for Woman of the Hour

“The riveting characters in Woman of the Hour are full of desire, anger, regret, and darkness. Their fragmented lives are tough, but their grit inspires. This brilliant collection makes you love people again.”
—Grant Faulkner, author of The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story and executive producer on America’s Next Great Author

” ‘Sixty minutes before she steps in front of a speeding van…’ Thus begins Claire Polders’ smart, sophisticated, unrelentingly candid examination of female adolescence and womanhood. This collection makes its mark, intellectually and emotionally, with prose that’s alive and electric and exquisitely distilled. Polders uses time—wields it actually—as a narrative drumbeat, marching her characters over the jagged terrain and uncertain landscapes of sex and seduction and coming of age. Told from individual and collective points of view, the stories portray not just the pain and rage and sorrows of living as a woman in a patriarchal society, but also those moments of transcendence, transformation, and self-becoming. Woman of the Hour: Fifty Tales of Longing and Rebellion is a brilliant and necessary collection for our times.”
—Kathy Fish, author of Wild Life: Collected Works

“I simply devoured each stunning piece. Part travelogue—journeying through history, place, and the complexities of the female experience, revealing sensual exploration, seduction, exploitation. Part poetry—blending food, nature, and metamorphoses both animal and human. Claire Polders’ flash collection is an exquisite celebration of the whole, the real self, and a call to action for the girl, the woman, and the crone. With quiet intensity and intellectual depth, each flash unveils vivid portraiture of what it means to be a fully alive, thinking, and yearning being.”
—Jolene McIlwain, author of NPR-Book-of-the-Year Sidle Creek.