Parable of the Sower
by Octavia E. Butler
Published by Thornwillow Press in 2021
Editor, Marketing Lead
As the editor at Thornwillow Press, I shepherded the first ever fine press edition of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower through the publication process in 2020 and 2021. My responsibilities and contributions included:
selection of the title for publication
copywriting, script-writing, and directing photography for crowdfunding campaign
composition of the Publisher’s Note found within the publication
curation of illustrations
This title raised over $115,000 on Kickstarter and marked an important shift in the editorial direction of Thornwillow’s publications to include the works of more women and people of color. It was also a particularly timely publication—set in the early 2020s, Parable of the Sower paints a bleak picture of a dystopian near-future, in which rampant fires and political corruption have decimated the western United States. In reality, 2020 was indeed a record-setting year for both wildfires and social unrest, bookended by presidential impeachments in both December of 2019 and January of 2021.
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