About the Novel

In The Shadow of Blackbirds

Coming Spring 2013 from Amulet Books/Abrams

Cat Winters's IN THE SHADOW OF BLACKBIRDS, the story of a teen girl mourning the loss of her first love in 1918 California, where a flu has turned deadlier than a world war, and spirit communication has become a dark and dangerous obsession, illustrated with early-twentieth-century photographs, to Maggie Lehrman at Amulet, by Barbara Poelle of Irene Goodman Agency (World English).

Foreign rights: Heather Shapiro at Baror International

(From Publishers Marketplace)

ADVANCE PRAISE: 

“Cat Winters deftly captures the darkness and the light of human nature with In the Shadow of Blackbirds. I swear, I can smell the smoke from the flash lamps and taste the electricity in the air—and the heroine's dark and startling story lingers long after the final page.”

    —Saundra Mitchell

      Edgar-Nominated Author of Shadowed Summer
and The Vespertine Series

AWARDS:

Award winner in the Young Adult category of The Write Stuff Contest, hosted by the Connecticut Romance Writers of America.

RIGHTS INFO:
Barbara Poelle
Irene Goodman Literary Agency
27 W. 24 Street, Suite 700B
New York, New York 10010

Foreign rights:
Heather Baror-Shapiro
Baror International

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