Rights: AN ARCHIVE OF BRIGHTNESS World English to Tantor Media

Audio rights for Kelsey Socha’s queer speculative debut An Archive of Brightness have been sold to Tantor Media.

Two stoic lobstermen harboring a secret affection. A lonely architect building houses and machines from the exoskeletons of scorpions in a desert town. A girl painfully growing into new wings. A flock of crows and an untidy vulture observe and collect these moments of human tenderness as they build an archive of brightness. Each love story becomes, in its own way, the end of a world—and the beginning of a new one.

Kelsey Socha once wrote and staged a performance piece about lobsters before subsequently quitting theatre to become a librarian. She is originally from Kalamazoo, Michigan, but now lives in Western Massachusetts with her wife and two cats.

The audiobook edition of An Archive of Brightness will publish in Fall 2022 and in print and digital format from Lanternfish Press on August 30, 2022.