So much of transness is defined by isolation for so many of us, especially isolation within our own thoughts about ourselves and each other. I wanted to come back to these ugly emotions from a place of adult queerness, from a place of trans community and trans love and romance, a radically different context than the isolated and caustic one my twenty-five-year-old self lived in. It’s about what it feels like to stand in front of the mirror as a newly out trans woman, convinced down to your marrow that you’ll never pass, that no one could ever love you, and the hideous moment when those feelings start to poison your perceptions of others like you. It’s about the visceral fear of returning to manhood, which I left at the age of twenty-five.
“ Manhunt is a story about the worst things I’ve ever thought about myself boiling over into reality.
Her writing is phenomenal – I couldn’t put down the submission and immediately knew this book was one Nightfire needed to bring to horror fans! I can’t wait for readers to experience the thrill of diving into her story! “ Manhunt feels like a much-needed creative response to Brian K. With Manhunt, Gretchen shines a spotlight on the experience trans women would face in this unique post-apocalyptic scenario, and deftly explores the complexities around identity during such a crisis. “Rarely has horror truly considered the LGBTQIA community in its stories. Here’s what Kelly Lonesome, senior editor at Nightfire, has to say about Manhunt: It’s a timely, powerful response to every gender-based apocalypse story that failed to consider the existence of transgender and non-binary people, and it’s full of body horror, desire, and a grotesque spectrum of pain. Manhunt is a fast-paced novel that follows a group of trans women in a post-apocalyptic world where a viral plague has transformed all cis men into violent, feral monstrosities. This found family of survivors must also navigate an authoritarian faction of cis women who see them as a dangerous liability, tricky relationship dynamics, and a truly gruesome method of scavenging for estrogen so they don’t miss a dose – all while outrunning the feral men. Gretchen Felker-Martin’s Manhunt – a post-apocalyptic novel about trans women fighting for their very existence – will be published by Nightfire in Spring 2022!
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