Skyler White

• In Dreams Begin is a dark time-travel horror/romance that transports a contemporary woman’s awareness into a Victorian woman’s body to explore questions of possession, sexuality, poetry and magic.

• Each chapter of In Dreams Begin takes its title from a Yeats quote, is prefaced by lines of his poetry, and concludes with an excerpt from a primary source – ranging from the autobiographies of two of its main characters (W.B. Yeats and Maude Gonne) to an 1897 first-person account of mediumship, to a 1930 treatise on sex magic.

• In Dreams Begin Is a new twist on the literary mash-up, bringing the life, occult practices, and poetry of WB Yeats into very personal overlap with the life of a contemporary writer and the characters she creates.

• Skyler White holds an MA in dramatic theory and literary criticism. She did extensive academic and personal research for In Dreams Begin, including travel to Ireland, England and France. She read the entirety of Yeats’s poetry, essays and autobiographies, and researched the Victorian occult, Irish independence and women’s suffrage.

• In Dreams Begin is a part of Skyler White’s The Harrowing series of edgy, allegorical tales set in a parallel world of mythic damnation, combining the relevance and romance of urban fantasy, the darkness of contemporary horror, and the craft and introspection of literary fiction. The first book, and Falling, Fly, is a dark fable following the trials a vampiric fallen angel and a neuroscientist in a secret Irish hell.

• Skyler is an experienced and enthusiastic speaker with and edgy appearance who interviews well for TV, print and radio. She will be participating in readings, signings and panel discussions at local, regional and national fantasy/sci-fi/comic/romance conventions in 2010-11.