Author Leigh Stein Takes On The Attention Economy In Her Latest Novel
Athena Books is thrilled to welcome author Leigh Stein to celebrate the launch of her new novel, If You're Seeing This, It's Meant For You, a smart, incisive and often hilarious look at the creator economy. Part social satire and part gothic horror, Leigh's new novel appears on Town and Country's Must Read List for Summer 2025--and we agree! Leigh will be joined in conversation by NY Times Bestselling author and friend of the store, Annabel Monaghan. Your ticket includes a copy of the book, wine, seltzer and light dessert.
About If You're Seeing This, It's Meant For You:
Fates collide after a tarot influencer disappears from a decaying Hollywood mansion in this unnerving gothic mystery and social satire from the acclaimed author of Self Care. After her boyfriend dumps her in a Reddit post, unemployed thirty-nine-year-old Dayna accepts an unusual opportunity from a man she stopped speaking to twenty years ago: if Dayna can help Craig transform his crumbling mansion into a successful hype house of influencers, he can restore his birthright to its former glory, and she can bring her career back from the dead. But missing from the mansion is Becca, an enigmatic tarot card reader who built a rabid fandom with her cryptic, soul-touching videos . . . and then vanished.
With nineteen-year-old Olivia, the newest member of the hype house (and one of Becca’s biggest fans), Dayna begins to build a social media campaign around Becca’s disappearance that will catapult the creators to new heights of success. Too bad Craig forbids Dayna from pursuing the mystery at its heart. As Olivia searches for traces of Becca in a labyrinth in a house that seems intent on hiding its secrets, and Dayna becomes entangled with both Craig and Jake, the resident heartthrob and the last person to see Becca, the two women make a shocking discovery that will upend everything. The internet: You may think you’re inhabiting it, but is it really inhabiting you?
About Leigh Stein:
Leigh Stein is the author of six books, including the critically acclaimed satirical novel Self Care , and the creator of the Attention Economy newsletter on Substack. She has also written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Allure, ELLE, Airmail, and The Cut.
About Annabel Monaghan:
Annabel Monaghan is the NY Times bestselling and Library Reads Hall of Fame author of It's a Love Story, Summer Romance, Same Time Next Summer, and Nora Goes Off Script, as well as two young adult novels and Does This Volvo Make My Butt Look Big? , a selection of laugh-out-loud columns that appeared in The Huffington Post, The Week, and The Rye Record. She lives in Connecticut with her family. Her novels have been translated into twenty languages.