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Sunday, 3 March 2019

Introducing Quinn and the Quiet, Quiet ...

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Coming Sept. 2019 from Dundurn Press


Here it is, the amazing cover for Quinn and the Quiet, Quiet, book six in the award-winning Weird Stories Gone Wrong Series.

The gorgeous cover captures this middle-grade resistance dystopia perfectly. Series illustrator Shawna Daigle has done it again! I'll be talking more about Quinn and the Quiet, Quiet in the coming months, but for now, here is the back cover copy:

"Quinn might get used to the food, Work Bots, and creating the Blue Brick™… but why are children all around him turning blue?

Quinn Fleet, 12, Packager, (QF12P) has only been at the Work Centre for three days, but he’s already seen a Caver run away, faced interrogation, and been made to stand in front of a crowd of children in the Grand Hall to apologize for breaking a Blue Brick™. 

That's when he notices that apart from being thin and ragged, all the children at the Work Centre look so ... blue.

Why are the children turning blue? Why can they make the strange blue spark when they snap their fingers? What’s the blue shimmer? And why do a renegade Work Bot and an Officer want Quinn to lead the oldest children, the NewBlues, to the sanctuary of the Quiet, Quiet?

But more than all that, what is the Quiet, Quiet, anyway?

A resistance dystopia for younger readers, Quinn and the Quiet, Quiet is the 6th book in the award-winning Weird Stories Gone Wrong series."


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Friday, 1 February 2019

Introducing the Weird Stories Gone Wrong 6 BOOK SERIES!



HERE THEY ARE! All six covers in the award-winning Weird Stories Gone Wrong series, and what a beautiful job series illustrator Shawna Daigle has done. I'm so lucky!

There are currently five titles available in the series:

Blackwells and the Briny Deep (2018)
Alex and The Other (2018)
Carter and the Curious Maze (2016)
Myles and the Monster Outside (2015)
Jake and the Giant Hand (2014)

And now I'm SO HAPPY to introduce Quinn and the Quiet, Quiet, which comes out from Dundurn Press next fall, September, 2019. It's a resistance dystopia, a little unusual for middle grade readers, but the whole series has been pretty unusual.

The series has covered plenty of weird stories for kids since its start: screaming mermaids on an enchanted island, an evil twin, time-travel at the CNE, a paranormal road-trip and a monster outside the car, and a giant's hand buried in a farmer's field.

More to come about Quinn and the Quiet, Quiet (September, 2019) in the months ahead, but for now, just look at that glorious set of covers!

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