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Well, it's official! Welcome to Quinn and the Quiet, Quiet, book SIX in the award-winning Weird Stories Gone Wrong series, horror stories for middle-grade readers!

The book comes out next fall, 2019, from Dundurn Press. It's a resistance dystopia for younger readers, ages 8-12, with robots, rampant consumerism, and Snow Creatures with blue-fire tongues!

Stay tuned for more about Quinn and the Quiet, Quiet, but for now, check out my other blog for a look at all the covers in the series, done so beautifully by illustrator Shawna Daigle: https://phdowding.blogspot.com/2019/0...

Have you ever wondered exactly HOW a book cover comes together?

My next book, Quinn and the Quiet, Quiet, is the most beautiful cover yet, IMHO, in the award-winning Weird Stories Gone Wrong series. It's a series of horror stories for kids ages 9-12, and book 2, Myles and the Monster Outside, won the OLA Silver Birch Express Honour Book in 2017.

The series gets compared to Goosebumps a lot, which is amazing, and the covers and inside illustrations are all the creations of Shawna Daigle, a wonderful artist.

Anyway, if you're interested in how the covers come together, and want to see the 5 main stages (including the first hilarious "draft" from me, an author who truly CANNOT draw), then check out my other blog: https://phdowding.blogspot.com/2019/0...

Quinn and the Quiet, Quiet is forthcoming from Dundurn Press, September, 2019.

Quinn and the Quiet, Quiet is a 49th Shelf Most Anticipated 2019 Young Readers Fall review book! It's also a Dewey Divas and the Dudes fall selection AND a @49th Shelf Book of the Week.

Whew! Can't wait to get my author copies. A-n-t-i-c-i-p-a-t-i-o-n.

This book is an environmental resistance dystopia for middle-grade kids, and is the 6th and final book in the award-winning Weird Stories Gone Wrong series. Ending with a bang!

Here's more info and how to get a preview copy: https://phdowding.blogspot.com/2019/0...

Happy publishing birthday to Quinn and the Quiet, Quiet, which releases into the world today, September 21, 2019!

Quinn is living in the strange Work Centre, where the children make the Blue Brick TM from the rich, blue mountain rocks.

But why are the children making the Blue Brick TM? What IS it, anyway? Why can they snap blue sparks with their fingers for courage, behind the Officer's backs?

AND why are some of the children turning BLUE?

Part dystopia/horror story, part environmental resistance thriller, I hope you'll check out this 6th and final book in the award-winning Weird Stories Gone Wrong series for kids 9-12!

More on my other blog: http://phdowding.blogspot.com/2019/09...