New Fiction 2008

“Daring, funny and entirely fresh. Arjun is the real thing.”
Timothy Taylor

Squishy
Arjun Basu
DC Books

Have You Met My Best Friend, Marci

BOO! Marci Denesiuk’s The Far Away Home won the QWF McAuslan First Book Prize.

Paul Quarrington says, “Marci’s stories are beautifully written, fearless investigations into our inner and outer reaches.”

Photo: Claudio Calligaris

Seen Nibbling...New Children and YA 2008

Scaredy Squirrel at the Beach by Mélanie Watt, winner of The Blue Spruce Award.

On the Road Again, by Marie-Louise Gay, author of the Stella books, and David Homel, author of The Speaking Cure, winner of the QWF Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction.

121 Express by Monique Polak. She is also the author of What World is Left, to be released by Orca in Fall 2008.

Raguel Rivera’s Tuk and the Whale, Illustrated by Mary Jane Gerber.

Pier 21 by Anne Renaud, the author of Missuk’s Snow Geese, forthcoming from Simply Read in Fall 2008.

When You Were Small (2007 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award) and the sequel, Where You Came From, were written by Sara O’Leary and illustrated by Julie Morstad.

Have Met My Best Friend, Louise?

I’m thrilled to play Dr. Watson to Louise Penny, author of The Cruellest Month, her third Chief Inspector Armand Gamache mystery. The Globe and Mail says, “Ever since Agatha Christie, we long for that perfect village touched by death. Three Pines delivers!”

Photo: Sylvain Dumais

New Comics 2008

“Unexpectedly wistful and warm-heartedly wise

– and laugh-out-loud hilarious."
Jonathan Goldstein

Howie Action Comics
Howard Chackowicz
Conundrum Press