Kit Pearson gets the Woodcock

“One of BC’s outstanding kidlit/YA authors, Kit Pearson (at right) is the recipient of the 32nd George Woodcock Award, only the second writer for children to get it.FULL STORY

 

Battling Great Old Ones

March 25th, 2021

Monsters! Mini-subs! H.P. Lovecraft reading poetry at Pender Harbour’s Egmont pub on open mic night! These all feature in David Neil Lee’s follow up to his YA novel The Midnight Games (Wolsak & Wynn, 2015).  The sequel, The Medusa Deep (Wolsak & Wynn $15) finds the mysterious airship “Sorcerer” spiriting Nate Silva — the protagonist in Midnight Games who fought some of Lovecraft’s mythical “Great Old Ones” — from Hamilton, Ontario, westward to the marine abyss (somewhere around Hotham Sound in Jervis Inlet), which in 1946 was the site of a battle between the whaling ship Mary Maquinna, and a “Great Old One” that came to earth on a Nazi spaceship. 978-1-989496-31-2

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