Vicki grant author biography
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- Vicki Grant is an award winning author of young adult (YA) books, mysteries, funny books for kids & teens, and novels for reluctant readers.
- VICKI GRANT is a Halifax writer and television producer.
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Secrets Blog Tour: Interview with Vicki Grant
Between The Lines is a sporadic feature on Pop! Goes The Reader in which authors and other industry professionals provide further insight into the writing and publishing process, whether it be in the form of interviews, guest posts, etc. So, sit back, relax, and enjoy as we read between the lines.
It’s long been a goal of mine to use Pop! Goes The Reader as a platform to highlight some of the truly wonderful literature being written and published in Canada, and I’m so pleased that this interview with Canadian author Vicki Grant will allow me the opportunity to do just that. More specifically, today we’ll be talking a little about a fantastic new series, Secrets, brought to readers by Orca Book Publishers. Secrets is a series of seven interconnected stories published concurrently by seven different authors – Kelley Armstrong, Vicki Grant, Marthe Jocelyn, Kathy Kacer, Norah McClintock, Teresa Toten and Eric Walters. In it, readers are able to follow the lives of seven girls, each of whom was once a r
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Her novels have won The Red Maple, The Arthur Ellis Award and CBC’s Young Canada Reads as well as been shortlisted for The Edgar, CLA Children’s Book of the Year and numerous Forest of Reading awards. Her YA romcom 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You, has been translated into 17 languages and was optioned for film. Her latest middle grade novel, A Green Velvet Secret, is about love, grief and fabulous vintage clothes. Called a ‘winning novel’ by Publishers’ Weekly, it was recently named a Best Book for Kids by The Canadian Children’s Book Centre.
Vicki’s currently working Death by Whoopee Cushion, a funny middle-grade mystery about science, tasteless jokes and murder.