{"id":40011,"date":"2021-10-18T09:05:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T13:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=40011"},"modified":"2022-01-08T16:18:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T21:18:32","slug":"dust-grim-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2021\/10\/18\/dust-grim-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Dust & Grim Is Here!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\u201cMonstrously fun\u2026. A sure pick for those enamored by Neil Gaiman\u2019s The Graveyard Book (2008), and Tahereh Mafi\u2019s Whichwood (2017).\u201d\u2014Booklist (starred review)<\/em><\/p>\n

AHEM AHEM AHEM<\/p>\n

*clears throat*<\/p>\n

IT IS TIME, my friends, to seize your Dusty Grims, your Grim Dust, your *checks notes* Dust & Grim. That’s right! My MG debut is officially out in the world tomorrow (though I hear tell many folks are finding them in bookstores already, which is wonderful).<\/p>\n

It’s a fun, spooky, spoopy book about a girl who inherits a funeral home for monsters and must share that inheritance with a brother she’s never met. It contains vampires and foxes and wolves and magic and one (1) Florg, plus many more creepy, kooky things. It is ostensibly for kids aged 8-12, but I’ve had adults read it and enjoy it (my take is that if you like Christopher Moore books, you’ll like\u00a0Dust & Grim<\/strong>). It contains beautiful art by Jensine Eckwall<\/a>. Art directed by Karina Granda<\/a>. Edited by Deirdre Jones. I had a blast writing it. I hope you have a blast reading it.<\/p>\n

I’m going to reiterate some information here, so bear with me —<\/p>\n

I am doing events this week and next, and there are some additions here:<\/p>\n

Monday, 10\/18, 6PM EST, Virtual launch event at Books of Wonder with Matt Wallace,\u00a0tickets here<\/a>. Pre-order Matt\u2019s wonderful\u00a0Supervillain\u2019s Guide to Being a Fat Kid<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tuesday, 10\/19 6:30PM EST, presently virtual\u00a0<\/i>event at Let\u2019s Play Books, Emmaus, PA,\u00a0event details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, 10\/20, 7PM EST, Virtual event at Anderson\u2019s bookshop with Greg Van Eekhout.\u00a0Details here<\/a>. And checkout Greg\u2019s newest,\u00a0Weird Kid<\/a>, which my own kid\u00a0adored<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Thursday, 10\/21, 7PM EST, Ludington Library event! Details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Friday, 10\/22, 7PM EST, Virtual event at Porter Square Books with Delilah S. Dawson.\u00a0Details here<\/a>. Grab Delilah\u2019s spooky good time,\u00a0Mine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tuesday, 10\/26, 7PM EST, Scrawl Books Book Club Event,\u00a0details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, 10\/27, 7PM EST, One More Page Books, a Halloween Vs Christmas Holiday Showdown Throwdown with me and author Tiffany Schmidt (author of next week’s release, I’m Dreaming of a Wyatt Christmas<\/a>). Details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"And there are a number of places to buy the book, as well —<\/p>\n

Signed\/personalized copies from Doylestown Bookshop<\/a>, Let’s Play Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Or from the other bookstores above:<\/p>\n

Books of Wonder<\/a>,\u00a0Scrawl Books<\/a>,\u00a0Porter Square<\/a>,\u00a0Anderson Bookshop<\/a>, One More Page<\/a><\/p>\n

You can also find a local indie through\u00a0Indiebound<\/a>, or buy through\u00a0Bookshop.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

B&N<\/a>, too, is a good choice for print copies \u2014 and you can find other\u00a0buy links here<\/a>!<\/p>\n

\"\"If you want to read some nice things said about the book:<\/p>\n

\u201cA clever, heartwarming tale of funerary rites, ghosts, and the undying power of family.\u201d\u2014Holly Black, Newbery Honor-winning author of Doll Bones and The Cruel Prince<\/p>\n

\u201cWildly inventive, totally hilarious, and unexpectedly moving.\u201d\u2014Lev Grossman, bestselling author of The Silver Arrow and The Magicians<\/p>\n

\u201cA one-of-a-kind delight\u2014mysterious, exciting, inventive, sometimes scary and always funny, Dust & Grim reads like a rollicking ghosts and monsters story, which it is. But just as important, it\u2019s a compelling and tender story about family. Sibling duo Molly and Dustin will find their way into readers\u2019 hearts as surely as they find their way into each other\u2019s.\u201d\u2014Trenton Lee Stewart, bestselling author of The Mysterious Benedict Society<\/p>\n

\u201cSucks you in with a wise-cracking zaniness that soon spirals into a delightful rampaging chaos of swarming vampires, thorny wolves, walking trees, and eldritch horrors. And yet even as the dangers for Molly and Dustin increase and the wise-cracks keep flying, the importance of family both lost and found grounds their story with a profound sense of heart.\u201d\u2014Paolo Bacigalupi, bestselling author of The Windup Girl, Ship Breaker, and Zombie Baseball Beatdown<\/p>\n

\u201cSpookily charming, bewitchingly creepy, full of hope, heart, and horror, Dust & Grim is the sort of book you gobble up in one sweet and salty bite.\u201d\u2014Delilah S. Dawson, author of Star Wars: PHASMA and Mine<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery line of Dust & Grim is packed with a laugh, a sharp observation, or something radically cool, and sometimes all three at once. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Wendig is a welcome new voice in middle-grade fiction, and we are lucky to have him.\u201d\u2014Greg van Eekhout, author of Weird Kid, COG, and Voyage of the Dogs<\/p>\n

\u201cSiblings Molly and Dustin Grim are the most unlikely of heroes, and for that reason they are among the greatest. The fact that they must save the world from within a secret monster mortuary is only the first of many surprises that bestselling tale-spinner Chuck Wendig has created for this full-of-heart debut about trust, friendship, and the importance of having the perfect costume for every occasion. A fantastic, spooky adventure!\u201d\u2014Fran Wilde, Nebula Award winning author of Updraft and Riverland<\/p>\n

\u201cPlaying to strengths demonstrated in his many comics and tales for older audiences, not only is Wendig a dab hand at concocting extremely creepy critters, but here he also pulls together a secondary cast of quarrelsome but supportive allies for the beleaguered teens.\u201d\u2014Kirkus Reviews (starred review)<\/p>\n

“Wendig offers a whimsical spooky tale full of ghosts, vampires, fairies, cryptids, and monsters of all types for the young and young at heart. Wendig crafts a middle school read that treats his target audience with respect. In other words, it may be a lighthearted horror fairy tale, but the author isn\u2019t afraid to inflict pain or heighten the stakes.”\u2014Bloody Disgusting<\/p>\n

“Packed with pop-culture references and creepy beings, the novel is written from Molly\u2019s sarcastic-beyond-her-years viewpoint and subtly threaded with life lessons that together create an engaging narrative.”\u2014Publishers Weekly<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cMonstrously fun\u2026. A sure pick for those enamored by Neil Gaiman\u2019s The Graveyard Book (2008), and Tahereh Mafi\u2019s Whichwood (2017).\u201d\u2014Booklist (starred review) AHEM AHEM AHEM *clears throat* IT IS TIME, my friends, to seize your Dusty Grims, your Grim Dust, your *checks notes* Dust & Grim. That’s right! My MG debut is officially out in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-40011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-theramble","9":"has-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Dust-and-Grim-final-Twitter-Header-1.jpg?fit=1500%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-apl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40011"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40028,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40011\/revisions\/40028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}