Vicki Grant » Legal Thriller for Teens

A Double Hitter

vickigrant — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:42:03 +0000

I’m not a sporty type so have no idea what that actual means but thought it sounded like it might be a good title for this post. That’s because two of my books just made The Canadian Children’s Book Centre’s hit list.

NOT SUITABLE FOR FAMILY VIEWING and RES JUDICATA were both chosen for CCBC’s Best Books for Kids and Teens 2010 magazine. (On newsstands now. Pick up your copy today!)

Thanks to the editors at CCBC for picking my books – and thanks to my editors and HarperCollins and Orca for making them happen.

How do you say Quid Pro Quo in Korean?

vickigrant — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:18:18 +0000

The comic legal thriller for teens, Quid Pro Quo, will soon be available in Korea. It’s currently available in France under the title Sur la Liste des Suspects. Rageot, the French publisher has also picked up the rights to Res Judicata.

Cyril MacIntyre – TV star?

vickigrant — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:54:22 +0000

Yowza Animation, Inc has recently optioned Quid pro Quo with the intention of producing a live-action television series based on the comic legal thriller for kids.

Res Judicata

vickigrant — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:32:00 +0000

Res Judicata, Vicki’s comic legal thriller for teens, has been named a Best of 2008 book by Resource Links. Quid pro Quo, the first in her Cyril MacIntyre series, won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Juvenile Crime fiction and was also nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award.

We have a winner!

vickigrant — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:03:40 +0000

QUID PRO QUO has just won CBC’s Young Canada Reads! Set in Halifax, QPQ is a funny legal thriller for teens – “John Grisham for the skateboard set!” as the publicist likes to say. It previously won The Arthur Ellis Award for Best Juvenile Crime Fiction in Canada and was shortlisted for numerous other awards. RES JUDICATA, a stand-alone sequel to QUID PRO QUO, was published in the fall.

Thanks to student Simon Walker on the Young Canada Reads panel for so vigourously advocating on behalf of QUID PRO QUO.