Quid Pro Quo Page 13

  I’ve been exposed to the Canadian system and have therefore set my story in Nova Scotia. My understanding, though, is that the laws and legal principles described are the same in most countries of the English-speaking world.

  At least I think they are.

  But maybe you should check with your lawyer.

  Gemini-winning Vicki Grant is a television writer and producer. She is also the author of the hilarious Puppet Wrangler (Orca, 2004). She brings plenty of her signature humor and runaway plot twists to Quid Pro Quo. And she has clearly studied up on the law! Vicki lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with her husband and three children.

  Bitsie kept breaking down. He was supposed to say, “You’re my Bitsiest bestiest friend,” but every time he got to that “bestiest” part, his mouth jammed open and his little pink tongue slipped out the side. He looked so human I couldn’t believe it. It was like he was gagging on it or something. Makes sense now, of course, but then no one could figure out what was going on.

  TELLY MERCER is shy and quiet, used to living in the shadow of her older sister, Bess. Then she finds herself on the set of a puppet show, staying out of the way of her overstressed aunt Kathleen. One evening, she makes a surprising discovery that launches her on an adventure with an unpredictable and angry puppet.

  Praise for Vicki Grant’s first novel,

  The Puppet Wrangler:

  The Puppet Wrangler “sparkles with humor; Telly’s first person narrative is deliciously low key and understated to the point of being laugh-out-loud funny.” —KLIATT

  “A fresh and unpredictable modern fantasy…” —School Library Journal

  “This book is a scream from the get-go. Wildly funny. Brutally honest. Surreal and tender.” —Cheryl Wagner Award-winning TV writer and producer of Big Comfy Couch and Poko.