IFWG is very pleased to reveal the cover of Quake City, by Deryn Pittar – sequel to her very well received young adult novel, The Carbonite’s Daughter. Art is by the very talented Danyon Street and outstanding design by Greg Chapman.

Deryn Pittar has published Sci-Fi, fantasy, futuristic and contemporary romance, loves writing short and flash fiction, and is an occasional poet. She belongs to SpecFicNZ and the Romance Writers of N.Z. She reads and critiques for fellow authors and listens to their advice in return.

In 2020 she gained fourth equal with her sestina ‘Australia’ in the Frank DiBase International Poetry contest.

Her dragon novel Lutapolii – White Dragon of the South is a prize-winning fantasy, winning a Sir Julius Vogel Award at Geysercon in 2019 for Best Young Adult published in 2018. She also won the short fiction contest at Geysercon with ‘Hendrik’s Pet’.

In 2014 she won a ‘Punk’ fiction prize with her short story ‘The Carbonite’s Daughter’, which became the inspiration for her novel of the same name, published in 2022.

Quake City will be released globally on the 4th August 2024.