Wonderland
David-Matthew Barnes
David-Matthew Barnes
Genre: Young
Adult/Paranormal/Romance/LGBT
Publisher: Bold Strokes
Books
ISBN: 978-1602827882
ASIN: B00BF390HK
Number of pages: 181
Word Count: 49,000
Book Description:
Nominated for the
American Library Association’s 2014 Rainbow Books!
After her mother loses her
battle to cancer, fifteen-year-old Destiny Moore moves from Chicago
to Avalon Cove, a mysterious island in South Carolina. There, she
starts a new life working part-time as a magician's assistant and
living with her eccentric uncle Fred and his hottie husband, Clark.
Destiny is soon befriended
by two outcasts, Tasha Gordon and Topher McGentry. She accepts their
invitation to accompany them to a place called Wonderland, a former
boarding house owned by the enigmatic Adrianna Marveaux.
It's there that Destiny
meets and falls in love with Dominic, Tasha becomes enamored with
Juliet, and Topher gives his heart to Pablo.
When Destiny uncovers the
reason she and her friends have really been brought to Wonderland,
she's faced with the most crucial choice of her life.
About
the Author:
David-Matthew Barnes is a filmmaker,
novelist, playwright, poet, and teacher.
He is the award-winning author of nine
novels including the young adult novels Swimming to Chicago
and Wonderland, which were nominated by the American Library
Association for their annual Rainbow Books, a list of quality books
with significant and authentic GLBTQ content for children and teens.
His literary work has appeared in over one hundred publications
including The Best Stage Scenes, The Comstock Review,
and The Southeast Review. He was selected by Kent State
University as the national winner of the Hart Crane Memorial Poetry
Award. In addition, he's received the Carrie McCray Literary Award,
the Slam Boston Award for Best Play, and earned double awards for
poetry and playwriting in the World AIDS Day Writing Contest.
Barnes is also the author of over forty
stage plays that have been performed in three languages in eight
countries. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America and
International Thriller Writers.
Barnes' first film was Frozen Stars,
which he wrote and directed while still an undergrad in college. The
coming-of-age independent film stars Lana Parrilla of ABC's Once
Upon a Time.
Barnes earned a Master of Fine Arts in
creative writing at Queens University of Charlotte in North Carolina.
He has taught college courses in writing and the arts for the last
decade.
He lives in the city of Denver where he
serves as the CEO of Fairground CineFilms.
I'm in NC, just one county over from South Carolina. Is Avalon Cove based on a real place in SC?
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