Please Don’t Tell My Parents I’ve Got Henchmen
By Richard Roberts
Genre: young-adult, superhero, science-fiction
Publisher: Curiosity Quills Press
Date of Release: February 8, 2016
Cover Artist: Ricky Gunawan
Description:
What
would middle school be like if half your classmates had super powers?
It’s time for Penny Akk to find out. Her latest (failed) attempt to
become a superhero has inspired the rest of the kids in her school to
reveal their own powers.
Now, all of her relationships
are changing. She has a not-at-all-secret admirer, who wants to be
Penny’s partner almost as much as she wants to be Penny’s rival. The
meanest girl in school has gained super powers and lost her mind. Can
Penny help her find a better one? Can she help an aging supervillain
connect with his daughter, and mend the broken hearts of two of the most
powerful people in the world? And in all this, where will she find
time for her own supervillainous fun, or even more dangerous, to start
dating?
It’s going to be a long, strange semester
Richard Roberts has fit into only one category in his entire life,
and that is ‘writer’, but as a writer he’d throw himself out of his own
books for being a cliche.
He’s had the classic wandering
employment history - degree in entomology, worked in health care, been
an administrator and labored for years in the front lines of fast food.
He’s had the appropriate really weird jobs, like breeding tarantulas and
translating English to English for Japanese television. He wears all
black, all the time, is manic-depressive, and has a creepy laugh.
He’s
also followed the classic writer’s path, the pink slips, the anthology
submissions, the desperate scrounging to learn how an ever-changing
system works. He’s been writing from childhood, and had the appropriate
horrible relationships that damaged his self-confidence for years. Then
out of nowhere Curiosity Quills Press demanded he give them his books,
and here he is.
As for what he writes, Richard loves children and
the gothic aesthetic. Most everything he writes will involve one or the
other, and occasionally both. His fantasy is heavily influenced by folk
tales, fairy tales, and mythology, and he likes to make the old new
again. In particular, he loves to pull his readers into strange
characters with strange lives, and his heroes are rarely heroic.
Find the author Online:
Curiosity Quills Press (CQ) is a small hybrid publishing company
specializing in genre fiction of the highest quality. With 150+ titles
in our catalog already and approximately 6 new books coming out each
month, there’s never a dull moment at CQ. We work with major retailers
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reader, can find whatever you are looking for at your convenience.
Founded
in 2011 by Eugene Teplitsky and Lisa Gus, CQ was initially a resource
portal for writing and publishing, created in an effort to help writers,
like themselves, survive the publishing industry. After rapid success,
CQ morphed into publishing press that over time has solidified its share
in the market. Now we spend our days searching for the next great
escape!
