C.G. Watson is the author of Quad (Razorbill/Penguin, Spring 2007) - ISBN: 1-59514-138-3
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Biography:
There was never a time when C.G. Watson was not writing. In grade school, she created her own magazines, blending a then-interest in clothing design (fashion to the peaceful) with anti-Vietnam-War sentiment. Alas, the concept never caught on.
In junior high and high school, she began cultivating her poetry and prose styles. Some of her best poetry was written during Algebra class, and some of her best prose was re-written by the teacher before going into the school literary anthology.
In her late teens and throughout her twenties, her flair for the poetic dovetailed with another lifesaving hobby, held over from adolescence: music. Having taught herself guitar at the age of twelve, her poetry now had a soundtrack, and she soon became a performing songwriter—something she continued into her early thirties.
C.G. began writing prose again in earnest in the fall of 2003. That first novel, Six Weeks in June, is still a work in progress. She began writing Quad in the spring of ‘05 to alleviate the frustration of an especially difficult teaching year, watching as students interacted with each other in the cruelest ways imaginable. One of these days, she couldn’t help thinking, someone’s going to snap. The problem is, you never know who it will be….
C.G. Watson is a freelance writer and high school teacher from Northern California. She has an amazing husband, Tom, and two of the coolest kids on the planet.
Book: Quad
When Ranger Ng realizes the truth about those pops he’s hearing, he and a group of kids barricade themselves inside the Muir High School student store. The question is: who is wandering through the quad with a gun? And why? Has Ranger’s best friend, Rufus, snapped after years of torment and decided to snuff out the hateful “steroid posse”? Is the steroid posse exacting revenge for the humiliating article about them that appeared in the school’s underground paper, the Metro? Is Theo making good on his end of a twisted scheme to bring down the elite of Muir High after his girlfriend, Maggie, reveals herself as the Metro creator? The complicated social structure of Muir High is so sharply divided that the shooter could, very nearly, be anyone.
QUAD, is an unflinching exploration of the subculture of high school that is both fraught with tension and rife with humor. The relationship between student groups is so instinctively rooted in hostility and isolation that tragedy seems a natural conclusion. Without being pedantic or preachy, QUAD merely poses the question: how could something like this happen?
Book Info:
- ISBN (Hardcover): 1-59514-138-3
- ISBN-13 (Hardcover): 978-1-59514-138-5
- Release date: May 10, 2007
- Pages: 304
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