Wink Poppy Midnight by April Genevieve Tucholke

Midnight Hunt: A teenage boy, Wink's new neighbor.

She has long curly ginger hair, big innocent green eyes and freckles.

Wink Bell: teenage girl, lives with extended family and many animals in the countryside.

Midnight is a boy caught between the two of them. Poppy is a bully with blonde hair and grey eyes, who is very manipulative. Wink has red hair, green eyes and freckles. One is a hero, one is a villain, and one is a liar, but the reader is never sure which is which. This young adult novel is told in three distinct voices: Wink, Poppy, and Midnight. Tucholke is now represented by Eric Myers of Myers Literary Management.Wink Poppy Midnight is a young adult mystery novel written by April Genevieve Tucholke and published on Maby Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Books. A second picture book, Merry and Hark: A Christmas Story with illustrations by Rebecca Santo is anticipated in 2023 also from Algonquin.

Tucholke's first picture book, Beatrice Likes the Dark was published in September, 2022 from Algonquin, an imprint of Workman Publishing Company with illustrations by Khoa Lee. A companion novel, The Seven Endless Forests, a gender-bent retelling of the King Arthur legend with a Norse twist, was published in 2020. The Boneless Mercies, a gender-bent retelling of Beowulf, was published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in October, 2018. She contributed to Because You Love to Hate Me, an anthology of short stories written by 13 YA authors who were paired with 13 BookTubers published in July 2017.

Tucholke edited the anthology Slasher Girls & Monster Boys (Penguin, 2015), and her third novel Wink Poppy Midnight was published by Penguin Books in 2016. The book sold to Penguin's imprint Dial, who purchased the book in a preemptive deal. Tucholke was initially represented by Joanna Volpe of New Leaf Literary, who offered representation within 24 hours of receiving the manuscript for Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. She currently lives in Savannah, Georgia. Tucholke grew up on a farm in the Midwest and has since lived in a variety of places, including Colorado, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Oregon and Scotland. She is best known for the Gothic horror novel Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea and its sequel Between the Spark and the Burn, as well as a dark young adult mystery novel Wink Poppy Midnight, all published by Penguin Books. YALSA Top 10 Teens Choice, Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2018Īpril Genevieve Tucholke ( / t ə ˈ h ɒ l k i/ tə- HOLL-kee ) is an American author based in Georgia. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea.

Wink Poppy Midnight by April Genevieve Tucholke