The Marvelous Adventures of Gwendolyn Gray

The chapter-by-chapter soundtrack, with each track cued to a specific quote in the book. Play each song on repeat until the next one comes up. Enjoy! Youtube Playlist Spotify: PART ONE-GREY 1. Things That Begin “Once upon a time, in The City of No Stories, Gwendolyn Gray ran away…”             –  “Granny Wendy” 2. The Lambent “She did not see the two men in bowler hats…”             –  “Concerning Aunt Josephine” 3. Curioser and Curioser “There is something wrong with the Lambents…”              —   “The Secret of the Scrolls” 4. Snip Snip “Cecilia stood at the head of her gang…”              –  “An Unpleasant Incident Involving a Train” 5. The Edge “After what felt like three eternities…”  ...

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Hey everybody! Quick update today. The Marvelous Adventures of Gwendolyn Gray is now live on Goodreads and Amazon for preorders. Enjoy! The big cover reveal is scheduled for November 7th, so stay tuned!

It's official! The Marvelous Adventures of Gwendolyn Gray  will be coming to bookstores in May, 2018 from Jolly Fish Press ! Check out the press release below, or read it here ... Steampunk Meets Dystopia in the Imaginative World of ‘Gwendolyn Gray’ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Megan Naidl mnaidl@northstareditions.com or publicity@jollyfishpress.com (651) 424-4623 ST. PAUL, MN, June 12, 2017–  Jolly Fish Press, an imprint of   North Star Editions, Inc. (NSE) is excited to announce the May 15, 2018 release of the debut Middle-Grade novel  The Marvelous Adventures of Gwendolyn Gray  by B. A. Williamson. Part fantasy, part dystopian, part steampunk, and all imagination,  The Marvelous Adventures of Gwendolyn Gray  follows dreamer Gwendolyn as she evades thought police, enters a whimsical world, befriends explorers and pirates, and fights the evil threatening to erase the new world she loves and her old world that never wanted her. More...

Things are heating up here at stately Williamson manor. The new author head-shots are in, courtesy of And y at Andrew Hoffman - Scheer Hoffman Creative. A huge thanks to him for all his hard work on these, I could not BE more pleased with them. And a new author bio to go with it! B. A. Williamson is a proud Gryffindor and the overly caffeinated writer of The Marvelous Adventures of Gwendolyn Gray . When not doing battle with the demons in the typewriter, he can be found wandering Indianapolis with his family, singing in a tuxedo, or taming middle-schoolers. He is a recipient of the Eli Lilly Teacher Creativity Fellowship. Please direct all complaints and your darkest secrets to @BAWrites on social media, or visit gwendolyngray.com.

Made a new logo today! What do you guys think? Done in my special leather notebook on handmade paper, a gift from my older brother, with a Pilot Metropolitan fountain pen.

Five years ago today, I woke up on a bus, unable to sleep. I was chaperoning a field trip of fifth graders to Washington DC, and the kid behind me wouldn't stop kicking my seat in his sleep, robbing me of mine. So I whipped out my new iPad, fired up the pages app, with the decision that I should right something for my then-unborn child. I sat and thought about what kind of story I would like to read to my future kid. I thought about what kind of role model I would want my daughter to have. (Sorry, Teddy, thought you were a girl at the time.) And I decided that I wanted a little girl with a big imagination who would challenge everything. And she needed something to struggle against. A city with no imagination, a city that was dull and grey, a city stuck in its ways where new ideas were frowned upon. So I thought of a name. Gwendolyn. Gwendolyn... Gray. Like the City itself. And a title. The Marvelous Adventures of. And I tapped out those words most appropriate to a story abo...