Don Bredes

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I’m a freelance novelist and screenwriter living in northern Vermont. I’ve published six novels. My Hector Bellevance literary suspense trilogy (Harmony/Crown), features a detective who is a Vermont town constable and a freethinker.

My most recent novel, a YA fantasy, POLLY AND THE ONE AND ONLY WORLD (Green Writers Press, 2014), is set in a much-diminished, post-oil America called the Christian Protectorates, a repressive theocracy. The novel features an atheist teenage witch as its heroine and fundamentalist Christians as its villains. It has been widely and enthusiastically reviewed. For more information about me, anyone interested my visit my website, DonBredes.com, my Amazon author’s page, or an interview with me posted last Friday by Scott Mullins, an astute observer of the contemporary literary scene.

Here’s a recent review from School Library Journal:

“The “one and only world” referenced in the title is that of a near-future United States―magical, post-catastrophe, almost familiar, yet chillingly changed. Polly has been sent to the relative safety of her aunt and uncle in Florida to escape the Christian Protectorate government’s purge of her village in Vermont.

But safety is not possible for a hereditary witch in the fundamentalist police state that America has become. The teen manages to escape capture by the guard with the aid of her familiar, Balthazar the crow. She sets off to find her family, but discovers travel through the wilds of climate cataclysm and institutionalized zealotry is not an easy course. With the help of friends she meets along the way, particularly the freethinking Leon, Polly struggles through betrayal, loss, and capture. With captivating language that draws readers in, Bredes’s writing will inspire teens to revere current freedoms. Though the messages are clear, they are sketched with a light hand, so as not to overwhelm the story.

The complexity of Polly and Leon as characters is revealed as they experience danger and redemption on their journey. Their relationship grows and develops as they do. Their multidimensionality is wonderfully contrasted with Balthazar’s black-and-white view of the world, which often leads the sometimes naive title character out of danger. A thrilling journey, full of peril, exploit, friendship, and sorrow, this book is sure to find readers.”

(Genevieve Feldman, School Library Journal)

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