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Dawn Patitucci

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Dawn Patitucci is a community college professor from Illinois. The Queen's Prophet (Turner Publishing, 2017), her adult fiction debut depicting the lives of royal dwarfs in 1650s Spain, was selected for TED's 2017 Winter Reading List: 56 Books You Won't Be Able to Put down. Domino's Tree House (WorthyKids, 2023) is her children's debut. Inspired by the author's love of home improvement and the whimsical picture books of her childhood, and beautifully illustrated by Francisco Fonseca, Domino's Tree House is the story of a boy whose compulsion to expand and improve his tree house sends him spiraling to the moon—where a stark reality awaits. ...more

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Hi. Just wanted to say I loved your book. What a feat. Many congratulations. I bought it after I sat by someone you know, DM, at an event and she mentioned the premise. Are you working on another?
Dawn Patitucci Thank you, Sharon! DM did email me last week to tell me she was out there plugging my book ;) Yes, I'm still writing, but for kids now. I have no plan…moreThank you, Sharon! DM did email me last week to tell me she was out there plugging my book ;) Yes, I'm still writing, but for kids now. I have no plans for another adult novel, but of course that can change one day.

Thank you again for reaching out! I'm glad you enjoyed the book.

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Dawn Patitucci answered Sharon Woodhouse's question:
Hi. Just wanted to say I loved your book. What a feat. Many congratulations. I bought it after I sat by someone you know, DM, at an event and she mentioned the premise. Are you working on another?
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Thank you, Sharon! DM did email me last week to tell me she was out there plugging my book ;) Yes, I'm still writing, but for kids now. I have no plans for another adult novel, but of course that can change one day.

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“The Queen wore a resplendent dress, with a skirt wide enough to hide two dwarfs comfortably, and a hatched bodice that looked like a gold-dipped waffle.”
― Dawn Patitucci, The Queen's Prophet
tags: art, historical-fiction, royalty, spain
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“Mari's original plan to have the Queen play coy with the King was, she now realized, woefully inadequate—a milkmaid's game, played against actual military commanders.”
― Dawn Patitucci, The Queen's Prophet
tags: art, historical-fiction, intrigue, royalty, spain
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“A lump of dread jellied in her gut when she realized what she had done, the game she was in. These men controlled half of the western hemisphere. Stakes didn't get any higher than this.”
― Dawn Patitucci, The Queen's Prophet
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