Welcome to #TheQuickSixInterview with Jayne Lyons!
We’re back again, introducing talented authors and their new releases for your viewing pleasure! Today, we are delighted to speak with internationally published and best-selling author, Jayne Lyons, about her upcoming middle-grade action story; Z for Zanto (“Even Zombies can dream…”). Welcome, Jayne! 🙂
About the Author
Jayne Lyons is a Perth based children’s author passionate about children being given the opportunity to achieve their dreams. Her previous book 100% Wolf (published by Penguin Random House) has been adapted for film and TV and will be screened as an animated feature film (2020) and broadcast in Australia on the ABC as an animated series.
Jayne’s new book, Z for Zanto, a not for profit collaboration with Save the Children will be released February 2020 (Vivid Publishing). The book is inspired by Save the Children’s vision:
“a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation.”.
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Blurb
This funny and exciting action story follows the hero Zanto whose dreams of being a soccer player are challenged when he turns into a zombie and placed in a camp. Can he escape with his friends and fulfil his dreams?
Z for Zanto has already made 2000 pre-sales for printed books.
WHO wrote and published this book?
Jayne Lyons is the author of “Z for Zanto”. She is an internationally published Perth based children’s author passionate about children being given the opportunity to achieve their dreams. Her previous book 100% Wolf (first of the “100% series” published by Penguin RandomHouse) has been adapted for film and TV and will be screened as an animated feature film (2020) and broadcast in Australia on the ABC as an animated series.
Z for Zanto is published by Fremantle based Vivid Publishing.
WHAT is it called and what is it about?
Jayne’s new book is “Z for Zanto”.
Zanto dreams of playing soccer for Real Magique. The problem is no one wants you on the team when you’re green and have fangs! This funny and exciting action story follows the hero Zanto whose dreams of being a soccer player are challenged when he turns into a zombie.
Along with all the other zombies, Zanto and his friend Nala, a stick twirling UFC fan, are sent to The Island. They live behind high fences – with no hope a future. However, then Il Presido announces the Hope Games for children, Zanto’s dream of scoring in a cup final comes alive again. However, first he must lead his friends on a daring escape from The Island. Can he prove to the world that just because he’s green, it doesn’t make him dangerous? Even Zombies can dream…
WHEN will the book be released?
The book will be released Easter 2020.
WHERE did the inspiration for this book come from?
Jayne’s new book, Z for Zanto, is a not for profit collaboration with Save the Children. The book was inspired by Save the Children’s vision:
“a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation.”.
WHY is this book meaningful to you and why would its message resonate with readers?
Primarily an exciting, page-turning read, Zanto’s story works as a powerful allegory for the plight of displaced and deprived children that any child can empathise with.
From Save the Children: “We are so proud of Jayne’s fantastic book. All proceeds will go towards Save the Children’s work. We go to the toughest places in the world to help children devasted by disaster, disease or conflict. We help children survive, provide them with a path out of poverty through education, and make sure they are safe from abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence”.
HOW have you promoted this book and how can we find it?
The book will be promoted through Save the Children’s social media platforms, and through the traditional media outlets (radio, print and all being well, TV interviews). It will be available in all IKEA stores across Australia, with in store activations being planned, and all Save the Children Op Shops, from Easter 2020. Save the Children will also sell it via its on-line book store, posting direct to purchasers.
The book will also be available digitally, via all digital platforms including Amazon and the Apple book store.
Thank you, Jayne!
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*You might like to consider donating to the Save the Children fund to help children impacted by the bushfires, or other disadvantaged children around the world. Please click the link to DONATE.
3 thoughts to “The Quick Six Interview with Jayne Lyons”
This sounds like a fun book that might appeal to my soccer-playing grandson.
It does sound fun! Have a look for it at Easter time! 🙂
Okay. 🙂