Blue Plate Special

by Maire Bilodeau, Mercedes M. Yardley, Christine Taylor Butler, Donna J.W. Munro, Z.D. Gladstone, Sandra Rosner, Matt Betts

2025 · Rook Creek LLC

Along the Elizabeth River in Norfolk stands an unassuming diner where love and misery are on the menu. The Brass Bough Cafe is a popular place full of regulars, but something is very wrong. It's Tuesday, or so it says on the paper every day. When weary traveler, Ginette, arrives from France with a blank notebook meant to capture the world around her, she finds more than meets the eye. The unwitting diner patrons and a tenacious cat pull her out of despair, forcing her to see the real diner before her. Cosmic forces are at play, and in order to escape the dangers inside the diner, Ginette must confront her past and fill the pages with the truth of what she can see of the Dark Reflections. Blue Plate Special is the first in a shared world series that will bring to life the madness and mystery behind the Dark Reflections illustrated collection by artist Jeff Lee Johnson. Join our authors as they wander into this seemingly normal place and into a world that clatters, slinks, and drips. Looks aren't everything, and nothing is as it seems. Come for breakfast, stay for the pie. You might never want to leave. Take a meander from places labeled normal to a world that clatters, slinks, and drips. Looks aren't everything, and nothing is as it seems.