The Dread Crew: Pirates of the Backwoods contains things disgusting, rude, repulsive and crush-like in nature. It also includes the most gigantic party ever seen, a rampaging woodship, random explosions, a prison, an escape, inventions, blackberry sploosh and many, many secrets as well as unexplained stinks.

This book is recommended for antsy boys who long for glory, for spritely girls inclined to reach out for adventure, and for good-humoured grown-ups who like the smack of limburger and jalapeno calzones with a dash of junebug pepper. This book is not recommended for genteel folk with fears of heights, uncontrolled speed, thievery, thuggery and general recklessness.

The Dread Crew is Kate Inglis's first novel. It is illustrated by Halifax native Sydney Smith.

Within six weeks of the book's release, the Nimbus warehouse was emptied of first editions. The distribution plan for 2010 will see a limited-edition shipment of first-edition hardcovers sent to American retailers (April 2010), a second edition trade paperback with a new Glossary of Terms shipped across Canada (April 2010), and a North America-wide release of the trade paperback in the fall (September 2010).

For more on where to pre-order and buy the book right now no matter where you are, go here.

For more on the book, visit The Dread Crew website.