Haunted by her mother’s death, sixteen-year-old Penny sleepwalks by night. By day, she

peddles bootleg vodka to rich kids looking for kicks on the wrong side of Brooklyn Bridge, a

place reeling in total economic meltdown, strict curfew laws, and violent disarray.

Penny’s chance meeting with Quinn, a rabble-rouser dabbling in counterculture graffiti, sets

in motion a deep love affair and the start of a seemingly impossible revolution. Inspired by a

childhood memory, the two of them craft powerful messages hidden in the folds of hundreds

of paper airplanes. They plan to launch them from the rooftops of derelict buildings even as

the unforgiving militia hunts them from below.

Will hope take flight in a crumbling world, or will their efforts devastate them all?

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Toni J. Spencer is an avid daydreamer and eternal optimist. When she’s not encouraging her

two children to jump on the couch, eat with their fingers, or understand the power of using

swear words in context, she writes. Toni has several award-winning short stories under her belt,

and once the procrastinating is done and dusted, plans to turn most of them into novels.

Despite calling New Zealand home, Toni considers herself a citizen of the world and dreams

about the day when she can once again stuff her backpack full of short-shorts and furry jackets

and head out in search of adventure and friends unmet.

Origami War is Toni’s first published novel and was mostly written in the witching hour during

a serious bout of insomnia. She figures she’ll have plenty of time to sleep when she is dead.

Some of her literary successes are listed below.

2010: AUT short story prize for ‘Billy’s Ghost’

2011: BNZ literary novice award for ‘Rainbow Fishing’

2014: The Reading Room Aspiring Writer prize for unpublished manuscript ‘Wilbur Wild’

2015: Short story ‘Raincoats on Thursdays’ published in literary magazine ‘Headland’