Name: Cale Plett Book Launch (The Saw Mouth)
Start: 2026-05-13T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-05-13T20:00:00-05:00
Location: McNally Robinson Booksellers

Join Cale Plett for the launch of The Saw Mouth (Delacorte Press), a heart-pounding rural horror following a genderqueer teen who survives a near-apocalypse, only to be hunted by a mysterious monster whose very existence is entwined with their own.
https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9798217025701/cale-plett/the-saw-mouth
Featuring a reading and a conversation hosted by Victoria Koops. A Q&A and book signing will follow. This event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a YouTube stream: https://youtube.com/live/FoR9IrWOtQk
"Raw, unsettling, and new-bruise tender, The Saw Mouth completely captured me. Plett’s horror debut is a gift to readers looking for the bright heart in the dark." — Rory Power, New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls, Burn Our Bodies Down, and K*ll Creatures
Cale Plett is a nonbinary, genderfluid writer who lives on Treaty One Territory in Winnipeg. Their YA novels span everything from high school rock bands to nightmares in the woods to reality TV gone wrong, and their poetry and short fiction can be found in a whole variety of journals. Whatever genre they’re writing, they try to create spaces where queer characters can exist safely within their identities. The Saw Mouth is Cale's second YA novel, to be followed by another standalone YA horror novel published by Delacorte Press, Stranglehold, in fall 2027. Their agent is very kind to support their genre-jumping, since their 2025 debut, Wavelength, is a runaway popstar romance.