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A dead letter is a letter that cannot be delivered and carries no return address. But in Quinn the Fox’s world, nothing written from the heart is simply thrown away.

In search of a letter from a missing friend, Quinn arrives at the Post Office of Dead Letters, a mysterious postal outpost for letters that never reached their intended recipient. Run entirely by animals, these Postmasters sort and interpret dead letters in secret, trying to work out where each one truly belongs. Since animals cannot talk to human adults, these letters and their contents remain hidden from the grown-up world.

Human children, however, still retain the ability to speak to animals. This becomes a problem when a girl in a red-and-white polka-dot dress accidentally becomes the only thing standing in the way of Quinn obtaining the letter that might reveal what happened to his missing friend.

What begins as a simple search soon becomes something far stranger: a journey into lost letters, the hidden systems behind everyday life and a clue to Quinn’s past.

This is part of a wider illustrated world I’m building around Quinn, a fox who drifts through myth, memory and forgotten systems in search of his origins.

The cover design is based on the idea of blustery weather, which, in my opinion, is the best and cosiest time to use a notebook.

I was given one of those cheap bonsai kits last year and decided to give it a go. Only one seed germinated from a pack of 6 but it seems to be doing ok. I think it’s a Scot’s pine but it’s hard to tell currently.

I doubt it will become a credible bonsai in my lifetime but it has been an interesting and fun process.

A character development sketch for Minty, the white cat Postmaster at the centre of the Post Office of Dead Letters, a hidden postal system in Quinn the Fox’s world where undeliverable letters are gathered, sorted and quietly protected until they can be sent to the right hands.

A dead letter is a letter that cannot be delivered and carries no return address.

Minty is the white cat Postmaster at the centre of the Post Office of Dead Letters, a hidden postal system in Quinn the Fox’s world where undeliverable letters are gathered, sorted and quietly protected until they can be sent to the right hands.

Kipper enthusiast and reluctant civil servant, Minty makes his debut in the latest chapter of In Search of Deities, where he helps Quinn track down a missing letter from a long-lost friend.

This is part of a wider world I’m building around Quinn, a fox who drifts through myth, memory and forgotten systems in search of his origins.

I started designing this fox-themed deck during lockdown in the pandemic as a small distraction and ended up illustrating all 52 cards and getting them made.

A landscape from the world of Quinn the Fox, showing a hidden post office where undeliverable letters are gathered and sorted in secret by a white cat Postmaster named Minty.

In Quinn the Fox’s world, nothing written from the heart is simply thrown away.

A dead letter is a letter that cannot be delivered and carries no return address. These lost letters are gathered by the Post Office of Dead Letters, a hidden postal system run entirely by animals. Its Postmasters sort and interpret dead letters in secret, trying to work out where each one truly belongs.

Once a Postmaster has worked out where a letter should go, it is bound by a delivery window and a postcode. So long as both remain intact, the Post Office retains jurisdiction and the letter remains protected until it reaches the hands it was intended for.

What begins as a simple search for a letter from a friend soon becomes something far stranger: a journey into the hidden systems behind ordinary life and a clue to Quinn’s past.

This is part of a wider world I’m building, centred around a fox named Quinn who drifts through myth, memory and forgotten rituals in search of his origins.

If you would like to read more about the Post Office of Dead Letters, you can download the illustrated chapter here: https://quinnthefox.com/product/collections/in-search-of-deities/the-post-office-of-dead-letters-digital-chapter/