@maryaverling.bsky.social
Author of Bram Stoker Award finalist THE CURSE OF EELGRASS BOG and THE GHOSTS OF BITTERFLY BAY with Penguin Young Readers. Next: THE BURN BEAST (Putnam, Fall 2026) Rep'd by Kelly Sonnack at ABLA
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BURN BEAST is my third book but whyyyyy is it still so mortifying when irl folks read copies in front of me???? my partner is reading an arc at the moment and I am considering flushing myself down the toilet out of embarrassment.
(I love this book. but. EMBARASSING.)
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THE BURN BEAST is now available for request on Netgalley!!
If you like middle grade horror/mysteries, small town folkore, Weird Things In The Woods, and heapings of rage & big feelings, then I hope you'll be brave enough to venture into Eyrewood with me <3
Link: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
It's time!! THE BURN BEAST is now available for request on Netgalley!!! My middle grade horror releases Sep 15 and contains:
-small town mysteries
-sapphic crushes
-freaky woods monsters
-climate feels
-detective moms
-unhinged folklore
-lots of axes
-RAGE
www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
Go Ally!!!
sweating dying doubting but just hit 175 pages on my PhD thesis and ahhhhh come hell or high water we are FINISHING THIS THING SOON AND BECOMING A BOOK DOCTOR OR SO HELP ME
I'm so glad!! Thank you for reading!!
Happy 1st Birthday to THE GHOSTS OF BITTERFLY BAY 👻🌲🦋🖤 thank you to everyone who has supported my strange little ghost kids, and all the dreams & doorways of Bitterfly Bay!
Early reviews matter SO much when generating buzz, and, y'know, I'm also just really excited to share this one?? So if you like not-right small towns and big feelings and middle grade horror, please do consider checking out my weirdo kids and their monsters!!
THE BURN BEAST is now available for request on Edelweiss! Authors, librarians, educators, and booksellers can request an early copy here (community.edelweiss.plus/title/979821...)!
ngl I adore horror with my whole heart, but it's also been SO fun drafting something more cute & cozy & full of whimsy <3
huge congratulations!!
Thank you Stephanie!!
THE GHOSTS OF BITTERFLY BAY is on the Bram Stoker Award preliminary ballot!!! Alongside so many other wonderful spooky friends!!!
Beyond honored to be in such incredible company. Thank you to the HWA for supporting my freaky little stories, and congratulations to all the others on this list <3
Introducing ... COBWEB!!! 🥰🕸 He is the fluffiest, gentlest, most curious little rescue kitten, and I am so very excited to welcome him into our lives!!!
Fair warning, this is now a Cobweb fan account. Forget books. He has become 99% of my personality.
UPDATE HE IS PERFECT AND LOVELY AND WE ARE GOING TO ADOPT HIM I AM SO HAPPY
also the cover is fierce & angry & just BEHOLD
heyyyyy my upcoming middle grade, THE BURN BEAST, is super queer! two moms! sapphic tween crushes! canonically bi MC! and you can preorder from your favourite bookstore to prove how much these stories are still needed & wanted!!
cat adoption update!! we are going to visit this little guy tomorrow to see if he's a fit, and I'm BURSTING
Thank you, Kathy!!
Well…
This Appearing House and Broken Dolls by @allymalinenko.bsky.social
The Clackity by @lorasenf.bsky.social
The Curse of Eelgrass Bog by @maryaverling.bsky.social
The Many Hauntings of the Manning Family by @lorienlawrence.bsky.social
The Otherwoods by @justinepwinans.bsky.social
I spy THE BURN BEAST 🖤🔥
This is such an amazing list!! Thank you for including BURN BEAST <3
My favourite blog post is up!! Queer Middle Grade Books Coming out in 2026 (So Far)!
lainahastoomuchsparetime.wordpress.com/2026/01/09/q...
guys guys im half asleep but so excited because WE FINALLY PUT IN AN ADOPTION APPLICATION FOR A LITTLE KITTEN PLEASE CROSS YOUR FINGERS FOR US 🥹🙏🖤
Thank you so much!! <3
Fun professional news!! I've been offered a second course, which means I'll also be a permanent instructor for 18th & 19th Century English Literature here at TRU 🥰🖤 Pinching myself that I get to teach some of my favourite classics as a grown-up job!!!
something cool—my first chapter in an academic book!! we are a real life vampire scholar!!
