working on the pronunciation guide for Burn Beast's audiobook is hilariously difficult when I have the weirdest British/Canadian franken-accent like yes I can record myself saying these words but I promise it will only make things worse lmao

THE BURN BEAST spotted in Quill & Quire's 2026 Fall Preview alongside some other excellent Canadian kidlit 🥳🫶 quillandquire.com/omni/2026-fa...

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Over the course of three instalments, Q&Q presents the titles we’re most excited about this fall. This week’s instalment features middle grade and graphic novels. Young adult and nonfiction titles will be featured next week. Last week’s instalment looked at this season’s board books and picture books. Q&Q’s fall preview covers books published between July

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Super excited to announce that the phenomenal Valerie Rose Lohman will be narrating THE BURN BEAST's audiobook!! 🎉 You can preorder wherever audiobooks are sold! It will be releasing alongside the hardcover, paperback, and ebook on September 15, 2026 ❤️

BURN BEAST audiobook narrator auditions in my inbox!!!!!

The Kids Are Alright: Horror Books for 11-12 Year Olds, Part 2 How a school librarian selects the best horror books for 11-12 year olds, based on 11,000 pupil reviews and a reading challenge that changed borrowing habits. gnofhorror.com/the-kids-are... @jonezyboy.bsky.social

Smoke is back. Bad. It's devastating to watch my province burn year after year. Not that it will fix anything, if you preorder THE BURN BEAST or request from a library, send me a DM with screenshots and I'll donate $10/book to the BC Wildlife Recovery Fund. Boosts appreciated <3

anyway wildfires are a nightmare and you BET I'm gonna yell about how I wrote about about this!! climate anxiety!! how do we coexist with these forces? can we? should we? what if wildfires were a cryptid we could hunt? etc!! tldr please preorder so I can afford an air purifier!!

guess Pride Month really is over fellas 😔 Anyway! Queer kids are not inappropriate! Queer parents are not inappropriate!! Support queer middle grade always! And yes my next book is also gayyyy!! You cannot stop meeeeeeeeeeee!!!

Pop! Goes The Reader's Most-Anticipated Middle Grade Books: July-September 2026 popgoesthereader.com/40-most-anti... #BookSky #KidLit #MGLit

THREE MONTHS UNTIL BURN BEAST!!!!! She is almost a real book!!! If you like middle grade horror, mysteries, cryptid hunts, and big-feeling screams, please consider preordering before September 15 from your favourite bookstore <3 Plus!! Another positive trade review from Publishers Weekly!!

Congratulations @maryaverling.bsky.social ! This is well deserved. THE BURN BEAST is amazing!

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First trade review for BURN BEAST has dropped, and it's a ⭐star⭐ from Kirkus!!! Ahhh!!! You can read the full review here: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Middle Grade: July-December 2026 Finding My Spark by Isabelle Jameson and Sylvain Cabo, trans. by Ann Marie Boulanger (August 18th)...

Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Middle Grade: July-December 2026

Finding My Spark by Isabelle Jameson and Sylvain Cabo, trans. by Ann Marie Boulanger (August 18th) When puberty hits, Alex begins to realize he's been misgendered as a girl his whole life. First, he stops wearing dresses and paints his room a dark color. Then he cuts his hair short. But people still aren't seeing the real him. His mom has always called him her "little star," but he doesn't feel like shining.

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Ayy!! BURN BEAST spotted on this list of upcoming queer MG releases from @lgbtqreads.bsky.social alongside some other amazing recs!! If you need a Pride Month shopping list ... lgbtqreads.com/2026/06/08/m...

Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Middle Grade: July-December 2026

Finding My Spark by Isabelle Jameson and Sylvain Cabo, trans. by Ann Marie Boulanger (August 18th) When puberty hits, Alex begins to realize he’s been misgendered as a girl his whole life. Fi…

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First trade review for BURN BEAST has dropped, and it's a ⭐star⭐ from Kirkus!!! Ahhh!!! You can read the full review here: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

she is too large for good quality but the full jacket for BURN BEAST is looking 🔥 👌 (and yes there will also be a simultaneous paperback edition coming Sep 15!!)

FOUR MONTHS UNTIL THE BURN BEAST RELEASES!! (Well, plus one day, but tomorrow is busy!) Nervous & excited & all the things as release date creeps closer. This book has so many big feelings wrapped inside, & if you're a MG horror fan, I hope you'll consider preordering for September 15!!

In honor of National Paranormal Day, a time for sharing your stories of ghosts, UFOs, and other unexplained phenomena, I'm featuring middle grade paranormal books from 2026. 👻 Book lists in ALT text. #nationalparanormalday #paranormalbooks #middlegradebooks #kidsbooks #kidlit #booksky #books

for no particular reason other than I am feeling Down About The State Of Things, throwing my upcoming MG horror in your direction and crying/begging/pleading with you to pre-order! it has logging folklore and small town mysteries and sapphic crushes and it is very very angry!

THE GHOSTS OF BITTERFLY BAY is a Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award nominee!! It was an honour to have EELGRASS BOG on the MYRCA list last year, and I cannot tell you how delighted I am to see my ghost book among so many other wonderful stories 🖤🖤

Happy Earth Day! Timely reminder that THE BURN BEAST is very much about climate rage (and hope), and what it means to live in monstrous times <3

FIVE MONTHS UNTIL BURN BEAST!!!!! Today I am excited to share two fabulous blurbs from none other than Matteo L. Cerilli & Johanna van Veen! Both of these authors are mind-bogglingly multitalented, and it means so much to have them read my angry little fire book <3

🎨 On Pop! Goes The Reader, I'm sharing 24 of my recent favourite 2026 middle grade book covers, along with credit to the designers and artists wherever possible. These covers are breathtaking and deserve to be celebrated! 🎨 popgoesthereader.com/do-judge-a-b... #BookSky #KidLit #MGLit

@maryaverling.bsky.social look what I got!! 🔥🔥🔥

Happy Middle Grade Monday and more Women in Horror! Part 2 today with @lorienlawrence.bsky.social @maryaverling.bsky.social @allymalinenko.bsky.social Great MG horror for Women in Horror Month! GO READ MORE MIDDLE GRADE HORROR Happy #middlegrademonday

So preorders are one of the best ways you can help an author! They signal interest to the bookstore and the publisher! Now is frankly an especially great time to preorder a lot of queer & diverse books, to signal that there's still a market despite bans! It's a way you can help plus you get BOOKS

It's that time again! You can use the code PREORDER25 to get 25% off your preorder of THE BURN BEAST at B&N between now and March 26!!! Preorders mean everything to authors (especially now when queer MG is being challenged across the board), so if middle grade horror is your thing ... ta-da!

SIX MONTHS UNTIL BURN BEAST!!!! To celebrate us being HALF A YEAR AHHHH from release, I'm thrilled to share my very first blurb from none other than Stonewall Honor-winning author @justinepwinans.bsky.social!! You can pre-order both PB + HC editions now from your favourite bookstore <3

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...