THE BURN BEAST releases September 15 from Penguin Kids in hardcover and paperback <3 It's available for request on Edelweiss and Netgalley, and for preorder wherever you buy your books!

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

A compilation/collage of ten 2026 middle grade book covers. Books featured include HeartLand by Jilanne Hoffmann, Calliope Callisto Clark and The Search For Wisdom by Claudia Mills, The Third Period Comeback by E.K. Johnston, California or Dust by Mindy Nichols Wendell, The Edge of Forever by Meghan P. Browne, The Continuation of Summer Dillon by Sarah Everett, Socks & Secret Quests by Triona Murphy, Mystery James Returns From The Grave by Ally Russell, Sneaks by Amy Tern and The Burn Beast by Mary Averling.

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

You are the best!! I appreciate you!!

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

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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

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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...

The Burn Beast NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...

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

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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

The Burn Beast|Hardcover A middle grade horror novel about disappearing kids and a monstrous beast lurking in the woods, from the author of The Curse of Eelgrass Bog.As the daughter of private detectives, Pira is used to movi...

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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!!