Against a cream background with black spiderwebs and spiders, the title reads: “Alder Van Otterloo on Cozy Horror Kidlit.” Below that, a quote from Alder reads: "I find horror movies and books extremely cathartic and comforting! It offers a nice, closed arc for difficult feelings, and I find it’s a really powerful processing tool for some people’s activated nervous systems." At the bottom are the covers of two books by Alder: CATTYWAMPUS and A TOUCH OF RUCKUS. In between the two book covers is a Publishers Marketplace deal report dated May 28, 2025 for a book “Coming Soon” from Alder entitled MERRY HOUSE. The deal report reads: “Author of THE BEAUTIFUL SOMETHING ELSE Alder Van Otterloo’s MERRY HOUSE, in which siblings’ attempts to escape their estranged father’s transphobia and ableism land them in a sleepaway camp for troubled youths, a deceptively idyllic seaside mansion harboring a terrible secret: the house is alive and hungry, to Kade Dishmon at Holiday House, for publication in 2027, by Sheyla Knigge at High Line Literary Collective (world). In the center is “Exclusive Interview” with an arrow pointing to: https://www.sarahsteinbacher.com/blog/interview-alder-van-otterloo

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