Happy Holidays from the Haltiwangers!
Thanks for welcoming the second wave of my nerds to your shelves this year with the Haltiwanger clan from CHARMING AS A VERB!
Here’s hoping for a less trash fire 2021!
CHARMING AS A VERB is out today!
What can I say? I hope you enjoy it! Books take a while to come out so I’ve had time to process this once since finishing it. I don’t know if I have much of an eloquent statement in me… I really like these characters? Halti, Corinne, and Ming. Even Marvyn! The whole gang!
(I’m also obsessed with Henri’s hair in that art. I have no idea how to get that hair but that’s it. That’s what I want, dang it. )
“Wait, wasn’t it supposed to be out in September?”
Don’t worry about it.
“No, really I got a copy in September. I mean, the printing was weird but–“
QUIET TIME.
Anyway, where was I? Yes, CHARMING AS A VERB. You should buy it. I don’t want to politicize this space but I very much champion your right to buy a copy of my book — or even several. Go absolutely off. Did someone say a crate? I heard crate.
SURE, I’LL BE YOUR BLACK FRIEND Cover Release
Gulp. My first nonfiction non-YA book officially has a cover, folks.
I love this design. It was mocked up by my friend Brittany Reid, who is vexingly good at every last thing, for the book proposal and Harper Perennial ended up liking it so much that they used it for the final cover.
I’m going to miss the plausible deniability of fiction. (“What? No, of course, that character wasn’t based on you!”) but I needed to write this one and I hope people will check it out.
Where to pre-order
HarperCollins.com | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Indiebound | Apple Books |
YA Podcast Season
CHARMING being out means new opportunities to hear my delightful — delightful — voice that definitely does not sound like a foreign chipmunk with three accents wrestling for supremacy. Jewel and Brock are both amazing with huge catalogs of interviews out, so check them out.
So Booking Cool!
What Book Hooked You?
CHARMING AS A VERB Announcement!
Thanks for your patience, folks. September 2020 has no shortage of amazing YA books for your shelves!
(I also know some copies are already out in the universe, in which case you probably know it’s because of a printing error! Our bad!)
Thank you to the Morris committee!
Yeah, I know, all right. It was weird for me too. 
Easily *the* YA career highlight! 
I look so… sinister. 
Take Five with ‘Columbia College Today’
I nostalgia’d my old college heydays for Columbia College Today. It was fun.
Norris Kaplan is a MORRIS AWARD Finalist!
Pumped to announce that pubescent grump, Norris Kaplan, has been named one of the finalists of this year’s William C. Morris Award alongside these four AMAZING books:
THE CANDLE AND THE FLAME by Nafiza Azad
GENESIS BEGINS AGAIN by Alicia D. Williams
FRANKLY IN LOVE by David Yoon
THERE WILL COME A DARKNESS by Katy Rose Pool
The William C. Morris YA Debut Award, first given in 2009, honors a book published by a first-time author writing for teens and celebrating impressive new voices in young adult literature. The winner is announced annually at the ALA Youth Media Awards.
The award’s namesake is William C. Morris, an influential innovator in the publishing world and an advocate for marketing books for children and young adults. Bill Morris left an impressive mark on the field of children’s and young adult literature. He was beloved in the publishing field and the library profession for his generosity and marvelous enthusiasm for promoting literature for children and teens.
FIELD GUIDE Paperback Cover Release
The paperback edition of THE FIELD GUIDE TO THE NORTH AMERICAN TEENAGER will feature a brand new cover. Look how purty.
I love the original yellow hardcover but I can’t say I’m not also obsessed with this one.
Art credit goes to Steffi Walthall @just___steffi ( 😭) and designer Chris Kwon @notchriskwon ( 👑). GODDAMN, folks.
Look out for it on January 7th, 2020!
NYC Book Launch Event! (Thursday 1/10)
I’m incredibly pumped for obvious reasons. There is no bigger boss than Ibi (AMERICAN STREET, PRIDE, BLACK ENOUGH: STORIES OF BEING YOUNG & BLACK IN AMERICA) and we both like our sleep, so I promise you it won’t go until the wee hours.
DO I RSVP?
…Not necessary! But if you want to, yes, it can be done right here.
WHERE IS IT?
126 Franklin St, Brooklyn, NY 11222
I hope to see you there!
…And, yes, I’ll try to post more here, as opposed to just tweeting nonsense all day and occasionally mentioning book stuff.
(That’s my new 2019 resolution as someone who has had sugar 5 out of past 6 days, the other resolution has already gloriously flamed out. God, I love sugar.)