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!
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!
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.
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.
HarperCollins.com | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Indiebound | Apple Books |
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.
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!)