Ben Philippe

Happy Holidays from the Haltiwangers!

Posted by Ben Philippe On December 24, 2020 December 27, 2020 Filed under Uncategorized

From **Lion**, **Jacques**, and **Henr***i! Art by Manny Edeko*

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!

Posted by Ben Philippe On October 13, 2020 October 13, 2020 Filed under Uncategorized

Art by the extraordinary cover designer Steffi Walthall

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

Posted by Ben Philippe On September 23, 2020 September 23, 2020 Filed under Uncategorized

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

YA Podcast Season

Posted by Ben Philippe On September 11, 2020 September 11, 2020 Filed under Uncategorized

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.