🎨 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! 🎨 popgoesthereader.com/do-judge-a-b... #BookSky #KidLit #MGLit

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

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

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

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...

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 www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

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

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!

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

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

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!!

cat adoption update!! we are going to visit this little guy tomorrow to see if he's a fit, and I'm BURSTING

Well… This Appearing House and Broken Dolls by @allymalinenko.bsky.social The Clackity by @lorasenf.bsky.social The Curse of Eelgrass Bog by @maryaverling.bsky.social The Many Hauntings of the Manning Family by @lorienlawrence.bsky.social The Otherwoods by @justinepwinans.bsky.social

I spy THE BURN BEAST 🖤🔥

My favourite blog post is up!! Queer Middle Grade Books Coming out in 2026 (So Far)! lainahastoomuchsparetime.wordpress.com/2026/01/09/q...

guys guys im half asleep but so excited because WE FINALLY PUT IN AN ADOPTION APPLICATION FOR A LITTLE KITTEN PLEASE CROSS YOUR FINGERS FOR US 🥹🙏🖤

Fun professional news!! I've been offered a second course, which means I'll also be a permanent instructor for 18th & 19th Century English Literature here at TRU 🥰🖤 Pinching myself that I get to teach some of my favourite classics as a grown-up job!!!

something cool—my first chapter in an academic book!! we are a real life vampire scholar!!

Happy New Year!! I have a book coming out in 2026!!!!! Ahhh!!

🔥COVER REVEAL!!!🔥 Beyond excited to share the cover of my newest middle grade horror, THE BURN BEAST, which will publish with Putnam Young Readers (@penguinkids) in September 2026!!! Art: James Firnhaber Design: Kaitlin Yang

also, you might want to watch this space tomorrow 👀

Behold!! It's the gorgeously dreamy Russian edition cover for THE GHOSTS OF BITTERFLY BAY, which will be publishing with Eksmo soon!! It's such an honour to see my work translated into another language, and I'm so excited for Maudie's strange little story to reach more readers.

RED ALERT THERE IS AN EMAIL FROM MY EDITOR WITH THE SUBJECT LINE "FINAL COVER" 👀👀👀👀👀

job interview today!!! it's cool it's fine we're good!! unless I forget everything I've ever known!!! 😱✨

First pass pages for THE BURN BEAST have arrived 🥳🔥🌲

Finished @maryaverling.bsky.social The Curse of Eelgrass Bog last night. Thanks for letting me take the journey with Kess, Lilou, Oliver and Jim. Looking forward to more from you!

I love first lines that make me curious! #FirstLineFriday #MiddleGrade #Paranormal @maryaverling.bsky.social

BURN BEAST cover is getting creepier with each draft and ahhhhh I am BURSTING to show you!!!!!!

Celebrate the #Halloween season with these diverse books! Whether you’re looking for something cute or creepy, this list has something for readers of any age and scare-level 🎃📚

guess who just passed 10k words on a new project 👀🖤✨

On the topic of moving, would any teachers/librarians or book club organizers be interested in class sets of EELGRASS BOG or BITTERFLY BAY? I have many spare hardcovers of both, and I'd love them to go to a loving home. I'd just ask for some help with shipping costs :) Boosts appreciated!

counting down ONE MONTH until we move across the country and my brain is just a series of buzzing noises

you know when you're in a quiet in-between period but you can SMELL the chaos of coming weeks getting closer and closer

Hey @maryaverling.bsky.social, I was just browsing my library on the Libby app and look what I found...

book stuff is slow but we officially signed on our new apartment today & my partner got offered a dream job, sometimes things are ok 🥹🖤🍂

Visit spookymiddlegrade.com/virtual-qa/ to request a free 30-minute virtual Q&A classroom visit with up to four spooky middle grade authors. For grades 3-8. #kidlit #spookymiddlegrade #authorvisit

ooooh we have an updated BURN BEAST cover sketch that is now ~scarier~ 👀

The idea of people using EELGRASS BOG as a comp still makes my heart grow three sizes 🥰

Oct 5 - Middle grade Horror Books You Should Read Day 5 The Ghosts of Bitterfly Bay by @maryaverling.bsky.social This is not only one of my favorite horror stories it’s one of my favorite middle grade books period. It’s perfect. Just read it

One week until Canada’s largest Children’s Book Festival!!!! I’ll be at the Telling Tales Festival on October 4 and 5, and presenting in the preteen tent on Saturday from 4-4:45!! Come hear me chat about THE GHOSTS OF BITTERFLY BAY, and join in on some spooky crafts 🖤🍂

autumn is here! time for ghosts and ghouls! and your semi-regular reminder that I have two creepy, magical little middle grade books perfect for when there's a fresh chill in the air <3

so exciting to see both Eelgrass Bog AND Bitterfly Bay on the back cover of The Week Jr magazine!! alongside some other fabulous Penguin Young Readers titles!!!