So – Promchanted comes out in a WEEK. A WEEK!!! March 5th, baybee!! I can’t get my head around it.
But yes! It will be in all stores, online, and in TARGET for your ease of picking up a copy! And very exciting – I’m doing a launch for it! (Technically it’s after the book comes out, so if you’re local and want a signed copy maybe wait a beat??)
I will be at Vroman’s Bookstore1 on Monday, March 18th, to talk all things Promchanted!
I hope you’ll come out! This will be my first in person YA event…since before the pandemic?? Is that possible? Egad. I can’t wait to see you and chat and sign your books and talk all things Disney and prom. I would love to see you there!
In the meantime, I’m just working like crazy. Trying to get through a lot of overlapping deadlines, knowing things will calm down work-wise in the summer. My desk will be clear for the first time in a LONG time. And I’ll be able to look around and take a breath and decide where I want to go next and what stories I want to tell. Which is scary! But also exciting! But in the meantime, I’m very much in the thick of things, writing books and revising books and attending to a finicky terrier.
Hope to see you NEXT WEEK!!
Xoxo
MM
I’ve spoken about this before, but Vroman’s was very much a part of my YA writer origin story. Vroman’s basically IS my radioactive spider. I took a year off college at Occidental after my sophomore year. That summer, I’d devoured the Harry Potter books (there were only four of them then. And I was ignorant of certain people’s terrible beliefs because social media did not yet exist! A simpler time, truly ) and when I applied to work at Vroman’s they asked me what I was interested in. I replied I was interested in talking about Harry Potter all day and wisely they put me in the Children’s Department. And it changed everything. YA was just beginning its renaissance, and I absolutely fell in love with it. When I went back to school the following year, I added an English major to my theater major, and started working on my first (terrible! So awful!) YA novel. It was the reason I went to the New School to get my MFA in writing for children, the reason I met a ton of people who are still my very good friends…the whole reason I have my career! And I’m sure I would have ended up somewhere close to this without working at that bookstore…but honestly WHO KNOWS.
I honestly wish that everyone got just one sliding doors moment in their lives, where they could see how another path turned out. Aren’t you so curious?? I am. I only worked at Vroman’s because I’d been fired from Houston’s for being a terrible hostess. But what if I’d been better about remembering table numbers? Would I even be writing YA? It boggles the mind, truly.
Can't wait 🤗 I would love to come to meet you but I'm just so far away 😩 have the best time 🥰