Hi all!
Promchanted is out in stores TODAY!! HURRAH!!
It’s always such a special moment for me - that moment you see your book in stores for the first time. It always takes me a minute to adjust when I first spot my book on store shelves. Because the thing that had just been in my brain and then on my laptop out in the world. Because what had just been my story isn’t only mine anymore - it’s out there, for everyone to read it. It doesn’t belong to just me anymore.
It’s always exciting and hopeful and fun. I absolutely love launching a book into the world - hoping it’ll find its readers, hoping it’ll make some people happy. It’s such an immense privilege to do what I do, and I’m so grateful to all of you for giving me the chance to keep doing it.
I hope you all like it! It really was such a fun writing process, wholly different than anything I’d done before. I first had the idea when my pal Diya, who hails from Orange County, told me about how there, teens will pre-prom at Disneyland. It sounded so fun and was SUCH a great detail that I immediately filed it away. Because what if a girl was in her prom dress…and got swept into a Disney movie…and fit right in, because she was accidentally dressed for the occasion?
Promchanted ended up being a slightly different story - but the seed of the inspiration is still there. I loved throwing our modern teens into the 14th century, and I loved getting to expose the characters there to things like Doritos and boy bands. And of course, I always love someone who’s sworn off love…finding herself in the middle of a love story.
I hope you like it!! And don’t forget - I’m having an event for the book on Monday, 3/18 at Vroman’s Bookstore! 6pm! Hope to see you there!
xoxo
MM
Happy pub day 🥳 I can't wait to read 🤗🤗