I write middle grade books with Penguin Kids, but I'm not here anymore! Come find me on Instagram, Threads, or Bluesky @/maryaverling, or visit my website :)
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✨🖤COVER REVEAL🖤✨
So excited to reveal the cover for THE GHOSTS OF BITTERFLY BAY my fantastical middle grade horror, releasing from Putnam/Penguin Kids in Spring 2025!
Art: Alla Khatkevich
Design: Kaitlin Yang
Preorder links & full description below!!
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In GHOSTS OF BITTERFLY BAY by @maryaverling, desperate to reunite w/her missing brother & friend, ghost Maudie forms an unlikely alliance w/a girl she's been haunting. Well-developed supernatural world w/mix of mystery, horror & unique magical elements delivers the scares. #mglit
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A ghost teams up with the living girl she’s been haunting to defeat a monster out of her nightmares & save her little brother👻
Listen to THE GHOSTS OF BITTERFLY BAY by @maryaverling, read by @sophieamoss: bit.ly/4hratA6
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✨📚Two unlikely allies, one terrifying monster, and a race against time to save those they love. Check out the hauntingly thrilling novel, THE GHOSTS OF BITTERFLY BAY—a new adventure from the author of The Curse of Eelgrass Bog, @maryaverling.
➡️ bit.ly/4ay973O
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Happy #BookBirthday to The Ghosts of Bitterfly Bay by @maryaverling
A ghost must team up with the living girl she’s been haunting in order to defeat a monster out of her nightmares and save her little brother. Ages 8-12.
➡️bit.ly/4ay973O
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Happy Book Birthday to The Ghosts Of Bitterfly Bay by @maryaverling 🎈🎁🎈🎁🎈🎁🎈🎁🎈🎁🎈🎁🎈🎁🎈🎁#BookPosse @PutnamBooks
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Happy #BookBirthday to The Curse of Eelgrass Bog by @maryaverling
Dark secrets and unnatural magic abound when a twelve-year-old girl ventures into a bog full of monsters to break a mysterious curse. Now in paperback! Ages 8-12.
➡️bit.ly/CurseOfEelgrassBog
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I've finally gotten my hands on THE CURSE OF EELGRASS BOG by @maryaverling and I love the writing. It's impossible not to fall in love with this book.
#mghorror
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the best of #middlegrade is here!
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The power of story telling by @maryaverling and her main character, Maudie! What is scary enough to scare a ghost? Twists and turns and magical doors. My Ss can’t wait for this one to be added to our book nook (Feb. ‘25). @ELAvannostrand you’re next! 👻@PutnamBooks #BookPosse
Apropos of everything, I'll be transitioning this account to updates only. I'll post big bookish things, but that'll be it. I love this community with my whole heart, and yet, and yet.
Please come say hi on IG, same handle (@/maryaverling). Take care of yourselves. Stay angry.
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I've been repeating this to myself all morning trying my best to stay on this planet: existence is resistance.
If you're a targeted group and all you can do the next four years is stay alive, I'm so so proud of you. I love you so much. Your life is worth everything to me.
who needs one because my restraint has gone out the window and I'm buckled in with you all. we are ONLINE.
