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✨ Book News! ✨

I’m so thrilled to announce my YA debut, SUGAR MAPLE HIGH!

As a reader, I cut my teeth on YA romances and it’s a delight to be able to work with Yash and such a wonderful team to bring this gorgeous story of a small Canadian hockey town, a newcomer and a resident hater to life.

For those of you who don’t know, I spent my early years in such a town, albeit on the west coast, and bringing this part of my identity to the page is such a dream. I can’t wait to go back to cottage country with these new loves!

Thank you to Yash, @jemiscoe, @starlingliterary and @simonschusterca for making all of this possible. 🏒 😘 ⛸️

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Exciting News: Isle of Teeth got a starred Kirkus review!!!

For my non-writer friends, Kirkus is a major industry book review publication. They're notoriously picky and a starred review is not common. It's a huge honor.

Link in bio if you want to read it there!

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Storyteller's Ball for @writerstrust 50th Anniversary? We got your swag and shine ✨️ 😎 🙌🏾

@simonschusterca

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breaking news: book people are very brave and leave home despite snowmageddon and need to coatcheck winter boots

@writerstrust storytellers ball 2026 (did not turn into a pumpkin after midnight)

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🚨 New Book Review 🚨”No Purchase Necessary” by @msmarianayagam ! Happy 1 Year Anniversary 🎉 😎!!
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📖 Book Review: No Purchase Necessary
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The story of Ajay takes us on a journey of new towns, making friends, peer pressure, high parent expectations AND what to do with a $1M prize from stolen chocolate bar??!!! We think this book is great for middle schoolers and relatable in many ways. 🥰
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👍 Skye’s review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐️
👍 Solo’s thoughts: wants more chocolate 🍫 bars!
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#kidsbooks #bookreview #readmorebooks #childrensbooksgram #kidsbookreview @theshelfstuff @picturebookseh @ctcwriters

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A seasoned stationery lover and journaler, @seeyashread picked up an A5 leather journal in Midnight Blue from my Autumn batch. Check out how she personalized it!

#journaling #leatherjournals #madeintoronto

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Somehow, it’s already been a month since MLF 2025! Take a look at some of the highlights from this year’s incredible festival. From networking, to the interactive poetry workshop, to Uzma Jalaluddin’s keynote speech, the MLF 2025 was one for the books.

What’s your favourite memory from this year’s festival?

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📖 Got a manuscript or book idea?

Meet one-on-one with a literary agent or an editor at Muslim Literary Festival & pitch your project or get expert feedback.

This is your chance to connect directly with industry professionals from major literary companies.

🚨 Spots are limited – add on a meeting when you get your MLF ticket! Link in bio.

#bookstagram #bookfestival #toronto #readers #literaryfestival #booksbooksbooks #booklover #book #booktalkevent #booktok #booknerd #bookaddict #publishing #canadianauthors #canadianliterature #canlit #torontoreaders #toronto #torontopublishing #torontoliteraryevents #torontoauthor #bookishevents

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one of the greatest joys of my work (and trust me, there are many) continues to be working on our kids and young adult books. there’s not much that lives up to the energy in a room full of kids’ book lovers, creators, publishers, readers, supporters. grateful to have been able to celebrate the S&S nominees for this year’s @kidsbookcentre book awards with our small, but mighty, kids team last week!

applause all around for our nominated authors:

🩵 our pool / @thelucyruth / marilyn baillie picture book award

💚 delicious monsters / @lisellesambury / amy mathers teen book award

🧡 mall goth / @kateleth / geoffrey bilson award for historical fiction for young people

🏆 bonesmith / @nickipaupreto / WINNER of the arlene barlin award for science fiction and fantasy

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❗OUT NOW ❗👻 Misadventures in Ghosthunting by @moreofyue !!!! You can order it at Indigo/Chapters or Barnes and Noble!! (BTW Indigo is having a sale rn so you can get it for $12 if you're in Canada ;^))

Emma's out here flunking math, seeing ghosts, and having an annoying pigeon boy stalk her...can't have anything around here...It can't get worse....unless...

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I'm so honored have worked on the cover for Melissa's debut Middle Grade novel! Be sure to give it a read, whether you're picking it up from the bookstore, or borrowing it from the library :-)

Thanks to the team at @harpercollinsca : Alan Jones and @seeyashread for working with me in creating this cover 🌟

And of course, thanks to my amazing agent @jemiscoe 🤠

#kidlit #mgfantasy #bookstagram #middlegradebooks #diversereads #misadventuresinghosthunting

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🧿🕯️👻🍋🤘Something's up! Coming this March-ish!

I'm beyond thrilled to finally announce my middle grade debut, SOMETHING'S UP WITH ARLO. It's hard to put into words just what this project means to me. On the surface, it's a ghosty mystery with a heavy splash of Italian folklore magic, but beneath that it's about loneliness, and cultural scars, and trying to find out who you are on your own terms. If you grew up feeling "weird" or unheard, then this one's for you.

A big part of this story is also about being brave enough to ask difficult questions. Growing up, I never heard about my Italian family's history: about the trauma of fascism and the occupation, the poverty that followed, the labour struggles and xenophobia that persisted well into my dad's generation. In writing SOMETHING'S UP WITH ARLO, I spent a lot of time sitting with these histories and naming the ways that they still affect me, enough to see how much our story has in common with today's immigrants, refugees, and victims of violence and war. It's painful to know the past, but it's made me realize how similar we all are.

In this same spirit, I'd love if you could check out the link in my bio to help an amazing family evacuate from G*za. They've already hit their goal to get their two youngest out, so let's make sure they can all stay together. I'm still giving free LOCKJAW bookmarks to folks who donate, and I hope to have some ARLO merch soon too.

Thank you for sticking around. More books to come! (There's a hint in this announcement, actually...)
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#MiddleGradeHorror #MiddleGrade #Horror #MGHorror #QueerHorror #QueerLiterature #HorrorLiterature #SomethingsUpWithArlo #ItalianCanadian #TradeAnnouncement #Publishing #GhostStory

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It’s AJAY!! I can’t express in words how much I love this cover. Don’t you think @jyotirmayeepatra and @notchriskwon nailed it?! It’s a dream come TRUE. Another dream come true was having this cover reveal shared by @mrschureads 😍. Thank you so much, John! Head over to the blog to read my interview about this book! (Link in bio.)

As always, thank you to editors, @alysonday127, Karina Williams, @seeyashread, and Jennifer Lambert for championing this book and to @ehgoldnyc for adopting Ajay as your own.

Pre-order it today 💜

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Ajay Anthonipillai has a million-dollar problem.

Ajay has lived his life dutifully following the rules set by his Tamil parents.
Rule #3: Straight As only
Rule #5: There is no such thing as a no-homework day.
Rule #10: Never watch scary movies.

However, moving to a new school gives Ajay a new rule to follow: Get on seventh-grade all-star Jacob Underson’s good side.

When Jacob asks him to steal a Mercury bar from Scary Al’s convenience store, Ajay feels this is his chance to finally “get cool” and stop eating alone. But Jacob rejects the stolen chocolate bar, leaving Ajay to unwrap it and discover that it contains Mercury’s 25th Anniversary Grand Prize…one million dollars.

Faced with an extreme dilemma, Ajay will have to bear the weight of his actions and battle his morality in deciding whether to claim the one prize that may change his family’s life forever.

@theshelfstuff @picturebookseh @ctcwriters

#coverreveal #mglit #debutauthor #tamil #srilanka #amwriting #childrensbookstagram #raisingreaders #weneeddiversebooks

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