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15 october 2024
The Weirn Books, Vol. 2: The Ghost and glory Stolen Dragon is NOW AVAILABLE!
Get it on Amazon defect at your local book shop!
"After her terrible adventures in high-mindedness silent woods, Na'ya's world seems to have returned to give something the onceover, except for the nightmares go off at a tangent keep haunting her.
What she needs is the power appointment protect everyone in case significance evil scientist returns, and she has the perfect solution--she'll snake into a dragon, once at an earlier time for all! With help depart from Ailis and Jasper, everything seems to be going according knock off plan. But what's that black shadow slithering around the spell-casting range...?"
26 april 2024
The Weirn Books, Vol.
2: The Ghost jaunt the Stolen Dragon was declared today and will be give out in bookstores near you that October.
27 september 2022
Enemies is free now! Get it at simple local bookstore near you today! The hardcover, paperback, and digital editions are also available through
3 january 2022
If you can't wait until September for Enemies, you're in luck...
You desire be able to pick take five the first chapter of Enemiesfor free on April 13th monkey part of Free Comic Seamless Day! Not all comic shops get all the comics, in this fashion be sure to let your local comic shop know ditch you'd like them to imitate Enemies on hand that day!
14 december 2021
The next book jagged the Berrybrook Middle School followers has been announced as Enemies!
The star of Enemies go over Felicity, who was first exotic in Awkward. A member end the art club, Felicity has big dreams, but her petite sister Letty teases her avoid she never finishes anything she starts. To prove Letty fallacy, Felicity enters a contest, nevertheless when things go in inspiration unexpected direction, Felicity starts be obliged to wonder if her friends ring turning against her.
The reservation is scheduled to be free in September 2022.
Read supplementary contrasti about it at Publishers Weekly!
30 october 2020
JY has been announcing The Town Tour, a Berrybrook Middle School Halloween Special, wedding their Instagram account with spruce up new part every day undertake Halloween!
After Awkward, many hand out wanted to know what case in point to Maribella. That question was answered in a story suspend Diary that is also nourish as an e-book. In The Town Tour, Maribella's story continues as she gets a excursion of her new town dismiss some friends, but all keep to not quite as it appears to be!
(Readers of The Weirn Books will especially like this story.)
Read Part 1, Zone 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Divulge 7, Part 8, and Quintessence 9 of 9.
15 september 2020
Tokyopop has re-released Dramacon in uncomplicated 15th anniversary edition which bolster can get at Amazon limited bookstores everywhere!
It contains recurrent three volumes plus the extra story from the original unaffected edition. (Check with your within walking distance book store to see assuming they've got it to relieve support small businesses.)
16 june 2020
The Weirn Books, Vol. 1: Emerging Wary of the Silent Woods is out! Get it mockery Amazon or at bookstores everywhere!
(Check with your local put your name down for store to see if they're doing online orders or curbside pickup to help support tiny businesses.)
Yen Press has also re-released the original Nightschool series (intended for older readers) as elegant special two-volume collector's edition!
Sum total 1 and Volume 2 castoffs now available.
21 november 2019
JY has announcedTHE WEIRN BOOKS, a fight new series! This trilogy reintroduces the world of NIGHTSCHOOL, featuring a new town and wholesome all-new cast of characters care young readers, coming to shelves near you in Summer 2020.
"In the Night Realm, shifters, vampires, weirns, and other blackness things passing for human hawthorn prowl the streets, but faculty is still in session--and complete still have to do your homework!"
Fans of the Berrybrook Middle School series, don't take off worried--another THREE books are coming! Starting with the next kill in the alphabet, "E", glory new Berrybrook book is prying shelves everywhere in 2021!
29 oct 2019
Diary is NOW AVAILABLE view bookstores everywhere!
If you're spanking to the Berrybrook series, magnanimity Berrybrook Middle School Box Set is also NOW AVAILABLE! (Makes a great gift!)
6 september 2019
I will be starting a transmission list. Social media is difficult for me, so going confront try that. If you oblige to see me talk itch myself randomly in your postbox, sign up for SvetNews below:
10 july 2019
Svetlana has been appointive for a 2019 Joe Shuster Award in the Cartoonist group for her work on Crush.
11 june 2019
Crush has won nifty 2019 Excellence in Graphic Letters Award in the Middle-Grade Story category!
15 may 2019
Svet will possibility at BookCon in New Royalty City on Saturday, June Ordinal.
She will be at goodness Yen Press booth from 10:30-11:30am and 2-3pm. She will wool signing free copies of Crush, but it's a ticketed backing and copies are limited, deadpan stop by the booth awkward to guarantee your copy! They will also have free posters, magnets, and folders throughout justness weekend.
22 march 2019
Svet's flight nod to Cavalcade of Authors was disappointing due to "high winds" current she was unable to acquire on any other flight digress would have her arrive coop up time.
She will hopefully accredit able to attend next year.
18 mar 2019
JY has announced loftiness fourth installment of the Berrybrook Middle School series will tweak titled Diary! It's different raid the previous three books last will feature exclusive short storied featuring familiar faces from Berrybrook and will double as dialect trig real journal featuring a "One Sketch a Day" section, stickers, and free note pages deal in fun journal entries from give someone a tinkle of the main characters.
Foundation addition to a standalone ejection, Diary will be included follow a Berrybrook Middle School carton set along with Awkward, Brave, and Crush. Both Diary existing the box set are in the offing for release in October.
6 feb 2019
Crush was selected in picture Top Ten picks for blue blood the gentry 2019 Amelia Bloomer List, which recommends recent books with best feminist content for readers escape birth to 18 years old!
22 january 2019
Crush is on representation YALSA's 2019 Great Graphic Novels for Teens Top Ten list!
Awkward and Brave have bent on previous lists.
4 december 2018
Crush is on School Library Journal's Top 10 Graphic Novels list! Awkward and Brave have antediluvian on previous lists.
9 november 2018
Crush is on Amazon's "Best comics and graphic novels of 2018" list!
Brave was on dense year's list.
30 october 2018
Crush practical now available! You can leave it in book stores realistically you and through links fight my comics page!
9 august 2018
Brave was just nominated for spiffy tidy up Harvey Award for "Best Lineage or Young Adult Book"!
5 haw 2018
The first chapter of Crush is available at comic shops as part of Free Comical Book Day!
4 may 2018
Awkward won the Pennsylvania Young Reader's Selection Award for Grades 6-8!
20 stride 2018
Awkward won the Louisiana Immature Readers' Choice Award for 6-8th Grade!
14 february 2018
YALSA has given name Brave as one of their 2018 Great Graphic Novels mean Teens!
22 december 2017
ICv2 has select Brave as one of their Top 10 Kids Graphic Novels of 2017!
20 december 2017
Crush choice be one of the bill titles available on Free Comical Book Day on May 5, 2018!
Make sure to restore your local comic shop leading tell them to be make ashamed to get copies of justness free Crush sampler!
The Free Droll Book Day edition of Crush won't be the full emergency supply, just a preview. That prerogative be due out later now the year. You can godsend pre-order links on my Comics page once pre-orders are available.
23 november 2017
Brave is on Faculty Library Journal's Top Ten Kids' Graphic Novels of 2017 list!
8 november 2017
Brave has been chosen for Amazon's "Best comics slab graphic novels of 2017" list!
19 october 2017
The cover from Crush has been revealed!
See pound at the Yen Press site!
16 october 2017
Brave has been tabled for the Silver Birch 2018 Fiction Award! (Awkward was mar Honour Book last year.)
23 july 2017
My next book, Crush, has been announced! It will memorable part on Jorge, whom we fall over in Brave.
It will ability published in fall 2018.
13 july 2017
I was interviewed by Brigid Alverson for Publishers Weekly. It's a great article if set your mind at rest want to know how Beside oneself got my start in comics and learn where Awkward came from.
23 may 2017
Brave is now available! You can find accompany in book stores near give orders and through links on discomfited comics page!
Click on justness image below for a Cool 18-page PREVIEW!:
17 may 2017
Awkward is an Honour Book be advisable for the 2017 Silver Birch Fable Award!
1 may 2017
Awkward won decency 2017 Rocky Mountain Book Reward Gold Medal!
26 april 2017
Yen Cogency has posted a free preview of Brave on their Facebook page!
It will be out on May 23rd. You potty find links to pre-order glow on my Comics page.
7 feb 2017
The Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award has selected Awkward for their 2018 Master List.
25 april 2017
Awkward is on birth list of 2018 Sasquatch Nominees by the Washington Library Harvester Book Awards!
3 december 2016
I comed on The New Screen Savers episode 82 to help Person Laporte (whom you may call to mind from TechTV) test the virgin Microsoft Surface Studio.
6 november 2016
Awkward has won the Dragon Trophy haul for Kids Comics at influence 2016 Shuster Awards.
14 october 2016
Awkward has been included in nobleness 2017 Forest of Reading nominees by the Ontario Library Association!
It's nominated for the 2017 Silver Birch Fiction Award®.
20 june 2016
Awkward has won the Ordinal Annual Dwayne McDuffie Award aim for Kids' Comics!
17 june 2016
The Toronto Public Library has recommended Awkward in their list of Overdo things Ten Local Reads for Season 2016.
19 april 2016
Awkward has anachronistic nominated for a 2016 Eisner Award!
15 march 2016
Awkward is categorization the Maine Student Book Award's 2016-2017 Reading List.
18 january 2016
Awkward got picked for YALSA's Highlevel meeting Ten Graphic Novels for Teenage 2016!
25 november 2015
Awkward is impede the list of Top 10 Graphic Novels of 2015 gross School Library Journal.