Crazy Awesome Loving It Book Cover For Halloween Good Night!

A Writer's Life
Written By Rebecca Grabill

I have a book cover, people! For my first-ever-to-be-published picture book, Halloween Good Night! Illustrated by the incredible Ella Okstad! Due out from Atheneum Books for Young Readers (a division of S&S) July, 2017! And the cover? IS FREAKING ADORABLE!!!! I LOVE it! There are not enough exclamation points in the universe to express how AMAZING AND AWESOME AND GRAND this is!!!!

Plus, exclamation points make me tired. Ever since reading Stephen King's On Writing I can't see one without mentally saying POW!

So do you want to see it? This amazing cover?

Halloween Good Night by Rebecca Grabill, coming July 17

Isn't it Insanely Cute?!? I want to hug a Globster! I want to snuggle a Mummy! Heeeeyyy... That almost sounds like another picture book. Better get back to writing! (POW!)

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Rebecca Grabill

Rebecca has been writing since childhood, her first book about a kitten published between homemade cardboard covers in second grade. Although she studied religion and philosophy in university, she continued writing, earning an MFA from Hamline University and publishing multiple picture books (no longer with homemade covers) and a collection of poetry with a variety of New York and independent publishers. She has also published a wide array of fiction, essays, and poetry in magazines and journals and photographs for Getty Images. She balances writing with homeschooling the younger of her six children, launching her young adults, church activities, and overseeing a small flock of chickens in rural West Michigan.

www.rebeccagrabill.com
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