Julia DeVillers's Blog - Posts Tagged "middle-grade"

I’m thrilled to share the cover of my next book, “Meet Me in Wonderland!”

🫎 Coming May 2025! (Aladdin/Simon and Schuster) 🫎

I LOVE this cover! Chloe Quinn really captured the dynamic between Coco and Henry. (How they look at each other! 🥰)

Cover illustrations: Chloe Quinn
Cover design: Heather Palisi
Editor: Alyson Heller
Publisher: Aladdin Books (and imprint of Simon & Schuster)

🎢 Things I love about MEET ME AT WONDERLAND: 🎡
Mascot costumes
First jobs
Summer crush
Coworkers turned friends
Tourist town on a lake in upstate New York

More than 4,000 people entered my very first Goodreads giveaway! Congratulations to the three lucky winners who are receiving an advance copy that I annotated, marking up some of my favorite parts I wrote and things I found funny or swoony. If you didn't win, sorry! But here's some bts: MEET ME AT WONDERLAND was inspired by my own high school job and is set near where I grew up (Albany, NY.) The fastest writing I've ever done was writing the description of the smell of the moose costume Coco has to wear her first day of work--because I had to wear the Chuck E Cheese costume and I'll NEVER forget how that thing smelled. It's seared in my memory. Have you see my Social Media lately? Because I may or may not have gotten a Morty the Moose costume...will I wear it? Check out my Instagram.

The new People magazine interview made me both smile and tear up-- the behind the scenes of how my new upper middle grade romcom came to be is a little wild...

https://people.com/chuck-e-cheese-hal...