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Articles by Ally Malinenko
The Other March Sisters
Linda Epstein, Ally Malinenko, and Liz Parker. Kensington, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4967-5025-9 Queer authors Epstein (Repairing the World), Malinenko (This Appearing House), and Parker (In the Shadow Garden) sparkle in this delightful feminist retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. By taking the focus away from Alcott’s heroine, Jo, to tell the story from the alternating perspectives of Meg, Beth, and Amy, the authors offer new depth to the characters.
OTTO NORMAL'S MONSTERTON
Monsters and humans find common ground in order to save their friends from dark forces on a magical island. Born in a snowstorm in California on the same day his father tragically died, 11-year-old Otto Normal leads a life that’s always seemed destined to be anything but normal. Otto and his mom, Cherry, were just scraping by until a mysterious man came to the diner where Cherry was a waitress, offering her a job as a newspaper reporter on the island of Monsterton.
Broken Dolls draft is done! Also Stephen King wants to read my book!
Yeah. You read that correctly. He followed me on Twitter over the summer, after listening to Neil and Nat and I discuss his novel IT on Neil’s podcast Talking Scared which was of course thrilling. And now, he wants to read my book which is just….unreal I literally fell over when I saw it. And then things got more crazy. I dm’d him to thank him for the kind words and never expected a reply and then his showed up in my inbox Needless to say, he’s excited about my middle grade book.
5 Reasons Middle Grade Readers Want (And Deserve) Horror
These days horror in kidlit is having a moment. From the increase in horror titles being published all the way to the recently added Middle Grade category for the Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement in a Novel. As a middle grade horror author I find this all very exciting. Except there are still many people out there, including librarians and teachers, who think that promoting horror to kids is not good for them. They think kids need to be protected from bad things but I disagree.
A New Book: The Other March Sisters
Hey friends! Its spring already (though the last few days in New York City have felt like summer.
This Appearing House|Hardcover
From the author of Ghost Girl comes another standalone spooky middle grade for fans of Nightbooks and Ghost Squad, about a terrifying house and the girl haunted by her experience with cancer, grief, and healing. Are you brave enough to step inside? For as long as anyone could remember there wasn’t a house at the dead end of Juniper Drive . . . until one day there was.
THIS APPEARING HOUSE COVER REVEAL
I got something amazing in my inbox this week! It’s the cover for THIS APPEARING HOUSE, my second middle grade novel which is due out August 16, 2022! It’s the story of Jac and her best friend Hazel and how when a strange house appears on the end of their street it coincides with Jac’s fears that her cancer might no longer be in remission.
Truly Terrifying Books for Fearless Middle Grade Readers
Holiday House You never know what's out to get you. Though you might think you're safe from monsters and menaces, everyday objects can turn against you, too. A mysterious microwave. A threatening board game. A snowman that refuses to melt. Master storyteller Josh Allen brings thirteen nightmare scenarios to life in this page-turning collection that's perfect for budding horror junkies. In his wondrous world, danger waits behind every doorway . . . even in the most ordinary places.
Author Chat with Ally Malinenko (Ghost Girl)!
Today we're excited to chat with Ally Malinenko author of Ghost Girl! Read on for more about Ally and her book! Meet Ally Malinenko! Ally Malinenko is the author of several the poetry collections as well as Ghost Girl and the upcoming This Appearing House both from Katherine Tegen Books. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and blogs at allymalinenko.com. She can also be found blathering about Doctor Who and David Bowie at @allymalinenko.
Kleptomania
Before we start you should know that I accept my role in all of this. I get it. It’s no one else’s fault that I died. I made my choices, from the stealing all the way to the end. I did that. And while it would be easy to start this story with my meeting Rori it would also be a bit of a lie. It would be far too easy to say it was all her fault, even though, truth be told much of it was.
Bandaids
What age is it, I ask him sitting at the bar, my fingers ripping the paper open and pulling out the bandaid, sucking the blood off my finger, What age is it, that you finally become the kind of person who has bandaids there and ready just in case you cut yourself? Who are those people and how do they pull it off? I ask wrapping it around my bloody fingertip and throwing the wrapper back in the shopping bag. Who are these people? How do they manage? People with kids, he offers. And maybe that is true.
A Woman Should Know the Origins of the Witch Hunt
It is whispered in circles from mother to daughter from sister to sister. It is told how these women were practitioners midwives doctors nutritionists, but above all they were outliers, women living just outside the circle of men with power just outside their trust. This made them easy to blame. And that is how they get you, how they sniff you out, string you up, set you on fire.
I Hold Doors For Other Women by Ally Malinenko
follow the rippled curve of the back yellow brown beige off-peach sunlight white along each curving stitch curved stitches rise and curve in shades of brown imperfect regular white topped a finger would pat-pat along the smooth varnished creaking strands in sand and soil and all colours of earth perfect dried life embalmed in lacquered curves beige beech oak earth beige beech earth beige oak beech sandy soil sunset through smoke vertical spokes of thicker twine pale chequered lines...
My First Visit to the Apple Store: April 2016
Everything is so shiny and dust free it’s almost unsettling because this place looks cleaner than the hospital I go to for treatment when the perky guy in the green shirt says Can I help you? a grin the size of Kansas and I tell him I want the ipod touch and he says, Sure thing and points up stairs says Martin will help me and I climb the stairs and there’s Martin saying, Hello friend. I’m Martin. Hi Martin. What can I help you with today? I was interested in the ipod touch. 128 gigabytes.
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