Merrie Haskell

ry with over 7 million books, and finds this to be just about the right number.

Merrie's first novel, THE PRINCESS CURSE, was a Junior Library Guild selection and a finalist for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature. Her second novel, HANDBOOK FOR DRAGON SLAYERS, won the Schneider Family Book Award 2014. THE CASTLE BEHIND THORNS is also a Junior Library Guild selection, and is forthcoming on May 27, 2014 from Katherine Tegan Books.