Hello everyone! We are so excited to announce the tour schedule for Nell of Gumbling: My Extremely Normal Fairy Tale Life by Emma Steinkelliner.
September 25th
One More Exclamation – Review
September 26th
Stuck in Fiction – Promotional Post
September 27th
Twirling Book Princess – Top 5 Reasons to Read Nell of Gumbling
September 28th
Paiges of Novels – Top 5 Reasons to Read Nell of Gumbling
September 29th
Read and Reviewed – Review
September 30th
The Nutty Bookworm Reads Alot – Review
September 25th
bookdemonio – Promotional Post
onemoreexclamation – Content Creator’s Choice
September 26th
nissa_the.bookworm – Review
rickys_radical_reads – Review
September 27th
by_hckilgour – Review
avainbookland – Review, Favorite Quotes
September 28th
mythicmelancholy – Review, Creative Post: Reading Nell of Gumbling to Children
acourtofspinesnpages – Review
infinite_bookworm86 – Review
September 29th
ninebookishlives – Promotional Post
pagesforpaige – Review
September 30th
library_teacher – Review
ablueboxfullofbooks – Creative Post: Little Free Library Drop, TikTok
October 1st
tbrandbeyond – Promotional Post
paiges_of_novels – Content Creator’s Choice
Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy
Publishing date: September 26th, 2023
Synopsis:
Raina Telgemeir meets the Land of Stories in this charming graphic novel-diary hybrid about a twelve-year-old girl and her perfectly average magical life.
To everyone else, the Magical Land of Gumbling is something out of fairy tales. But to Nell Starkeeper, it’s just home. Sure, the town community center might be a castle, her dads run a star farm, and her best friend Myra is a fairy, but Nell is much more interested in finding out if she’ll get the seventh grade apprenticeship of her dreams with world-famous artist Wiz Bravo.
She’s pretty sure her entire life has been RUINED when she’s instead matched with boring old Mrs. Birdneck in the town archives. And of course her perfect rival Leabelle gets to work with Wiz, and mean girl Viola won’t let Nell forget it. Meanwhile, suddenly Myra seems more into hanging out with Leabelle and saving the town from some weird strangers who keep talking about turning Gumbling into a fancy resort than being friends with Nell anymore. Can Nell find a way to save everything that makes her world magical, while figuring out where she belongs in it?
Emma Steinkellner is an illustrator, cartoonist, and writer based in Los Angeles, CA.
She is the author and illustrator of the middle grade graphic novel The Okay Witch (Aladdin, Fall 2019). The Okay Witch tells the story of 13-year-old Moth Hush, who learns that magic is to be expected when you’re a Hush in an adventure that spans centuries, generations, and even worlds as Moth unravels the complicated legacy of witches at the heart of her town, her family, and herself.
She is a graduate of Stanford University’s department of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, where she created, wrote, and illustrated her thesis It Gets Weird, a science fiction sex ed graphic novel for adolescent readers and where she proclaimed herself “one of Stanford’s most elite goons”.
Working in print and webcomics, Emma has illustrated projects with her radiant sister, writer Kit Steinkellner, including the teen rom-com webcomic Aces and the Eisner-nominated superhero coming-of-age story Quince with Fanbase Press and is the creator of the comic diary Pow Slam Sparkle.
