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Claribel A. Ortega

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The Bronx, The United States

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Young Adult, Children's, Fantasy

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New York Times Bestselling and award-winning author, Claribel A. Ortega is a former reporter who writes middle-grade and young adult fantasy inspired by her Dominican heritage. When she's not busy turning her obsession with eighties pop culture, magic, and video games into books, she’s co-hosting her podcast Bad Author Book Club. Claribel is a Marvel contributor and has been featured on Buzzfeed, Bustle, Good Morning America and Deadline.

Claribel’s NYT Bestselling debut middle grade novel Ghost Squad is being made into a feature film. Her latest book Witchlings (Scholastic) was an Instant NYT and #1 Indie Bestseller. Her graphic novel Frizzy with Rose Bousamra is out now from First Second and was an Indie Bestseller. You can find her on Twi ...more

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	Ghost Squad 3.83 avg rating — 3,733 ratings — published 2020 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortega (Goodreads Author), Rose Bousamra (Illustrations) 4.56 avg rating — 2,269 ratings — published 2022 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Witchlings (Witchlings, #1) 4.18 avg rating — 2,244 ratings — published 2022 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space by Zoraida Córdova (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Vita Ayala (Goodreads Author), David Bowles 3.84 avg rating — 886 ratings — published 2022 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Is Our Rainbow: 16 Stories of Her, Him, Them, and Us by Katherine Locke (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Nicole Melleby (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Eric Bell (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.19 avg rating — 604 ratings — published 2021 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories 4.08 avg rating — 411 ratings — published 2022 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Foreshadow: A Serial YA Anthology of Short Stories by Malinda Lo (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Randy Ribay (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Claribel A. Ortega (Goodreads Author) (contributor) 4.52 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Golden Frog Games (Witchlings, #2) 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — expected publication 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Remember 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La patrulla fantasma 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Imagine working for years on a book, revising, getting feedback, revising again and then finally sending out to agents only to get rejections, all because of one page. That’s what can happen when you don’t work on your query and I’ve found that seeing examples of queries that work can help, so today I’m sharing mine! I wrote a few versions of my query letter over the course of a

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“We learn things from our parents, who learn things from their parents, who learned that from their parents. It doesn't make those things okay to believe...”
― Claribel A. Ortega, Frizzy

tags: learning-and-development, unlearning

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“If a dragon could come pick her up right now, that would be great. Perfect timing.”
― Claribel A. Ortega, Witchlings

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“I was the thing the monster from my dreams had warned about, the thing that crept on its clawed feet in the darkest night.”
― Claribel A. Ortega, Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space

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