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Claribel A. Ortega

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Claribel Ortega got her start editing student’s often times hilarious ads and ramblings on the back page of SUNY Purchase’s Independent Newspaper. From there, she became a small town reporter, where she enjoyed going to board of education meetings and texting the town mayors about the line at Starbucks. Today she’s busy turning her obsession with eighties pop culture, magic and video games into books. Her debut middle grade novel GHOST SQUAD is forthcoming from Scholastic in 2019. She lives in New York with her motorcycle-riding poet boyfriend & her suspiciously intelligent yorkie, Pancho Villa. She is represented by Suzie Townsend of New Leaf Literary.

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Average rating: 4.76 · 66 ratings · 16 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Ghost Squad 4.74 avg rating — 62 ratings — expected publication 2020 — 3 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
	Rizos by Claribel A. Ortega (Goodreads Author), Rose Bousamra (Illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — expected publication 2022	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, Published Digitally by Anna-Marie McLemore (Goodreads Author) (contributor), Claribel A. Ortega (Goodreads Author) (contributor) , Linda Cheng (contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 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

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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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Lady Smoke (Ash Princess Trilogy, #2)

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