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Ally
@allyoutthere.bsky.social
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(She/Her) Horror Author. Cryptid Enthusiast.
💥 IT CAME FROM THE TREES | Out Now! 💥
🪦 MYSTERY JAMES DIGS HER OWN GRAVE | Fall 2025🪦
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Happy Halloween!

I did a thing with some of my good friends, so if you want some Halloween cheer come visit with @authorkatm.bsky.social, @spookysterling.bsky.social, @allyoutthere.bsky.social, @brianmcwriter.bsky.social, @abbyvail.bsky.social, @jessikagreweglover.bsky.social and more. Links below!
Sley House Presents Special Episode: Halloween Friends and Memories, now available on all major podcast networks! In this very special episode, Trevor's friends visit to share their favorite Halloween rituals and memories. Come join in to hear stories from Katrina Carruth, William Sterling, Abby Vail, Brian McAuley, Jessika Grewe Glover, Katrina Monroe, Ally Russell, Anna Rose Reads, and Collin Williamson. It's a special episode full of treats, no tricks!
October 31, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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👻 6 Diverse Middle Grade Books for the Halloween Season
Purple graphic with illustrations of white spiderwebs in the top right and bottom left corners. This slide is titled “Middle Grade” and displays book covers for six diverse middle grade books perfect for the Halloween season. The titles featured are as follows: “Tales from Cabin 23: Night of the Living Head” by Hanna Alkaf, “Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave” by Ally Russell, “Bumps in the Night” by Amalie Howard, “Los Monstruos: Felice and the Wailing Woman” by Diana López, “The Supernatural Files of CJ Delaney” by Carol Williams, and “The Last Rhee Witch” by Jenna Lee-Yun.
October 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Oct 6 2:30-5 @leannareneehieber.bsky.social, AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC, @wickedgoodbooks.bsky.social. Oct 10 7pm Ally Russell, author of middle-grade MYSTERY JAMES DIGS HER OWN GRAVE, @copperdogbooks.bsky.social. Oct 22 7-9 @stgibson.bsky.social, author of Savage Blooms, @nocturnesalem.bsky.social.
October 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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It's getting ~spooky~ out there, so just a reminder that this book exists. 👻🖤 It has "all the makings of a modern classic...like Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" (SLJ, starred review) and is "certain to be a gateway drug to @stephenking.bsky.social" (Portland Press Herald).
September 30, 2025 at 10:54 PM
allyoutthere.bsky.social
Thank you for this! It was fun! 🪱🪏
lisalschmid.bsky.social Lisa Schmid @lisalschmid.bsky.social · Sep 26
I had so much fun chatting with @allyoutthere.bsky.social about her new book! Check it out! Just in time for the spooky season! 👻🪦🧛
themixed-upfiles.bsky.social The Mixed-Up Files @themixed-upfiles.bsky.social · Sep 26
Spooky season is upon us! So hop on over and check out this author interview with Ally Russell….if you dare 😉

#kidlit, #middlegrade, #MGlit, #WritingCommunity

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September 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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🎃 55 Scary (and Not-So-Scary) 2025 Middle Grade Books To Get Readers In The Halloween Spirit 🎃
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#BookSky #KidLit #MGLit
A compilation of twenty-one 2025 middle grade book covers organized by colour, beginning with green, transitioning into blue and purple, and finally ending with pink and red. Books featured include Scaring and Daring, Another, Open Wide, Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave, The House Next Door, The Many Hauntings of the Manning Family, Broken Dolls, The Better To Eat You With, The Mystery At The Haunted Dance Hall, Phantom Academy, The Girl In The Walls, The Ghosts of Bitterfly Bay, The Labyrinth of Souls, Finder's Keepers, Welcome To The Ghost Show, Grin, I.R.L, Ride or Die, Gloam, Tales From Cabin 23: The Visitors and It's Watching.
September 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Oh, look, I remembered that I had a blog just in time for a spooky fun book for the spooky fun season! #MysteryJamesDigsHerOwnGrave #booksky autumnguest.com/blog/2025/09...
September 18, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Last chance to sign up for my newsletter and get the chance to win a copy of ARROW and FREE author visits for your class or child’s class. #kidlit
September 22, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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so exciting to see both Eelgrass Bog AND Bitterfly Bay on the back cover of The Week Jr magazine!! alongside some other fabulous Penguin Young Readers titles!!!
September 22, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Are you ready for Mystery James?

Because we are! Join in with @allyoutthere.bsky.social as we talk MYSTERY JAMES DIGS HER OWN GRAVE, the *phenomenal* new middle grade horror novel you've been waiting for.

Come visit on Sley House Presents, available wherever you podcast! Links below:
Sley House Presents Episode #164: Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave with Ally Russell. Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or on any other major podcast platform.
September 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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thewanderingreader.bsky.social
Happy Release Day to @allyoutthere.bsky.social ‘s newest middlegrade horror novel! MYSTERY JAMES DIGS HER OWN GRAVE is a graveyard adventure young readers don’t want to miss! 🪦🪏💀
September 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
allyoutthere.bsky.social
I'm really excited to chat with my friend @forgottencorners.bsky.social. Come celebrate cemeteries, ghosts, and MYSTERY JAMES DIGS HER OWN GRAVE with us on Friday, September 26, at Stories Like Me in Pittsburgh! #kidlit
July 26, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Well...have you?
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Photo of a black cat with a pillow with pink pumpkins. Text reads: Have you subscribed to my mom's newsletter yet?
July 14, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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I write horror for kids, but I also write a monthly blog/newsletter called actuALLY scary. This month's post is up now, and there's a lot of mention of worms. 🪱
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Hope You're Having a Chilling Summer!
Worms at ALA, a ghastly preorder campaign, and your monthly reminder to stay out of the woods!
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July 11, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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I'm beyond thrilled to share that BROKEN DOLLS is @jrlibraryguild Gold Standard Selection. I'm so honored to be included in the JLG collection with so many wonderful books.

Broken Dolls is out 9/30/2025
www.amazon.com/Broken-Dolls...

#juniorlibraryguild
#JLGgoldstandard
#goldstandardselection
July 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
allyoutthere.bsky.social
I'm going to #ALA2025 in Philly! I'll be signing IT CAME FROM THE TREES at the Playaway booth (1527) at 2:30pm on Sunday. If you catch me haunting the exhibit hall, say hello! I'll have stickers, bookmarks, and a bag full of worms to celebrate MYSTERY JAMES DIGS HER OWN GRAVE. #ALAAC25 #kidlit
Designed graphic advertising author Ally Russell's presence at ALA annual in Philadelphia June 26-30. Text reads: find me in the exhibit hall and I'll give you a creepy treat if you say these words: Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave. Tell your friends. While supplies last. Signing IT CAME FROM THE TREES Sunday, June 29, at 2:30 p.m. ET, booth #1527. Book covers featured include: IT CAME FROM THE TREES; MYSTERY JAMES DIGS HER OWN GRAVE; DOWN CAME THE SPIDERS; WEDNESDAY BOOK OF OUTCASTS.
June 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Millennials, I did it. IT CAME FROM THE TREES made it into the Scholastic Book Fair catalog. 😭

#kidlit #spookymiddlegrade #horrorbooks
June 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
allyoutthere.bsky.social
I used to run with a pretty tough gang when I was younger.

The gang:
A photo of six young people screaming.
June 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Reese was taken. Jenna, her best friend, saw it with her own eyes. The problem is almost no one believes her. It’s up to Jenna to go back out into the trees to find Reese herself.

This novel by @allyoutthere.bsky.social is a great thriller in the woods! That central spooky figure is very effective.
June 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
allyoutthere.bsky.social
After another upsetting week, I'm hoping to lift some spirits this Friday the 13th. The Mystery James Galley Giveaway is live and you have about one week to enter. Hang in there, creeps. Horror has taught us that evil is eventually defeated. #kidlit 🫠 allyoutthere.beehiiv.com/p/happy-frid...
Photo of author Ally Russell holding a copy of her book, MYSTERY JAMES DIGS HER OWN GRAVE, in a cemetery. Text reads: Friday the Thirteenth Galley Giveaway
June 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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It's National Camping Month. These books are just as important as sunscreen and water! 👀 spookymiddlegrade.com/2025/05/27/a...
Designed graphic features 5 book covers: NOX WINTERS AND THE MIDNIGHT WOLF; CREEPY CAMPFIRE STORIES; IT CAME FROM THE TREES; S'MORE SPOOKY STORIES; THE GHOSTS OF BITTERFLY BAY. Text reads: Spooky Middle Grade, Are you sure you want to go camping?
June 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
allyoutthere.bsky.social
I miss OG Jeopardy so much.
a man in a suit and tie is holding a telephone in front of a microphone
Alt: Alex Trebek, host of Jeopardy, in a suit and tie, holding a telephone in front of a microphone
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June 4, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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I'm gonna need to stop checking my BITTERFLY BAY sales numbers because OOOF 😬 (something something talking about sales is taboo but ... we've gotta be real sometimes)

Anyway apropos of nothing, if you're looking for summertime middle grade horror, maybe give my ghost kids a chance? 👉👈
May 30, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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"Are you sure you want to go camping?" Spooky books for camping! (Disclaimer: All of these books actually exist and were compiled by a real person)
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Are You SURE You Want to Go Camping? 5 Scary Stories for Young Campers
Here are some stories that will give you chills on summer nights.
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May 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM