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Claribel A. Ortega
@claribelortega.com
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NYT Best-selling raccoon enthusiast 🦝
Witchlings 4: Scepter of Memories out 9.16.25
I wrote Ghost Squad, the Witchlings series & the Eisner & Pura Belpré winning graphic novel Frizzy 🐓
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I first emailed my agent about the idea for Witchlings in 2018. Book one released in 2022, and today I started writing the fifth and final book of the series. I can’t believe it’s almost time to say goodbye to these characters 😭 #booksky
July 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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My Huntrix t-shirt has arrived now just gotta wait for my derpy tiger plush !
three members of the fictional kpop girl group Huntrix posing with their weapons
July 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Hi friends 👋🏽 #booksky #authorsky
July 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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🦝Cover reveal!!!!🦝
Ten raccoons in a trench coat delivered the Witchlings 4 cover to the Scholastic offices last night so here it is at long last!!

Art by @lazyfishy.bsky.social
Design by Christopher Stengel

You can pre-order now at WitchlingsWorld.com ✨

#booksky #kidlit
The cover of Witchlings: Scepter of Memories by Claribel A. Ortega, featuring three girls and two wolf-like creatures on a magical pastel background Four books from the Witchlings series by Claribel A. Ortega displayed on a magical pastel background. The newest book, Witchlings: Scepter of Memories, is featured at the top. The other three books, Witchlings, The Golden Frog Games, and House of Elephants, are shown below
April 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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If you're looking forward to the fourth Witchlings book you can pre-order it now and get 25% off at @barnesandnoble.com 🐉🚋✨🧙🏼‍♀️ #BookSky #Witchlings #WriterSky

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A colorful ad for Witchlings: Scepter of Memories at Barnes & Noble. It shows a pink feather and offers 25% off with the code PREORDER25.
April 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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hair cut 🥰
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February 19, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Spent my morning volunteering with a local free breakfast program and it was very good and if you’re feeling helpless about the world, I recommend starting with your neighbors! 💕
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February 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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hello, copyedits all day today waiting for snow ❄️ but at my sisters and she has a fireplace so I’m v excited for the coziness 🤗✨
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February 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Witchlings 4 copyedits today! Being on deadline right now is 🫠 but if I don’t write I don’t eat
A pink keyboard and a match latte on a wooden table
January 30, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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So excited to share the cover for The Girl and the Robot by me and @ozrodriguez.bsky.social ! Art by the incredible Vanessa Morales! It’s coming out March 25th from Disney books and you can preorder it now 🤖

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January 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Spending the day working on books 🫶🏽
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January 25, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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what comes to mind when I see politicians and the media outraged at Americans being desensitized to gun violence
a woman with a blue shirt on, text on screen reading "And who set that system up?"
December 20, 2024 at 9:45 PM
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Haha my inbox is WILD RIGHT NOW
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December 12, 2024 at 12:22 AM
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Give me a number between 1-100 and I'll tell you what song it is on my Spotify top 100 playlist! #spotifywrapped
Post saying "spotify wrapped is HERE! send me a number 1-100 and I'll tell you the song it corresponds with on my top 100 playlist"
December 4, 2024 at 10:16 PM
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I was going through something v specific #spotifywrapped
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December 4, 2024 at 3:24 PM
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Gonna try to actually revise more than one chapter today 🤠 here’s my travel setup !
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December 2, 2024 at 9:05 PM
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I did go on a nice walk today tho 🤠
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December 1, 2024 at 1:46 AM
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No matter how early or on time I am with any of my books, I am *always* on deadline during the holidays 🙂
a phone with a text to god, asking why
November 26, 2024 at 10:31 PM
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Exactly 9 years ago I met Gregory Maguire, one of my favorite authors of all time & he gave me advice on finding an agent before I embarked on my own author journey. Wicked is one of the reasons I write about witches & I am SO SO SO excited about watching the movie, I CAN NOT WAIT 💚🩷
a woman at a table with author Gregory Maguire at a book signing
November 22, 2024 at 4:05 PM
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National Book Awards !
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November 21, 2024 at 12:17 AM
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life is really testing me right now 🙂
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November 18, 2024 at 3:57 PM
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everything sucks so bad right now but I got a new award for my books & it's a plate
me with an award and its a plate me with an award and its a plate
November 13, 2024 at 8:44 PM
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One of my kid readers has started calling me raccoon girl 💀 (there are raccoons in my books) in her emails to me and it’s so funny but also I’m being bullied lol 😭
Enthusiastic Email from a reader Text reads: a while but still!!! (Give thorn a love interest plz she's the only single Pringle in the trio) and I ship Seven x Thorn I MEAN WHAT WHO SAID THAT but anyways I also love Seven and Figgs relationship it was so cute anyways I loved book three so much <3 BUT THERES GONNA BE MORE WHAT???? :0 so chop chop racoon girl jk lol) Enthusiastic reader email: Text reads: me?? Thank u ur the best!!! ^^ BYEBYE RACOON GIRL
October 18, 2024 at 1:53 AM
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Denver friends!! Join me and Nyasha Williams at Lakewood Library on October 8 to celebrate House of Elephants !There will be an in conversation, Q&A, craft stations and signings! Hope to see you all there! #Denver #bookevents
October 7, 2024 at 12:03 AM
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If you’re in Georgia, I’ll be there tonight for a joint launch with Mark Oshiro to celebrate their latest Jasmine is Haunted and Witchlings 3 House of Elephants! 👻🐘

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October 2, 2024 at 4:24 PM