Part of Series
As we all know, February 14th is Valentine’s Day – and it also happens to be the birthday of Pearl Linford, Finn Blacklin, James Cardigan, and Marie Jessup in the Valentine series. But according to Leslie Knope from Parks and Recreation, February 13th, the day before Valentine’s Day, is Galentine’s Day, a day all about ladies celebrating ladies. With that in mind, I’ve written a little prequel story to Valentine, called Galentine, that focuses on the friendship between Pearl and Phil (and featuring cameos from a whole host of Valentine-universe faves). It’s set a year and a bit before the beginning of Valentine, right before Pearl, Finn, Cardy and Marie all turn sixteen. Things haven’t gone supernaturally south yet – although if you look out of the corner of your eye, you might spot a few supernatural rumblings in the background – but it doesn’t mean Pearl doesn’t have problems…
Author
**Want to dip your toes into the Valentine universe? Try the free short story Galentine, set a year and a bit before the events of Valentine. http://jodimcalister.com.au/galentine/ ** Jodi is the author of the Valentine series, a young adult paranormal romance/urban fantasy series about smart girls, small towns, and scary fairies. There are three books in the series available: Valentine (2017), Ironheart (2018), and Misrule (2019), all published by Penguin Teen Australia. If Picnic at Hanging Rock meets Holly Black sounds like something you’d be into, these are the books for you. Jodi is originally from Kiama, a seaside holiday town on the south coast of New South Wales, and has lived in a bunch of different cities: Canberra (where she did her undergrad degrees), Wollongong (where she lived while she did her PhD in Sydney), and Hobart (where she held her first academic job) among them. Currently, she lives in Melbourne, where she works as a Lecturer in Writing and Literature at Deakin University. When she’s not writing about clever girls and cunning fairies, Jodi is an academic. Her research focuses on representations of love in popular culture and fiction. It means that reading romance novels and watching (and let’s be real, writing huge amounts about) The Bachelor/ette is technically work for her. You can find Jodi on Twitter at @JodiMcA, where she tweets regularly about her research, her writing, cool things she finds interesting, her hero worship of Kate Bush, and her slightly-too-intense passion for The Bold and the Beautiful. (She’s not joking about that last one. In 2015, she got invited to visit the set of The Bold and the Beautiful, and it was the best thing that has ever happened to her in her entire life.)
