The cover of Mommy's Night Before Christmas, written by Katie L. Carroll and illustrated by Phoebe Cho. The illustration shows a woman with a messy bun and a coat on her shoulders standing outside the door of a house with Christmas lights. She is looking up at Santa and his reindeer silhouetted in the moonlight.

I know it’s usually Christmas in July, but I’m making it Christmas in August this year with a picture book special and a Middle Grade Back to School Bundle.

That’s because my picture book Mommy’s Night Before Christmas, illustrated by Phoebe Cho, is coming to audiobook this holiday season! Even more exciting is that I’ll be doing the narration myself because this book was very much written from personal experience and I’ve always enjoyed reading it aloud.

Some of you longtime readers may remember that Mommy’s Night Before Christmas started out as a poem that used to appear on my blog every year. It was quite the journey from that initial burst of inspiration when I was a very mom with two young kiddos to it coming out as a picture book. This will be my first time narrating an audiobook, so it’s a whole new adventure for me and Mommy’s Night Before Christmas.

The cover of the picture book Daddy's 12 Days of Christmas, written by Katie L. Carroll and illustrated by Phoebe Cho. The illustrated cover shows a family with two dads and their five diverse kids. They are dressed in winter coats on a snowy landscape, and they hold music books as they sing Christmas carols.

To celebrate, the ebook of both Mommy’s Night Before Christmas and my other Christmas picture book Daddy’s 12 Days of Christmas, also illustrated by Phoebe Cho, will be on sale for $2.99 for the month of August. My next goal for 2026 is to create a musical audiobook of Daddy’s 12 Days of Christmas since that is a sing-along book.

To keep the celebration going, my upper middle novel Witch Test is in a bundle with five other middle grade novels. From August 11th – 17th, you can get all six books for just $8.00. You can find the Middle Grade Back to School Bundle at this link, but bookmark it because the link won’t be live until the sale starts on the 11th.

Chalkboard background with text that reads "Middle Grade Back to School Bundle! August 11 - August 17, Only $8 USD for 6 Great Reads!" Six book covers are underneath the text for the books Witch Test by Katie L. Carroll, Goblin Girl by K.A. Mielke, The Berge Sisters Tour the Neitherswarth by JL DuRona, The Young Necromancer's Guide to Ghosts by Vanessa Ricci-Thode, Bad Grains by Susanne Schmidt, and River of Crows by N.P. Thompson.

Have you noticed I haven’t released any new books yet this year? I’ve been working on a lot of things, including an adult cozy dystopian series that will have four books. Yes, you read that right, an adult series! I’m also working on a few picture book things that I may have news on soon. But maybe nothing brand-new this year, which be the first year I won’t have anything new in many years…since 2020, I think. Wow, that’s a long streak.

It’s been a busy year personally, and this fall is no exception. My oldest kiddo will be starting high school, my middle kiddo will be starting middle school, and my youngest is going into 3rd grade. That’s three different schools with three different start and end times. Plus, they all play soccer in the fall. It’s a much different busy than when they were little and I wrote my silly poem about being a mom on Christmas, but it’s busy all the same.

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