Hello friends and potential stalkers,

School is out and the sweet smell of SPF is in the air. This means two things:

1. Some people will not get sunburned.
2. Summer crush season is AWN!!!

In The Pack, Sadie Samson’s crush on Beak is instant. The moment her inner lion picks up his scent in the woods, she knows he’s the one.

“It was an inviting smell. Sensitive and smart, friendly but serious. It was like a grape scented eraser.”

And Sadie hadn’t even seen him yet!!! (#Pheromones)

When she spots Beak’s sun-bleached hair, ketchup-colored lips, and the c-shaped scar on his cheek–BAM! Sadie feels her attraction.

“He made her insides feel bubbly and animated, like the mist that dances over a freshly poured soda.”

How would you describe the crushing feeling? Post your answer in the comments section below. The best one will win a signed copy of Claw and Order.

For those of you opting out of crush season in pursuit of personal development, take this quiz from Girls’ Life to find out what kind of pack leader you are. And if you’re not interested in crushes OR personal development, put on some mirrored sunglasses, tape a Do Not Disturb sign to your forehead, and listen to the Claw and Order audiobook.

Should you choose to reject all of my offers, well, you’re on your own.

xoxo Lisi

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GET YOUR PAWS ON THESE TODAY!

Hey, Packmates!

Claw and Order drops today and it’s action Pack’d!

Hearts are broken, wild girls are tamed into submission (or at least pretend to be), and Sadie is on the verge of being expelled from Charm House. Is starting a cheerleading squad a good way to make Miss Flora give her another chance? Obviously, not. But it’s a great way to spend more time with Beak, her football-player crush. For a little while, at least. Before long, reality returns with a roar, and Sadie, once a mighty pack leader, finds herself frizzy-haired and alone.

Here’s an excerpt of a LONGER EXCERPT :

(Wait, before you get started, is it me, or does the word “excerpt” look Russian right now?)

Sadie gazed beyond the metal-framed windows. Those smoke-gray clouds were still hovering. Oppressive and suffocating, they loomed above the private grounds of the Charm House boarding school like an overbearing parent, there to put a damper on her plans and, even worse, her new hairstyle. Hair that Sadie spent most of the day admiring in the reflection of her dead laptop screen.

She’d meant to charge her computer the night before, but…

STOP!

Why am I doing this when you can get the actual book?!

Buy it, download it, listen to it, or hack my computer and steal the manuscript. I don’t care how you get *it* as long as you enjoy it.

xoxo Lisi

*Fine, I do care. I don’t want to be hacked.

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Find your pack.

Even though The Pack series is about a private boarding school for girls with fabulous animal powers, dark secrets, and deep crushes, there’s wayyyy more going on. At least, that’s what I’m starting to realize.

I intended The Pack to be about self-esteem, individuality, and agency. Now, as I’m halfway through writing book 3, it’s become a series about girl power. Not inspiring it, we’ve seen tons of that over the years, but rather, accepting it. Because powerful girls are less accepted than we choose to believe. They are seen as bitchy, controlling, pushy, bossy, rude, self-serving, conceited, and full of themselves.

So what’s a powerful girl to do? Downplay her strengths to fit it? Silence herself to make other people feel comfortable? Forgo ambition in the name of love?

I’ll tell you what not to do: Don’t post you-do-you-who-cares-what-other-people-think words of encouragement. Because most people DO care what other people think. So, in addition to feeling ostracized, we will also feel pathetic for wanting fit in.

I wish I could help powerful women feel as appreciated and respected as powerful men. I wish I could obliterate terms like Girl Boss because ‘Boss’ should be enough. And I wish I could magically stop women from caring what other people think. I can’t.

The best I can do is help my characters accept the things that make them different, and even learn to love them, while also accepting that not everyone will appreciate them. But a few people will. Their pack will.

And maybe that is enough.

xoxo Lisi

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Me, looking at you with childlike innocence, hoping you’ll forgive me.

OKAY, SO…

If you have been following my blog, which I referred to as a Blah-g, which is now called a newsletter because blogs and blah-gs are no longer a “thing”, then you probably have abandonment issues.

Yes, I took a massive leave of absence, but to my credit, I’ve been busy.

[Insert me cupping my ear, straining to hear if you’re asking what I’ve been doing.]

[Insert me not hearing you.]

[Insert me realizing that you’re feeling the icy sting of my abandonment.]

[Insert me not blaming you.]

[Insert me hoping that you’ll forgive me once you understand how busy I’ve been.]

In addition to updating this *website*, I’ve been writing three different middle-grade series’: The Pack, Girl Stuff, and Graveyard Girls. Installments drop this summer and can be pre-ordered by clicking on the links.

Tuesday, June 21, 2022.

Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Tuesday, September 6, 2022.

AND NOW MY PLEDGE:

From this moment forward, I, Lisi Harrison, promise to offer you more than purchasing opportunities and tired excuses.

You’ll get:

• Newslettery news.
• Sneak peeks and previews.
• Quizzes.
• Musings.
• Giveaways.
• Takeaways.
• Shameless attempts to win back your trust.

So, sign up for weekly updates and get ready to feel the love.

*The first person to name 5 things I’ve changed on the website in the past year gets a signed copy of all three books in the Girl Stuff series. 

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