MY FAIR MONSTER
YA Romcom
Page Street YA
Release date: August 19th, 2025
As the reigning Miss Teen Indiana, seventeen-year-old Corie Nielson has looks, charm, and her family’s formalwear boutique’s sponsorship. But her real dream is to use that success to become a horror movie scream queen. Except for one small complication: Corie is struggling with ADHD without even realizing it. After missing yet another pageant commitment puts her on shaky ground with her coach, Corie wonders how she can possibly live up to everyone’s expectations, including her own.
When a regional horror host announces a monster costume contest where first place gets a guest appearance on the show featuring the winner's choice movie and cash prize, Corie knows she’s found a way to prove what she’s capable of. All she has to do is convince a grumpy special effects makeup artist, Everett Robbins, to partner up and turn her into a pageant-worthy monster. But when the contest distracts her from her pageant obligations, Corie must decide which matters more: pageants―and her promises to her family―or achieving her horror movie dreams?
Author Adrienne Rivera
Adrienne Rivera is a YA author from in Indiana. She has an MFA in fiction from Southern Illinois University. With her first book, she has finally achieved her dream of melding her love of romcoms, horror, and baked potatoes.
Adrienne spends much of her time catering to the whims of an assortment of cats and one bossy yorkiepoo. Her hobbies include board games, cozy video games, and rarely finishing a TV series she starts. You can often find her crying over before and after photos of rescue animals.
She is represented by Natascha Morris at The Tobias Literary Agency. Her first novel, MY FAIR MONSTER, is available August 19th, 2025.