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Catherine Hapka @catherinehapka.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Battle Hymns for Children Singing by Haysi Fantayzee

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Catherine Hapka @catherinehapka.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Aww, my Won (plus the peanut gallery) says welcome to your new life, Okra! (Great name!!)

A seal pointSiamese cat is meatloafing on a windowsill, looking directly at camera. Two Devon Rex cats are peeking in from the left.

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Catherine Hapka @catherinehapka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Happy re-release day to me! My #YA romcom is officially back out in the world with its fab new cover! See alt text for story description (full of teen romance and holiday hijinks)! Read a free extended excerpt on Simon Teen dot com - or just go ahead and buy it wherever books are sold! 🎄💕❄️🎁👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨📖💘☃️🥰

Publicity graphic showing on a cell phone screen. It features a book cover for THE TWELVE DATES OF CHRISTMAS by Catherine Hapka. Cover art shows two teens decorating a Christmas tree together. Additional text: SIMON TEEN above, and START READING NOW ON SIMONTEEN.COM below.

All Lexi wants for Christmas is a second chance!

Lexi's been going out with Cameron for way too long. Sure he's a nice guy, but there's just no spark between them anymore. So she comes up with the perfect plan to get him to fall for another girl so she'll be free -- and guilt free.

The idea seems to work perfectly -- until Lexi's best friend tells her that once a new couple has gone out a dozen times their relationship is pretty much set. Suddenly Lexi is having second thoughts, and every time she sees Cameron and new girl in town Jaylene looking cozy together her heart breaks a little bit more.

Before she knows it, Cameron and Jaylene's twelfth date -- the Christmas Ball -- is coming up fast! Can Lexi find a way to rekindle things with Cameron before it's too late?

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Catherine Hapka @catherinehapka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

So what was with all the hate and snarky comments about YESTERYEAR all over the Internetz a while back? I avoided them at the time not wanting to be spoilered but now I'm curious... I quite enjoyed it (and I'm not usually one for "book club picks" or even mainstream adult fiction...). 🤷‍♀️ #booksky

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Catherine Hapka @catherinehapka.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Another pre-order sale for B&N rewards members! Go pre-order a new book (by me or anyone else) if you feel so inclined! #booksky

Promotional ad: BARNES & NOBLE PREMIUM & REWARDS MEMBERS ONLINE EXCLUSIVE; 25% OFF UPCOMING BOOKS WITH CODE: PREORDER25. Premium members save an extra 10%. Includes eBook and Audiobooks.

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Catherine Hapka @catherinehapka.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Makes sense I guess. I was born in DE and currently live just a few miles from it. Fun quiz; interesting to see some options for terms and pronunciations that I've never heard in the wild!

Dialect map with shading. At top text says You talk most like someone from Delaware - about 56% of your answers match a typical resident.

Cities most and least like you. My "most similar" cities are Philly, Baltimore, and DC. Least similar are NOLA, Nashville, and Atlanta.

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Catherine Hapka @catherinehapka.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Probably my second favorite (after RHPS) Tim Curry performance, brief though it was:

A scene from the American TV show Will and Grace. At left, John Cleese as Lyle Finster, center Tim Curry as Marion Finster, right Megan Mullally as Karen Walker.

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Catherine Hapka @catherinehapka.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Post a picture that should be an album cover.

Five kittens in various shades of gray and black. They are young enough to still have blue eyes, which appear quite googly and wild here. The front two basically look kind of insane or at least weird.

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Catherine Hapka @catherinehapka.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Really too many to mention but I’ll just mention this

Cover of a Trixie Belden book, The Secret of the Mansion.

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Catherine Hapka @catherinehapka.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Kate Moss in the Ab Fab movie, along with a million other cameos (Stella McCartney, Jerry Hall, Lulu (champagne for Lulu!), Joan Collins, Gaultier, Perez Hilton, Anya Hindmarch, Graham Norton....)

Kate Moss as herself in Absolutely Fabulous the Movie; two shots of her dressed in a green sequined gown. One close up of her in the water and one of her leaning on the edge of the boat holding a cigarette.

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Catherine Hapka @catherinehapka.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

There was just an absolutely massive clap of thunder, and then I went upstairs and saw this. Weather feeling kinda biblical rn… 😳

Photo of a tiny frog clinging to a wet window screen on the second floor with dark sky beyond.

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Catherine Hapka @catherinehapka.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Possibly the cutest show ever: Dinosaur on Hulu

Some of the characters from Dinosaur on Hulu.

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Catherine Hapka @catherinehapka.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Me as Madonna in college. Note the homemade Boy Toy belt buckle.

A college girl in a makeshift 80s era Madonna costume. Couldn’t get my hair blonde without bleach but the rest isn’t too bad considering I spent virtually no money lol. I might have bought the mesh gloves?

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Catherine Hapka @catherinehapka.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Guess we don't have to water the garden today... 😳🌱⛈️

Photo of a rain gauge showing a little over 3 1/2 inches of rain has fallen today. Wet garden in background.

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Catherine Hapka @catherinehapka.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Promo giveaway time! Check out my forthcoming #YA rerelease and lots of other fantastic winter themed books at IG, courtesy of @mistywilsonwrites.bsky.social. It's Christmas in July! Free books! Check it out! Link 👇 www.instagram.com/p/DaQK9nili4...

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Catherine Hapka @catherinehapka.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It's baby chick day! All arrived safe and sound from @mcmurrayhatchery.bsky.social via the USPS. #chickens

Photo of day old baby chicks looking a bit stunned to be out of the box that carried them from the hatchery in Iowa to SE PA. Standing on newspaper under a red heat lamp. Variety of breeds.

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Catherine Hapka @catherinehapka.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

SALE SALE SALE! B&N is running a 25% off preorders sale this week (Tues 6/23-Fri 6/26) for members. Everyone loves a sale! Go order stuff! And if my eligible #YA romance happens to fall into your cart, well, I won't complain... www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-twelve... Code: PREORDER25 #BNPreorder