A Merry Little Meet Cute (2022), with Sierra Simone.If the Shoe Fits (2021), Meant to Be #1 series.Dear Sweet Pea (2019), children's novel.Because of this, she had to delay going to college. Personal life ĭuring Murphy's childhood, her family struggled financially and lost their home the week she graduated from high school. Murphy's sequel, Faith: Greater Heights, was then released in 2021. They're a potent rebuttal to decades of systemic fatphobia through the act of creative joy'. That's what makes characters like Faith and writers like Murphy so desperately necessary. Kayleigh Donaldson, for SyFy Wire, wrote that 'the message being sent is clear: To the rest of the world, it is impossible to be both fat and happy. In 2020, Murphy retold the origin story of the superhero Faith Herbert from Valiant Comics in the YA prose novel Faith: Taking Flight. In 2019, Disney Channel optioned the rights to Dear Sweet Pea, and it is on the Disney Channel Original Movie development slate. Now the author is returning with a new novel that carries her signature appeal, this time in the middle-grade space'. And her books continue to resonate for so much more: their plucky characters, their irresistible sweetness, their delightful sense of humor. Nivea Serrao, for Entertainment Weekly, commented that 'the best-selling author of Dumplin’ and Ramona Blue has broken out in YA fiction with a message. Her first middle grade novel, titled Dear Sweet Pea, was published in 2019. Julie Murphy has a knack for crafting memorable YA protagonists'. Nivea Serrao, for Entertainment Weekly, commented that 'First came Side Effects May Vary‘s Alice, then came Dumplin’s Willowdean, and now there’s the titular Ramona Blue.

In 2017, Murphy released her third YA novel titled Ramona Blue.

The novel was the first of a trilogy and was followed by Puddin’ (2018) and Pumpkin (2021). Dumplin' was adapted into a Netflix movie of the same name in 2018. The novel became a New York Times bestseller. Critical reception for Dumplin’ has been positive. Her next young adult novel, titled Dumplin', was published in 2015. Murphy wrote the book as part of National Novel Writing Month around 2010 while working as a librarian in Texas. Murphy's literary debut was the young adult (YA) novel Side Effects May Vary which was published by Balzer + Bray on March 18, 2014.

Murphy wrote her first novel, Side Effects May Vary, during National Novel Writing Month. Julie Murphy (8 November 1985 ) is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the books Side Effects May Vary (2014), Dumplin' (2015), Ramona Blue (2017), and Puddin' (2018).

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