Kelsie Stelting

Curvy girls deserve happily ever afters too. I’m a big girl, “plus-sized,” whatever. I’m sick of hearing about it, especially since my doctor diagnosed me with PCOS. So when Mean Girl Merritt shot her mouth off about how fat people should just lose weight, I couldn’t take it anymore. And now I’ve got a huge problem. To prove curvy girls like me can get happily-ever-afters too, I have to get our school’s quarterback, Beckett Langley, to take me to homecoming. And he doesn’t know I even exist. But it’s not hopeless. Four other girls just like me are willing to help, because enough is enough. I will not lose this bet.

It’s the first day at my new school and I already have a wide load sticker on my back.But this is still better than life was before. Before I was taken away from my parents. Before I moved in with my grandma. Before I met Jon Scoller.He’s cute, he lives down the street, but the guy asks way too many questions. Questions about a past I’d rather forget. And I am not his type. He needs to be with a cheerleader. A perfect girl. Someone who doesn’t look like the before picture for a weight loss shake.Jon makes me feel like I’m more than a number on the scale, but I’m starting to wonder: does he feel the same way or does he just feel sorry for me?Fans of Sierra Burgess is a Loser, Dumplin’, and Sugar will love this heartfelt YA romance with diverse characters, a ride or die group of friends, and a teenage girl who’s still figuring it all out. Download Abi and the Boy Next Door today.

Meeting pop sensation Jude Santiago might be the best thing for my singing career. And the worst thing for my heart. Singing is my life, but no agency will sign me because of my size. They want me to lose weight. Dress differently. Be someone other than my size twenty self. They want me to be like Jude Santiago with his perfectly fitted jeans and tight t-shirts and completely sell out. There’s no way I’m going down that path, and I tell him so, publicly, on my Youtube channel. But when it gets back to him, he has an agreement: go on tour with him and see for myself that he’s authentic. If I can’t, he won’t make another album. This will be the sweetest bet I’ve ever won... Or the biggest, most public heartbreak of the century.

He bullied my sister. Now it’s his turn to pay. Ryker is the top of the Emerson Academy food chain, and he uses his power to remind everyone of just how powerless they are. Until now. When I see him picking on the most innocent girl in school for her weight, I snap. Ignoring him is no longer enough. No, my friends and I are going to make him pay. He’s going to go down as the hottest mess Emerson Academy has ever seen, and I’m going to be the one lighting the flame.

When my dog runs away on the beach and into the arms of a handsome surfer, I think I’m in luck. Until I realize said surfer is actually a crusty, rude, player who acts like he owns the ocean. I want to forget the encounter ever happened and focus on helping care for my dad, who suffered a brain injury while in the military. But I’m out of luck. Jerk supreme, aka Diego, goes to my new school. And since we’re in the same classes, I’ll be seeing a lot of his stupid white teeth and mischievous eyes while I do my best to finish my senior year and get started on my career. Getting paired with him for a class project was just the icing on the cake. But the more time I spend with him, the more I realize first impressions aren’t always true. I’m falling for him, but I need to stay away. Military brats know everything is temporary. I’ll only break his heart. *** A Note from the Author * Hi there, I have a HUGE, crazy goal of hitting the NYT Bestsellers List with this book, because I want to see fat representation on one of the biggest bestsellers lists in existence. I'm hoping you will help me. All you have to do is preorder a copy of this book for less than a dollar and tell your friends about the Curvy Girl Club. I promise, an amazing story is coming, and you will love every single page. Lots of love, Kelsie Stelting

How much money does it take to buy a broken heart? There are three things I hate: rich people, boys, and Kai Rush. Kai happens to be all three. He and his dad have all the money in the world from the game app they created, and what do they do with it? They buy private helicopters and flaunt their brand new Teslas. Never mind that people like my mom and I work multiple jobs just to keep our crappy apartment and pay for back medical bills because my dad ran scared and left us alone. So when my mom tells me we have a new cleaning job at the Rush’s before school, I’m peeved. When he starts texting me, I’m floored. Fit billionaires like him and plus-sized scholarship kids like me barely belong at Emerson Academy together, much less in the same message thread. How can I get him to see I'm not the catch he thinks I am? More importantly, how can I get my heart to stay on the same page?

Emerson’s first Pride Celebration is full of joy, love, and enough drama to last a lifetime. Ever since coming out, Xi’s parents have been her biggest cheerleaders, pushing her to join the Emerson Pride Association and making the community a better place for people like her. Now, she’s got the huge responsibility of planning Emerson Academy’s first ever inclusive prom to take place after the town’s very first pride parade, even though she’s never had a girlfriend or even a date of her own. Kiyana’s hidden her orientation long as she can remember. The only person who knows is her secretly gay best friend/fake boyfriend, Stefon. Their relationship has kept judgmental family and public scrutiny off their backs throughout high school. But with their senior year behind them, everything is about to change. When Stefon convinces Kiyana to come to the Pride Celebration, she immediately recognizes Xi, the cute edgy girl at school who’s always on the outside but seems secure in who she is. Can the Pride Celebration show Kiyana it's safe to go with Xi to the prom? Or will Xi's first prom go down as another dateless night in history? Curvy Girls Can’t Date Curvy Girls is a Pride edition story in the Curvy Girl Club celebrating body positivity, diversity, and most of all love. Start reading now to start this sweet and swoony romance!

Our foreign exchange student is a prince. A real-life prince. Like of a country. And he’s not one of those ugly ones with big teeth that girls only like because he’s royal. No, he’s hot. On fire. I’m drooling just thinking about him. But that’s the problem, because the only reason my parents took him in is because they don’t think there’s any way a guy like him could crush on a girl like me. I’m going to prove them wrong. I don’t know how. But I’m going to figure out a way to make Leopold Williams fall for me before I cross the graduation stage.

He’s in love with me. The only problem? He thinks I’m someone else. I’ve spent my whole life trying not to get bullied. For my frizzy hair. My freckles. The white patches on my black skin or the gap in my teeth. Not to mention the extra hundred pounds I have on most of my classmates. So when my soldier pen pal wants to see a picture of me, I freak. I send him a picture of one of the it girls at school and move on. The odds of us meeting in person are less than zero, and for once in my life, I want to know what it feels like to be one of the beautiful girls. Someone a guy like him would be into. And it is amazing... Until I start to feel more about him than just a pen pal should. He says he feels the same way, but when he wants to meet me, I have a huge problem. How can I put my heart on the line when I can’t even show my face?

The strongest bodybuilder in Emerson isn’t a match for my focus. Emerson Dance is one of the most prestigious dance companies in the country. And I got kicked off the team right before nationals because my curves don’t “fit.” Not their idea of a perfect dancer's body and definitely not their costume. I’m going to enter the competition on my own and show them that every body is a dancer’s body. It will mean practicing in the gym with the bodybuilders, but I can shove my nerves - and my attraction to Carter McCormac – aside long enough to win. My reputation, and my future, depend on it.

It was all fake dating and games until my heart got involved... I wanted to have the best summer ever. To have my first kiss and finally get my brother’s best friend to notice me. So I talked my best friend Carson into helping. He’d do anything for me, and I’d do the same for him. But somewhere between fake dating and pretending to fall in love with him, I fell for real. And it was the dumbest thing I’ve ever done. In the last four books of The Curvy Girl Club, Carson and Callie have stayed best friends. Now it’s time for a love story all their own. Start reading Curvy Girls Can’t Date Best Friends today for a story sweeter and more delicious than honey!

An arranged marriage and a bad boy who breaks all of the rules… My father’s been planning my wedding day for longer than I have. Since I turned seventeen, he’s sent me on date after date with people from the film industry–producers, directors, actors… I’ve dated–and turned down–them all. But Ryde Alexander is the worst. He’s vapid, self-obsessed, and it doesn’t help that his sister is evil in a pair of Louboutin heels. Too bad he’s the one my dad is determined to send me down the aisle with the day I turn eighteen. My only escape is a food delivery boy and a motorcycle my dad would have a heart attack if I got on. But I don’t care. I need to get away, and Ronan is more than happy to take me. But this forbidden getaway driver is starting to mean more to me than the man I’m supposed to marry. The only problem is, I may not have a choice. Zara’s story in The Curvy Girl Club is the emotional, exciting read you have been waiting for! Who wouldn’t want to be whisked away on the back of Ronan Moretti’s motorcycle and have the adventure of a lifetime? Start reading Curvy Girls Can’t Date Bad Boys today and begin falling in love.

The one thing my parents can’t shelter me from is my heart. I nearly died the summer of my eighth grade year, and ever since then, my parents have done everything they could to keep me healthy. Now I’m a senior, and instead of feeling safe, I’m suffocating. When my parents take my twin sisters out of town for an audition, I have my chance to show them that I’m responsible. That I can go to college on my own and start a life outside of their organic food store and Emerson Academy. All I have to do is turn in all my assignments and have a few quiet nights at home. No problem. That is, until my video project partner decides to be a total flake. Ray may be hot and fill out a pair of Wrangler jeans like nobody’s business, but he is not ruining my chance at freedom. I go to his family’s ranch to get his help, but instead discover something else. Could everything my parents taught me be wrong? Unless I act fast, my quiet weekend will ruin my chance at freedom and wreck my heart faster than the flash of my camera.

She’s so focused on fighting for her dreams, she forgets to fight for herself.Skye starts her junior year with a plan: make the volleyball team, win Kellum’s attention, and crush a few weightlifting records while she’s at it. Even with less-than supportive parents, an absentee sister, and a senior girl aching for revenge, Skye’s determined to make this year her best one ever. In a world where friends can become enemies in the blink of an eye, the price of success is high, and for a girl who doesn’t have much, Skye’s willing to pay it all.Hope, love, heartache, and perseverance tangle in this contemporary coming of age novel filled with honest fiction. Pick up Lonesome Skye today and get lost in the rush of chasing your dreams and the freefall of all that happens after.Part of The Texas Star Series, Lonesome Skye is the first of three contemporary young adult books that will appeal to fans of Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, and books by John Green, Nicola Yoon, and Becky Abertalli.

Is she ready to pick up the pieces of her broken life?Skye wakes up in the hospital with her world turned upside down. She can’t play sports, but that might be the least of her problems. The nightmare life she leads at home traps her between reality and the carefree girl she wants to be.When she goes from almost-never-been-kissed to kissing two guys in a week, she has to make a choice no amount of studying could have prepared her for. Can sweet nothings and flirty texts help Skye escape her pain, or will they just lead to more heartache?Continue reading this clean and wholesome contemporary, coming-of-age series that shows the best and worst of what it means to be a teen in the heart of Texas.Part of The Texas Star Series, Becoming Skye is the second of three contemporary young adult books that will appeal to fans of Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, and books by John Green, Nicola Yoon, and Becky Abertalli.

Brand new in the Curvy Girl Club! There are two kinds of people in the Those who live in the limelight, and those allergic to attention. And somehow, they always find each other. TERRELL Terrell had his last basketball season at Emerson Academy all planned out. Step one, win the state championship. Step two, get recruited by the best colleges in the nation. Step three, play in college and then go pro. But life had other plans. When all the other starters on the team are kicked off for being caught at a party, he’s left playing with freshmen who've never seen varsity playing time. If he wants a to get attention from recruiters now, he has to buckle down. That means focusing on the team and the team alone. SADIE Sadie would be the picture next to “introvert” in the dictionary. And Sadie was fine with that... until the college counselor says her being a loner is keeping her from the sterling recommendation letter she needs to get into her dream marine biology program. So when the basketball team comes to her family’s art studio for lessons designed to help them bond, Sadie volunteers to lead them, in exchange for a letter from the basketball coach. But when she gets to know Terrell more, she finds she prefers his company to being alone. Can she handle being the popular guy’s girlfriend? Will he be okay with a relationship in the shadows? Find out in Curvy Girls Can’t Date Point Guards.

After a senior boy broke her heart freshman year, Anika Anders had sworn off dating until college, but an english assignment makes that almost impossible. Cue Shawn Adams, her military pen pal. He’s sexy, he’s kind, he’s 23, and every letter he sends makes Anika like him even more. Things become complicated when Kyle Rayford, blond basketball star, breaks up with the girl he’d dated since freshman year and asks Anika out. But now that she has a chance with him does she want it? Will she choose the steamy man in uniform who’s written her beautiful letters, or the reliable guy who’s afraid to lose her? Or, will her broken heart ruin her chance at love?

Everyone knows that if you want to have an incredible Christmas season, you go to Garland, Maine, where the entire town joins in on celebrating Christmas. Well, everyone except me. Every year since my parents’ divorce, they’ve fought to make Christmas at their place the best. Shuffling back and forth between the two and running ragged with all the activities has ruined the holidays every year. So this year, I finally tell them both I’m done celebrating Christmas. And they agree on one I have to show the new guy in town the best Garland has to offer this year. I thought it would be a tedious set of tasks to show him around, but for the first time I’m having fun during the holidays. Even better? I think he likes me too. That is until I learn our arrangement wasn’t just a way for me to get out of the Christmas Olympics with my parents. There was something in it for him too. And at the end of it all, I have to wonder… Was any of it real for him, or would I have been better off celebrating with my parents after all?

Everyone knows that if you want a Christmas wish to come true, you go to Garland, Maine, and make a wish as the star is placed on top of the tree in Cider Center. And this year, I made an impossible wish–that all of my friends and I would fall in love before the holiday was over. The only problem? No guy at school has ever even looked my way long enough to be interested in me. Now I’m worried this might be my first Christmas wish that won’t come true… Until I start working in Santa’s workshop. And Santa? He’s not a pudgy, hairy old man. He’s a hottie in a red suit with captivating blue eyes, a stunning sense of humor, and a smile that makes me melt like a snowman in March. Unfortunately, the other Garland tradition is that no one can know Santa’s true identity. I’m falling for him, but if he tells me who he really is, he’ll break the most sacred tradition in Garland. And without knowing him, this relationship will never be more than a winter fling. How can my wish come true when I’ll never know who Santa really is?

What happens when the Christmas-loving curvy girl is forced to volunteer for a Christmas charity with the grumpiest guy in a town? I’m babysitting two little girls while their mom works and their dad’s deployed. Their mom asked me to keep them busy serving others so they don’t have time to miss their dad. I’m all for it… until I realize the charity she signed us up for is managed by the Scrooge-iest guy in town. You’d think someone who’s grown up selling Christmas trees with a giant, fluffy dog named Bauble would have a little more holiday spirit but no such luck. His parents put him in charge of the project to try boosting his mood. At first, I’m not sure their plan is working, but once I see his gentler side with the girls, I start falling for him, even though I know we’re more opposite than peppermint and garlic. As he opens up to me, I have to wonder… Does all the mistletoe in town have my head coming up with make-believe stories that will never come true? Is he being nice just for the girls? Or could he be thawing his heart for me too?