Totally Psychic

by Brigid Martin

Overview

This debut middle grade series stars a Cuban-American tween medium navigating friends, family and ghosts!
 
Paloma Ferrer is psychic. In fact, everyone in her family line has “the gift.” Now that Paloma has come into her powers, she dreams of becoming a famous medium to celebrities, just like her beloved grandma.
 
When Paloma’s parents move them from Miami to Los Angeles, she hatches a plan to get her career as a medium up and running:

• Host seances at her new school and stream on social media
• Build her profile and make a name for herself
• Avoid detection from her tattletale of a little sister

But when a reading gone awry leaves Paloma in a sticky situation with a new friend, she’ll need more than a crystal ball to find her way out of this mess.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780369735119
Publisher:	Inkyard Press
Publication date:	08/15/2023
Sold by:	HARLEQUIN
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	832,430
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Brigid Martin is a New York based writer, reader, and serial hobbyist with a soft spot for friendly ghosts. Brigid received her master's degree from Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business and undergraduate degree in English and Music from Stony Brook University. Brigid has enjoyed a career in the publishing field for nearly a decade and is excited to be on the other side of the page with her debut novel, Totally Psychic.

Editorial Reviews

07/24/2023

A 12-year-old Cuban American medium dreams of becoming a world-renowned psychic just like her abuela in Martin’s laugh-out-loud debut, a lighthearted lesson in the downsides of chasing Internet acclaim. Paloma Ferrer, who is part of a long line of psychics, loves the attention that comes from being the granddaughter of Gloria, medium to the rich and famous and host of the wildly popular show Miami Mystic. Paloma believes she’s ready to follow in Abuela’s footsteps by joining her on a tour across Latin America. When her parents announce they’re moving the family from Miami to Los Angeles to escape Abuela’s limelight, Paloma’s determined not to let the setback curtail her ambition. She will just have to show her abuela what she can do by secretly livestreaming séances from her new school’s greenhouse. But as requests for readings start piling up, ghosts begin to overstay their welcome, and her nosy younger sister becomes suspicious, Paloma must figure out a way to clean up her act. Through Paloma’s unabashedly youthful voice, Martin crafts a predictable narrative that’s satisfying in its meditations on tween friendship, balancing the responsibilities of newfound power and charting one’s own path within family traditions. Ages 8–12. Agent: Suzie Townsend, New Leaf Literary. (Aug.)

Publishers Weekly

"Totally Psychic is a fun, thrilling adventure full of friendship, self-discovery, and hilarious ghostly mischief. I want to join Paloma’s loyal, magical family!" —Nina Moreno, author of Join the Club, Maggie Diaz


"A sweet ghostly adventure with a magical family you won’t soon forget, Totally Psychic is a colorful bouquet of hijinks that will have you rooting for every character, human and ghost alike! Paloma’s powers are a delight even when they’re causing a pile of problems." —Anna Meriano, author of the Love Sugar Magic series

"A feel-good paranormal romp teeming with ghosts and happy outcomes." —Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

Totally Psychic is a fun, thrilling adventure full of friendship, self-discovery, and hilarious ghostly mischief. I want to join Paloma’s loyal, magical family!”

Nina Moreno

A sweet ghostly adventure with a magical family you won’t soon forget.”

author of the Love Sugar Magic series Anna Meriano

2023-05-09
Ghosts aren’t all that haunt a young seer when her family abruptly relocates to Rancho Cucamonga.

Unfazed by ectoplasmic encounters since “we always had more ghosts than pastelitos in our house,” 12-year-old Cuban American Paloma Ferrer yearns to join her celebrity psychic abuela, former star of Miami Mystic, on her annual tour of Latin America. Alas, those hopes come crashing down when her parents transport her and pesky little sister Magdelena from Miami to California. Paloma is disappointed by the “boring beige rectangle” of her new home—“no beach in sight!” Her mom warns her to save her “enthusiasm for making new friends with real living people,” so Paloma decides to make a good impression on her new schoolmates by conducting readings that inadvertently release hordes of specters to roam the halls and classrooms. Worse yet, a new friendship is shattered when, at the behest of an insistent ghost, she reveals to classmate Willow private, painful information. Martin casts the ghosts as largely harmless or even friendly and even summons spectral chickens and a cat to add to the fun. The pervasive rosy glow continues through to the happy ending, with most of the ghosts sent back to the spirit world and fences mended with Willow. A surprise Christmas reunion of the whole psychically gifted family, living and otherwise, sends the tale out on a buoyant rush of good feelings.

A feel-good paranormal romp teeming with ghosts and happy outcomes. (Fantasy. 9-13)

Kirkus Reviews