Katie Hallahan
Author, Geek, Game Designer, Amateur Nail Artist, Snark Advocate
Book-inspired nail art
I love nail art. I love color and cute and interesting designs, and having little clever artwork on my fingers! I also love books. You might see where I'm going with!
In 2024, I started doing book-inspired nail art for some of my fellow debut authors, and it was even more fun than I hoped! It was great motivation to both read some amazing books I may have missed, and to challenge myself to make some fun nail art for each of them. I also had a lot of fun putting together videos for each of them! Filming my process of creating the nail art, picking music, making the cover images--it's been such a rewarding way to bring together and celebrate two things I love. You can see some of my book-inspired nail art here, and more of them on my Instagram.
I am eager to keep this going! If you're interested in having some book-inspired nail art for your book, please fill out this Google form.
This is open to any and all books, whether it's your first or fifth, trad pub or indie, just released, upcoming, or already been released!
About Katie
Katie Hallahan is a fantasy author who loves tabletop RPGs, vampire TV shows, corgis, dabbling in nail art, and pumpkin spice everything. She has designed award-winning narrative adventure games at Phoenix Online Studios, an indie game studio she co-founded. She lives with her husband and son in Boston, Massachusetts where, shockingly, she actually uses her blinker when making turns.
Her debut novel, The Twice-Sold Soul, an LGBTQ contemporary fantasy, is available now from Orbit.