NEWS FOR THE SILENCED

February
2026
Delco Today, 2 Delaware County Reform Schools Inspire Young Adult Novel
January
2026
Locas Magazine, 2025 Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot
November
2025
Bostonia Magazine, Reading List: New Fiction by Alums
Suburban Life Magazine, Spine-Tingling Reads
October
2025
Carnegie Library, A Haunting Afternoon with Cynthia Pelayo and Diana Rodriguez Wallach
Geek Girl Authority, “New Release Radar”
Locus Magazine, “13 Spine-Chilling Books for October”
Coffee Addicted Writer, ‘The Silenced’: A YA Delight That Will Haunt You this Fall
September
2025
Daily Times newspaper, Delaware County PA “Author bases new horror novel on former Glen Mills, Sleighton Farm Schools”
Out SFL
“September YA Releases from Underlined”
Main Line Today magazine
The Silenced Takes Inspiration From Delaware County Reform Schools”
Out SFL
“Voices That Lift Me: How Romina Garber and Diana Rodriguez Wallach Inspired Me to Believe in My Own | Opinion”
Delco Today
“2 Delaware County Reform Schools Inspire Young Adult Novel”
Book Riot
“New YA Book Releases for September 17, 2025”
August
2025

Daily Times newspaper, Delaware County PA “Author bases new horror novel on former Glen Mills, Sleighton Farm Schools”
July
2025
 The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books review of The Silenced
“…a heartbreaking twist that ends up being both devastating and hopeful. Wallach amplifies a familiar ghost story into something painfully haunting…”
June
2025
YA Books Central
review of The Silenced
“…Haunting, suspenseful thriller where generational trauma refuses to remain silent…The Reformatory meets the Troubled Teen Industry with supernatural suspense mixed in to make this a captivating thriller…”