Check In To Maverick’s Heartbreak Hotel!

Have you ever wanted to disappear after someone broke your heart?

Heartbreak Hotel knows exactly how you feel, and will do anything to coddle your illusions. But what is the expiration date of a dream? And when you have to return to reality, who will help you put the fragments of your heart back together?

Author Micol Beltramini says, “Heartbreak Hotel is the book I’ve always wanted to write. It holds a piece of every trauma I’ve ever experienced, every tear I’ve shed over every story I gave my heart to, echoes of my past and present life, and all my loves– – real or imaginary, platonic or not. And I couldn’t have hoped for a better travel companion than Agnese, since we’ve always inhabited the same narrative universe. She’s the Nana Komatsu to my Nana Osaki! When we found out that Heartbreak Hotel would be published by Maverick, we jumped for joy! We can’t wait to hear what American readers think—and not just the young ones, we want everyone to read it!”

HEARTBREAK HOTEL
Writer: Micol Arianna Beltramini – Artist: Agnese Innocente
Release Date: September 30, 2025
ISBN: 9781545820421

Synopsis: Have you ever wanted to disappear after someone broke your heart? Heartbreak Hotel knows exactly how you feel, and will do anything to coddle your illusions. But what is the expiration date of a dream? And when you have to return to reality, who will help you put the fragments of your heart back together?

Meet the Creators!

Writer, Micol Arianna Beltramini (She/Her)
Micol Arianna Beltramini writes and translates books and comics. Author of the bestseller 101 cose da fare a Milano almeno una volta nella vita (Newton Compton 2008), her latest novel is titled La mia amica Scavezzacollo (Hacca 2022). Among her comics are Last Goodbye: un tributo a Jeff Buckley (Edizioni BD 2019), Murder Ballads (Mondadori Oscar Ink 2021), Anna dai capelli verdi (Il Battello a Vapore 2022), and Heartbreak Hotel (Il Castoro 2024). 

For Edizioni BD, she curated the Psycho Pop collection and the volume Viva Valentina!, which features stories of Crepax’s heroine written and illustrated by other authors (her own stories by Corrado Roi and Lola Airaghi). Since 2015, she has been translating Crepax’s entire body of work into English for Fantagraphics, and starting in 2024, she teaches storytelling at the International School of Comics.
(best known comics: Murder Ballads, Anna dai capelli verdi, Heartbreak Hotel)

Artist, Agnese Innocente (She/Her)
Agnese Innocente, born in 1994, has had a strong passion for drawing and storytelling since she was very young. In 2019 she worked as a complete author on the comic book adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Battello a Vapore). In 2020 she drew the YA graphic novel Girotondo (Editrice Il Castoro), written by Sergio Rossi, winning the Andersen Award for best comic book in 2021. In 2022 she drew Anna dai capelli verdi (Battello a Vapore), a contemporary adaptation of Anna dai capelli rossi written by Micol Beltramini, winning the Boscarato Award for best comic book for a young audience in 2022.

Also written by Micol Beltramini, in 2024 she drew Heartbreak Hotel (Editrice Il Castoro), later acquired in several other countries. She collaborates with various clients in the USA including Disney (Mulan’s Adventure Journal: the Palace of Secrets, 2020, Anna’s Adventure Journal: behind the castle walls, 2022) and Warner (Harry Potter, Looney Tunes). In Italy she collaborates as an illustrator and cartoonist with various editors and clients such as Rizzoli, Mondadori, Piemme, Giunti, Erickson, De Agostini, Edizioni EL, Feltrinelli, National Geographic, Panini. In France she works with Glénat (Audrey Hepburn – Un ange aux yeux de faon, 2023; Tumpie – La Jeunesse tumultueuse de Joséphine Baker, 2025) and Jungle.

SNEAK PEEK!

Heartbreak Hotel is now available for pre-order on the official Maverick website, and will be available at your favorite bookstore, local comic shop, and digital comic reader on September 20th, 2025!

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