Spoke at the New Canaan Library today on a panel called BREAKING IN: HOW TO GET AN AGENT AND A PUBLISHER IN THE 21ST CENTURY. It was PACKED and the audience had great questions! The panel includes four authors and an agent with all varying experience in the literary field. I speak on behalf of children's book authors and focus on "THE THREE C'S OF ( Read more... )

Ever wondered how to get to magical land of a NYC publishing house? Does it seem more difficult than Dorothy's trip to the land of Oz? We might not have a tin man, a cowardly lion, or a scarecrow to guide us, but we have someone better: Andrew Karre, acquisitions editor for Llewellyn Worldwide and FLUX ( Read more... )

Look what Nicole, the teen librarian and the rest of the Fairfield Library Staff sent me for the launch of BRINGING THE BOY HOME. They opened up just in time for my launch party this past weekend.

Aren't they beautiful? And the roses are pretty too.


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Ever wonder who does the reviews at ALAN Online , Teens Read Too, YA (& Kids) Books Central, The Edge of the Forest , Fuse # 8, Reviewer X, Off to Turn Another Page, Book Chic, Slayground, Reader Rabbit and many other places ( Read more... )

So yesterday, Google Alerts happened to alert me to this from Kirkus ( Read more... )

Oh, my gosh. I'm so far behind in talking about books that I can't wait to read, but the only way to catch up is to start, so....

Jen Bradbury SHIFT


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Head on over to nancy_v and enter her "too cool for science school" contest ( Read more... )

Thank you so much everyone for your wonderful comments and generous donations to my 3Day Walk!

Between my kid's two school classes and the LJ community, people donated over $800 this past Mother's Day weekend to help me STOMP out breast cancer.

I am thrilled!

My final words on the matter:


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Happy early Mother’s Day, everyone ( Read more... )

I had the awesome honor of meeting fellow Class of 2k8 authors, M.P. Barker (A Difficult Boy, Holiday House, April 2008) and Ellen Booraem (The Unnameables, Harcourt Children's Books, October 2008) at the NESCBWI conference this weekend ( Read more... )