Business Summary:
New York Times bestselling author Jenna Blum has been writing professionally since 1986, when her short story "The Legacy of Frank Finklestein" won First Prize in Seventeen Magazine's national fiction contest. Jenna's debut novel Those Who Save Us was published by Harcourt in 2004. In October 2007 the novel, called "the little book that could" in Publishers Weekly, jumped onto the Boston Globe and the New York Times bestseller lists.
Jenna's second novel, The Stormchasers, was published by Dutton in May 2010 to critical and popular acclaim. Jenna is currently on her East Coast tour with The Stormchasers, which is available wherever books are sold.
About:
JENNA BLUM is the author of the New York Times bestseller Those Who Save Us (Harcourt, 2004) and The Stormchasers (Dutton, 2010). Jenna is also one of Oprah's Top Thirty Women Writers (http://www.oprah.com/oprahsbookclub/Favorite-Women-Writers). Jenna attended Kenyon College and Boston University, where she taught creative writing and journalism for five years. Currently, Jenna runs master novel workshops for Grub Street Writers in Boston, where she lives. She spends her non-writing time on the road speaking at events and attending book clubs to discuss her novels-- with Those Who Save Us, Jenna visited over 800 book clubs in the Boston area alone!, and she looks forward to continuing the trend with The Stormchasers. Jenna has just completed her Tornado Alley author tour for The Stormchasers, which she researched by chasing tornadoes for five years with the stormchase company Tempest Tours. She is currently touring with The Stormchasers on the East Coast. For more information about Jenna, her novels, and her upcoming appearances, please visit www.jennablum.com