Jennifer Adams
Author
Jennifer Adams has worked as a publishing professional for 25 years. As an editor at Deseret Book, Quirk Books, Sounds True, and Gibbs Smith, she has edited picture books, middle grade, young adult, and adult--both fiction and nonfiction. With her depth of experience as an editor, she will help you look at your novel with fresh eyes and find the things that need to be reworked, cut, ironed out, or reimagined.
In her life as a writer, Jennifer has published 65 books, including picture books, activity books, poetry, literary nonfiction, cookbooks, and board book originals. Her BabyLit series, which introduces small children to the world of classic literature, has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, Parents, and Wired. It has sold a combined 2.5 million copies and has been translated in 10 languages.
Jennifer is a sought-out speaker and teacher, teaching at many writing conferences and workshops and working as adjunct faculty in the Linguistics Department at Brigham Young University.
As a bookseller, Jennifer works weekends at The King's English Bookshop, where she reads widely and rubs shoulders with readers of all kinds and all ages, staying abreast of what the market wants, and honing her ability to match the perfect book to the perfect reader.
