Cool! A new, nice little interview with me is up on the site Kids’ E-Book Bestsellers!
Apr 112012
Apr 022012
The first movie novelization I ever wrote was Ice Age: The Movie Novel, which came out in February of 2002 and was based on the first Ice Age movie.
Ten years and many novelizations later, I was hired to write two Level 2 I Can Read! books based on the fourth Ice Age movie, which is called Ice Age: Continental Drift and hits theaters in July 2012.
The two I Can Read! books are now available for pre-order on Amazon. They’re called Ice Age: Continental Drift: Best Friends and Ice Age: Continental Drift: Manny’s Big Adventure. Both are 32 pages and are fully illustrated with stills from the movie. Check them out!
Apr 022012
I didn’t know that the three Alvin and Chipmunks: Chipwrecked movie tie-ins that I wrote had been released in e-book versions, but apparently they were, because the I-Can-Read! title Too Cool for Rules has hit #6 on the Nook Kids picture books bestseller list!
So that’s pretty cool.
The list is here.
Dec 072011
Hello and welcome to everyone who’s stopping by from Pinterest.com to the grab the image of the Warhol Christmas tree I posted last year! While you’re here, I just wanted to remind you that my books make excellent Christmas gifts for your kids or children you know! 
Check them out here: J. E. Bright’s books.
Thanks, and happiest holidays to you all!
XOXO J. E.
My first app for the iPad, DC Super Friends: Race to Save Christmas, is now available at the iTunes store!
Along with the cute and exciting story about Superman, Batman, the Flash, and Green Lantern battling the Joker to rescue Santa Claus, the app features interactive animation, professional narration (or record the narration in your voice!), puzzles, games, coloring pages, and other fun activities.
The app is rated for ages 4 and up.
Check it out here — it’s only $.99 for a limited introductory time!
More pictures from the Race to Save Christmas app are below.
A screenshot from the story.
Interactive coloring page!
Nov 162011
A new shaped board book, DC Super Friends: Heroes Unite!, is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Reader’s Digest Children’s Books did a great job putting together this action-packed book for young readers with bright and exciting full-color illustrations. The story is about the Super Friends (Batman, Superman, and Green Lantern) banding together to battle an asteroid in space that is on a collision course with a communications satellite. As each page is turned, a new die-cut image of the Super Friend joining the mission is revealed. Very cool!
Nov 052011
The kind keeper of the Sweet Valley fan site What Winston Saw has put up part one of a nice interview she did with me. It gets into the details of my years as an editor and writer for the Sweet Valley High books, what it was like working with Francine Pascal, and how the books were created.
BTW, I didn’t write the entirety of the SVH Bible — plenty of people worked on it both before and after me! And no, I don’t have a copy of it, so don’t ask.
You can read the interview here.
XOXO J. E.
Sep 202011
Bernie
Last Friday, I went down to the ASPCA and adopted the most adorable kitten. His name is Bernard — Bernie — and he’s a sweetheart. Bernie’s about three months old, and quite calm, quiet, and thoughtful for a kitten. He’s only been here a few days, but I love him dearly already.
My older cat, Mabel, on the other hand, does not love Bernie. Not yet, anyway!
Please give Bernie a warm welcome!
Sep 202011
Three new J. E. Bright books based on the Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked movie are now available on Amazon.com! There are two 8×8 storybooks for ages 4-8, Brittany Speaks! and Castaway Critters, and one new I Can Read (Level 2) book for around the same ages called Too Cool for Rules. If you’re a Chipmunks or Chipettes fan — and I know there are legions of you out there — check them out!
Jul 142011
You may have noticed that I subtracted a cat from the About J. E. Bright section of jebright.com. That’s because my beloved Gladys died a few weeks ago. She was extremely sweet and calm, and very soft and pretty. She was an English Shorthair silver tabby with green-yellow eyes, similar in size and shape to the Cheshire Cat, with a stocky, “cobby” body, a big round head, and a puffy tail striped like a racoon’s. Gladys was also approximately 18 years old — I’m not sure how old she was, because I rescued her from an animal shelter, and the vet at the time told me she was about 8 years old. That was a decade ago.
The good news is that her death was quick — she didn’t have a lingering illness or anything. Gladys just had a fast, nasty, and terrifying seizure in my apartment, and I rushed her to the animal hospital emergency room, where they told me she had an enlarged heart and couldn’t be saved. So they euthanized her while I was petting her and looking into her eyes and telling her she was a good girl.
Which she was.
Goodbye, Gladys. May cat heaven be all sunbeams and tuna fish.
