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!
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!
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.
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!
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!
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.
Cool news — I’ve been invited to the Wizard World Big Apple Comic Con! I’ll have a table at the event May 19-20, 2012 at the Penn Plaza Pavilion, so come by and meet me! I’ll be showing a selection of my published works, and I’ll be happy to sign books, talk about your favorite movies and characters, discuss comics and children’s books, etc., etc.
I know it’s early to be announcing my appearance — May 2011 just ended! It’s a year away! — but all the info is up on the Wizard World website already, so I guess they like to give everyone plenty of time to plan their visits to NYC.
It’s my first comic convention, and I’m particularly excited to be starting with a bang like this — apparently, the Big Apple Comic Con is the longest running and most widely attended comics convention in New York, with tens of thousands of comics fans roaming the aisles, many in cool costumes. I think it’ll be a blast.
Hope to see you there!
J. E.
Amazon finally has the cover for my Aquaman novel, DC Super Heroes: Deepwater Disaster, up on their site, so I’ve added it to my books and the home page of the jebright.com site. I try not to add books to my site until the picture is up on Amazon, but sometimes it’s weirdly delayed.
This is a particular favorite novel of mine, since it helped me process all the horror and grief I felt watching the terrible Gulf of Mexico oil spill unfold. We’ll be seeing the ecological after-effects from that disaster for decades to come . . . and it helped to imagine how Aquaman would have handled the awful situation.
So far, the book is only available in a hardcover format on Amazon. I don’t know if there are plans to release it in paperback — stay tuned for more info.
Sorry for the huge delay between posts — I moved apartments in New York City, from the neighborhood of SoHo to Washington Heights, and the move was my main focus for several months. My new apartment is much bigger (twice as big as the old one!) and sunny. Hopefully, it will provide a wonderful and inspiring place to write.
I know I’ll feel better once all my books are unpacked! Even though I donated hundreds of books before I moved, I still had 24 boxes of books to bring with me. There are only five boxes left to unpack, but I’m out of bookshelf space. (Two of my old bookshelves were too cruddy to move with me.) So I’ll have to get a new bookcase.
I hope you’re all well.
