Super Short Bio:

Jen K Blom lives in Berlin, Germany with her husband, darling daughter and two hairless cats. POSSUM SUMMER is her debut novel.

Short Bio with lotsa linkies

Jen K Blom’s debut novel, POSSUM SUMMER, is forthcoming Spring 2011 from Holiday House books. She blogs at her personal blog, where nothing is sacred, and also participates in The Mixed-up Files Middle Grade children’s blog as well as Project Mayhem, another great group of children’s authors. She tweets and is represented by Marlene Stringer of The Stringer Agency, LLC.

Long convoluted bio

Jen grew up in the middle of the wind-swept plains of Oklahoma & developed her deep love of traveling & animals from exploring the Sooner state river bottoms. She had a possum (and a raccoon) for pets, could mount a horse Native-American style (saddle-less and flat-footed) and once climbed a mountain only to come face to nose with an American Buffalo.

It was a very big buffalo.

She’s lived as far away as Darwin, Australia as a beach bum (camped in Kakadu!) & as close as Virginia as an owner/breeder Azawakh handler but currently calls Berlin, Germany her home. She is and will always remain an Okie, however.

Jen is owned by the Sphynx cats Yoda and Blue, who do not believe in alarm clocks but do believe in incessant meowing, & is the handmaiden of her darling beautiful daughter Loki.

She’s also lucky to have her husband – who is always her first & best beta reader – regularly tear apart her writing!