Local Author Meet and Greet: Jennifer Bloom

We're so excited to host local author Jennifer M. Bloom at the library for a local author Meet and Greet! Jennifer has authored many books featuring heartwarming tales of identity, discovery, and self-worth. Her LGBTQ summer romance series, Becoming Jennifer, follows thirteen-year-old Jamie Grant, who is caught in between worlds. It is the summer before high school in Kansas City, Kansas, a season of heat, waiting, and becoming. To everyone else, Jamie is still a boy, following rules, keeping his head down, surviving the expectations placed on him. But inside, she knows her truth. Her real name, Jennifer, lives only in the pages of a new diary, written in careful strokes, hidden from a world that is not yet ready to see her.

Jennifer's middle grade series, A Wonderful World of Magic, is sure to delight fantasy readers. On the final day of fifth grade, Jennifer Harper and Jerry Kensington expect a summer filled with simple joys, backyard adventures, and quiet hours lost in books. But everything changes when Jennifer uncovers an ancient, forgotten book hidden deep within her small town library. The discovery awakens a mystery far greater than either child could imagine.

Stop by Jennifer's table to chat about her collection of works and to share your favorite romance or fantasy stories!