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Goodreads Giveaway: FINDING NORMAL
Why is a raccoon with a pickle holding a copy of my latest book? Preorder it today or enter my giveaway for a chance to win a copy. I'm giving away two signed copies of FINDING NORMAL on Goodreads!
My 2024 Reading List
I didn't read as many books as I had hoped in 2024, but some "bigger" books, plays, and poetry collections made my list this year. Here they are, in no particular order. Dog Songs: Poems, Mary Oliver Bright Dead Things, Ada Limon Enough Already, Valerie Bertinelli The...
Author Event
Looking forward to hanging out with these ladies at Montclair Book Center, one of the coolest indie book store's on the planet. Think: New Jersey's answer to The Strand and Powell's. For details and to register for the event, click here!
Spring Giveaway for Readers and Writers!
To celebrate the April 2nd re-release of THE SUMMER AFTER YOU AND ME with its gorgeous new cover, and the fantastic redesign of my website by Web Biz Strategy, I’m giving stuff away!For readers! Win one of three signed copies of THE SUMMER AFTER YOU AND ME.For...
Goodreads Giveaway – The Summer After You and Me
Click here for a chance to win one of 10 copies of THE SUMMER AFTER YOU AND ME with its gorgeous new cover!
Jennifer Salvato Doktorski received a 2024 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts
Last week I found out I received a fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts for an adult novel I've been working on for a few years. It's called A LIFE IN LONG-TERM STORAGE and it's about a woman who's tired of living with her Christmas-obsessed...
Fitzroy Books prize for young adult fiction
My fifth novel FINDING NORMAL recently won Fitzroy Books' prize for young adult fiction and will be published in spring 2025. I'm thrilled this novel has found the right home! https://regalhousepublishing.com/jen-doktorski/
AUGUST AND EVERYTHING AFTER release day!
Hi all! My fourth YA novel, AUGUST & EVERYTHING AFTER (Sourcebooks Fire), is out today and I'm soooo excited to see this book go into the world!!! The characters in this book are among my favorites and I'm anxious to have readers meet them on the page. In honor of...
Kneeling at Well-Curbs or Why I Write
Why do I write? That was February's topic over at YA Outside the Lines, where I blog monthly with a group of amazing authors. The topic came at an opportune time for me. I turned in my fourth YA novel to my editor in early December and since then I’ve been asking...
RELEASE DAY! Sunny Sweet is So Not Scary by J. Albert Mann
Masha, Junchao, and Alice have planned the perfect slumber party . . . until Sunny insists their house is haunted. An unexplained howl. Flickering lights. And someone-or something-may be watching them from the front hall closet. At first, Sunny tries to...
