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March 27, 2018
AND SHE WAS is in bookstores TODAY!!!
Buy the book that Kirkus Reviews calls “A triumph”:
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
Indiebound
Books-a-Million
Target
iTunes
Google Play
And if you’re international and can’t find AND SHE WAS in your local bookstore, The Book Depository offers FREE worldwide shipping!
January 29, 2018
Order Your Signed and Personalized Copy of AND SHE WAS Now!
Interested in a signed and personalized hardcover of AND SHE WAS, but can’t get to New York for the launch party? McNally Jackson (a fabulous indie bookstore in Soho) has got you covered! Order here! 
January 28, 2018
ABA Winter Institute
This week I had the absolute pleasure of attending the American Booksellers Association Winter Institute in Memphis, TN! Alongside my fellow Scholastic authors Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney, Kheryn Callender, Brian Selznick, and Sayantani DasGupta, I was given the opportunity to present AND SHE WAS to a huge room filled with independent booksellers from across the United States. Special thanks to Nichole Cousins, a bookseller from White Birch Books in New Hampshire, for her amazing, heartfelt introduction!
Kirkus Reviews Calls AND SHE WAS “A Triumph”!
When you send a book out into the world, you never know how it’s going to be received. Readers and reviewers may love it, hate it, or—perhaps the worst possibility of all—forget about it immediately after reading it.
I’m thrilled that (the notoriously hard-to-please) Kirkus Reviews loved AND SHE WAS—so much so that they gave it a starred review! ⭐️ Thank you so much, Kirkus, for “getting” the book! Read the full review here, or check out the screenshot below:
August 16, 2017
Picture Book News!
I am SO THRILLED to announce that my debut picture book, co-written with the amazing Rachel Lyons, will be published by FSG Books for Young Readers! When Rachel’s son came out as transgender, their family discovered there were NO picture books for children about trans boys. We set out to fix that. I’m so honored to be a part of this important project.
Here’s the announcement from Publishers Weekly:
Can’t wait to share illustrator news! 
April 3, 2017
New Book Title!
After a whole lot of brainstorming and discussion with the amazing folks at Scholastic, we’ve finally landed on the perfect title for my upcoming novel. It’s called… AND SHE WAS.
This is actually the name of my favorite Talking Heads song, and I think it encapsulates Dara and Mellie’s story just right, and in so many ways. I love it!
I should have a cover to share soon, but in the meantime, here’s “And She Was” by the Talking Heads.
September 28, 2016
Rock the Vote 2016
The YA community is getting together to share their “first time voting” stories for Rock the Vote! Check out my story below, and be sure to visit RockTheVote.com and follow #FirstVote16 for more info on how to register to vote!
August 3, 2016
New book news!
December 5, 2015
Giveaway Time!!!
Happy holidays, everyone! I hope you’re all enjoying the holiday season, getting your menorah candles ready or Christmas tree decorated or Festivus pole set up, or doing some Winter Solstice reflection. 
TODAY ONLY, December 5th, my newest book, What You Left Behind, is $1.99 across all e-book platforms. The book is today’s BookBub YA deal, and in an effort to get the word out, I’m holding a giveaway! I’ll be giving TWO winners a signed HARDCOVER copy of What You Left Behind, as well signed paperbacks of both The Summer I Wasn’t Me and My Life After Now. And this giveaway is INTERNATIONAL!
To enter, all you have to do is tweet/retweet or Instagram/re-gram about the promotion, with a link to BookBub or direct to a retailer! (Don’t forget to tag me—@jessverdi—so I see it.) Winners will be chosen Sunday, December 6th.
Here are some sample tweets:
The eBook of WHAT YOU LEFT BEHIND by @JessVerdi is $1.99 TODAY ONLY! Treat yo’self. Romance + tear jerker + boy POV! https://www.bookbub.com/books/what-you-left-behind-by-jessica-verdi
The eBook of WHAT YOU LEFT BEHIND by @JessVerdi is $1.99 TODAY ONLY! Plus, retweet to enter international giveaway! https://www.bookbub.com/books/what-you-left-behind-by-jessica-verdi
If you decide to write your own tweet, here are some links, so you don’t have to go searching:
Thanks, guys! And good luck! xoxo
