Christine Brodien-Jones

THE SHORT VERSION (70 words):
Christine Brodien-Jones grew up in LeRoy, New York and is a graduate of Emerson College, Boston. A former teacher and editor, she lives on the Massachusetts coast with her husband Peter. Her post-apocalyptic children's fantasy, THE OWL KEEPER, has just been published by Random House/​Delacorte Press. She is represented by Stephen Fraser of The Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency. Her next novel is an adventure-fantasy set in Morocco.


THE MEDIUM VERSION (161 words)
Growing up an only child in LeRoy, New York, Christine Brodien-Jones spent her time tramping through her neighborhood, leaky fountain-pen in hand, inventing fantastic stories, on the look-out for mysterious Other Worlds. Friday nights she watched films like “Dracula” and “Creature from the Black Lagoon” at her small-town movie theater.

After studying creative writing at Emerson College, Boston, she traveled to Europe where she lived in Spain, England and The Netherlands, and met her husband Peter. Reading to her two young sons, she found herself drawn back into the world of children’s fantasy. In 1992 her first book, THE DREAMKEEPERS, a middle-grade novel, was published.

Christine has worked as a free-lance journalist, editor and teacher. She now writes full-time in Gloucester, Massachusetts. THE OWL KEEPER, a post-apocalyptic tween fantasy, will be published by Delacorte Press/​Random House in Spring 2010. She is represented by Stephen Fraser of The Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency. Her next novel is an adventure-fantasy set in Morocco.


THE LONG VERSION (306 words)
Christine Brodien-Jones grew up in LeRoy, New York. An only child, she lived inside her head, reading books in trees and tramping through the neighborhood, leaky fountain pen in hand, inventing fantastic stories. She was always on the lookout for those mysterious “other worlds.” Friday nights she could be found in the balcony of the downtown theater with a large bag of popcorn, watching thrillers like “Dracula” and “Creature from the Black Lagoon.”

After studying creative writing at Emerson College, Boston, Christine traveled to Europe where she lived and worked in Almeria, Spain and London, where she worked for Oxford University Press. Along the way she published some short stories for adults. She met her future husband, Peter, at a train station in Crewe Junction, England. They married in Wales, lived in Amsterdam, then moved to Massachusetts where they raised two sons, Ian and Derek.

While reading out loud to her boys at night, Christine discovered a world she’d forgotten all about: children’s books. As she reconnected with authors from her childhood, and new authors too, she realized she wanted to write the kinds of fantasy books she’d loved as a child.

Christine has worked as a free-lance journalist, an editor and teacher. A short story she wrote in graduate school became her first published book: THE DREAMKEEPERS, a children’s fantasy set in Wales. After signing with Stephen Fraser of The Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency, she now writes fulltime. THE OWL KEEPER, a post-apocalyptic fantasy for young readers, was published by Random House in Spring 2010. Her next novel will be an adventure-fantasy set in Morocco.

When not writing, she loves to read, sail, row, hike, watch scary movies and explore distant corners of Argentina. Christine and Peter divide their time between their home by the sea in Gloucester, Massachusetts and an old country house in Deer Isle, Maine.