Jody is the author of The Gollywhopper Games (Greenwillow/HarperCollins, Spring 2008)
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Jody Feldman can’t remember a time she didn’t want to write.
“Liar!”
Okay. Here’s the real deal. Jody Feldman always found writing to be a chore. Think about it. It’s hard to take all those thoughts that flash through your brain in quick seconds and in perfect form, then spend hours to recreate them on paper for social studies and English teachers. And creative writing? It’s easier to bite your ear off.
The problem is, Jody keeps getting ideas that threaten to explode out those still-attached ears unless she puts them to paper.
Her official writing career got jumpstarted when, in college, she immediately realized she didn’t want to follow her major and didn’t know what else to do. For 20 whole minutes. In that painfully long time it took her to realize that she was at the University of Missouri which houses one of the finest journalism schools in the world, she switched from psychology to advertising.
During her advertising career she’s written a lot and a lot more about shoes. But she’s also written about movies, fluid fertilizer, books, sewing machines, beer, leather cleaner, street banners, rodeos … even words for a giant fortune cookie.
She’s worked in a department store, a factory, a pre-school and spent one day training to sell products door to door but again decided she’d rather bite her own ear off. That time she really meant it.
Jody might have liked to become a treasure hunter, a codebreaker, a movie director, an artist and an inventor. But the most exciting part about writing is, she can explore all those occupations and adventures with the characters in her books.
Jody Feldman lives and plays with her family in St. Louis, Missouri.
Book: The Gollywhopper Games
Twelve-year-old Gil Goodson’s life fell apart 18 months ago when his father was falsely accused of embezzling funds from Golly Toy and Game Company. That same company is now about to host a once-in-a-lifetime event. Of the 25,000 kids from around the country who will earn a spot to compete in The Gollywhopper Games, only one will win.
It’s a long shot, but Gil has to try, not only to win family some much-needed money, but also to earn back his family’s well-deserved respect.
The Gollywhopper Games will have you rooting and cheering and, literally, playing alongside Gil with every step and misstep he takes.
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