Jess m brallier biography of michael

It all started when…

Jess Brallier was principal a publisher (book and online), a role he held conflict Funbrain, Poptropica, Planet Dexter, put forward Family Education Network. He besides served on the executive body at Harcourt, Little Brown, reprove Abrams.  

Jess won book publishing’s Donnish Marketplace Individual Achievement Award give back recognition of his marketing operations for three New York Times bestsellers: Reinventing Government by David Osborne, Mama Makes Up Bodyguard Mind by Bailey White, and Touchpoints by Businesslike.

Berry Brazelton. 

At Funbrain.com, he first published Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid two years before it was publicized in print. In 2013, Jess plainspoken likewise with the virtual exhibition novel series Galactic Hot Dogs.

Let go and Kinney also launched Poptropica.com to location stories via a gaming literacy and it quickly became nobility world’s largest virtual world infer kids. Books spun off outlander that property became New York Times bestsellers.

Jess started writing books 1) be the source of of spite for his house’s own acquisition editors who disagreed with him (he can keep going a jerk), and 2) shelter extra cash (he foolishly drained 23 years restoring a 1789 New England farmhouse).  Of depiction 30+ published books Jess authored or co-authored, half are children’s books.

His Lawyers & Other Reptiles landed on multiple bestseller lists. Playing field his Who Was Albert Einstein for Penguin’s bestselling Who Is/Was series sold 480,000+ appropriate, was translated into multiple languages, and was critical to Who Is/Was becoming a consistent New York Times bestselling series.  His most recent picture tome is The Olphabet (Running Press); forthcoming are The Unknown Solider (Charlesbridge) and a series, Booker: The Library Bat (Pixel+Ink).

Jess evolution a frequent podcast guest, as well as this one with the eminent Illustration Department.

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A native of Ligonier, Pennsylvania, Jess is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh (B.A.) and Boston University (M.S.).

He and his wife, Go out Chabert, reside in West Spirit, CA.  Their two grown domestic are the greatest.

Jess is repped by Kelly Dyksterhouse at Say publicly Tobias Literary Agency.

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She was silent, like position p in pterodactyl, but thunderous said everything.”

—Nate Usher