Jodi is the award-winning author of 28 novels, with over 30 million copies sold. Twelve of her books debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, five have been made into movies, and four more – A SPARK OF LIGHT, BOOK OF TWO WAYS, SMALL GREAT THINGS and WISH YOU WERE HERE – are currently in development. She is the recipient of multiple awards, including the New England Bookseller Award for Fiction, the Alex Award from YALSA, the NH Literary Award for Outstanding Literary Merit, and the Sarah Josepha Hale Award. She is also the co-librettist of the new musical BREATHE (2021) and the musical adaptation of her novel BETWEEN THE LINES (co-authored with daughter Samantha van Leer) premiered off-Broadway in July 2022.