Best-selling author, freelance editor, and overcaffeinated entrepreneur Jennifer Sommersby has worked in the publishing biz for over twenty years.

Writing under Sommersby and Eliza Gordon, Jenn is the award-winning author of thirteen novels and three novellas. Her YA debut Sleight was named a Canadian Children’s Book Centre Best Book for Kids & Teens (Fall 2018) and an Ontario Library Association Best Bets Honourable Mention (2019). She also was awarded a BC Arts Council Grant in 2019 for a climate fiction work-in-progress (The Bright Day Is Done). Her rom-com debut, Must Love Otters (as Eliza Gordon), hit #1 in the Barnes & Noble store in 2014, with additional titles reaching top 100 charts on Amazon, Apple Books, and Kobo. Her latest release, Wish Upon a Rosie (February 2026), hit #1 on the Hot New Releases list in Single Women Fiction on Amazon shortly after its debut and was a Finalist in the 20th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards (NIEA). So that was cool.

Her editorial résumé (via Plumfield Editing) includes many projects from numerous internationally best-selling and seven-figure authors from Canada, the US, the UK, and Australia. Through her company SGA Books (sgabooks.com), she supports indie authors through editorial services, publishing resources, and mentorship. When invited, she presents webinars, workshops, and classes on whatever juicy publishing topic the organizer desires and is occasionally called in to mentor fellow authors with their terrific work. (There are few things in the world Jenn loves more than a functional mic and a rapt audience.)

A graduate of SFU's Writer's Studio (class of '07), she is also the Programming Architect for the Federation of BC Writers and is actively planning a ton of cool new events for Fed members and writers of all skill levels. Check in often for updates at www.bcwriters.ca. 

In alignment with her eat/drink/sleep-obsession with books, writers, and the Oxford comma, Jenn will be releasing her first nonfiction craft/confessional/how-to called Please Don't Make Me Read This, later this year. (It's gotten quite large ... gonna be three books instead of one. Oh dear.)