Eliza Gordon is a pen name I’ve used since 2012 to keep my brands separate (and in honor of my late amazing parents-in-law, Martha Elizabeth and Ken Gordon Young).

My first books written under Sommersby were YA (Sleight, Scheme, Fish Out of Water). Starting in late 2025, I will be transitioning all my writing pursuits — and all the genres I want to write in — under my legal name, Jennifer Sommersby. It is too much work to maintain social media, marketing, and publicity under so many different identities, LOL. Time for me to get comfortable in my own skin.

Otherwise, here’s my “official” Jenn bio:

Jennifer Sommersby is the author of thirteen novels and three novellas (young adult, romantic comedy, women’s fiction, and romantic suspense) under several pen names. Her YA debut, Sleight, was a Canadian Children’s Book Centre Best Book for Kids & Teens, Fall 2018, an Ontario Library Association Best Bets Honourable Mention Book for Young Adults, 2019, and a British Columbia Arts Council Grant winner, 2019. Her rom-com debut, Must Love Otters (as Eliza Gordon), was #1 in the Barnes & Noble store for 38 whole hours in March 2014. (She even has screenshots to prove it.) Additional titles over the years have hit the top 100 on Amazon, Apple Books, and Kobo.

Jenn’s worked as a freelance editor since 2005 (via her company Plumfield Editing) for numerous internationally best-selling authors and is a bibliophile and Superman fanatic. Her publishing umbrella, SGA Books, serves as a resource portal for newer writers. Jenn and her daughter recently threw open the doors on a new venture, Bard & Bloom, where they make custom photo magnets, tote bags, bookmarks, journals, coffee mugs, book sleeves, and more. Trans rights are human rights.

Visit my Jenn Sommersby website for more info and to order my books!