About J.E. Thomas

I write books about people doing their best to be good humans.

J.E. Thomas

J. E. Thomas writes books about people doing their best to be good humans. When she's not writing, reading, or daydreaming story ideas, she's learning Portuguese, happily stomping through line dance classes, and having the best time with family and friends. 

J.E. Thomas spent her early summers stuffing grocery bags with books at the local library, reading feverishly, then repeating the process week after week. So it's not surprising that she thinks books + imagination are the best streaming service around.  


J.E. is an award-winning writer with bachelor degrees in Mass Communications and Political Science, and a master’s degree in Public Communications. She began writing full-time in 2021. Prior to that, she had a long career in corporate, health care and education communications. She was also an award-winning freelance journalist, earning a Clarion Award for Article Writing from Women in Communications; a Gold Award for Feature Writing from the International Academy of Communications Arts & Sciences; a Silver Award for Writing from the Society of National Association Publications; and a Public Relations Professional of the Year Honor from the Colorado Association of Black Journalists, among others.

FAQs

I've authored two books: Control Freaks and The AI Incident. I also wrote the introduction for Ungoverned Children 2024, an anthology of short stories written by middle school and high school students that is published annually by The Bookworm of Edwards bookstore.


Depending on where you buy books, it may look like I've written many other books on many different topics. That's because J.E. Thomas is common name. While I'm working on future projects, the only books that "this" J.E. Thomas are listed above.

I hope so! But it may be on Zoom, depending on where you are. 

It was so helpful! My editor read the first draft of my manuscript objectively then helped me understand what worked and what didn't. After that, I turned in another draft and we repeated the process.


Editing a book is really not that different than revising a report or term paper. If your goal is to make your work as good as possible, editing is well worth the time and effort. 

Most of my ideas come from something I experienced in real life. 


I didn't participate in a wacky STEAMS competition like Doug Zezzmer in CONTROL FREAKS, but when I told my parents that I wanted to be a writer when I grew up, they were not happy. So I understood how Doug felt when his dad said he shouldn't/couldn't be an inventor. 

FanFic! I wrote a story about the original Star Trek series. It was published in a printed magazine; that's how long ago it was. Lucky for me, that was way before the internet. I was fortunate enough to meet most of the original Star Trek cast in person. They were so nice! Nichelle Nichols (Uhura), George Takei (Sulu) and Leonard Nimoy (Spock) were particularly gracious. 

I sure do. But ... you guessed it! I may pop in via Zoom depending on location.  

Social media takes a lot of time, doesn't it? I decided to focus on a few platforms, like Substack, BlueSky and Instagram. I also take periodic social media breaks―and those make me very happy. In fact, those social media breaks are so nice that I'm taking more breaks and longer breaks every year.

That quiet kid―the one in the corner with her nose in a book―that was me.

So much! I was very fortunate. Most of my teachers were AWESOME!