Erin Soderberg

Erin Soderberg (Downing) (born October 21, 1976 in Duluth, Minnesota) is an American fiction writer and novelist. She has written 25 novels and books for children, tweens and adults. Soderberg grew up in Duluth and later studied at the University of Minnesota, before attending business and management studies in Stockholm and London, Returning to the United States, she took assignments in marketing for various companies around New York City, including Nickelodeon.

Erin Soderberg Downing
Born (1976-10-21) October 21, 1976
Duluth, Minnesota
Pen nameKate Howard, Nessi Monstrata[1]
OccupationWriter
Years active2000–present
Website
www.erindowning.com (books for tweens, teens, adults)
www.erinsoderberg.com (books for kids)

In 2000, Soderberg started editing and contributing to several children's books, including the Scooby-Doo picture clue books series for pre-school kids, published by Scholastic.[2] Another early pre-school book was Count to 100 with the NBA (2001), a book that teaches children to count. Settling in Minneapolis, Minnesota, she started writing her own children's books, including Monkey See, Monkey Zoo in 2010. Soderberg soon took up a series of children's books starting with the locally best-selling series The Quirks (2012–2015), followed by Puppy Pirates chapter books (Random House, 2014–2016).[3] [4]

Her best-selling books are: Juicy Gossip, The Quirks – Welcome to Normal, Puppy Pirates – Stonaway, and The Quirks in Circus Quirkus. Issues of the Puppy Pirates series are translated and for sale in several countries in Europe, apart from Australia and the United States.

Books for youth include Kiss It (2010), Best Friends – Until Someone Better Comes Along (Alladin, 2014), Juicy Gossip, and the series "A Funny Thing About Love" (Drive Me Crazy, Prom Crashers, Dancing Queen).

Her novels and comedies for adults include Cheating on Myself.

Awards
  • 2013: Midwest Connections Pick
  • September & October 2015: Midwest Independent Booksellers Association Bestseller{

Selected fiction bibliography
  • Monkey See, Monkey Zoo (2010)
  • Kiss It (2010)
  • Drive Me Crazy
  • Prom Crashers
  • Dancing Queen
  • Cheating on Myself
  • The Quirks series (2012–2015)
  • Puppy Pirates series (2014–2016)
  • For Soccer-crazy Girls Only (2014)
  • Best Friends – Until Someone Better Comes Along (2014)
  • Juicy Gossip
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gollark: Religions also involve our tendency to anthropomorphize all things ever and overzealously pattern-match.
gollark: Religions rely on weird brain quirks which I think Ponzi schemes depend less heavily on.
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References
  1. http://www.erinsoderberg.com/books
  2. Erin Soderberg – GoodReads.com. Visited August 15, 2016.
  3. Meet Local Author Erin Soderberg – Minneapolis Happening. Visited August 15, 2016.
  4. Erin Soderberg – Amazon. Visited August 15, 2016.
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