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Author Bio
Miriam Sue Jones Bradley has worked as a nurse for the past twenty-four
years and has been heavily involved with Children’s Ministries. She has
taught and led numerous children’s programs and spends as much time as
possible with her twelve nieces and nephews. Miriam has a heart for
children and desires to help them do new things, take initiative, and have
adventures as they grow.
Miriam loves to bake and read, especially mysteries. Through her
writing, Miriam strives to provide exciting, captivating, but traditional
stories for children that teach the importance of family connections while
establishing good Biblical and character truths. She and her husband, Dr.
Bruce Bradley, make their home in Newberry, SC, where she works as a
Utilization Review Nurse at Newberry County Memorial Hospital.
Book Signings
2010
November
27 11:00 a.m.
Waldenbooks, Blue Ridge
Mall, Hendersonville, North Carolina.
May
15
1:00 - 4:00 p.m., Waldenbooks, Sumter
Mall, Sumter,
South Carolina, as part of their Community Bazaar 2010.
March
7
Bethel Baptist Church, Sellersville, PA (after morning worship service).
2009
November
20 5:00 - 8:00 p.m., Books on Main, Newberry,
South Carolina, as part of downtown Newberry's Christmas lighting
celebration.
November 6 1:00 p.m.
Waldenbooks, Blue Ridge Mall, Hendersonville, North Carolina.
October
3 Books on Main, Newberry, South
Carolina
This is Miriam's local bookstore, one of a dwindling number of independent
booksellers. This event will be part of downtown Newberry's
Oktoberfest, a street fair that involves ALL of downtown Main Street and
the Square.
September 26 1:00
p.m. Waldenbooks, Rushmore
Mall, Rapid City, South Dakota (confirmed
date and time)
August 1-5
Custer County Fair, Broken Bow, Nebraska
The first book, The Double Cousins and the Mystery of the Missing Watch,
debuts in Broken Bow. This is appropriate and necessary because much
of the background and many of the scenes are from Miriam's childhood
experiences on her grandparents' ranch a few miles south. And,
perhaps most importantly, her grandmother, Mildred Jones, still lives in
Broken Bow, and it is important that she be involved in as much as
possible.
(Update: Grandma Jones passed away on October
2nd, a few days after celebrating her 97th birthday.)
Speaking Engagements
Miriam has been speaking in schools about the writing process and getting a book
published. It has been GREAT FUN! Some of the
classes have even already been reading the book before she arrives, so the kids
are primed and ready to go. The schools choose the general format, either
a large assembly for all classes in selected grades or speaking to individual
classes, either in their classrooms or in their Library period. It turns
out that speaking to individual classes is more work but also more productive.
2011
April
9
5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Newberry County, SC, Girl Scouts
March 19 2:00
- 4:00 p.m. Henderson County, NC, Girl Scouts
February
2 4:00 p.m.
Miriam spoke about her Legacy with the American Association of University
Women, Newberry, SC.
2010
March
8
Upper Bucks Christian School, Sellersville, PA. This is the school
where Miriam did her student teaching. Her supervising teacher is
still at the school and Miriam spoke to her 4th-grade class, as well as
the 2nd-grade class where the book was first previewed in rough draft
form.
2009
November
20 Whitmire Community School, Whitmire, SC.
November
19 Reuben Elementary School, Silverstreet,
SC. Ms. Malone's 5th Grade class blogs about their school day.
For 11/19/09, Parker writes, ". . . Then we went to the library and
the famous author Miriam Jones Bradley was there. . . ." (Their
blog is at http://msmalonesclass.blogspot.com/
) This is one of the classes reading the book aloud. When Ms.
Malone stopped for the weekend at an exciting point, several of the kids
got their parents to bring them to the downtown Newberry Christmas
lighting so they could buy their own copies of the book while Miriam was
signing books at Books on Main (see November 20, above).
November 11
Newberry Academy, Newberry, SC.
October
9 Newberry Elementary School, Newberry, SC.
September
29 Canyon Lake Elementary School, Rapid City, SD.
Blast from the Past — and Present
Photo Album Pictures from the
ranch, etc.
Media Events Interviews,
etc.
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