- Jessica appeared on WHAS11 News to talk about Nice and Mean and how to help tweens get along
- Jessica Leader's story, Not That Girl, appears in serial on Sundays in August in the Louisville Courier-Journal.
- Nice and Mean garners positive reviews; excerpts here.
- Jessica Leader was one of two fiction-writers to receive an Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council in recognition of her "achievements, work excellence, and creativity." (article here.)
- Nice and Mean appears on the Summer 2010 Kids' IndieNext List. "Well-written, insightful, and a lot of fun to read."
- Jessica Leader was featured in the Sunday Arts Section of the Louisville Courier-Journal and in Velocity.
