"Jami Bernard edited my work with the kind of tough love that encouraged me to sharpen my writing while teasing out compelling storylines I didn't know were there. She showed total dedication to helping me reach my goals."
– Griffin Shea, deputy bureau chief, Agence France-Presse

“Not since Annie LaMott has anyone found ways to knock down the obstacles and ease the neuroses that keep even the best writers from their work."
– Judy Rakowsky, journalist

“I wanted to write, but I needed a safe environment. Jami gave me much more than that; it was life altering! Whether you are a beginner, intermediate or advanced, Jami Bernard's class is the best gift you can give yourself."
– Cara Coslow, producer, Dante's Cove

“Jami Bernard is an amazing teacher. She helped bring out my theme and kept me going when I thought I had nothing in me. She’s great!”
– Liza Deyrmenjian, owner, Liza D. Productions

“Jami Bernard doesn’t just teach writing. She inspires, nurtures, supports and improves it. Always brilliant, insightful, fun and open, Jami gives writers the technical tools, the creative push, and the practical focus to go beyond what they thought possible.
– Keller Grace, writer

“Because of Jami's help, my memoir is ten times better now!”
– Janiss Garza, author, White Line Fever and Dear Sparkle: Advice from One Cat to Another

“Jami Bernard’s humor, experience and accessibility were apparent from the first day. I live in France with a six-hour time difference but I didn't miss a single online class. Merci et bravo!”
– Kathryn Kemp-Griffin, owner, www.soyelle.com

“Jami Bernard has an amazing ear for writer’s voices. Her edits enhance an author’s voice instead of changing it. Her humorous and insightful lessons helped make our prose sing.”
– Christine Koubek

“Jami Bernard's teaching style for memoir works because she floods the zone with easy-to-grasp details and how-to writing tips. Her advice for how to organize and present your life's story is accented with true wit and wisdom.
– Melody Simmons

“Funny and wonderful. She really puts it all out there. A great read!”
– Mario Cantone, actor and comedian, on The Incredible Shrinking Critic

“Clever, candid, fiercely intelligent.”
– Susan Shapiro, Lighting Up and Five Men Who Broke My Heart, on The Incredible Shrinking Critic

“Insightful and inspirational. Jami Bernard lays it all on the line, and she does so with candor, clarity, and wagonloads of wit. I ate it up (and didn’t gain an ounce!)”
– Abby Ellin, Teenage Waistland: A Former Fat Kid Weighs in on Living Large, Losing Weight, and How Parents Can (and Can’t) Help

“Bernard’s own amusing insights are as addictive as potato chips.”
– Video Business on Chick Flicks

“[Bernard] is knee-slapping, wet-your-pants funny … A terrific book, with solid information presented in a warm and very accessible manner. All women diagnosed with breast cancer should read it; falling down laughing is good for one's health.”
– Library Journal on Breast Cancer There & Back

“The fun part in this book is watching Bernard stilt-walk her way through the genre without letting any of the inherent goo get on her. No mean achievement, that—and further indication why she’s the best film critic now at work in New York City newspapers, with fewer pretensions and less attitude than her peers.”
– Newark Star-Ledger on Chick Flicks

“Aspiring critics and cinema fans should savor these essays!”
– Publishers Weekly on The X List

“A hooty new book called First Films: Illustrious, Obscure and Embarrassing Movie Debuts by film critic Jami Bernard should be very encouraging to a lot of people. It proves, no contest, in Hollywood it ain't where you start but where you peak ... The book is sassy and irreverent but never mean-spirited. It may, however, upset those publicists and actors who've gone to great lengths to rewrite history. They've been caught.”
– Robert Osborne, Hollywood Reporter

“Jami Bernard’s Quentin Tarantino: The Man and His Movies scoops [Jeff] Dawson [Quentin Tarantino: The Cinema of Cool] at every turn … [She] packs in at least twice the detail on each and every anecdote … [Dawson] pales beside just about any page in Bernard’s better-written, more comprehensively researched biography. In the end, The Cinema of Cool is competent fanboy prose, while The Man and His Movies is crisply authoritative and a crackling good read.”
– LS Quarterly

“Egghead film critics writing about sexy movies may sound like an incredibly unsexy premise, but somehow Jami Bernard makes it work.”
– Giant Magazine on The X List

“I promise you a genuinely raunchy anthology, one that’s finely edited by Jami Bernard of the New York Daily News. Bernard’s own essays are a splendid place to start …”
– The Boston Phoenix on The X List

“[Bernard] guides us through some really great writing on film collected around a topic most people never get tired of exploring.”
– January Magazine on The X List

“Do discover the sexy classics!”
– Glamour Magazine’s Dos and Don’ts list, re: The X List