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Denise Jaden

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Denise Jaden enjoys writing craft books for writers and fiction for young adults.

Her first novel for teens, LOSING FAITH, was released from Simon Pulse, fall 2010. The first draft was written in 21 days during NaNoWriMo. NEVER ENOUGH, her second novel, was released July 10, 2012. A companion group of stories--NEVER ENOUGH STORIES is available for free at Smashwords.com. WRITING WITH A HEAVY HEART: Using Grief and Loss to Stretch Your Fiction is her latest release in 2012. FAST FICTION will be out from New World Library in 2014.

Denise lives just outside Vancouver, Canada with her husband and son



Pieces
1. What am I reading? PIECES by Chris Lynch. This guy is a freaking phenomenal writer.

2. What am I writing? Same ol' same ol'. LIVING OUT LOUD. But I've finished up the tedious revisions and I'm now onto big picture stuff--deleting entire scenes or chapters, moving stuff around, creating new sub-plots, that sort of thing. Right now it's sitting at over 100k, and I hope to get it down to at leas... Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 3.85 · 1,208 ratings · 241 reviews · 4 distinct works · Similar authors
Never Enough
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 585 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions
Losing Faith
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 602 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
Writing With A Heavy Heart:...
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
Never Enough Stories
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2012

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January 2010, Denise Jaden
" Quick Start SS: What is your motto or maxim? DJ: Chocolate will make it better. SS: How would you describe your life in only 8 words? DJ: cook, teach, gym, write, read, dance, laugh, sleep What Readers want to know... SS: How would you describe perfe..." ...More

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Airhead (Airhead, #1)
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How I Lost You
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Crash (Visions, #1)
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Then You Were Gone
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Speak and Grow Rich by Dottie Walters
Speak and Grow Rich
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Teeth
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“What's even more messed up than funerals, is the way people treat you after the funeral. Like you're diseased or something.”
Denise Jaden, Losing Faith

“Beauty isn't perfect. It's something to be felt and something to be breathed.”
Denise Jaden, Never Enough

“He looked at me with serious eyes, but not the kind that made me wonder what I’d done wrong. The kind that made me wonder what I’d done right.”
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“He looked at me with serious eyes, but not the kind that made me wonder what I’d done wrong. The kind that made me wonder what I’d done right.”
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Lucinda Dear Denise,
I would like to thank you so much for being my friend here on GoodReads, which is a brilliant site where one is able to converse with so many lovely people from authors to readers and book bloggers. I very much look forward to future book discussions with you.
Lucinda x


William O'Brien Hi Denise - Thank you for your friendship.
Please visit my website http://www.peteradarkenedfairytale.co.uk
to view a sample page and many other snippets about the book.
Expected release date mid-late Jan.
Best wishes, William


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