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Jessica Patient

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February 20, 1985 in The United Kingdom

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Jessica Patient wrote stories when she was younger in refillable notepads with illustrations of ponies with thin bodies and fat legs. Then she decided that being a friendship bracelet shop owner sounded exciting. But she knew she wouldn’t be able to handle customers and she didn’t really want to own a shop so she went back to the writing.

Jessica was a Bookseller before being carted off to university to study Creative Writing at Roehampton University and then Professional Writing at London Metropolitan University.

Jessica’s short stories have appeared at 3:AM Magazine, The Beat, Metazen, The View from Here Magazine and many other places. Links to her published pieces can be found on her blog - http://writerslittlehelper.blogspot.com. In 2008...more

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100RPM - One Hundred Short Stories Inspired By Music

100RPM has finally arrived!

‎'100 RPM' is a collection of 100 flash fiction stories complied by the lovely Caroline Smailes. All stories are inspired by songs on YouTube, each story being 100 words or fewer and there's an introduction by Nik Kershaw.

All money earned from sales will go to the charity One in Four (a registered charity which provides support and resources to people who have exper... read more »

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Books by Jessica Patient

Average rating: 4.36 · 11 ratings · 3 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Six Sentences, Volume 2 by Robert McEvily (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jessica Patient (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Jawbreakers by Calum Kerr (Editor), Valerie O'Riordan (Editor), Jenn Ashworth (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	My rating:
	100RPM - One Hundred Stories Inspired By Music by Caroline Smailes (Editor), Nik Kershaw (Introduction), Rowan Coleman (Contributor) 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	My rating:

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Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)

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Jessica Patient marked as to-read: The Burning Soul (Charlie Parker, #10) by John Connolly (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
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Jessica Patient gave to: The Understudy by David Nicholls	My rating:
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Jessica Patient gave to: Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) by Suzanne Collins read in May, 2012	My rating:
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Jessica Patient is currently reading: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3) by Suzanne Collins	My rating:
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Jessica Patient added a quote "There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." — Joseph Brodsky
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