Jenna Evans Welch's Blog
April 28, 2016
Upcoming Events!
After two years, four rewrites, and a whole lifetime of dreaming–my book release is finally here! My dad and I have a full week’s worth of joint book signings coming up and we would so love to see you at them. (If for some reason you show up and I’m not there, please look under the table. I’m [...]
April 19, 2016
Two more weeks!
After two years, four rewrites, and a whole lifetime of dreaming–my book is just TWO WEEKS AWAY! I am so, so excited! Interested in pre-ordering? I will love you forever. ——————>>
April 8, 2016
Controlling the Stuff You Can Control
You guys. I went to my very first writing conference! It was full of real live writers doing the real live work of writing and it was oh-so-inspiring and they served phenomenal white chocolate macadamia cookies, and it was exactly what this tired mother/writer needed. It was a full day event and in between the [...]
November 16, 2015
Thoughts from a Mormon Family
November 6 was a bad, bad day. I was (and am) pregnant and in the throes of hyperemesis gravidarum (think morning sickness on steroids) and I’d already spent a solid four weeks in bed doing all in my power to keep enough liquids down to avoid getting into the Bad Place. (Think shaking, sobbing and [...]
November 13, 2015
7 Things I’ve Learned After 18 months of serious writing
You guys. When it comes to writing, I am a brand new beginner. Like the kind that still needs their food steamed and mashed up, and would it be too much trouble to make airplane noises while you feed it to me? Thanks. My total green-ness at writing was a hard thing to admit. For [...]
August 4, 2015
12 Books My Book Club Loved
When I was newly married I started a book club. I thought it would be a great way to socialize, get book recommendations, and eat fancy desserts. Because if there’s anything I love as much as a book recommendation, it’s a fancy dessert. At the first meeting approximately 386 people showed up. We sat on my [...]
July 29, 2015
My Favorite Trader Joe’s Items
I have this sort of sick obsession with grocery shopping. I say “sick” because there are literally about 100 less expensive/less wasteful hobbies that wouldn’t result in me having five different varieties of gourmet popcorn in my cupboard. But oh, my. When eleven p.m. rolls around and your husband has a fresh episode of Veep [...]
July 26, 2015
Under the Coffee Shop Table
My first attempt at writing a book kind of devastated me. I was sure that after all my reading and notebook scribbling and dreaming about being a writer, that I’d be able to hole up in a coffee shop somewhere for six months and produce something awesome. That wasn’t the case. Yes, I did hole up for [...]
May 28, 2015
How We Talk To Youth About Abstinence
There’s been an article circulating for the past couple of days that really got my attention. It’s called The Damaging Effects of Shame-Based Sex Education: Lessons From Elizabeth Smart, by Kristen Howerton. I highly recommend you give it a read, but the gist of it is that a person’s worth is not tied to their status [...]
