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Jen Allen

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https://www.JenAllenWritesStuff.com

Genre

Fiction, Chick Lit, Humor and Comedy

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Meg Cabot, Billie Letts, Helen Fielding, Liane Moriarty, Elizabeth You ...more

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July 2020

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Generally, people think of me as an artist. "This is Jen, she's an artist." My mother says I've been drawing since I could hold a pencil, and I'm always prone to creating things, whether they ever leave my head or not is another story.

When high school hit, I suddenly began to get stories in my head. And I went NUTS for them. I spent the next ten years bent over my keyboard, getting these story ideas down before I forgot them, working and reworking them until I was practically cross-eyed, and inevitably becoming obsessed with the characters involved.

Another ten years later, and I've been editing, illustrating, and growing these stories long enough. It was time to get them out into the published world, even if I had to go the self-publishing ...more

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Average rating: 4.0 · 30 ratings · 10 reviews · 8 distinct works

	Visions of You (Chasing Mathesons, #1) 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Speaking of You (Chasing Mathesons, #3) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Story of You (Chasing Mathesons, #2) 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spirit Bodies (Spirit Bodies, #1) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unfinished Business (Spirit Bodies, #2) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Memoriam (Spirit Bodies, #3) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ghost Not Forgotten 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[(Helping Your Pupils to be Resilient)] [Author: Jen Allen] published on (May, 2008) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Visions of You: The Soundtrack!

If you ever followed my story postings over the years, you know I always have a soundtrack for each story. So of course I have to provide the soundtrack for my first self-published baby and I'm gonna do so here.

Since Visions of You takes place in 2002 (and I initially wrote it in 2001) there's a lot of either early aughts tunes, 90s tunes or even earlier tunes on there. The only one that's out of Read more of this blog post »

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Published on July 16, 2020 10:58 • Tags: chick-lit, jen-allen, music, romantic-comedy, soundtrack, visions-of-you

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Series by Jen Allen

Chasing Mathesons (3 books)
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Spirit Bodies (3 books)
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Delicious!

by Ruth Reichl

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Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers

by Caroline Fraser

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