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Kelly Jensen

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Kelly Jensen is a former teen librarian who worked in several public libraries before pursuing a full-time career in writing and editing. Her current position is with Book Riot, the largest independent book website in North America, where she focuses on talking about young adult literature in all of its manifestations. Before becoming a fully-fledged adult-like person, she worked in the swanky Texas Legislative Library entering data into a computer while surrounded by important politicians, scooped gelato for hungry college students, and spent hours reading, annotating, and scanning small-town Texas newspapers into a giant searchable database.

Kelly lives in the Chicago area with her husband, her daughter, her rabbit, and five needy-but-awes
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Kelly Jensen A good cover isn't going to hurt a book. It's part of the marketing strategy to make a cover appealing and fitting for the audience it aims to reach.

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A good cover isn't going to hurt a book. It's part of the marketing strategy to make a cover appealing and fitting for the audience it aims to reach.

That said, people are people -- some will buy a book just because of an attractive book cover and some won't. (less)
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True Crime, Low Body Count: “Bloodless” True Crime Stories

I don’t care for true crime. I question some of the drive behind its popularity–it’s got a lot of dead girls and it positions human pain as entertainment–but I also understand why people are drawn to it. The genre has been around for a long time, and it ebbs and wanes in its connection with popular culture. Some works of true crime endure, like In Cold Blood by Truman Capote or Vincent Bugliosi an

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“I define “depression,” but depression does not define me because you cannot define a person. Not with a single word, not with an entire book. Human beings defy definition. Yet the stigma surrounding mental illness makes some believe we can use it to define others, and it often deceives us into believing we must use it to define ourselves.”
Kelly Jensen, [Don't] Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health

“But here’s the thing: other people’s opinions are not the truth. We live in a world that puts us into boxes and labels them with Sharpies, yet those boxes are lies. They flatten us; they limit who we really are. Feminism”
Kelly Jensen, Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World

“And society will want to vilify her for loving herself and for the choices she will make in pursuit of that love.”
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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
Franz Kafka

“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
Franz Kafka

“All language is but a poor translation.”
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“At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to throw anything away. Perhaps that's why I hoarded the world: with the hope that when I died, the sum total of my things would suggest a life larger than the one I lived.”
Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

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Tatiana I felt a bit star struck:) Catie was there too, but she was too shy to tell you who she was. I'm glad we met. Maybe next time we'll have an actual conversation;).


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Kelly Anna wrote: "OK, but when is your book going to pop up on Goodreads?! xoxoxo"

BOOM: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... :)


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Anna OK, but when is your book going to pop up on Goodreads?! xoxoxo


Sandra Thank you for friending me! :)


Tiffany how do you ever write so many reviews?


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