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September 14, 2020
This is not who I was supposed to be.
If you’d told me, back when I was twenty-something, that in my fifties I’d be a romance novelist who got up at 5 am to write, practiced yoga, didn’t drink whiskey, and was well along the road to veganism, I’d have laughed. And then raised a glass of Jim Beam in a toast over a […]
August 31, 2020
New Release: Let’s Connect
LET’S CONNECT, my (sort of) online dating story full of books, yummy food, and terrible, terrible dates is now available at Amazon and through Kindle Unlimited! Let’s Connect An online dating story… sort of. A year after his divorce, Daniel Stroman has decided that he’s too young to die—or fuse permanently with his couch. But […]
August 24, 2020
This Endless Summer
I don’t remember summer ever being this long, even when I was a kid. Summers in Australia are long but we only ever had a month or so off from school over the Christmas holidays, so ‘summer’ really only lasted six weeks. Here, in the U.S., ‘summer’ as defined by the school break is usually […]
August 18, 2020
Let’s Connect is available for preorder!
I wrote Let’s Connect for my newsletter subscribers. They’re an awesome bunch who keep opening emails from me, even when all I have to share is how much writing I haven’t been doing. I wanted to give them something new to read, something fun. So I decided to write a serial about the dating adventures […]
August 7, 2020
What I’ve Been Reading
The #WritersRead theme for July was a masterwork or comp title. I have been struggling with comp titles for Sundays with Oliver, so picking a book to read for this month was hard. I polled friends and book club buddies and everyone who’d beta read for me. We all had long lists for one half of the […]
July 31, 2020
Flash Fiction: Hunger and Socks
A lot of my flash fiction is stored on a tumblr blog. I fell out of the habit of using tumblr before they started censoring my fun but sometimes head over there to scroll through my old posts. There are nearly 50 slices of story there, many of them ideas for something greater. I’ve been […]
July 27, 2020
My Best Friend with Fur
Jackson Kenard Jensen October 2003-July 2020 Two weeks before we planned to travel to Australia for a month, my husband brought home an ugly little kitten one of his colleagues had found in a box between her building an the next. He was a scrappy little thing with an abnormally large, elongated nose and skinny […]
July 10, 2020
The Stories in My Neighborhood
Nearly every neighborhood I’ve lived in has had certain elements in common. There’s the house with too many cars. At least one is missing wheels and it’s up on cinderblocks. Another will be missing an engine. The one next to that will be wearing a minstrel’s motley of mismatched panels. There’s the house where the kids run […]
July 7, 2020
What I’ve Been Reading
The #WritersRead theme for May was a book on writing. I decided against reading a craft book as I thought it might distract me from the more important task of drafting The City Without End. The theme for June was a graphic novel. I always read plenty of those, so for this update, I’m going […]
July 2, 2020
Two of my favourite novellas are available in German!
Out in the Blue and When Was the Last Time are two of my favourite novellas. I love these stories with a passion, and so I’m thrilled to annouce both are now availabe in translation for my German speaking (and reading) friends! Both titles can be found at Amazon (where available) for purchase or to […]
