CRUSH CONTROL comes out this thursday!!! I can not believe it will soon be on shelves for all to see! To celebrate the release of my second book, I've decided to do a contest/giveaway featuring my favorite things!! The fabulous Story Siren has offered to host my contest over on her blog. So slide on over to her page and see what you could win ( Read more... )

Want to learn a little more about my upcoming YA, CRUSH CONTROL? Here's a video where I talk about the fictional setting of the book as well as my inspiration for a book about hypnosis!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4Yx_Z1C1Rc

Last week I met the wonderful Meg Cabot at her Atlanta signing for ABANDON!!


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Since CRUSH CONTROL comes out in exactly eight weeks (gasp!) I've put together an author page on Facebook to have a place for cool pre-publication contests and give-aways ( Read more... )

I'm happy to share my new book cover for my YA novel, CRUSH CONTROL, coming June 2011


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First of all, I've been terribly negligent in updating my blog. How these other people do it - take care of families, work jobs, write books and find the time for a blog, well, I need to have a sit down with them. But I do have some exciting news I want to share. First a little backstory:

Seven years ago I was at the summer conference for Georgia ( Read more... )

Dear Mr. Sandman ( Read more... )

Just returned from a five day trip to visit my parents and siblings. We had a great time and I have tons of stories to tell, but somehow find myself marvelling at this one and thought I'd share ( Read more... )

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Over the holidays my mother in law invited the new priest over for dinner.  As he's asking questions and getting to know everyone, my mother in law announces, "Jen's a published author!" She proceeds to pluck my hot pink book off the shelf and pass it to the priest.  Who then proceeds to open it up to a random page and start reading.  Out loud.

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