Member whitewavedarling

Real Name

jennifer

About My Library

Probably about as random as you get. I read mostly contemporary work, and my nonfiction tastes tend to run toward environmental or sociopolitical, but that's about as much as you can pin me down...and I'm sure my library will find ways to contradict this description no matter what I write. Most of my books entered in my library are ones I own, often bought from used bookstores, though a number were also borrowed from the library or given away at some point after I read them. In general, if it's been reviewed, I've read it, and if it hasn't, I haven't, though there are many anthologies which I've read various parts of and haven't reviewed. When it comes to what's here, though, the obvious point of interest is simply that I'm addicted to books.

In my "To Read" collection, there are many many anthologies which I've read significant portions of, but they're listed in "To Read" until done. Also there are many many books which I have read, but so long ago that they need to be reread before I can think of reviewing them or remember more than that "I really liked that a long time ago..." (which is why I now review everything I read, to refresh my memory as much as for the system). This is the case with most of the Elfquest books, quite a few of the older suspense novels, and some of the classics as well.

About Me

After ten years in academia, I left to pursue a career as a full-time writer and editor in 2014. Since then, I've become a full-time freelance editor, and I absolutely adore the work. My specialties are Suspense, Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction, but I also work in some subgenres of Romance, Mystery, Women's Fiction, Literary Fiction, and Nonfiction. My first chapbook of poetry, Oil Slick Dreams, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2016, and my poetry has been published in a pretty wide variety of journals at this point. I've also had three different erotic paranormal romances published under a pen name. I also have a short horror novel under contract to be published next fall.

As of this moment, I've written four other novels that are unpublished and have two in progress. Two of the four completed works are being subbed to publishers while one of the completed works is being submitted to agents, as I've found myself in the query trenches once again.

I currently live in Cape Coral, Florida with my husband and our six rescues. We've got a neurotic sweetheart of a mutt who we think is a german shepherd/black-mouthed cur mix; a larger mutt who's probably some odd mix of mountain dog, rottweiler, and hound; and four very spoiled cats.

Location

Cape Coral, FL

Homepage

http://www.whatimaginationlookslike.blogspot.com/

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Currently Reading

A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy) by Deborah Harkness

The Horror Stories Of Robert E. Howard by Robert E. Howard

Favorite Authors

Robert Browning, Truman Capote, Jacqueline Carey, Tom Deitz, Ralph Ellison, James Fenton, Ben Fountain, Ernest J. Gaines, Alex Garland, Nikolai Gogol, James W. Hall, Laurell K. Hamilton, Thomas Hardy, Khaled Hosseini, Langston Hughes, Kazuo Ishiguro, Henry James, A. Van Jordan, Yusef Komunyakaa, Gabriel García Márquez, Cormac McCarthy, Christopher Moore, David Morrell, Keith Lee Morris, Haruki Murakami, Jonathan Nasaw, Gloria Naylor, Eugene O'Neill, Christopher Pike, Adrienne Rich, James Rollins, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, José Saramago, Anne Sexton, Tupac Shakur, L. J. Smith, Patricia Smith, Wislawa Szymborska, Jhonen Vasquez, Amanda Eyre Ward, Joan Wolf

Local Favorites

Bookstores: Fountain Bookstore, Hub City Bookshop, Sandman Books, The Book Tavern

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