A Boy Like Me Revisited
I wrote and revised A Boy Like Me during the first year of Grub Street’s Novel Incubator program. Two years later, on September 4, 2014, the book was published by 215 Ink. During the summer of 2024, Mike Perkins approached…
Author Archives: Jennie Wood
Your Muse and Your Marketplace: The Self-Interview
The first time I heard about self-interviews was during my high school obsession with The Doors. I read somewhere that Jim Morrison wrote self-interviews. Soon after, I began doing one in my personal journal every few months as a way…
Kickstart My Fluttering Heart
For several months, Jeff McComsey, my Flutter partner, has urged me to do a Kickstarter, not only as a way to promote the upcoming release of Flutter, Volume Two, but to relaunch the graphic novel series on the popular crowdfunding…
Happy Indie Story, Part Eight: My Top Five Indie Author Lessons
At the end of every year, I look back on the past several months at what I’ve done, what I’ve learned, and what I can do better. In honor of that and the new Chris Rock film, Top Five, which…
Happy Indie Story, Part Seven: Enrica Jang and Erica Schultz
After “What’s next,” the question I’m asked most often is, “What drives me, what keeps me going?” One major source of inspiration is other writers carving out a way of their own. It doesn’t matter what genre they’re working in,…
Happy Indie Story, Part Six: What’s Next?
It’s the question President Jed Bartlet always asks after every crisis gets resolved on The West Wing. And it’s the question you’ll be asked in nearly every interview and conversation you’ll have while promoting your current book. Your agent will…