Jen Shiman

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in Drexel Hill, PA, The United States
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Judy Blume, Louisa May Alcott, Laura Ingalls, Wilder, Maria Von Trapp, ...more

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JEN SHIMAN lives in Simsbury, CT where she divides her time writing, teaching religious education, raising her three beautiful children, pretending she is Steffi Graf on the tennis court and dreaming about returning to la dolce vita in Italy with her husband, Joe. Too Many Jennys-Fifth Grade is her debut novel and inspired from the years she lived an hour South of Chicago.

Additional things she loves in no particular order:
-Bullet lists
-Mike Schmidt
-Larry David
-IPAs
-US Open
-St. Mary's Parish in Simsbury
-Avalon, NJ
-Nantucket, especially Ladies Beach
-A good, ugly cry that leaves you feeling emptied out
-Historical fiction
-It's a Wonderful Life
-The Sound of Music
-Ode to Joy
-The Beatles, especially George
-Winning over tough personalities
-Optimism
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Jen Shiman Play tennis. If that doesn't work, start writing more dialogue--that usually puts me right back into the mindset of the character.…morePlay tennis. If that doesn't work, start writing more dialogue--that usually puts me right back into the mindset of the character.(less)
Jen Shiman Transporting yourself to a different time. Having 3 hours of work seem like 15 minutes.
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Too Many Jennys: Fifth Grade

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Jen ShimanWhen asked about moving often as a child, I notice that the person usually wears a pained, sympathetic look on her face as if to signal, “That must have been hard!”



I imagine if you didn’t move as a child, the idea might indeed seem traumatic. Thoughts of tearful goodbyes with friends, the stress of having to start from scratch and figuring out where to eat, where to shop, how to get pla Read more of this blog post »
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