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Jessica Hatch writes hilarious, heartfelt romantic comedies for the girls who grew up rooting for the main character's best friend. Her first novel, My Big Fake Wedding, debuted at #1 in Humorous American Fiction, and her second novel, How to Keep a Husband for Ten Days, is widely anticipated by an international readership.

She loves to develop quirky, high-concept scenarios and then drop her characters into them, escape room–style, to see what happens next. Her work spotlights characters and locales the reader can fall in love with, and aims to explore real-world issues that women and nonbinary people face.

(She also enjoys loafing around, largely ignoring her characters and binge-watching Netflix instead.)

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Jessica Hatch My most recent book, the forthcoming How to Keep a Husband for Ten Days, was inspired initially by the close friendships I made living in a historic b…moreMy most recent book, the forthcoming How to Keep a Husband for Ten Days, was inspired initially by the close friendships I made living in a historic building in Downtown Jacksonville in my twenties. Those friendships formed my ensemble cast. Now I needed a conflict for our couple to go through. I wanted the novel to be wrapped up thematically in the growing pains we endure whenever we have a long-term relationship, be it platonic or romantic, and that's what this fauxmance/second-chance/found family concoction aims for!(less)
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My eBooks are on discount this month!
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Discount Deals for My Big Fake Wedding

From February 2 to 9, my publisher, Bookouture, has secured a Kindle Countdown Deal for My Big Fake Wedding. For this week, the eBook will be priced at $0.99. It’ll also have a BookBub Feature on February 8, so if you subscribe to BB, be on the lookout for that. (I’m really exci Read more of this blog post »
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“This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals–sounds that say listen to this, it is important.”
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