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Jenn Thorson

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The United States

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Jenn_Thorson

Genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Humor, Mystery

Influences

Lewis Carroll, Terry Pratchett, Jean Shepherd, P.G. Wodehouse ...more

Member Since

September 2011

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Jenn Thorson always knew she wanted to be a writer; it was the C+ in Penmanship that initially held her back. By the age of 11, she'd written her first mystery novel, Key to the Blue Moon, which her secretary-- er, Mom--was good enough to type up for her. It was a raging hit among the two people she knew.

Spurred by her dramatic success, she went on to write other works, an experience that found her cluing into the Mystery genre, flirting with the Melodramatic Teen style, and becoming better versed in the Embarrassing Poetry of Which We Shall Never Speak Again school of writing.

Yet, oddly, no one stopped her from attending Carnegie Mellon University for Creative and Professional Writing. And it was here she discovered that humor was in her Jenn Thorson always knew she wanted to be a writer; it was the C+ in Penmanship that initially held her back. By the age of 11, she'd written her first mystery novel, Key to the Blue Moon, which her secretary-- er, Mom--was good enough to type up for her. It was a raging hit among the two people she knew.

Spurred by her dramatic success, she went on to write other works, an experience that found her cluing into the Mystery genre, flirting with the Melodramatic Teen style, and becoming better versed in the Embarrassing Poetry of Which We Shall Never Speak Again school of writing.

Yet, oddly, no one stopped her from attending Carnegie Mellon University for Creative and Professional Writing. And it was here she discovered that humor was in her heart. This was a surprise, since the funny bone usually gets so much press.

Soon Jenn graduated from Carnegie Mellon and, with an inconvenient bent toward eating regularly, she took a job as a technical writer for a software development company. In the years that followed, she would move from the joys of explaining where the File menu was, to managing the marketing of the company's product line. Marketing, she realized, involved a gleeful combination of Making Stuff Up and Actually Getting Paid for It; so she became a full-time marketing writer and project manager in a local advertising firm.

She also continued to hone her fiction, and her first published story, "The Last Great Play of Rosie Cosnowski" made its way into the Timber Creek Review.

Since those days, Jenn Thorson's stories have been published in the Humor Press, the magazine for the Lewis Carroll Society of North America, and Romantic Homes magazine.

Her books include the humorous sci-fi trilogy There Goes the Galaxy (There Goes the Galaxy, The Purloined Number and Tryfling Matters) and the Wonderland murder mystery, The Curious Case of Mary Ann.

Jenn Thorson lives in Pittsburgh, PA, and is a member of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America.
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Average rating: 3.96 · 958 ratings · 118 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	There Goes the Galaxy (There Goes the Galaxy #1) 3.65 avg rating — 482 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Purloined Number (There Goes the Galaxy #2) 4.16 avg rating — 196 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tryfling Matters (There Goes the Galaxy #3) 4.38 avg rating — 168 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Curious Case of Mary Ann 4.24 avg rating — 93 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Trouble with Tweedle 4.79 avg rating — 19 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Curious Case of Mary Ann Receives Favorable Review in Lewis Carroll Society Journal

Greetings, frabjous folkses! Now that I had a moment I wanted to share with you some amazing news. My Wonderland murder mystery, The Curious Case of Mary Ann, was recommended by the reviewer in the May edition of The Lewis Carroll Review, the reviewing journal of the Lewis Carroll Society!

To say, I'm both honored and delighted is an understatement!

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Series by Jenn Thorson

There Goes the Galaxy (3 books)
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The Curious Case Of Mary Ann (2 books)
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The Curious Case Of Mary Ann (2 books)
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4.33 avg rating — 112 ratings

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Jenn’s Quotes

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

tags: alice-in-wonderland, breakfast, carroll

5422 likes

“Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense.”
― Jean Shepherd

tags: funny, humor, humorist

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“This was not Aunt Dahlia, my good and kindly aunt, but my Aunt Agatha, the one who chews broken bottles and kills rats with her teeth.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

tags: funny, humor, jeeves, wooster

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“You understand Teacher, don't you, that when you have a mother who's an angel and a father who is a cannibal king, and when you have sailed on the ocean all your whole life, then you don't know just how to behave in school with all the apples and ibexes.”
― Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking

tags: authority, etiquette, humor

78 likes

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: better-life-empathy

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