Jennifer Bresnick's Blog

Hello, everyone.  Yes, I really am back here after an extremely extended hiatus.

It’s been a weird couple of years for me, with a lot of soul-searching, a lot of big problems to solve, a whole ton of changes…and absolutely no purely creative output whatsoever.

In the “pluses” column, I bought a condo, took some career risks, went on a dream safari to Africa, adopted two incredibly crazy and lovely rescue cats, and made a series of decisions to start getting my life back under control.

In the “not-so-pluses” column – w...

I was always destined to be a cat person.  My mom is a cat person.  My grandmother was a cat person.  My dad has always claimed not to be a cat person, but was have definitely turned him into at least half of one.

I could say I don’t remember a time before having cats in the house, but that isn’t strictly true.  I have a very clear recollection of being a shy little five-year-old, taking a trip to the North Shore Animal League to adopt my lovely boy Solomon, who instantly adopted me back as h...

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Um…hi. It’s been a while.  Well, maybe a little more than “a while.”  Seven months?  Yeah.  I’m sorry.

It’s probably easiest just to say that I needed a break from writing for a while, although I never intended for it to be this extensive.  One busy, tired, distracted day just kept rolling into another and another, moving me a little bit farther downstream each time until I stopped to look around me and realized I didn’t know how I had put so much distance between me and my creativity.

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BOSTON — Town and city water departments across the country have been unsuccessful in their quest to stop WriMos from overusing public resources during long, leisurely novel-plotting showers, news outlets reported this week.

With several regions of the United States suffering from drought conditions exacerbated by excess bathing and a marked increase in coffee consumption, officials in New England ar...

Morning, ladies and gents! This is your captain speaking.

Did you know thatfrom now until August 24, you can enter to win a signed copy of my latest novel, Dark the Chains of Treason?

No? Well, maybe that’s because I’m just telling you right now.

But it’s true!

The winner will receive his or her copy via overnight mail, so you actually get a few days’ head start on the rest of the pack.

And if you’re not sure it’s worth investing all that typing energy to enter a contest for the third book in...

Final edits are finished for Dark the Chains of Treason! You can still pre-order your Kindle copy on Amazon, or you can snag a paperback on August 29.

There are two main types of writers in the world: those who need absolute silence when they are putting words on the page, and those who can’t create anything without a little bit of background noise, whether it’s coffee shop chatter or their favorite songs on repeat.

I say two main types, because I’ve actually been both. Right now, I need a...

Hello there, guys, gals, and other individuals! I may have been very quiet so far this summer, but it’s only because I’ve been working hard. No, really. I have proof.

Yes, that’s right. You can now pre-order a Kindle copy of Dark the Chains of Treason before it becomes generally available on August 29. Paperbacks will be available for sale on the release date, as well.

So why should you pre-order? First of all, it’s literally only one click, so that’s easy. Second of all, it’ll make sure you...

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Tired of reading about how quickly the world as we know it is coming to the end?

Want to regain a sense of perspective by reading some escapist literature about a universe that is definitely much closer to collapsing under the weight of impending doom than our own?

Click here to download for Kindle

Well, you’re in luck! Because next week the first two books of The Paderborn Chronicles will be available for free on Kindle!

That’s right. From Monday, June 27 until Friday, July 1, you can snag D...