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Jessica E O'Connell

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Poetry, Fiction, Fantasy

Influences

The Bronte Sisters. Jane Austen. William Wordsworth. Clive Cussler. Em ...more

Member Since

February 2012

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Hello and Welcome.

I am an author, poet, artist, designer, photographer, huge movie fan and so much more, and also a former ballet and contemporary dancer. I am a country girl at heart, having grown up surrounded by wildlife, rolling hills and wonderful sights and sounds, that have never left my memory. I found living in the countryside fueled my imagination and brought me into writing stories and poems at an early age.

I have been writing stories since I was 7. I used to write then in longhand on school foolscap paper. I was bitten by the writing bug and have not looked back since.

I have written five books so far, and there is a lot more to come. Times Hearts, my latest book is now published.

You can find my books in the Apple store, Barnes & ...more

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Average rating: 4.5 · 6 ratings · 0 reviews · 5 distinct works

	The Seasons May Drift 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012	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 Promise it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	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 Howling Winds it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	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
	Gossamer Wings and Other Things it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013	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
	Times Hearts it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013	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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Jessica’s Quotes

“I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.”
― Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa

tags: opening-line

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“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”
― Claude Monet

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“My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece”
― Claude Monet

tags: art, france, gardening

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“I would like to paint the way a bird sings.”
― Claude Monet

tags: art, artist, bird, paint, sing

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“the more I live, the more I regret how little i know”
― Claude monet

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¡ POETRY ! — 22579 members — last activity Dec 24, 2025 01:37PM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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This is a group to shamelessly promote yourself, your work, and your services. Authors, Readers, and anyone that has services to offer pertaining to p ...more

Beta / Proof Readers — 4590 members — last activity Jan 06, 2026 09:14AM
I am hoping that in creating this group I can help writers find someone to proof read their book. All books will be accepted.

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