Jessica Knoll's Blog
May 7, 2015
"A Brilliant Summer Book"
Luckiest Girl Alive made Huffington Post's list of "18 Brilliant Summer Books You Don't Want to Miss this Summer!" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05...
April 30, 2015
Luckiest Girl Alive one of iBooks' 20 Best Books of May!
iBooks says "Luckiest Girl Alive—the story of a tightly wound magazine editor whose picture-perfect life starts to unravel—is the most unpredictable page turner we've read in a while." Read more here: https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/M...
April 17, 2015
Luckiest Girl Alive is going to be a movie!
Lionsgate has acquired the rights to Luckiest Girl Alive, with Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea producing through their company, Pacific Standard Films. I will be writing the screenplay! Read more about it here: http://deadline.com/2015/04/reese-wit...
April 16, 2015
Elizabeth's Story
I write a fun side blog under the highly esteemed banner of LoveSexPizza.com. It's a continuation of a fictional blog I wrote when I was an editor at Cosmo.
The main character, Elizabeth, is actually the villain from the storyline I wrote at Cosmo. She is beautiful, wealthy, and viciously exacting her revenge after a prank gone wrong in college left her with blood on her hands.
I post every Thursday at 2pm, and will link to it here starting today. It's campy good fun, and I hope you enjoy!
I was a shit student, as you know, but the one class I paid attention in was Natural Sciences. This was back before, when becoming a veterinarian was a silly, unattainable dream, but still a dream nonetheless. These days, it's nothing but a joke.
In any case, did you know boa constrictors are the slowest moving species of snake in the world? Rosy boas, in particular. Unable to pursue their prey, they spend their lives hidden under rocks and wedged into crevices, lying in wait for their prey. When a little bunny or mouse scurries into their vicinity, they strike with surprising speed. Then they suffocate, slowly but methodically. A recent study in Biology Letters (which yeah, maybe I subscribe to) indicated that boas feel every last heartbeat of their prey as they writhe and squeeze, releasing only when Thumper's little ticker ticks no more. It's an energy-conserving tactic, really. Suffocation is an exhausting procedure. Why go at it one millisecond longer than necessary?
I guess that's where me and the rosy boa differ. I could really get behind the whole biding my time thing, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. I could get behind being patient and strategic. But I would never understand not wanting to extend the kill for longer. There was a void in my life after Izzy left. Well, fled, really.
To continue reading: http://lovesexpizza.blogspot.com/2015...
The main character, Elizabeth, is actually the villain from the storyline I wrote at Cosmo. She is beautiful, wealthy, and viciously exacting her revenge after a prank gone wrong in college left her with blood on her hands.
I post every Thursday at 2pm, and will link to it here starting today. It's campy good fun, and I hope you enjoy!
I was a shit student, as you know, but the one class I paid attention in was Natural Sciences. This was back before, when becoming a veterinarian was a silly, unattainable dream, but still a dream nonetheless. These days, it's nothing but a joke.
In any case, did you know boa constrictors are the slowest moving species of snake in the world? Rosy boas, in particular. Unable to pursue their prey, they spend their lives hidden under rocks and wedged into crevices, lying in wait for their prey. When a little bunny or mouse scurries into their vicinity, they strike with surprising speed. Then they suffocate, slowly but methodically. A recent study in Biology Letters (which yeah, maybe I subscribe to) indicated that boas feel every last heartbeat of their prey as they writhe and squeeze, releasing only when Thumper's little ticker ticks no more. It's an energy-conserving tactic, really. Suffocation is an exhausting procedure. Why go at it one millisecond longer than necessary?
I guess that's where me and the rosy boa differ. I could really get behind the whole biding my time thing, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. I could get behind being patient and strategic. But I would never understand not wanting to extend the kill for longer. There was a void in my life after Izzy left. Well, fled, really.
To continue reading: http://lovesexpizza.blogspot.com/2015...
