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Jessica West

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Born

in Baton Rouge, The United States

February 21

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Horror, Fantasy, Romance

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Richard Matheson, Stephen King, Terry Goodkind, Ayn Rand, Clive Barker

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Jess is currently pursuing a state of self-induced psychosis (also known as writing).

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	Clones: The Anthology (Frontiers of Speculative Fiction, #1) by Jessica West (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Daniel Arthur Smith (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), R.D. Brady (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.03 avg rating — 213 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Oceans (Frontiers of Speculative Fiction, #2) by Jessica West (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ken Liu (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Alex Shvartsman (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.85 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	UnCommon Bodies: A Collection of Oddities, Survivors, and Other Impossibilities by Jessica West (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michael Harris Cohen (Goodreads Author), Sessha Batto (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	UnCommon Evil: A Collection of Nightmares, Demonic Creatures, and UnImaginable Horrors by Jessica West (Goodreads Author) (Editor), P.K. Tyler (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Tom O'Brien (Contributor) 4.09 avg rating — 32 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
	UnCommon Minds: A Collection of AIs, Dreamwalkers, and other Psychic Mysteries by Jessica West (Goodreads Author) (Editor), P.K. Tyler (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jess D. Astra (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 25 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
	UnCommonly Good by Jessica West (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Daniel Arthur Smith (Goodreads Author), Joriah Wood (Goodreads Author) 4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Manifest Reality 4.28 avg rating — 18 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 Faces of the Crying Girl really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2015 — 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 Thief, the Crown, and the Pegasus 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2014	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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Rationality Zero by J.M. Guillen
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Rationality Zero (The Archon Conundrum #1)

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My Big Fat Fake Engagement

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Jessica’s Quotes

“Greatness comes from understanding that which cannot be taught.”
― JP West

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“Every wall is a door.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: darlings, deleting, editing, kill, revising, writing

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“Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier 'til this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that – everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been. V.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: death-and-dying, depression, love, marriage, suicide-note

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“There used to be days that I thought I was okay, or at least that I was going to be. We'd be hanging out somewhere and everything would just fit right and I would think 'it will be okay if it can just be like this forever' but of course nothing can ever stay just how it is forever.”
― Nina LaCour, Hold Still