HeyJaredDear Reader with Jaclyn Westlake
Dear Reader is a behind-the-scenes peek into my writing process, publishing insights, books I'm loving, and updates on my novels, DEAR DOTTY and LUCKY BREAK.
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Forget the Perfect Love Story (opens the original)
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One of my favorite perks of authorhood is getting to befriend fellow authors. I’m so grateful for the lovely people that writing has brought into my life and today, I’m excited to introduce you to one of them: Alyssa Jarrett.<img alt="" class="sizing-norma
The One with the Lottery (opens the original)
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When I moved into Mechoopda Hall as a freshman at Chico State, it was the first time I ever felt truly alone. I didn’t know anyone on my floor, let alone my dorm. (Let alone the dorm across from my dorm.) I vaguely knew of two other kids from my high school who were somewhere on campus, but we were barely acquaintances. Friendly, maybe, but not friends.It was a scary, thrilling, lonely, formative time in my life. And I’m a better person for having experienced it. A lucky one, too. Even if it did
The Moment I Knew I Didn't Want Kids (opens the original)
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My senior year of college, fresh off the latest implosion of an on-again, off-again relationship that had consumed far too much of my young adulthood, I went to Las Vegas for spring break with a group of friends.This was peak mid-2000s Vegas: girls in satin dresses and sky-high stilettos, Ed Hardy everywhere you looked, vodka Red Bulls flowing like water, and entire evenings organized around whether or not we could get into Tao without waiting in line.On one particular night, standing in the mid
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