HeyJaredExit 394
Writer in the Upper Peninsula | debut novel A GOOD ANIMAL (@stmartinspress 2026) | represented by @howlandlit
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- Sep 16, 2026
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- Jul 14, 2026
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Rereading Old Books and Visiting Myself (opens the original)
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👩🏻💻Writing UpdatesI took a week-long break from writing last month while the WIP was with beta readers. During that off week, I harvested my dried lavender and sewed some sachets using old jeans. It was so peaceful applying myself to a non-writing creative task. The hands-on process of rolling the lavender buds from the stems and collecting them in a bowl, cutting the jeans into 4-inch squares, lugging my sewing machine up from the basement, and slowly piecing everything together, often while l
Earning Out and Pushing My Next Book Closer to the Finish Line (opens the original)
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🐑 A GOOD ANIMAL updatesAt the end of July I received a Payment Advice Note from the Macmillan US Royalties Team and learned that A Good Animal had earned out its advance by its first statement cycle! This was helped in part by a modest advance and selling rights to Book of the Month club and French and German rights. But mostly, I’d say it had to do with me writing a dang good book and readers buying it. I’m so grateful to e
In Which I Write About the Kindness of Writers (opens the original)
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🐑 A GOOD ANIMAL updatesI’m on my way to New York for a debut panel with some fellow 2026 debuts. It’s a five and a half hour drive to our friends’ house in metro Detroit where Ryan and I are spending the night. Then we’re catching a 6 a.m. flight to LaGuardia. There is an airport just outside of Sault Ste. Marie with a daily flight to Detroit, but it’s very expensive and often delayed, so we usually skip it and drive the whole way to Detroit.
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