HeyJaredMake No Mistake - A Novel
Welcome to Make No Mistake, my novel about a women’s rights activist, a life-changing event she cannot remember, and an underground book club poised to take down the patriarchy. Chapters are listed in sequence on the Home page.
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The Power of Community (opens the original)
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Over the weekend, I had a great opportunity to witness the impact of community-building in action. You might think that writers are solitary creatures, spending their days and nights with only their ideas, characters and spellbinding plotlines for company. It’s true that the writing process requires a lot of time alone. However, beyond the first couple of drafts, we need community to move our stories forward.At the Wine Country Writers’ Festival (Penticton, British Columbia), examples of this ab
Just Say Yes (opens the original)
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On the weekend, I had the pleasure of presenting at Word Vancouver 2026. Held every September in Vancouver, British Columbia, the event is free to attend and open to writers and readers alike. There are workshops on wide-ranging topics, tables for exhibitors, activities for children, readings, poetry slams. Something for everyone.I was part of a panel hosted by the Canadian Authors Association BC and we shared our experiences on book marketing.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href=
In Other Words (opens the original)
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Today, I’m stepping back from the front line and creating space for the words of another Substack writer.Jean M. Stumpf is a writer and a former nurse who writes A Look Behind The Curtain, stories about life, nursing and writing. She recently read Make No Mistake: The Novel and posted a review of my feminist thriller.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_STm!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazona
Reading As An Act of Defiance (opens the original)
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Book signing events are a part of an author’s life. It’s a way of creating more visibility for your book and hopefully selling a few. Sometimes it goes well and you do sell a fair number of books; other times, the bookstore or the mall is empty and you might not even get one sale. But you still go through the effort of setting up your display and chatting with as many people as possible.A few weeks ago, I did my third book signing for Make No Mistake: The Novel. I haven’t done many because I lea
Imagine This (opens the original)
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Imagine you’re a woman, in your mid-seventies, living in the United States. And you have spent your entire life building a global women’s rights organization. One morning in the news headlines, you discover that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe vs Wade.You remember that ruling from the 1970s, the one that gave women choices over their own bodies? Abortion rights in particular.If fifty years of your life’s work was been destroyed by a bunch of white men in black robes, how would you feel?More
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