Welcome, Jennifer!

Tell us about what you write.

I write contemporary romance. Some of my books feature Jewish characters, and some are more mainstream. I write both novels and novellas, depending on the story.

What was your inspiration for this book?

For Whispers in Washington, I was asked to be part of a multi-author anthology, called The Ticket to True Love Series. The group of authors was looking to make the series as diverse as possible, and knowing that I write Jewish characters appealed to them. Each participating author was given a letter of the alphabet and we had to use that letter for our setting and in our title. I was given the letter “W.” Each book in the series stands alone, but all books must include the origin legend—a small town in the Poconos famous for having a magic spring that makes people fall in love when they drink from the water—and a ticket of some sort. I had my heroine visit the town with her mother, scoff at the idea of the legend, and get guilted by her mother into drinking the water anyway. As for the ticket, when my heroine returns to Washington, DC, she gets a parking ticket at her new apartment. The hero offers her his unused parking space until she can get things sorted out.

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Tell us about your experience with the publishing process.

For the Ticket to True Love series, we all self-published our books. So far, there are 20 books in the series, with more coming out in the next few months. Because we have so many authors, we had the benefit of other people’s experience. So, the founding author is a graphic designer by trade, so she created all the covers. One of the other people involved does all the formatting, etc. So really, all I had to do was write, get my work edited and turn it in for formatting. Then once I had the cover, which I got to be involved with choosing the couple and the colors used, I had to upload it to different sites. And we all pool our resources for advertising, as well. It’s been a great experience.

What was the hardest part of the story to write/research?

The hardest part of the book was making sure to seamlessly include the legend and the ticket, as well as make sure my details of common settings matched those of other authors.

Jennifer started telling herself stories as a little girl when she couldn’t fall asleep at night. Pretty soon, her head was filled with these stories and the characters that populated them. Even as an adult, she thinks about the characters and stories at night before she falls asleep or walking the dog. Eventually, she started writing them down. Her favorite stories to write are those with smart, sassy, independent heroines; handsome, strong and slightly vulnerable heroes; and her stories always end with happily ever after.

In the real world, she’s the mother of two amazing daughters and wife of one of the smartest men she knows. She believes humor is the only way to get through the day and does not believe in sharing her chocolate.

She writes contemporary romance, many of which feature Jewish characters in non-religious settings (#ownvoices). She’s published with The Wild Rose Press and all her books are available through Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

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