Jenny’s homage to Agatha Christie. Zelda gets trapped in a big house during Christmas week with the man who was the boy she loved when she was fifteen, as she’s trying to solve the biggest mystery of her life. Food, sex, death, dogs, Mexican folk art, snark, and Christmas carols.
Charlotte (working title)
Charlotte is a thirty-something home ec teacher who has decided it's time she got married and had children. When her grandfather dies and she inherits a boarding house in the city with a tailoring shop in the basement, she moves in, determined to change her life. Then potential husbands and dead bodies start turning up in equal numbers because Grandpa wasn't what he seemed to be. Fortunately, neither is Charlotte.
Slow Men (working title)
Suze and Riley are holding down the fort at the detective agency, solving cases like The Big Nap and ChinaTown (fraud in a housewares store) while trying to solve the mystery of their relationship (what relationship, it’s not working out).
Just Wanted You To Know and Other Stories
This is a collection of short stories I wrote for my Master of Fine Arts in fiction at OSU. The finished collection will be about three women (Quinn, Darla, and Stephanie) and their mothers, their sisters, and their daughters. Some of the titles are “Just Wanted You To Know,” “The Day My Sister Shot the Mailman and Got Away With It, Of Course,” “The Damn Goat Story,” and “I Am At My Sister's Wedding.” The characters in these stories became the basis for Crazy for You.
How To Write Fiction for Women and Others
Jenny's Guide to Writing. I have the notes for this. Copious notes. I previously had some PDFs up on the site, but decided that wasn't such a good idea if I wanted to sell those as chapters in a book later on.
The Feminization of Enchantment: Women's Popular Fiction in Late 20th Century America
This is my dissertation for my Ph.D. at Ohio State, an analysis of how women's popular fiction (romance in particular) has addressed the issues of women's identity, community, love, and sexuality while rewriting toxic myths, legends and fairy tales. Don't hold your breath on this one.