Getting Rid of Bradley Reader’s Guide
How does Lucy’s hair reflect the changes she’s going through? How does Bradley’s treatment of Heisenberg symbolize his relationship with Lucy? What’s the significance of Zack finding Pete? Jenny’s books are all about community. Except for Tina and the dogs, Lucy is isolated in the beginning. Why? How does she develop a community by the...
Green Is Not Your Color: Professional Jealousy and the Professional Writer
Dealing with Jealousy.
Maybe This Time Reader’s Guide
With a big thank you to Eric Clapton, Cyndi Lauper, Jackson Browne, and everybody else who provided music for the Maybe This Time soundtrack.. Layla (Eric Clapton): Andie in 1982 was headstrong and impulsive; after all, she married North after knowing him for only a day. But as the book opens ten years later, she’s...
Don’t Look Down Reader’s Guide
My first collaboration was Don’t Look Down with Bob Mayer, an action-adventure novelist. It was a love story with helicopters, alligators, and many, many guns. A symbol is a concrete object that represents an abstract idea, but the idea is usually dependent upon the observer or reader. So as the book opens, Lucy Armstrong is...
The Unfortunate Miss Fortunes Reader’s Guide
After all that macho stuff on the bridge in Don't Look Down, I wrote a novel with two good friends, Anne Stuart and Eileen Dreyer, about witches with screwed up powers and even worse love lives. Then we talked about it. We put butterflies on the page for each of the four point of view...
Agnes and the Hitman Reader’s Guide
Having written about a book about sisterhood and magic with the Krissie and Eileen, I wrote a book about cooking and mobsters with Bob. Our heroine loved the Dixie Chicks. So we stole some Chicks’ titles for the questions. Long Time Gone A tragic history comes back to haunt many of the characters. Did you...
Dogs and Goddesses Reader’s Guide
After all the mayhem of writing with a Green Beret, I wrote a book about goddesses and baking with my two best friends, Anne Stuart and Lani Diane Rich. We had a blast. Popular psychology urges women to find the goddess within. It never mentions there are strings attached. What are the drawbacks to divinity...
Wild Ride Reader’s Guide
After writing about sisterhood and goddesses with Anne and Lani, I went back to writing with Bob and we wrote about family and demons. Really the same thing, except the soundtrack was full of John Hiatt this time, thus the question headings. Child of the Wild Blue Yonder: Mab is an unconventional heroine: nearing forty,...
Manhunting Reader’s Guide
Manhunting was the first novel I wrote. You know, it's still pretty good.. “You’ve been engaged three times in the past three years and not one of them could keep you.” Manhunting was not Jenny’s title and she’s never liked it (it was Harlequin's idea). Her title was Keeping Kate. How important is a title...