I was born ‘Jessica Ann Redmerski’ on November 25, 1975 in Little Rock, Arkansas.  Some of my life I spent in Pennsylvania, where I get my Polish blood from. I am also Welsh.

I started writing my first novel around the age of 14, but did not actually finish a full-length novel until I turned 30.

On April 27,  2007, a very dear friend talked me into doing a 1-page writing assignment about a man in a park. That 1-page assignment turned out to be exactly what I needed to recover from  writer’s block and start on something fresh.

In addition to writing books, of course I love to read and collect books.  I’m quite obsessed with them and never leave a flea market or book store without one.  Some authors that inspire me are Neil Gaiman, Richard Matheson, J.K. Rowling, Cormac McCarthy, H.P. Lovecraft, Anne Rice, Robert Jordan and Stephen King, to name a few. I also thoroughly enjoyed a trilogy by Lisa Smedman and wish there was more stuff out there by her to read.

I have three great children, a sweet rat named Jasper, a  gerbil, Trinity, a Maltese named Ares and a guinea pig, Effiany.

Credentials

Being a single mother of three, I never could afford college, or Creative Writing classes, but I knew I needed the education to get anywhere in the literary world. I decided that I must do something to get that education, and so in 2001 I began investing what little money I had in books on grammar, composition and punctuation, books on how to write and how not to write, and I read many genres of fiction and non-fiction to familiarize myself with different styles and experiences. I immersed herself in my studies for nearly seven straight years, and utilized the Internet with its vast amount of information.

I have written several reviews for musicians and photographers and have been solely responsible for many professionally-written documents in my places of employment, taking part in writing assignments in ad and product promotions, legal letters and sales pitches.

While trying to find an agent, not even rejection letters can slow me down as I have started writing my fourth novel, which is expected to be the first in a YA werewolf trilogy.

I am looking for that perfect agent to help me accomplish my writing goals, someone who would like to champion a writer that has plenty of material and more where it came from. I am patient, very open to revisions and can handle criticism no matter how harsh.