An Update Ten Years in the Making

When I started on this whole self-publishing thing ten years ago, it was spurred by—as usual—spite.

Spite can get you far. In my case, spite can get me anywhere.

And after spending who knows how much time and money submitting my poetry to “contests,” I finally said Fuck It I’ll Do It Myself. Took my master’s thesis, edited it one million times, started an imprint, got a website, and self-published the collection. Got the bug and published another work the next year. Fast forward eight years to two more published poetry collections and a trio of romance novels on the way, and it was finally time to update my website.

It didn’t look terrible. But it did look amateur. It had been ten years since I launched it, and my grandmother left me a little bit of money and I think she would like for me to use it toward my authoring, so...here it is!

All the content is the same, but now it looks like I’m a professional person who does professional type writer stuff. Go click on things! Check it out!

In your clicking, you’ll find lots of links to my pen name website, jemspears.com, which will be up and running in a month or two. Since I write in so many genres, I needed a separate name and place for what will be the bulk of my books: contemporary queer romance. Totally different vibes require totally different spaces, or people will get confused (It me. I will get confused).

I plan to release more poetry collections, though probably not for a few years. That’s ok. In the meantime, reread what I have out now. Then jump over to my alter ego’s site and read some romance. Follow me on social media. Send me an email. Just reach out, you know. I’ll always have something for you.