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Jes Smyth loves to write about love, relationships, and life messes. Or what she calls emotional fiction. Time for Once is her first novel. Dream for a Second, her second book in a stand-alone series, is set to release on May 7th, 2024! Time for Once is available for purchase now!

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One of my favorite pastimes is revisiting places that inspired certain locations in my books. The first half of Chapter Four in Dream for a Second is set here in a coffee shop next to a rushing river. It was a rush, indeed, returning to this spot thi

Are you ready? Ready to meet Lena? Ready for more Palmer? Ready to discover where this line exists in the book and all that will happen before and after it? Are you nodding yes? Thought so.

LAST DAY to preorder through my website for delivery on its

The page we hold between our fingers is a beating heart…

I started writing my second book in between the spaces of my first book’s release. But it still took two years to get here. I expect it will take three years before the third is p

// searching for those cracked spines of dusty words and odd artwork from another time…a few streets away from story ave //

PENNY WISE by Harold Brainerd Hersey
Illustrated by Elliott Dold

Many Years from now
When I am merely a crumbling moc

I haven’t teased my WIP with words yet, and I gotta be honest: I feel like I may be lying to you with this grab. What I mean is that I’m not sure if the story will materialize in how I’m piecing it together presently since it’

ONE MONTH until the release of Dream for a Second & lookeeeee! I have a book signing event to share with you all! In celebration of the release, I will be signing books on May 11th at my local Barnes & Noble bookstore. Check out the link in m

You know who writes their first draft in longhand? Neil Gaiman. No one is surprised. You know who used to write her stories in longhand? Jasmine Spellbound. Who the heck is Jasmine Spellbound? She was me when I was a teenager many moons ago, my origi

#authorapril24 Day 3 — pitch your WIP using only emojis. I’m in the very very (verrrry) early stages of book three. It has a rough outline and a few chapters drafted, but any progress has been WORK (aka, I’m struggling atm). I have

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