Photography
I take lots of pictures for fun and share them on iStock by Getty Images and Shutterstock. If you’re interested in subscribing to Shuttershock, please use my referral link. I’m currently uploading and organizing pictures from 2015. So, I’ll be busy with this new creative endeavor. I’m having too much fun!
Writing
1. Work in Progress
I am writing a contemporary romance set in beautiful Santa Barbara. I’m having a lot of fun with this romantic comedy writing the messy first draft. It’s my lil’ WIP.
2. Paranormal Romance
Haunted is a paranormal romance based in a small town in Port Hope, Michigan about a new ghost medium who must protect herself and her grandmother from violent spirits, find her unstable mother and falls for a man separated from her by death.
Stats:
I received 1 partial request. C’est la vie, wasn’t meant to be a paranormal romance writer, for now.
3. Contemporary Romance
Divers Do It Deeper is a contemporary romantic comedy about a woman reunited with her college crush. I originally wrote it aimed toward the So You Think You Can Write contest and Harlequin’s Book in 3 Months project. I watched the Discovery Channel’s Shark Week, Cupcake Wars and Jaws in preparation for it. I also made Nigella Lawson’s delicious Raspberry Pavlova and many, too many cupcakes. (Fact: The Pavlova is named after the famous Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova.) Yes, indeed-y, I wrote the book over the 3 months of the summer. Most fun I’ve ever had writing a rom-com!
Stats:
Four editors from Avon, Kensington and Harlequin requested my novel. A total of 8 editors, including St. Martin’s Press, requested my novel as a result of online pitches, regular ol’ slush pile querying and the Romance Writers of America & the California Dreamin’ Conferences in-person pitch sessions. Entangled Publishing took my novel to the board for acquiring, but it was a pass.
For this rom-com, I got 33 total partial and full requests and once was brought to “acquisitions for review.” I was So Very Close.
4. New Adult/Contemporary Romance
My Very First novel was a college new adult romance based in So Cal. It had 4 rotating point of views. I learned A Lot about writing this one.
Stats:
For this one, I got 3 partial requests.
Social Media
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Jennifer Farrar 