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May 12, 2021 · Jessica's short stories and essays have been published in numerous magazines, journals and anthologies. Jessica co-wrote the script for Love on the Run starring Frances Fisher and Steve Howey. She sometimes works as a ghost writer and has taught writing at Johns Hopkins University, Goucher College and The Fashion Institute of Technology.
Jessica's short stories and essays have been published in numerous magazines, journals and anthologies. Jessica also works as a screenwriter, a ghostwriter, and sometimes as a writing professor.
May 12, 2021 · Jessica co-wrote the script for Love on the Run starring Frances Fisher and Steve Howey. She sometimes works as a ghost writer and has taught writing at Johns Hopkins University, Goucher College and The Fashion Institute of Technology.
- Jessica Anya Blau
Feb 16, 2012 · Fiction editor Elise Burke and Blau sit down and discuss process and form, the road to publication, trends in reading and writing, and what makes a piece of fiction work. Elise: As a writer whose fiction is often drawn directly from life experience, can you speak to the line between fiction and nonfiction?
- Be fearless. It takes courage to write when there’s only a chance that you’ll be published. It takes courage to be honest in writing, to present a complex inner life (of yourself or your characters) that is often dark, or unkind, or slightly crazy.
- Be authentic. Here are the paradoxes of “false” writing: When you try to sound smart you sound dumb. When you try to sound fancy you sound provincial.
- (And the best way to be authentic is to ... ) Ignore your ego. Your ego is a nasty, furry, little bugger who will sabotage your writing. Your ego wants to broadcast facts about you, the author, through your story.
- Keep moving forward. If you’ve ever traveled, you know what it’s like to be totally lost and slightly panicked because you don’t believe you have the skills (language, a good map, lots of money) to find the place where you think you need to be.
Jun 8, 2021 · Mary Jane, the title character of Jessica Anya Blau’s latest novel, is a nice girl. She cooks with her mother, sings in the church choir, and knows the lyrics to practically every Broadway showtune ever written. At 14, Mary Jane is both a girl and an old woman.
May 6, 2021 · Q&A with local writer Jessica Anya Blau, author of ‘Mary Jane’. Jessica Anya Blau has been delivering summer reads to her fans since her 2008 debut, The Summer of Naked Swim Parties, which was set in the author’s native Southern California in the 1970s. Her latest, Mary Jane, returns to that period, but this time in Roland Park, where ...
