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Books are my people. Are they your people as well? If the answer is yes, come hang out with me!

I’m Jennifer. I write books, teach people how to write books, recommend books on my podcast, Books Are My People, and I even create art and journals out of well-loved books.

What free subscribers will receive: I publish a weekly newsletter each Tuesday on new book release day, highlighting books I’ve read or books I am most excited to read. Free subscribers may receive a limited version of this newsletter. Additionally, I publish a bookish article each Thursday that free subscribers sometimes have access to. Once in a while, I offer a free “Cover Me” zoom, open to all, where I tell a story or two about how a famous book cover fame to be as we draw / paint / doodle a book cover and casually share what we are reading. Participants will receive a PDF featuring all books discussed.

What paying subscribers will receive:

  • a Books Are My People bookmark

  • For just $6.67 a month (If you pay for a full year) paying subscribers will receive the full weekly newsletter

  • All Thursday posts

  • monthly Friday Links I Love post and Even More Bookish News post

  • access to my monthly book read alongs:

  • The bookclub works on a three-month rotating basis that includes:

    • one month of a Read-With-Me series: after a vote, we all read the same book over the course of the month. I include weekly short videos highlighting a different aspect of the novel as well as a companion online weekly discussion culminating in an end of the month zoom.

    • one month of Book to Film Adaptations where we read a book and watch the film / tv adaptation then discuss over a culminating zoom

    • and a casual Book Club Social where you read whatever you’d like and we zoom at the end of the month to share our bookish favorites.

  • Bookish Giveaways!

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Be part of a bookish community that also lets me dabble in art.

What we have read / watched or will be reading / watching:

February 2024 Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang

March 2024 The Expatriates by Janice Y.K. Lee (The Expats on Prime

April 2024 Book Club Social (Independently read, then share over zoom)

May 2024 The Book of Ayn by Lexi Freiman

June 2024 The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith / The Talented Mr. Ripley movie / Ripley (Netflix)

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Let me help you discover books you may not otherwise read with my weekly newsletter. I also run an online book club/ bookish community for paying subscribers. Check out my podcast, Books Are My People, for even more book recs.

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Books Are My People! I write them, read them, talk about them, teach others how to write them and I make bookish art. Come join me! Listen to my book recommendation podcast, Books Are My People.