Author: Jaclyn Paul

  • Memorials, hometowns, and the stories we grow up in

    Memorials, hometowns, and the stories we grow up in

    A couple weeks ago I took a trip to my hometown, which also happens to have inspired the fictional town of Red Hill in She’s Not Home. I didn’t know how I’d feel about this visit. The book is, in many ways, a love letter to a beautiful place, and to the feeling of growing…

  • Summer 2022, summarized in photos

    I spent a lot of time offline this summer. Generally speaking, this feels like a net positive. However, I did have a few ideas I was looking forward to posting on here and now it feels awkward to do so without acknowledging my lengthy absence. Consider it hereby acknowledged. At some point late in the…

  • I’m already a successful author, and that’s why I need a pen name

    I’ve hinted about this before, but over the coming weeks you might see a lot more of a new name around here: Lena George. Lena is my pen name for my fiction writing, and her first novel comes out this fall. I went back and forth a lot on this decision. Now, as I lay…

  • The stories we don’t want to tell

    On the afternoon of April 20, 1999, my mom was driving me to an after-school activity when she told me, “I have to talk to you about something.” I was in eighth grade. Old enough to know when someone waits for a quiet moment to say, I have to talk to you about something, it’s…

  • 4 boundaries that helped me meet big writing deadlines this month

    Narration on this post is made possible by my ADHD Homestead Patreon supporters ???? Friends, my life has been a bit of a mess lately. My current novel manuscript will finally set sail for the copy editor on Monday. That is, as my grandmother used to say, barring anything unforeseen. Well. As an adult human…