About Jenness
Jenness Walker lives in the South with her web developer husband, two kids, and a dog. She believes everything tells a story, and she can’t help looking for it, whether it’s in her day job of sorting vintage finds or in the lyrics of a new song blasting through her earbuds.
She’s always loved books, and throughout her life she’s had jobs cleaning a small library, freelance editing, managing an independent bookstore, and finding creative ways to display vintage books at an antique shop.
You can often find her at the local coffee shop penning clean edge-of-the-seat fiction with romance, humor (sometimes) and hope (always). Her stories have been published in magazines and novella collections, and her books have crossed several genres. She is represented by the Steve Laube Agency.
Fun Facts
- My mom named me after a character in a novel—Fate!
- The first story I remember writing was in first grade when I was seven years old.
- I can’t keep plants alive but am thinking about adding window boxes to my dormer windows. I’m sure that will end well.
- I love to take road trips with my husband, discovering small-town America, although now that we have two amazingly wonderful snack-stealing children, road trips seem to be more about discovering the best snacks.
- When my dad was young, he sold Grit papers door-to-door which makes it extra special to me that my very first publishing credit was a short story in Grit.
- I write out of order with no real plan, which means in the editing stage I find hidden gems like days that somehow last over 36 hours.
- I collect root beer bottles, which is a little ironic because Barq’s is my favorite root beer but only as a fountain drink. So far I have bottles from over 50 different brands.