About Jennie Wood
Jennie Wood is the creator and writer of Flutter, a comic series. Flutter, Volume One: Hell Can Wait, the first graphic novel in the series, is available on 215 Ink. The Advocate calls Flutter one of the best LGBT graphic novels of 2013. Jennie is also a contributor to the award-winning, New York Times best-selling
comic anthology, FUBAR: Empire of the Rising Dead and FUBAR: American History Z. She is an instructor at Grub Street and writes non-fiction features for infoplease.com. On September 4, 2014, 215 Ink will publish her novel, A Boy Like Me. Jennie is one of Go Magazine's Women We Love for 2013. For more, go to www.jenniewood.com.
The first time I heard about self-interviews was during my high school obsession with The Doors. I read somewhere that Jim Morrison wrote self-interviews. Soon after, I began doing one in my personal journal every few months as a way…
For several months, Jeff McComsey, my Flutter partner, has urged me to do a Kickstarter, not only as a way to promote the upcoming release of Flutter, Volume Two, but to relaunch the graphic novel series on the popular crowdfunding…
At the end of every year, I look back on the past several months at what I’ve done, what I’ve learned, and what I can do better. In honor of that and the new Chris Rock film, Top Five, which…
After “What’s next,” the question I’m asked most often is, “What drives me, what keeps me going?” One major source of inspiration is other writers carving out a way of their own. It doesn’t matter what genre they’re working in,…
It’s the question President Jed Bartlet always asks after every crisis gets resolved on The West Wing. And it’s the question you’ll be asked in nearly every interview and conversation you’ll have while promoting your current book. Your agent will…
It’s the last line in Some Like It Hot, one of the greatest American comedy films of all time: “Well, nobody’s perfect.” One of my favorite filmmakers, Billy Wilder, directed and co-wrote that film. When I lived in Los Angeles,…