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.
A vision’s just a vision if it’s only in your head… One of my all-time favorite show tunes is Stephen Sondheim’s Putting It Together because every single word about the state of art and commerce is spot on and resonates…
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about teams. This is partly because Lorde’s song “Team” has been on repeat in my head. But it’s also because I was recently asked why I chose to work with an editor before sending…
By Jennie Wood In this monthly series for Dead Darlings, I’m documenting the step-by-step process of publishing A Boy Like Me. For part two, Sarah Pruski and I discuss how she created the book’s cover. Sarah created multiple versions of…
(In this new monthly series for Dead Darlings, I’ll document the step-by-step process of publishing A Boy Like Me. Here in part one, I discuss why I chose to go with an independent publisher for this novel.) As 2013 drew…
(This post originally appeared on Grub Street Daily). Many of us have a number one cultural issue that causes sleep deprivation, countless battles with friends and family or even, in my case, compels you to take on the daunting task…
That is the question for more and more writers. On October 29, 2012, two of the big six publishing houses, Random House and Penguin, announced that they would merge. The merger would create the largest book publisher in the world…