The road to here was not a straight line.
Jennifer Rose wouldn't have it any other way.
She was diagnosed with autism at four. By nine, she was publishing her own newspaper. By thirteen, she was pitching movie ideas to voice actresses in Hollywood. By sixteen, she had won an essay contest by explaining, matter-of-factly, that she improves the world in several ways: through her activism, charity, and writing stories to entertain people.
By the time Jennifer was twenty, she had a contract with Skyhorse Publishing to publish her first book.
None of this happened in a straight line. As she'll tell you herself: the bumps are what make life life.
Jennifer Rose is a novelist, a film critic, an activist, and one of the most genuinely original literary voices writing today. She is autistic, opinionated, deeply literary, and constitutionally incapable of following anyone's party line. She has two published books, a blog reviewing 100 Columbia Pictures films for the studio's centenary, and a literary magazine in development — because she couldn't find the one she wanted to read, she decided to build it.
She writes like no one else in the world.
Jenny writes her heart about standing out, making her own way, and illuminating real burdens that are not well understood. Brava.
- Louise Kuo Habakus, host and producer, Fearless Parent Radio
Coming Next
Not Effing High School, in which Jessica Rothenberg (a recurring character who will return in several of her books) attends college and deals with some wild and crazy professors.
Atticus Finch, Nazi Hunter is an authorized "To Kill a Mockingbird" fanfic that imagines Atticus Finch as a Nazi-fighting action hero. He's already seen as a superhuman figure in American literature, so why not imagine him as, well, that?
Edward Snowden, An American Werewolf in Russia imagines Edward Snowden, who back in 2013 revealed mass surveillance in the United States, as a werewolf. Basically an allegory for the whole debacle surrounding him; I emailed his lawyer and he okayed that. (His email can be paraphrased in three words: "Knock Yourself Out.") However, it also features Vladimir Putin as a Bond-esque supervillain, and his lawyer has not okayed that. Oh well, worst case scenario, it gets banned in Russia.
In Paging Dr. Wolfen Dr. Lon Warren, acclaimed professor of literature, finds himself in a doozy after becoming a werewolf. He consults the eponymous Dr. Wolfen, a "lycan-therapist who cailms he can help people with their problems...but is he really telling the truth? (No spoilers, but eventually I'll write a story intersecting this one with the Edward Snowden one.)
As Seen On
Jennifer Rose is building Autonomy, an online literary magazine and hub where writers on the autism spectrum can share their art, writing, and musings with the world.
Fiction. Non-fiction. Essays. Reviews. Not a magazine about autism.
Autonomy is a magazine for autistic voices that have something to say.
Coming soon.
I write and want to contribute.