Jenn Thorson
(Author of the new humorous space fantasy, There Goes the Galaxy)
Jenn Thorson always knew she wanted to be a writer; it was the C+ in Penmanship that initially held her back. By the age of 11, she'd written her first mystery novel, Key to the Blue Moon, which her secretary— er, Mom—was good enough to type up for her. It was a raging hit among the two people she knew.
Spurred by her dramatic success, she went on to write other works, an experience that found her cluing into the Mystery genre, flirting with the Melodramatic Teen style, and becoming better versed in the Embarrassing Poetry of Which We Shall Never Speak Again school of writing.
Yet, oddly, no one stopped her from attending Carnegie Mellon University for Creative and Professional Writing. And it was here she discovered that humor was in her heart.
This was a surprise, since the funny bone usually gets so much press.
Soon Jenn graduated from Carnegie Mellon and, with an inconvenient bent toward eating regularly, she took a job as a technical writer for a software development company. In the years that followed, she would move from the joys of explaining where the File menu was, to managing the marketing of the company's product line. Marketing, she realized, involved a gleeful combination of Making Stuff Up and Actually Getting Paid for It; so she became a full-time marketing writer and project manager in a local advertising firm. She also continued to hone her fiction, and her first published story, "The Last Great Play of Rosie Cosnowski" made its way into the Timber Creek Review.
Since those days, Jenn Thorson's stories have won an award from the Humor Press, and have been published in the magazine for the Lewis Carroll Society of North America and Romantic Homes magazine. Her humor blog, Of Cabbages and Kings, has a regular following of readers—fine folks who are simply too polite to ask why the posts are never about monarchy or leaf vegetables. Her humorous space fantasy, There Goes the Galaxy, represents her first published novel.
Jenn is currently working on a second book of her character Bertram Ludlow's adventures, and while she does live in Bertram’s hometown of Pittsburgh, PA, she is definitely mostly sure she’s never met extra-terrestrials there.
Want to learn more about Jenn Thorson? Visit her website at: http://www.jennthorson.com
Follow her on Twitter at: twitter.com/Jenn_Thorson
Jenn Thorson always knew she wanted to be a writer; it was the C+ in Penmanship that initially held her back. By the age of 11, she'd written her first mystery novel, Key to the Blue Moon, which her secretary— er, Mom—was good enough to type up for her. It was a raging hit among the two people she knew.
Spurred by her dramatic success, she went on to write other works, an experience that found her cluing into the Mystery genre, flirting with the Melodramatic Teen style, and becoming better versed in the Embarrassing Poetry of Which We Shall Never Speak Again school of writing.
Yet, oddly, no one stopped her from attending Carnegie Mellon University for Creative and Professional Writing. And it was here she discovered that humor was in her heart.
This was a surprise, since the funny bone usually gets so much press.
Soon Jenn graduated from Carnegie Mellon and, with an inconvenient bent toward eating regularly, she took a job as a technical writer for a software development company. In the years that followed, she would move from the joys of explaining where the File menu was, to managing the marketing of the company's product line. Marketing, she realized, involved a gleeful combination of Making Stuff Up and Actually Getting Paid for It; so she became a full-time marketing writer and project manager in a local advertising firm. She also continued to hone her fiction, and her first published story, "The Last Great Play of Rosie Cosnowski" made its way into the Timber Creek Review.
Since those days, Jenn Thorson's stories have won an award from the Humor Press, and have been published in the magazine for the Lewis Carroll Society of North America and Romantic Homes magazine. Her humor blog, Of Cabbages and Kings, has a regular following of readers—fine folks who are simply too polite to ask why the posts are never about monarchy or leaf vegetables. Her humorous space fantasy, There Goes the Galaxy, represents her first published novel.
Jenn is currently working on a second book of her character Bertram Ludlow's adventures, and while she does live in Bertram’s hometown of Pittsburgh, PA, she is definitely mostly sure she’s never met extra-terrestrials there.
Want to learn more about Jenn Thorson? Visit her website at: http://www.jennthorson.com
Follow her on Twitter at: twitter.com/Jenn_Thorson
Or "Like" There Goes the Galaxy on Facebook at: Facebook.com/ThereGoesthe
She promises she won't spend the whole time referring to herself in third person, or Tweeting about her lunch.
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