Join us as we hear from our BookSparks authors on where they write to find inspiration. Introducing – Where I Write!

Where I Write – Jenna Patrick

My favorite place to write is my office. It’s cozy and has a nice window for me to look out of when I’m daydreaming. I’m surrounded by all the tools that aid in the creation of my books – a white board to jot quick ideas down, a cork board for quick access to character charts and timelines, dual monitors so that I can keep Scrivener up on one screen and plot and/or character spreadsheets up on the other.

But the most important item is a tiny rectangular piece of paper that serves as a reminder in the times that all those other things fail to help me create. Sitting on the desk in my office is a picture frame containing a fortune I received six or seven years ago in a Chinese takeout order. It couldn’t have come at a more perfect time in my writing career – a day when I had received around my 100th rejection on my second book and I truly needed a sign to keep going. And while I’m not a superstitious person, I will admit it was the fortune that convinced me to write just one more book. And I am so glad I did.

Jenna Patrick

Raised in northern Ohio, Jenna Patrick moved to North Carolina in 1998 to attend the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where she received a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering. After ten years of devoting her brain to science and math, she returned to her true passion: writing fiction. She and her husband reside on Lake Norman with their two daughters and two rescue dogs. The Rules of Half is her debut novel.