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I could be all coy here and pretend that this is my first-ever blog post, and venture forth wide-eyed and innocent into the big bad blogiverse, but anybody who knows me at all knows that I'm definitely no stranger to the blogging world. No, I keep a scarily popular journal on some other site, and if you know me as a writer, that's probably where you've seen anything I've written because let's face it, my crippling fear of rejection has kept me from doing much else of significance.

No matter. I'll get there.

Anyway, if you're just surfing through, let me bring you up to speed. My name is Jessica. I work for a big magazine company in Manhattan but live and play in Brooklyn. I've written some stuff for some publications you may or may not have read - most recently I had my first (and hopefully not my last) little blurb published on Black Table. Starting this fall, I'll also be co-curating the Barbes Reading Series.

The big project, though, and my first love, is my novel-in-progress. Someday it will be a real book, and you will all be able to say you read my blog back before anybody knew who I was. (Not that anybody will know who I am when you say this, mind you, because people probably still won't know who I am.)