Here’s the 3rd-person blurb:
Jessica Vealitzek is a Midwest writer. She also holds elected office in local government. She is a former communications director for a gubernatorial candidate, an exhibit writer, and reporter.
Her first novel, The Rooms Are Filled, was published in 2014. Before running for office, she wrote for Great New Books and PDXX Collective and has been published in the anthologies The HerStories Project and Three Minus One. Her articles have appeared in The Chicago Sun-Times and The Detroit Free-Press, and her posts have been featured on Scary Mommy, Mamapedia and Bon Bon Break.
She writes upmarket and literary fiction and is currently at work on her third novel.
Here’s the ad for the personals:
I am moved by many things, including, but not limited to:
- Music by Brandi Carlile, Alison Russel, Mumford & Sons, marching bands, CCR, most traditional Irish music, gospel, and practically any music that’s live;
- The sounds of guitar, violin, bagpipes, wind (preferably in trees with leaves), wolves, mourning doves;
- The books of Donal Ryan, Louise Erdrich, L.M. Montgomery, Elizabeth Strout; and women like Chanel Miller who tell their stories
- Bull Durham, Dances with Wolves, Field of Dreams, A Perfect World (I am not ashamed of this Kevin Costner trend), Brokeback Mountain, Braveheart, Steel Magnolias, Glory, It’s a Wonderful Life;
- Abraham Lincoln, Ricky Gervais, Bryan Stevenson
- The natural world in every form, back massages, Cuban food, genealogy, road trips anywhere;
- And, to a lesser degree, brownies without nuts and the Monster Trail Mix from Target.
You can reach me at ONE OF THESE PLACES.
True STORIES. 