I’d like to welcome author, Jennifer Anne Gordon, to the blog for #ThisorThatThursday!

A few of your favorite things: my dog, my husband, my imagination, and my friends.

Things you need to throw out: negativity.

Hardest thing about being a writer: self-doubt, loneliness, unfair comparisons with other writers (that I do to myself)

Easiest thing about being a writer: Letting the characters be in control of the story and not me.

Words that describe you: pale, empathic, creative, loud, talented

Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: loud (hahaha), neurotic, anxious, short, bossy

Favorite foods: Indian food, grilled cheese, vegetarian chili, minestrone soup

Things that make you want to gag: the texture of a raw tomato, all meat, poached pears, oysters

Favorite smell: rain
Something that makes you hold your nose: dead mice in a wall (I live in an old house.)

Something you’re really good at: Dancing
Something you’re really bad at: Math

Things you always put in your books: Beautifully damaged people
Things you never put in your books: Anything violent that has to do with eyeballs or teeth

Favorite places you’ve been: Venice, Italy
Places you never want to go to again: Tampa, Florida

Favorite books (or genre): Horror!!! (specifically ghost stories and gothic fiction)
Books you wouldn’t buy: “Forbidden Romance” (the dark stuff like Daddy/Daughter and books about Abuse/Love….no thank you none of that is sexy nor is it love)

Favorite things to do: Travel!!
Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing: anything with a spreadsheet!

Most embarrassing moment: I was posing for an art class (nude) and I had held the pose for so long I did not realize that half my body had fallen asleep and had gone numb. I stood up on the break and reached for my robe and tried to step down off the podium, and I fell, completely naked and was all splayed out (very unattractive pose) and a student in the class, that I had a but of a crush on had to grab my robe and then toss it over my body…like I was on fire.

Proudest moment: leaving an abusive relationship

The nicest thing a reader said to you: “Your book spoke to my soul, I have never read a more perfect description of the human psyche unraveling”

The craziest thing a reader said to you: “This could be good if you made the main character funny” (this was said about a character who was dealing with the death of his wife and his young son)

About Jennifer:

Jennifer Anne Gordon is a gothic horror novelist. Her work includes Beautiful, Frightening and Silent (2020) which won the Kindle Award for Best Horror/Suspense for 2020, and From Daylight to Madness (The Hotel book 1), and When the Sleeping Dead Still Talk (The Hotel book 2).

She had a collection of her mixed media artwork published during spring of 2020, entitled Victoriana: mixed media art of Jennifer Gordon

Jennifer is one of the hosts as well as the creator of Vox Vomitus, a video podcast on the Global Authors on the Air Network, as well as the Co-Host of the You Tube Channel “Talk Horror to Me”. She had been a contributor to Ladies of Horror Fiction, as well as Horror Tree.

Jennifer is a pale curly haired ginger, obsessed with horror, ghosts, abandoned buildings, and her dog "Lord Tubby.”

She graduated from the New Hampshire Institute of Art, where she studied Acting. She also studied at the University of New Hampshire with a concentration in Art History and English.

She has made her living as an actress, a magician's assistant, a "gallerina,” a comic book dealer, a painter, and burlesque performer and for the past 10 years as an award-winning professional ballroom dancer, performer, instructor, and choreographer.

When not scribbling away (ok, typing frantically) she enjoys traveling with her husband and dance partner, teaching her dog ridiculous tricks (like 'give me a kiss' and 'what hand is the treat in?' ok these are not great tricks.) as well as taking photos of abandoned buildings and haunted locations.

She is a leo, so at the end of the day she just thinks about her hair.