Jess Mey
@jessmeywrites.bsky.social
Author of "Grace & Jo Have Never Solved a Murder" (October 2026, @daturabooks) Rep: @awfulagent 📚 📸 Andria Zutich Photography https://linktr.ee/jessmeywrites
Surprise!!! I get to write about werewolves now too!!! I so firmly believe in this book, and I'm SO thrilled to have found a home with Orange Blossom! I hope you're all ready to fall in love with a chronically ill werewolf, her nerdy best friend, and the shenanigans they get up to along the way!
I do not need to watch reality television because every day there is a new bombshell in the villa/publishing AI scandal.
How people sound when they say they don’t have the money to pay an artist or write their own book: “I don’t have the budget for Louboutins or the time to save the money, so I’ll just steal someone else’s!” It’s not meant for you (for the time being or maybe not at all), and that’s ok.
Today on Substack, I wrote about the ethics and economics behind choosing whether to purchase a book new, buy secondhand, or get it from the library. (Spoiler alert, my answer as a debut author was no.) open.substack.com/pub/jessmeyw...
Thrifting & Borrowing: Is There a "Wrong" Way to Consume Books?
Costs are up and literacy is down - is reading a book for free still supporting an author?
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Waterstones customers can get GRACE & JO HAVE NEVER SOLVED A MURDER for 25% off from now until July 24th with the code SUMMER26! www.waterstones.com/book/grace-a...
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Today was one of those low low and high high days, but I'm excited to say that the highest high was a positive Publishers Weekly Review! www.publishersweekly.com/9781917415309
We can’t go outside in Pittsburgh because of the smoke from the Canadian wildfires (stay safe Canada!) but at least my book looks pretty in the apocalyptic lighting.
I cannot even imagine what it is like trying to breathe in Canada today when it is this difficult in Pittsburgh. 😭
Taking photos of my book baby as I did with my real babies. GRACE & JO HAVE NEVER SOLVED THE MURDER's official birthday is October 13, 2026! In lieu of a registry, I have a pre-order link. 😘 #booksky
Be like my daughter. Don’t save the dress for a special occasion. Wear that dress to happy hour at Primanti’s.
Turned in copy edits on my latest book this week so I should probably remind people I have a book coming out later this year. It’s called ETERNITY’S TOMB and it answers the question we’ve all asked ourselves: what if we were robbing a space tomb heading for a black hole?! dmoren.com/writing/eter...
Love modern cozy mysteries like FINLAY DONOVAN IS KILLING IT? You might enjoy my debut novel, GRACE & JO HAVE NEVER SOLVED A MURDER. This reader did! #booksky
Me leaving the marketing and social media industry saying I never wanted to do it again, but then becoming an author.
Tom Senya Puts on Clown Mask
ALT: Tom Senya Puts on Clown Mask
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GRACE & JO HAVE NEVER SOLVED A MURDER is now fully request-able on NetGalley! Link is in my bio and my team will be approving tons of requests for the next few hours!
My daughter just screamed, “YOU’RE A FREAK!” to my son and then, “MOM, WHAT IS A FREAK??” to me.
Imagine all of the great stories that wouldn’t exist if people had just gone to therapy
If you think my TBR is big, wait til you see how many manuscripts I've started.
Don’t cry over spilled milk but definitely cry because you apparently didn’t save your document and lost 3k words to a heat wave outage… or however the saying goes. 😭
Oh my gosh. SO many people were reading this book at the pool today. It must be so good. 👀
Last year I was a stay-at-home mom who wrote a book, got an agent, and sold my debut. After a year of wishing for things to work out, that debut is now available to “wish” for on NetGalley! Early Netgalley reviews are a huge help to new authors, so make a wish! ✨ www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
Grace & Jo Have Never Solved a Murder
NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...
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A good way to remind yourself that you can't please everyone as an #author is to read 1-star reviews from books you rated 5 stars.
I love the early stages of drafting a new novel because you're looking at a line and paragraph level and don't realize the plot doesn't make sense yet. #author
Thought I came up with the perfect name for my WIP, asked my husband if he liked it, and he pulled up the text where he suggested it to me a month ago. 😂
My cozy mystery is available to “wish” for on NetGalley and to request if you’re a bookseller or librarian! 🙌 (Other users will be able to request in July!) www.netgalley.com/catalog/book... #booksky
Grace & Jo Have Never Solved a Murder
NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...
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Flying home from Disney World and what I really need are some vegetables and to sit for a week or so.