On Mon 5/18, (7pm ET) I’ll be sharing my TOP 10 Book Launch Spreadsheets in a free online session with Prose Playground: what I put on the sheets, how I got the tasks done, and some launching nitty gritty, too. Pls join if you are launching soon or hope to be launching one day in the future. 💛

[FREE EVENT] Ten Spreadsheets: Everything You Need to Know to Launch Your Book! | Prose Playground

Join Jos and writing-coach-writing-teacher-and-book-launch-master, @Jocelyn Jane Cox, as they roll out the pure gold of book launch tools! On May 18th, Jocelyn will introduce you to her Ten Spreadshee...

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It's weird: I listen to music all day but sometimes I forget to seek out new music. I forget how a new song or a new playlist can lift you up and completely change your mood or your day.

So I guess I'm "all my doctors I've had for a long time are retiring" years old.

AI reminds me of those cell phone towers attempting to look like trees. Like: we see you and it's not working.

Want to expand your nonfiction horizons? Or just learn more about the different subsets in the genre? In this two-hour online class I’ll be breaking down the differences (and similarities!) between memoir, essays/personal essays, & creative nonfiction/CNF. www.writerscenter.org/event-detail...

Ready to get in the #WinterOlympics state of mind? Our newest episode features a conversation with former competitive figure skating siblings Brad and @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social who tell Anita about their 11 years of competing and how their partnership continued into adulthood.

@nicoleharoutunian.bsky.social interviews @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social, author of Motion Dazzle: A Memoir of Motherhood, Loss, and Skating on Thin Ice:

On Pain and Priorities: A Conversation with Jocelyn Jane Cox

When my friend Jocelyn Jane Cox emailed me an early draft of Motion Dazzle: A Memoir of Motherhood, Loss, and Skating on Thin Ice, I sped through half the book before I remembered I was supposed to be...

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Perfectionists, how to be gentle with yourself in the chaos of publishing. @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @annajrollins.bsky.social @mfraterrigo.bsky.social at @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/p... #publishing #memoir #newbook #writingcommunity

Finding Beauty Amidst the Publication Chaos

THREE MANTRAS By Jocelyn Jane Cox, Anna Rollins and Melissa Fraterrigo Books (once published) are relinquished to the world, out of an author’s hands and into the hands of others. This is an especi…

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“What if they don’t want to kiss or cry?” By @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social & Jennifer McClory Full piece: thebelladonnacomedy.com/alternative-...

@jocelynjanecox.bsky.social reviews @nglipson.bsky.social's memoir in essays, Mothers and Other Fictional Characters:

Philosophical Force, Quiet Rumination: A Review of Mothers and Other Fictional Characters

Nicole Graev Lipson’s Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: A Memoir in Essays is composed of 12 long-form essays on modern motherhood viewed through a literary lens. Lipson strikes an interesting b...

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Thanks to @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social (@vineleavespress.bsky.social), @mfraterrigo.bsky.social (@univnebpress.bsky.social) and @annajrollins.bsky.social (@eerdmansbooks.bsky.social)! Today's chat was fantastic. If you missed it, you can find the recording here: www.youtube.com/@brownbaglit...

Brown Bag Lit@brownbaglit.bsky.social · 9mo ago

We look forward to our final event of the year with memoirists @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social (@vineleavespress.bsky.social), @mfraterrigo.bsky.social (@univnebpress.bsky.social) and @annajrollins.bsky.social (@eerdmansbooks.bsky.social)!

Thrilled that SIX @vineleavespress.bsky.social authors have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize @ianmrogers.bsky.social #ECBatista #JillAmberChaffin @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social #DavidHicks @nicolezelniker.bsky.social Congratulations and Good luck! preview.mailerlite.com/a0p3x5m2g3/2...

Writing is like... athletic training. @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social & I discuss nailyournovel.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/t... #writingtips #memoir #writinglife

We look forward to our final event of the year with memoirists @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social (@vineleavespress.bsky.social), @mfraterrigo.bsky.social (@univnebpress.bsky.social) and @annajrollins.bsky.social (@eerdmansbooks.bsky.social)!

Let's compare writing to... competitive ice skating! (And birth and death) @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social to @dianegotauthor.bsky.social at @dintywmoore.bsky.social inc @vineleavespress.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/m... #writinglife #memoir #lifewriting #skywriters

Motion Dazzle: A Memoir of Motherhood, Loss, and Skating on Thin Ice

What is a Skating Career but 10 to 15 years of Revision and Improvement? Jocelyn Jane Cox In Motion Dazzle: A Memoir of Motherhood, Loss, and Skating on Thin Ice, Jocelyn Jane Cox shares with her y…

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But I don’t want to wear a weighted vest

Pub Day! If you want to know how I’m doing, I just tried to refill my coffee by turning on the kitchen sink.

Thank you!!

Elizabeth Fletcher@esfletcher.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Book mail! (With congrats to @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social on the new release!)

Get yourself a friend who will chat with you on the phone on the way to a coffee shop where you’re meeting up to chat some more.

One tiny moment from the brilliant memoir MOTION DAZZLE: A Memoir of Motherhood, Loss, and Skating on Thin Ice by @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social. Out September 30 from Vine Leaves Press.

It's not that Bruce Willis' wife Emma hired full time care for him in a separate space (they have the means to do this); it's that ALL caregivers in this country should have the access to professional help in a safe environment when the health needs escalate beyond a manageable capacity.

The freedom for so many people to have so many guns with so few regulations sure is making me feel unsafe.

Have skort, will travel. (To a coffee shop.) To write. (In my financial spreadsheet.)

Motion Dazzle: Here are some scenes, some moments, some stripes of my memoir…

I don’t want a ballroom. I want, among other things, PBS, clean water, and for other countries to not loathe us.

An app, but to track all the books you’ve pre-ordered from various booksellers. Which ones? From where? When arriving?

I was feeling pretty good during the audiobook recording of my memoir until I came to two lines I needed to…sing.

my legs they are dotted with mosquito bites

God give me the strength to stop doing things the most inefficient way possible.

COVER REVEAL! Tah Dah! 

Motion Dazzle, my memoir about caregiving, dementia, finding love, the “sandwich generation” and new motherhood, with a figure skating backdrop and zebras galloping throughout comes out 9/30/25 from @vine_leaves_press . ✨ I am so grateful for this design. 💛