Jen

Did you miss the preorder swag opportunity for A CONSTELLATION OF MINOR BEARS 🐻 🥾? Do you still want gorgeous stickers designed by the illustrious @issitohbi ? You can get these stickers and a signed book plate mailed to you anywhere in the world if you: 1) purchase the book in any format, 2) request your library purchase a copy, or 3) take a photo of you reading a library copy and submit to the form linked in my bio. I’ll work on mailing these out every couple weeks or so. If you see me in person, feel free to ask if I have swag on me! I should. 😅

This happened. Also I’m in a hotel and a man told me he loved my style in a completely perfectly non-creepy way. So today is just very much HOT TO GO!

Dear Author Friends & Foes: Would you donate a signed copy of one or more of your books for a scholarship fundraiser I'm organizing? We'd love books for all ages, all genres. The scholarship will help creative writing students attend a 4-week wilderness writing course in the Superior National Forest in MN. DM with questions and for shipping address. Maarsi/thanking you! <3 Jen

I'm in NYC, happy to be one of the well-dressed pedestrians minding my own business.

Canadian teachers, librarians, parents AND TEENS! Free contest!!! We want to read your words!!! Submit by Feb 28th!

I am absolutely thrilled how the cover for my next YA book came out!! Look at this beauty. Cover design: @lauramock.design Cover art: @morning.star.designs Please help me celebrate the people behind the cover and give them a follow if you haven't already! To learn a little more about Like Glass ⚡ read on. ⚡ From award-winning author Jen Ferguson (Métis) comes the luminous story of a family steeped in grief and love. When Tatum Nova Lambert boards a plane to Chamonix, a town in the French Alps, she has one half-formed plan: to drag her Michelin-star-winning dad home. Since her older sister Bronwyn’s death a year ago, Tate and her dad don’t talk. They barely even text. So when he doesn’t pick her up at the transit station like he said he would, it’s no surprise. What is a complete and very unwelcome surprise? Her dad is unexpectedly living in Bronwyn’s apartment, and Tate discovers she’ll be sleeping in her sister’s bed—the one Bronwyn died in. In the apartment and at her dad’s restaurant, it’s hard to bear both her dad’s broken promises and her sister’s ghost. While trying to untangle the secret life Tate’s sister left behind, Tate meets Agatha, a schedule-obsessed Olympic ski-jump hopeful, and Beetle, a pickpocket and general teenaged dirtbag. As the unlikely trio explore in the mountains’ shadow, Tate brings her distinct kind of chaos to everyone’s lives—all while she tries to figure out if she can forgive her dad and her sister for leaving her behind. ⚡ In a world where books (especially particular kinds of books by particular kinds of writers) are challenged and banned, pre-orders and library requests and telling your friends about books you're really excited for--they all matter more than I can say. #LikeGlass #YA #YAbooks #Chamonix #Heartdrum #HarperCollins #JenFerguson

EDITED TO SAY: U.S. Teachers/librarians, I only have 2 copies left. Please use my contact form on my webpage. One of the things that happens to an author that they might not talk about: getting remainder! Basically, the publisher decides that the book isn't selling well enough to keep stock on hand in the warehouse. It's always disappointing (at the very least) when people sleep on a great book. But it's also good for you all: The hardcover of Those Pink Mountain Nights will now start showing up in deeply discounted retailers!!! Also, I got sent a box of hardcovers. It's like a consolation prize. lol. So here's my offer: Teachers in the US with a classroom library or teachers who would like a mini class set (say 6 books) please be in touch with me through my contact page. I'm happy to send these out until they're gone. #YA #YAbooks #giveaway #teachergiveaway

Maarsi to @lookingglasslit for the sweet surprise today! All the living creatures in my house keep trying to get a sniff (or a chomp) of these gorgeous reminders that spring is coming. Biggest shared congrats to the FRYBREAD team on the Printz Award! How cool. You all deserve flowers! Or a Coke. Or whatever it is you crave most from Sandy June's menu!

This is how the oldest nephew said “Sandy June’s Legendary Frybread” every time it was written in the book! 🤣🤣🤣 His full review is yet to come. Prepare yourselves! #legendaryfrybreaddrivein

Edited to say: yay yay yay, the winner is @sam.gauer_ !!! Sam check your DMs for a note from me! Maarsi everyone. Request Legendary Frybread Drive-In at your local bookstore or library! -- #Giveaway! Open to #Canada only. Win one copy of LEGENDARY FRYBREAD DRIVE-IN featuring stories by so many cool YA and MG Native authors and edited by @cynthialeitichsmith ! I can sign it if you'd like! Photo includes my nephew's lego taco, my lego avocado and a gorgeous pen. These are not part of the giveaway. To enter, tell me how you like your taco? #NativeLit #Anthology #GiveawayBook

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EPISODE 10!!! IS!!!! LIVE!!!! This week we released our episode with Jen Ferguson, who is an incredible novelist and just SUCH a delight in conversation. We chatted about all things STAKES, and we hope you tune in — on Spotify or Apple podcasts! — and give it a listen! Let us know if you do — what was your favorite part of this episode?