Jessica McCarty, Author

A woman was lamenting to me this week that she couldn't find Scrabble in the store. It wasn't that they didn't have the game, but they didn't have the original version. This led to me bringing up how my siblings and I use to play Life growing up. We'd finish the game and they'd plead with me, "One more time! Just one more!" "Fine." With the end of the school year approaching, and this conversation, I'm thinking a lot about my childhood, especially the summers my siblings and I shared together. As the oldest, I got the job of babysitting. My siblings still give me a rough time about how many chips I gave them for lunch. Is it my fault 12 chips is a serving? Talk to the bag. Mom said one. Most days were filled with cartoons, putting on skits we made for each other (we were truckers, police who arrested people for owning dirty socks, etc.), playing board games, and the like, since we had to wait until the parents arrived home ...

Friends!!! A Desperate Love  turned six months old on Monday! How crazy is that? My author event came at just the right time to mark this milestone, which, by the way, my sister snapped a few pictures of. I have no idea what I was laughing at here. My husband, being all kinds of awesome! 😘 (He's all mine, ladies!) Song I'm listening to: "Already Home" by Richard Walters "Maybe I was never lost at all. I'm a thousand miles from what I had before." I actually heard this song a week or two ago on an episode of Magnum, P.I. The new version for those of you who are thinking of Tom Selleck right now. It's actually really good! I used this particular line and the picture of ADL from above on a recent Instagram highlight. I think it goes well with the story itself, as well as my journey with writing it. Currently reading: To Best the Boys by the fabulous Miss Mary Weber! I...

Thanks to everyone who came out Wednesday to support me and Cheyenne! We had a great time! A special thanks to the Flora Monroe Township Public Library for hosting the event and making me feel oh so special! The cookies we had were practically cupcakes with the amount of icing on them. Yum! 😋 We had readings, a Q&A time, and book giveaways. The event was recorded for YouTube. So, if you were unable to attend, it should be on the library's YouTube channel in the very near future. Thanks again, everyone!  😍 #blessed P.S. You can find Cheyenne on her Facebook page, Cheyenne's Books/Writing Announcements. I hear she even personalizes one of her books with your little one's name. You should check her out. Book I finished TODAY: Storm Siren by Mary Weber "Because evil knows what we will become: Stronger. Wiser. Unstoppable. Don't let him take who you are. Make him fear who you will become ." P...

Friends, I have an author event coming up! Flora Public Library Wednesday, March 13 @ 6:30pm Come and see me and children's author Cheyenne Porras, author of Harrison Learns to Behave! There will be a short introduction, Q&A, book readings, giveaways , and meet and greet. I also hear there will be cookies and coffee! You can pick up free bookmarks of mine, as well. Spring is coming! I have to keep reminding myself of this with all the cold, because I'm currently baking all the things and eating all the things. It needs to get warm soon! Song I'm listening to: Crushing Snakes  by Crowder We're taking back our freedom Our battle has been won We have been liberated Back from the dead we've come Quote of the week: I write about love and such Maybe 'cause I want it so much -- I'm Not Who I Was , Brandon Heath Okay, so it's more song lyrics, but it gives my writer's heart ...

Happy first day of March! There are nineteen days until spring ! ⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘ Yay! (That's for you, hubs.) (*winks*) Book I recently finished reading: Hunted  by Meagan Spooner "You're no knight from an old story, and he's certainly no maiden in distress." "He is gone forever now. I am the WOLF." "I would give up a thousand happy endings just to go back with you to your valley, and live as we did. I'd give up every fairy tale I've ever known just to hear you say my name again." Book I'm currently reading: Storm Siren  by Mary Weber I have a few books I'd like to reread this year. Mary Weber is one of my faves and, with To Best the Boys  coming out in 2 1/2 weeks (This is not a drill, people!), I thought it would be a good time to revisit Nym, the country of Faelen, and all things Elemental. Plus, if you preorder and email your receipt to Mary (check her so...