Jennifer Gilmore
Jennifer Gilmore
Jennifer Gilmoreis an American novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
strong book sometimes
I feel sometimes like a book tour is a slow series of humiliations and that if you're strong you'll come out of it OK.
writing way publishing
Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing.
morning coffee promise
I'm a morning person: if I don't get up, put the coffee on and get to my desk by 8, the day has already lost a lot of its promise.
adoption want open-adoption
I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great.
writing feels therapy
I really don't feel that writing is therapy.
overcoming dread kicks
I find I have to touch what I am working on every day, or a deep-seated dread kicks in that is very hard to overcome.
imagination release my-own
History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.
two trying roles
I couldn't really experience being an author when I was still working in publishing - I was trying to negotiate being both. Sometimes the knowledge doesn't translate between the two roles.
dog children writing
Idea of the generations continuing is really important. And that's interesting to me. I write about families; I'm interested in families. Even though I think a family can be just two people or two people and a dog, I really wanted children for that reason.
race adoption african-american
With domestic adoption, you get a form, you fill it out, and there are these boxes: African-American, African-American and Hispanic, and you check the boxes that you're comfortable with. Race is completely open in that regard.
home fighting creating
The world is a dysfunctional place in so many ways. It is unstable. So even though that chaos can be reflected in our own homes, I suppose we have to fight that by creating our own versions of safety, which can also turn into ignoring the state of the world.
adoption important stories
The process of open adoption is not discussed in the way it should be. Everyone I know who has adopted domestically has at least one tragic story. It was important to me to be able to describe those situations.
past inspire way
The past always sort of haunts us and perhaps inspires us in some ways.
character past two
My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me to find my way into my story and my characters through research.