| Jacquéline Roth, known to most those who have to put up with her on a daily basis as Jae, is by passion and profession a teacher of writing, reading and literature to middle school students. A writer since childhood, she has had essays appear in niche publications and spent time as a freelance writer doing book reviews and author interviews. Fantasy is an irresistible temptation she embraces and she confesses to a fascination with Were-creatures, Arthurian legend, Greek/Roman/Celtic mythos, and Gothic literature. Though she began writing stories and poems as a young girl, the realities of life soon managed to bring dreams of being a writer to a crashing halt. Soon, even scribbling away in her notebook was put aside. Working her way through college, she spent time in daycares where she discovered that the few people who seemed interested in her storytelling were children. She often entertained her charges, and later nieces and nephews, with elaborate versions of fairy tales and a few original stories as well. Once college was over, teaching jobs seemed few and far between. So instead of working in a classroom, Jae spent ten years working with adults with developmental disabilities. Beginning as a case manager, she worked her way up to administrator of a facility that housed over 90 individuals. But stress took a heavy toll. Just 34, she suffered a series of strokes. No definitive cause has ever been found to explain the attacks which continue to this day, thankfully, on a much smaller scale. At this point writing seemed even farther and farther away. But what was now close to home was the fact that life demanded she pay attention. Packing up everything she owned, she moved almost 600 miles from home and started over. She found a job teaching middle school students reading, writing and literature. Still, writing had been reduced to poems, freelance book reviews and author interviews. Until the day Jae discovered fanfiction. Yes, fanfiction. She soon became a part of a small group of adults working on a site, one of the oldest and largest of its kind, that encouraged young writers by giving them a forum to write stories about their favorite boy wizard. With the brilliance of her friends, she became one of the founding members of a workshop community that sought to encourage each other just as they had once encouraged children. With the support of this community known as The Circle of Crones, Jae began to write original fiction and with her friends believing in her and her stories (usually more than she herself) she took a deep breath and began to explore the possibility of publishing. After a handful of rejections, Access Denied (originally titled Assignment 7) was tucked away with the resolve never to send it out again. Until 2:30 am one morning, after too much cold medicine and a pep talk from the Crones and one pseudo-Irishman who was the model for the hero, she took a deep breath and emailed the first three chapters and synopsis to Cerridwen Press. On March 1, 2007, the dream of a little blond-haired girl from Danville, Illinois came true. Her stories were no longer going to be restricted to the ears of her stuffed animals, family and friends. She was going to be published. _________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Jae currently resides in Atlanta, GA, where she finds the human component of her family seriously outnumbered by canine and avian members. However, she has been promised that if she can find a Were or a dragon, she is allowed to bring it home and keep it. |
| Welcome to Jacquéline Roth.com -It's a strange and crazy little world, but it's mine and it works. |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |