Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes.
And she abandons her mind to obscure arts.

—Ovid, Metamorphosis

This newsletter is a place to collect my wayward thoughts, pluck the fluttering ideas out of my racing brain and pin them to a display board so I can better examine them. Essays about artistic wounds, feeling lost in translation, and the process of creative alchemy.

Oh, and a place where I occasionally update my readers on my books, I guess.

S. JAE-JONES (called JJ) is an artist, an adrenaline junkie, and the New York Times bestselling author of the Wintersong duology and the Guardians of Dawn series. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she now lives on the wrong coast, where she can’t believe she has to deal with winter every year. When not writing, JJ can be found working toward her next black belt degree in taekwondo, being run ragged by her twin dogs, Castor and Pollux, or indulging in her favorite hobby — collecting more hobbies.

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