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jocelynjanecox.bsky.social
@jocelynjanecox.bsky.social
I write essays, humor, CNF. Forthcoming memoir MOTION DAZZLE (9/2025): a birth, a death, figure skating, and zebras. MFA, Pushcart nom. Words in: The Offing, HAD, Colorado Review, Litro Mag, Belladonna, NYT, Slate, WIRED. https://www.jocelynjanecox.com
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Message to my social security number: I hope you're ok wherever you are.
But I don’t want to wear a weighted vest
October 2, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Pub Day! If you want to know how I’m doing, I just tried to refill my coffee by turning on the kitchen sink.
September 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Thank you!!
Book mail!

(With congrats to @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social on the new release!)
September 27, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Get yourself a friend who will chat with you on the phone on the way to a coffee shop where you’re meeting up to chat some more.
September 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Reposted
One tiny moment from the brilliant memoir MOTION DAZZLE: A Memoir of Motherhood, Loss, and Skating on Thin Ice by @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social. Out September 30 from Vine Leaves Press.
September 2, 2025 at 12:12 PM
It's not that Bruce Willis' wife Emma hired full time care for him in a separate space (they have the means to do this); it's that ALL caregivers in this country should have the access to professional help in a safe environment when the health needs escalate beyond a manageable capacity.
August 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The freedom for so many people to have so many guns with so few regulations sure is making me feel unsafe.
August 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Have skort, will travel.

(To a coffee shop.)

To write.

(In my financial spreadsheet.)
August 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Motion Dazzle: Here are some scenes, some moments, some stripes of my memoir…
August 4, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I don’t want a ballroom. I want, among other things, PBS, clean water, and for other countries to not loathe us.
August 2, 2025 at 7:23 PM
An app, but to track all the books you’ve pre-ordered from various booksellers.

Which ones? From where? When arriving?
August 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I was feeling pretty good during the audiobook recording of my memoir until I came to two lines I needed to…sing.
July 23, 2025 at 12:53 AM
my legs
they are dotted
with mosquito bites
July 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
God give me the strength to stop doing things the most inefficient way possible.
July 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
COVER REVEAL! Tah Dah! 

Motion Dazzle, my memoir about caregiving, dementia, finding love, the “sandwich generation” and new motherhood, with a figure skating backdrop and zebras galloping throughout comes out 9/30/25 from @vine_leaves_press . ✨ I am so grateful for this design. 💛
July 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
The Four Stages of Author Audacity/Gumption/Bravery

1. Writing a book
2. Querying a book
3. Publishing a book
4. Promoting a book
June 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
America ewwwww
June 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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AOC: Being taken is wrong, it is illegal, it is a violation of his First Amendment rights, it is an affront to every American, and we will not allow—and will continue to resist—the politicization and the continued political persecution that ICE is engaged in.
June 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
What career paths will NOT be decimated by AI in the next decade (or in the next year). How do we help our children imagine their futures?
June 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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June 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I wish this predictable lil feud between two disgusting people was bringing me joy but it isn’t.
June 6, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Love this painful and beautiful piece in @havehashad.com by @esfletcher.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Things I'm wondering as a person with a book coming out in the fall:
-Will all books be banned?
-Will reading be banned?
May 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Keeping track of book pre-orders (which ones did order and from where?) is starting to feel like it needs a spreadsheet.
May 21, 2025 at 1:54 PM