@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
Pinned
Message to my social security number: I hope you're ok wherever you are.
Reposted
Let's compare writing to... competitive ice skating! (And birth and death) @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social to @dianegotauthor.bsky.social at @dintywmoore.bsky.social inc @vineleavespress.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/m... #writinglife #memoir #lifewriting #skywriters
Motion Dazzle: A Memoir of Motherhood, Loss, and Skating on Thin Ice
What is a Skating Career but 10 to 15 years of Revision and Improvement? Jocelyn Jane Cox In Motion Dazzle: A Memoir of Motherhood, Loss, and Skating on Thin Ice, Jocelyn Jane Cox shares with her y…
brevity.wordpress.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Let's compare writing to... competitive ice skating! (And birth and death) @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social to @dianegotauthor.bsky.social at @dintywmoore.bsky.social inc @vineleavespress.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/m... #writinglife #memoir #lifewriting #skywriters
But I don’t want to wear a weighted vest
October 2, 2025 at 11:32 PM
But I don’t want to wear a weighted vest
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
Pub Day! If you want to know how I’m doing, I just tried to refill my coffee by turning on the kitchen sink.
Thank you!!
September 27, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Thank you!!
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
The freedom for so many people to have so many guns with so few regulations sure is making me feel unsafe.
Have skort, will travel.
(To a coffee shop.)
To write.
(In my financial spreadsheet.)
(To a coffee shop.)
To write.
(In my financial spreadsheet.)
August 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Have skort, will travel.
(To a coffee shop.)
To write.
(In my financial spreadsheet.)
(To a coffee shop.)
To write.
(In my financial spreadsheet.)
Motion Dazzle: Here are some scenes, some moments, some stripes of my memoir…
August 4, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Motion Dazzle: Here are some scenes, some moments, some stripes of my memoir…
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
I don’t want a ballroom. I want, among other things, PBS, clean water, and for other countries to not loathe us.
An app, but to track all the books you’ve pre-ordered from various booksellers.
Which ones? From where? When arriving?
Which ones? From where? When arriving?
August 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
An app, but to track all the books you’ve pre-ordered from various booksellers.
Which ones? From where? When arriving?
Which ones? From where? When arriving?
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
I was feeling pretty good during the audiobook recording of my memoir until I came to two lines I needed to…sing.
my legs
they are dotted
with mosquito bites
they are dotted
with mosquito bites
July 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
my legs
they are dotted
with mosquito bites
they are dotted
with mosquito bites
God give me the strength to stop doing things the most inefficient way possible.
July 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
God give me the strength to stop doing things the most inefficient way possible.
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
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. 💛
The Four Stages of Author Audacity/Gumption/Bravery
1. Writing a book
2. Querying a book
3. Publishing a book
4. Promoting a book
1. Writing a book
2. Querying a book
3. Publishing a book
4. Promoting a book
June 25, 2025 at 11:22 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
1. Writing a book
2. Querying a book
3. Publishing a book
4. Promoting a book
America ewwwww
June 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
America ewwwww
Reposted
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
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.
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
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?
Reposted
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
I wish this predictable lil feud between two disgusting people was bringing me joy but it isn’t.
Love this painful and beautiful piece in @havehashad.com by @esfletcher.bsky.social
Who’s up for a body-horror love story? If you act fast, you can read it before my husband does.
Many thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social & @havehashad.com for giving this cringey cnf a good home.
Many thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social & @havehashad.com for giving this cringey cnf a good home.
Love, Distilled by Elizabeth Fletcher
If grand romantic gestures were my measure of true love, I never would’ve married my husband. He is nothing if not practical. He bought me a basic calculator our first Christmas together so I wouldn’t...
www.havehashad.com
May 28, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Love this painful and beautiful piece in @havehashad.com by @esfletcher.bsky.social
Things I'm wondering as a person with a book coming out in the fall:
-Will all books be banned?
-Will reading be banned?
-Will all books be banned?
-Will reading be banned?
May 23, 2025 at 1:17 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?
-Will all books be banned?
-Will reading be banned?
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
Keeping track of book pre-orders (which ones did order and from where?) is starting to feel like it needs a spreadsheet.