A Time For Everything

Hello and welcome. I’m Jen FitzGerald and I write male/male romance with heart, humor, and characters learning they’re worthy of love just as they are.

This is where I share a little more of myself than will fit on a book jacket. I hope you find something interesting, chuckle worthy, encouraging, or uplifting—and I hope you’ll come back.

So, a little about me...

My husband and I have three adult children, and Texas has been home for more than twenty years. Before that, we spent several years in Nebraska while he was stationed at Offutt Air Force Base.

I was born and raised in Southern California. I'm a real live Valley Girl—in the literal sense that I lived in the San Fernando Valley growing up. I wasn’t quite the version you might have seen in movies or on tv.

Now, if you and I were sitting down to coffee, cocoa, tea, or cocktails, what would I tell you about myself?

I'd share that my earliest reading memories include A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh, Miriam Young’s Miss Suzy, and Dr. Seuss's extensive book collection. They also include the Cricket in Times Square, the Little House on the Prairie books, and Gone with the Wind. In high school, I discovered romance through my step-mother's love of Danielle Steel as well as Silhouette Romance's long-discontinued teen romance line.

These days, my reading interests range from romance (always!) to self-help, biographies, history, and large coffee table books. If any of those interests overlap in one book, so much the better.

I did a little writing as a child, including a comic book character I called Crazy Cat. In junior high and high school, though, my writing was mostly school assignments and diary entries.

Then came work, children, mariage, more children, and more work. I kept reading, but writing wasn’t on my radar until the early 2000s. Money was tight, and I read fast. It didn't take me long to read my way through the books that interested me at the local library. My husband suggested I look for fan fiction online. We were watching Star Trek: Voyager as a family, so that’s where I started. I was hooked. The rest as they say, was history.

Somehow, the tv show JAG caught my attention next, and I was hooked again—on the show, the fan fiction, the websites, and fandom in general. After reading fanfic after fanfic, I decided to try writing one myself. It was received well, so I wrote another and another and another.

Then one day, a fellow fan girl mentioned that she was going to a Romance Writers of America meeting and asked if I wanted to come along. I did. I joined the local chapter, then the national organization, and started learning how to write romance novels. That was in 2003. Over the years, I’ve served in nearly every board position of my local group, met wonderful writers, and made lasting friends.

I write and publish male/male romance, including contemporary romances set in Texas as well as in the world of professional hockey. You can explore my books here.

Here on this blog, I write about life: what’s going on in mine, the things I’m working through, and the small victories along the way. You won’t find any writing lessons here. You’ll just find me.

When I’m not writing, I design cross-stitch patterns for my Etsy shop, FanStitches, read, watch hockey, and chat with fellow writers online.

From Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh to the characters in my own books, I’ve always loved stories about connection, loyalty, and finding your person.

I’m glad you found your way to my little corner of the world.