Jen Comfort Author

Whenever I told people I was going to as ' assistant, I'd say something like, "I'm flying across the country to hang out with my book friends for three days" like it was some silly, frivolous little spendthrift treat for myself and not a truly essential part of why I write in the first place.

I always forget how necessary and important it is to seek and foster community in this industry until I'm there, surrounded by these beautiful, brilliant, absolutely batsh*t humans who do SO MUCH more than what we could get away with. We work so hard and push through so much BS and fight tooth and nail for enough brain chemicals and time and energy to write and read and celebrate these books because we simply love... love.

And when we're alone in our little gremlin caves, miserably drafting under deadline and weathering rejection and battling impostor syndrome while trying to hold down lives and day jobs, it's sometimes hard to remember that it's all worth it for these moments. For when readers tell you that your book made them feel seen and made them feel joy when the real world feels hopleless. For meeting new friends who share your sense of nerdy humor and relentless optimism , and reconnecting with old friends who you're so used to talking to online that you forgot you haven't hugged them in a full calendar year. For everyone in unison pulling out their notes app to write down a recommendation for a book called "spit or swallow" without a hint of irony or apology. For being in the room when someone on a panel gives advice that suddenly CLICKS in your brain even though you've heard it before a hundred ways but this time it sinks in.

I'm so LUCKY to be a part of this community! Thank you so much to everyone, all of whom (pictured and not) made this weekend worth the trip a hundred times over. 💜

Last night I had the joy of helping celebrate the incredibly talented and her debut romcom, UNROMANCE, with romance readers at in Portland!

If you haven't read this book yet, RUN do not walk, to these pages. It's truly a masterpiece that has everything you want from a rom-com: a relatable, black cat 🐈‍⬛ bisexual romance writer heroine who "doesn't believe in love" but does believe in "one time, just to get it out of our systems," and a golden retriever hero 🐶 who is HARD UP for the heroine and even hard-er up for the fantasy of an idealized storybook romance. It's sort of a modern friends-to-lovers, it's sort of opposites attract, and it's a love letter to romance tropes in a way that makes them feel fresh. Despite the premise, this isn't 15 tropes in a trenchcoat... It's a modern retelling of every 90s romcom movie you ever loved wrapped up into one book. It's Chappell Roan and Nora Ephron's millennial love child.

This book is going to be a bestseller (I have a 95% accuracy rating for these predictions; publishers should hire me fr tho)!!!

It's always an honor to be asked to be someone's conversation partner and it's especially awesome when I get to do it my friends! I used to* have terrible, cold-sweat, hand-trembling stage fright about doing public speaking events (*jk I totally still do), but I've gotten a lot of practice the last two years and also gotten to watch & learn from more experienced authors, and here is my top tier advice:
.. just adore the author and the book and then stare at them like 😍 the entire time they're talking. Easy!!!

Thank you so much to Annie Bloom's for having us! (They still have some signed copies of UNROMANCE left if you want one! L/nk in... you know ⬆️)

BLURB TEXT: "With witty humor, fascinating factoids, and hold-onto-your-pearls heat, Jen Comfort delivered trivia romcom perfection. What Is Love? is one of my top books of the year, and it's not even out yet." - Jo Segura, author of Raiders of the Lost Heart ().

I have gotten some INCREDIBLE blurbs for What is Love? (4/1/24) that I can't wait to share, but I scheduled all these in advance because I have zero chill and otherwise I'd post them all at once.

This first blurb is from my one and only writing dom (aka my crit partner who lovingly yells at me when I'm doing stuff that's NOT WRITING), because this book would straight up not exist without her. Is she possibly biased?? YES. Does it matter? (Who cares?)

Jo personally told me that WHAT IS LOVE? is her favorite of all the books I've written. Do you think she'd lie about that? Never! (Thank you, Jo! Iooooovveee youuuuu!!!)

Anyway, if you haven't read her Lara Croft-banging-Indiana Jones debut, RAIDERS OF THE LOST HEART (Dec '23), you should go do that!!

XOXO
Jen

IN THE COMMENTS: What's your top book of the year that hasn't come out yet??