Jobs for Girls with Artistic Flair is now available at your local bookstore, at Bookshop.org, and all the usual big guys. If you’re interested in having me speak with your book club, high school or college class, or speak at an event, email june.gervais.writer@gmail.com. Newsday interview Thank you to Kelly McMasters for a lovely interview in the Aug. 14 …
tl;dr for the Quite Busy: I’m the author of a coming-of-age novel, just released in June. I’m doing some class visits this year, virtual and in person. If you’re interested, email june.gervais.writer@gmail.com. Dear Teachers and Educators, Hi there, and happy here-comes-another-school-year. I’m June: a writer, occasional teacher, mom trying to raise good humans, and author …
In the ‘80s (the time period of my novel, Jobs for Girls with Artistic Flair), tattoo shops in the U.S. were mostly male—and mostly white. It took a lot of tenacious, passionate artists to change that, and one of the very first was a Black woman named Jacci Gresham, who started tattooing in New Orleans …
That moment when you open your first box of hardcovers, sitting in the first female-owned tattoo shop in your county, in the company of two of the finest tattoo artists you know, who helped you with the research for the book and are thrilled for you; and your mom, to whom the book is dedicated, …
Delighted to say I have two new essays up this week—one at Lit Hub and one at Past Ten. Each tells the story of an uncanny coincidence. What a thrill to write for both of these publications! Lit Hub because jeez, it’s Lit Hub, that absolute behemoth of literary news/essays/criticism. Past Ten because it’s a …
Gratitude to Writer’s Digest for giving me the chance to talk about… surprises in the publication process working with the writer Rubén Degollado to create my Chicano tattoo artist character, Rick what it’s like trying to write a novel in your spare time as a working mom (hint: challenging) and why this book is my …
Happy Pride Month, loves, to the out, loud & proud– and to the quietly queer, the bi & shy, and those who have never really liked labels or big public announcements, but know who they are (and love who they are), and just go on walking the world with their own saucy rainbow glow. …
While researching my novel Jobs for Girls with Artistic Flair, set in a 1980s tattoo shop, I was lucky enough to interview a handful of trailblazing women who started tattooing in the 1970s, ’80s, and early ’90s—women with fascinating stories of what it was like to apprentice in the era before YouTube tutorials, bottled ink in 50 different …
This is the first in a series of conversations with wonderful everyday humans talking about how they kept going. Perseverance is a running theme in my novel, Jobs for Girls with Artistic Flair—the story of a young woman who aspires to become a tattoo artist in a 1980s, blue-collar town, when the field was overwhelmingly male—but …
This is an interview series with wonderful everyday humans talking about how they kept going. Why? This topic holds lifelong interest and meaning for me. I was first hospitalized for depression at fourteen, and again at sixteen. Therapy was transformative, and medication worked sometimes (and sometimes not); but when all was said and done, I …