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May 8, 2022
News: Pre-orders & Book Tour

News: Pre-orders & Book Tour

I’m thrilled to share that you can now pre-order my novel, Jobs for Girls with Artistic Flair, at your local independent bookstore, at Bookshop.org, and all the usual big guys. It’s forthcoming from Pamela Dorman Books (an imprint of Penguin Random House) on the first day of summer, June 21, 2022. Read the advance praise for Jobs …

March 16, 2022
Eight Young Women (& Non-Binary) Tattoo Artists to Watch

Eight Young Women (& Non-Binary) Tattoo Artists to Watch

  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 …

March 8, 2022
How We Hung In: Jessica Danger on Intuition, Storytelling, & Making Some %@!#ing Sandwiches

How We Hung In: Jessica Danger on Intuition, Storytelling, & Making Some %@!#ing Sandwiches

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 …

March 3, 2022
How We Hung In: Perseverance Stories (Part 1)

How We Hung In: Perseverance Stories (Part 1)

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 …

March 1, 2022
Did you find one of these?

Did you find one of these?

Hello, traveler! If you’re reading this, perhaps you found one of these. ➡️ My name is June and I’m a writer from Long Island. My first novel, Jobs for Girls with Artistic Flair, will be in bookstores on June 21. (Though you can pre-order it now, if you like setting yourself up for fun surprises …

February 1, 2021
The Big Quiet

The Big Quiet

I am writing this blog post in early 2022, but it is meant to stand in for all the posts I didn’t write in the two years between March 2020 (when the 🦠 hit the fan) and now. I speak for many working mothers when I say that March 13, 2020 was the day when any breathing …

August 15, 2020
Throwing the Penny (Very Good News)

Throwing the Penny (Very Good News)

When I was 19 years old, I started writing a novel about a tattoo artist named Gina Mulley. Over many years and 15+ drafts, almost everything about the book has changed. But its soul is intact, and Gina Mulley the tattoo artist is still here, and I’m here too, with this good news: My novel, Jobs …

April 27, 2020
Where Ninth-Grade Lust Will Get You (Sometimes)

Where Ninth-Grade Lust Will Get You (Sometimes)

I was sitting in the back row of ninth-grade math class and passing notes with my friend Rob, who liked Pearl Jam as much as I did. Rob and I were not exactly troublemakers but we were also definitely not Cool Kids and school was just so stupid and we were sort of mischievous. So …

September 27, 2019
Throw: A Novel (Review)

Throw: A Novel (Review)

“If I’m going to tell you the story of how I lost two people who were closer than blood to me, I have to begin here in Dennett, Texas, during the summer between the sophomore and junior years of my life. This story begins as it ends, with me, Cirilo Izquierdo, waiting for what all …

February 16, 2019
Community: Field Notes from a Mother/Artist, Part 2

Community: Field Notes from a Mother/Artist, Part 2

Continued from last week’s post, Field Notes from a Mother/Artist. It happened like this: One day I packed up my toddler son and my notebook and headed for the playroom at the public library, in hopes that the little one would amuse himself while I squeezed in a little writing. I settled in with my …

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