#jessica lewis

[libraryleopard]

just finished reading monstrous by jessica lewis and i'm obsessed with the giant man-eating snake monster becoming the protagonist's father figure

[urbanalligatorliving]

[ornithorynquerouge]

Beautiful model Jessica lewis

[aroaessidhe]

read in 2023: forest settings

Lucha of the Night Forest 

Hamra and the Jungle of Memories

Monstrous

The Buried and the Bound

The Surviving Sky

The Sacrifice

The Name-Bearer

Abeni’s Song

Before The Devil Knows You’re Here

[wttnblog]

10 September 2023 Book Releases to Read This Month

Fall is upon us, and that means many of the books coming out this month are in the horror genre. All of these look so good, including a couple of New Adult entries , and I cannot wait to read them. Let me know what books you are most excited to read this month, and if you’re an author, feel free to promote your own September 2023 releases in the comments. Evil Eye Author: Etaf Rum Release…

[the-final-sentence]

'We have a lot of work to do.'

Jessica Lewis, from Monstrous

[icy-writes]

I didn’t get a chance to write on the plane — crowded and just not much physical room — so I opted to read one of the books I brought with me.

Well. I almost read it to completion. It’s that good.

If you’re looking for a great book to read during spooky month, I recommend Bad Witch Burning by Jessica Lewis.

It’s about a necromancer who realizes that she can reanimate the deceased. And things… don’t go as she planned.

Triggers⬇️

Triggers: Abuse, child neglect, smoking, drugs, gang violence, the dog dies in this, blood/gore

[aseriesofvariousevents]

Bad Witch Burning

The actual story in this book was totally captivating. Katrell was a complex and deeply hurt protagonist and watching her grow and slowly accept the fact that she was enough was really emotional to read. Some parts of the story were really hard to read, not because they were bad, but because they were that real and impactful. Parts of the story were still super funny and the majority of the characters were super loveable without being static, one-dimensional characters. The story dealt with the complexities of family in a very nuanced way and definitely didn't gloss over anything. The magic in the book was interesting and the ways it interacted with the people around her and her thoughts itself added depth to the story. This was a really moving story and I think it was an excellent book, especially in the YA genre, because it didn't shy away from the fact that the protagonist was a teenager, which just added to the intensity of the story.

Favorite Quote: It’s time to rest, don’t you think? It’s time to let me help you.

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Author: Jessica Lewis

Note: I received this book as an ARC through NetGalley.

[aroaessidhe]

faves of 2023: YA contemporary fantasy/paranormal

The Feast Makers

The Spider and her Demons

Every Gift a Curse

Monstrous

Zombabe

All That Consumes Us

Sixteen Souls

The Buried and the Bound

The Memory Eater

[geektasticjustine]

Check out my book review of the middle grade novel Meow or Never by Jazz Taylor

[blackchildrensbooksandauthors]

Debut You✍🏿

Debut You: A 2021 Debut Author Series: Jessica Lewis

“Debut You” is an interview feature on Our Stories Matter blog. Debut authors, who have released or have upcoming releases in 2021, are given five questions to answer about themselves and their book.

Read an👇🏿excerpt:

Understanding your audience is essential. What do you know for sure about the audience you are writing for?

I write for Teen Jessica. I always try to think about what she needed and didn’t have at the time. I hope current teens can find solace and comfort in the themes and stories I would have loved ten years ago.

Tell us about your book.

Bad Witch Burning is about Katrell, a girl who discovers she can raise the dead and decides to do so for money. But the dead don’t like being alive, and Katrell has to decide what’s worth more: a way out of poverty or possibly her life. It’ll be out on August 24, 2021!!

📖Bad Witch Burning

Delacorte Press

August 24, 2021

YA, 368 Pages

Available for👉🏿Pre-order

Follow/Subscribe: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | Newsletter

If you believe BCBA provides a valuable service, please take a few minutes to donate here or via Cash App ($BCBooksA) and support our mission to promote awareness of children’s and young adult literature by Black authors. 

Thanks for your support!

[2021ya]

BAD WITCH BURNING

by Jessica Lewis

(Delacorte, 8/24/21)

9780593177389

Add to Goodreads

Purchase from Bookshop

For fans of Us and The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina comes a witchy story full of black girl magic as one girl’s dark ability to summon the dead offers her a chance at a new life, while revealing to her an even darker future. Katrell doesn’t mind talking to the dead; she just wishes it made more money. Clients pay her to talk to their deceased loved ones, but it isn’t enough to support her unemployed mother and Mom’s deadbeat boyfriend-of-the-week. Things get worse, when a ghost warns her to stop the summonings or she’ll “burn everything down.” Katrell is willing to call them on their bluff, though. She has no choice. What do ghosts know about eating peanut butter for dinner? However, when her next summoning accidentally raises someone from the dead, Katrell realizes that a live body is worth a lot more than a dead apparition. And, warning or not, she has no intention of letting this lucrative new business go. But magic doesn’t come for free, and soon dark forces are closing in on Katrell. The further she goes, the more she risks the lives of not only herself, but those she loves. Katrell faces a choice: resign herself to poverty, or confront the darkness before it’s too late.

[the-final-sentence]

We walk to the car, our fingers intertwined, as the new day begins.

Jessica Lewis, from Bad Witch Burning

[mrs-dr-reid]

Holiday Romance Masterlist

A Bucky Barnes x OC AU Series

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Fem!OC

Summary: Jessica Lewis is a nurse at the Seattle Children’s Hospital, and she hasn’t been home for Christmas in 5 years. When an invitation for her favorite cousin’s New Years wedding arrives in the mail, she decides it’s finally time to head home to Colorado for the holidays. When she gets there, she grapples with the fact that a long-harbored affection for a high school pal hasn’t fully gone away

Genre: Fluff, angst, holiday fic

Warnings: Swear words, pining, all kinds of good stuff

————————————————————————————

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Epilogue

[uinterview]

Jessica Lewis & Austin Wenner

[plasmamagazine]

Subversive Cross Stitching at The MODA

Subversive /səbˈvərsiv/ (adj.): Tending or intending to subvert or overthrow, destroy, or undermine an established or existing system, especially a legally constituted government or a set of beliefs.

The Museum of Design Atlanta is a well-known attraction, allowing Atlanta residents and visitors to not only view design exhibitions but to create their own DIY art. Among many of MODA’s workshops include MoDA’s subversive cross stitch workshop, taught by Jessica Lewis, a bubbly, charismatic, and patient teacher of the skill. 

Lewis introduced herself and went into the history of cross stitch and the significance it played in women’s lives, historically, and presently. She also expressed the importance of cross stitch attributing it to learning from her mother at a young age.

Jessica was a literature undergrad which was apparent in the perspective to which she appreciated the history of cross-stitch in literature, and showing us some of the first recorded cross stitch examples from between 100 and 500 a.c.

Lewis, who was taught the craft by her mother, who was also a boss at cross stitching. Lewis showed the workshop one of her mother’s works, two cute strawberries in the front, with a meticulous stitch with a perfect backing. A sign of dexterity, skill, and is incredibly hard to achieve without extensive practice. 

Lewis continued to explain that cross stitching was a hobby picked up by women in the past in certain cultures to signify submission and silence in addition to a time where women could focus and relax."Throughout western culture, especially in the last few hundred years, it has been a way for women to adapt in marriageability. It became a way in society to demonstrate, show, and judge someone in their womanhood and how acceptable they were. It was about the silence of her mind and the silence of her mouth." says Lewis.  

That history juxtaposed to the subversive, and occasionally raunchy messages such as “Nasty Woman,” “Reclaiming my Time,” “See you in Hell,” “Don't You Drop that Alcohol,” and limitless variations of boobs and ovaries is a form of feminine expression just the same. 

The class took turns sharing their experiences with cross stitching designs and messages they found funny. These designs, to the average conservative, would seem raunchy and unladylike but felt congruent with the all-woman in class and to the current time we live in, riddled with laws against women’s bodies, and long overdue realizations that women have opinions. 

Aside from the messaging evoked in cross stitching, many fail to realize the amount of math and meticulousness it requires. Lewis handed us all graph paper to count out and mark our stitches within the grid. An X was signifying each complete stitch, which needed to be strategically counted from the previous stitch to maintain an unflawed design.  

Everyone chose a different design, ranging from “Fuck Nazis,” adorned with flowers, “Fuck Politeness,” “Chill the Fuck Out,” “It’s Poop Again,” a Billy Madison Quote accompanied with a cross-stitched poop emoji, and “You'll Do,” from a soon to be bride.  

Despite the geriatric, and feminine stigma of cross stitching (apparent by the lack of males in the class), it is a viable skill. To have and a humorous approach to self-expression, therapy, concentration, and arithmetic in one hobby, I am sure it is a healthy brain game, sans smartphone. Or as they say in the cross-stitching community, an excuse to stab something 1,000 times.

If you would like to check out cross stitching at MODA, there will be an ongoing meetup every month, subversively called Stitch & Bitch. Starting October 12th, from 6-8pm! Those who are interested can bring their latest stitching, while MODA will provide embroidery floss and beer. The 21+ event is $15 for non-members and $10 for MODA members.