Meet Jenna

Hey there! My name is Jenna and I’m a Canadian Millennial currently living in the Atlantic region but originally from British Columbia. I used to share a lot more specific details back when I was trying to make a living off my online content, but now that I have a full-time career offline and I’ve returned to simply enjoying my hobbies as hobbies, I’m going to keep a little more to myself.

So, welcome to my blog! I’m a lifelong bookworm and arsty creative type who loves to create and enjoy creative hobbies. I’m going to continue to place a heavy focus on books here on this blog, as it was exclusively a book blog from March 2020 to June 2025, but as of June 2025 I am opening the topics to include my other hobbies, and I am no longer posting media kits from blog tours to which I was auto-added. I love the blog tour companies I have worked with in the past and the community & connections I have built through such immersive participation, but it is time to step back and post what I am inspired to post rather than what I am required to post.

A few tidbits to get to know me better and help you get a feel for what to expect from my content going forward:

  • My main genre is just about everything that falls under the science fiction & fantasy umbrella, including “magical realism” even when it isn’t filed on the SFF shelf, but I also adore gothic horror, YA coming of age stories (especially with fantasy elements) and YA/adult audience stories about life in the LGBTQIA+ community. When it comes to non-fiction, I’m very interested in history, psychology, and Canadiana topics. I’m not a big romance reader and I absolutely don’t like “spicy” romance.
  • I am non-binary, perhaps more accurately described as a demigirl, and my pronouns are she/they. What does that mean? Well, it means don’t use he/him. Call me she, call me they, mix it up, I don’t really mind what you do within the boundaries of the two pronouns sets. If you can handle it, I do like hearing/reading both. I don’t mean literally use both every time you need a pronoun for me, but rather switch up your choices from sentence to sentence, paragraph to paragraph, or day to day.
  • I am demisexual but panromantic (understand why I don’t like the spicy romance now?) and I didn’t truly understand my sexuality until I learned that you can split sexual and romantic attraction into different labels. In short, potentially attracted to individuals of any sex or gender, but not sexually attracted to anyone before forming the emotional connection.
  • I am autistic, and like many Millennials born both female and autistic, my autism was not identified in childhood. I suspect I am AuDHD (Autism + ADHD) but that is not yet confirmed. As it turns out, there actually a very clear and dominant inheritance of neurodivergence in my family and all of us born before around the time I graduated high school were not identified as kids.
  • I love to create visual art and I am trying to learn digital painting. My favourite traditional media include watercolour, coloured pencil, and ink. Although I’m interested in “paintier paints” like acrylic and oils, I’ve never found the drive to put the required time into learning those, and I prefer to stick to media that lend themselves to paper rather than canvas. And since every fellow artist wants to know, my stance on pastels: Hard/soft/chalk = yes! Oil = no, but I wish I liked them. Wax = that’s just a crayon.
  • I love programming (coding,) horses, cats (and dogs, and animals in general,) aircrafts & flight, numbers, and any opportunity to better understand human behaviour. Let’s just acknowledge that this does look like a list of “common autistic special interests in females” and take my word for it that this is a sincere list of some of my favourite things.
  • My husband, daughter, and I are currently owned by two cats.