Jennifer Geoghan
Orlando, Florida
Jennifer Geoghan
Orlando, Florida
Specializing in romance with a twist, Jennifer Geoghan (Pronounced Gay-ghen), Indie Author and Blogger, is the author of The Purity of Blood Novel Series as well as If Love is a Lie: Finding and Losing Love Online. She also writes a blog chronically what it’s like to be an Indie Author and Publisher. (JenniferGeoghanNovels.wordpress.com)A lover of words from a young age, Jennifer has spent her whole life not only writing, but slowly and carefully perfecting her craft and her own unique storytelling style. Raised in the small beach community of Wading River, New York, Jennifer graduated from the State University of New York at New Paltz with her degree in Art History. An avid genealogist and traveler, Miss Geoghan currently lives in Orlando, Florida.“All of my novels contain some elements of the author. My hopes, my dreams, my nightmares,” she says of her work. “I believe a writer should not only write what they know about, but what they’re passionate about as well.” Having spent the last thirty years tracing her family tree, Jennifer used her passion for her family history as an inspiration for her The Purity of Blood Novel Series. Just how did she do that? “It came about because of that wish every genealogist has entertained at one point in their life, that desire to sit down with some mysterious long gone ancestor and ask them for the answers to those questions that the dry, black and white facts of birth, death, marriage records couldn't provide. In essence, were they good and kind people, or mean and troublesome.” To bring this passion into her fictional novels, Jennifer fashioned two characters that are based on real life ancestors in her family tree, thereby bringing them back to life in a fictional sense. Sara, her series protagonist, is of course as avid a genealogist as Miss Geoghan is, and is stunned to realize her forth great grandparents are still alive even two hundred years after their supposed deaths. Giving Sara the same family tree as herself, Jennifer introduces her own fourth great grandparents as characters in her novels by creating likely personalities for them based on what life experiences she knew they had.How do you bring ancestors that died well over two hundred years ago into the modern era? “Vampires, of course,” Jennifer answers with a mischievous wink and a smile.In If Love is a Lie, Jennifer used her unfortunate real life experiences with a dating website scam artist as the basis for this fast paced romantic thriller.