Tips on Having a Gay (Ex) Boyfriend by Carrie Jones

The Assembly on Literature for Adolescents praised the novel for its empowering message and its real and raw but compelling narrative. She followed her first two novels with other works such as the 2008 release of “Jones Girl Hero.” The novel was about a student actress trying to cope with troubles at home by connecting with John Wayne, a long dead actor. She followed the novel with “Love (and Other Uses for Duct Tape)”, that was just as relatable even as it was thought-provoking and challenging. According to publishers weekly, the novel is a funny and insightful read on first heartbreak and first love, with the author excellently capturing the emotional upheavals of its heroine. The novels are also an exploration of the consequences of closetedness and homophobia that does not resort to the usual stereotypes. Bay Windows’s Dana Rudolph described the novel as a story of personal discovery for the lead characters. The novel was for the most part a reliving of Jones experiences of an ended relationship with her boyfriend in high school. In the course of her long career, she has won many awards such as the IPPY, been awarded the Martin Dibner Fellowship, and been an editor of poetry journals and several magazines and newspapers.Ĭarrie Jones’s debut novel “Tips on Having a Gay Boyfriend” was a critically acclaimed novel that was a story about understanding the different kinds of love, and a journey of self-discovery for the author. Even as she has asserted that she hate the bleak and cold Maine winters, she would never exchange it for any other place in the world, given its beautiful and warm summers. She lives in Bar Harbor, Maine with her fat cat and three cute dogs that all like fudgicles. She graduated from the MFA writing program at Vermont College in 2007, and asserts that the first draft of her debut novel was written during this time.

It was as a journalist that she became an award-winning reporter and editor, who won many press awards including the Maine Literary Award for children’s writing and another for nonfiction. She at first had an interest in a legal career before deciding to take up journalism. She was born and raised in Bedford, New Hampshire, before moving to Maine, where she went to Bates College.

Her most popular work “Need” is among several of her works that have appeared in the New York Times bestseller lists and won multiple awards. Carrie Jones is an American author best known for the writing of young adult fantasy and paranormal fiction.

Tips on Having a Gay (Ex) Boyfriend by Carrie Jones