Jasmine Guillory

“I make myself shut off the rest of the world when I write — I turn my phone to do not disturb, turn off any notifications on my computer, and just go. Sometimes it’s hard to get words out, and sometimes I struggle a lot! On those days I just tell myself “Okay, you just have to keep going for 30 minutes, let’s see how much you can write then.” And almost every time, I keep going long past those 30 minutes. But the days that I don’t, I cut myself slack; we all have bad writing days. The most important thing is to just keep going! ”

—Jasmine Guillory

Jasmine Guillory is the New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Date, The Proposal, The Wedding Party, Royal Holiday, and Party of Two. Her work has appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Real Simple, and Time. She lives in Oakland, California.

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