It’s a great pleasure to welcome Jessica Scachetti to Patricia’s Pen. Jessica is a wonderful support to the writing world so I’m particularly happy to share this guest feature. Without further ado, it’s over to Jessica.
My Writing Journey
Jessica Scachetti
I write in first-person, dual point-of-view (POV). The two POVs are typically opposites, one coming from a Christian and the other from a Non-Christian Main Character’s perspective. I like to write this way to give the readers some insight from both perspectives since I got to witness both perspectives having grown up in a broken home. My childhood included one Christian parent and one who defied Christianity, which made for a very awkward upbringing. Splitting my time both a religious home as a preacher’s (step) daughter and drinker’s home, who could be volatile and liked to the drop the F-bomb every other word. This awkward upbringing inspired my preference to write Christian love stories that show both sides of the coin, and therefore, have some grit.
I’ve loved writing stories since I was a child. Since that time, I’d penned out a children’s book, a couple of suspense novels and an autobiography that I may or may not decide to polish and publish someday. It wasn’t until after lockdown in 2020 that I got inspired to publish. I’d been dabbling with the story of “Wonder of Light”, and after reading it to a friend, she encouraged me to publish. After researching and pricing out what it would cost to publish, I talked it over with my husband and decided to pull the trigger on publishing my debut novel.
I’d penned out and published 4 books over the next 12 months, but then life happened, and writing got placed on the back burner for a while. Now that things are beginning to smooth out, I’ve been motivated to polish a few of my original novels and relaunch along with releasing hardcovers and audiobooks.
I intend to complete my mafia-inspired Christian romance series with the next two installments hopefully sometime this year. Then, next on the horizon I’ve got some ideas for a Rockstar Christian Romance.
About Jessica Scachetti
Jessica Scachetti is an independently published author of Gritty Christian Romance. The gritty fictional romance stories contain sinful characters who make or have made poor choices, use profanity and inflict violence. There are fairly mild depictions of abuse, assault (non-sexual), threats, revenge plotting, illness, gun violence, knife violence and death. Despite each books use of flawed characters, violence and profanity, each gritty representation showcases the immorality of those sinful actions and displays an overall message of redemption and salvation through Jesus Christ.
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