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jocelynjanecox.bsky.social

@jocelynjanecox.bsky.social
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I write essays, humor, CNF. Memoir MOTION DAZZLE (9/2025): a birth, a death, figure skating, and zebras. MFA, Pushcart nom. Words in: The Offing, HAD, Colorado Review, Litro Mag, Belladonna, NYT, Slate, WIRED. www.jocelynjanecox.com

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jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
On Mon 5/18, (7pm ET) I’ll be sharing my TOP 10 Book Launch Spreadsheets in a free online session with Prose Playground: what I put on the sheets, how I got the tasks done, and some launching nitty gritty, too. Pls join if you are launching soon or hope to be launching one day in the future. 💛
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[FREE EVENT] Ten Spreadsheets: Everything You Need to Know to Launch Your Book! | Prose Playground
Join Jos and writing-coach-writing-teacher-and-book-launch-master, @Jocelyn Jane Cox, as they roll out the pure gold of book launch tools! On May 18th, Jocelyn will introduce you to her Ten Spreadshee...
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jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
It's weird: I listen to music all day but sometimes I forget to seek out new music. I forget how a new song or a new playlist can lift you up and completely change your mood or your day.
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jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
So I guess I'm "all my doctors I've had for a long time are retiring" years old.
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jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
AI reminds me of those cell phone towers attempting to look like trees. Like: we see you and it's not working.
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jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Want to expand your nonfiction horizons? Or just learn more about the different subsets in the genre? In this two-hour online class I’ll be breaking down the differences (and similarities!) between memoir, essays/personal essays, & creative nonfiction/CNF. www.writerscenter.org/event-detail...
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Embodied WUNC @embodiedwunc.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Ready to get in the #WinterOlympics state of mind? Our newest episode features a conversation with former competitive figure skating siblings Brad and @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social who tell Anita about their 11 years of competing and how their partnership continued into adulthood.
Promotional graphic for "Embodied" podcast featuring guests Jocelyn Cox and Brad Cox against a starry blue background with geometric shapes. Shows Jocelyn Cox, described as "Author of 'Motion Dazzle: A Memoir of Motherhood, Loss, and Skating on Thin Ice'" - a woman with glasses and pulled-back hair smiling in front of what appears to be an ice rink; Brad Cox, described as "Figure skating coach" - a man with short gray hair wearing a black shirt smiling in front of an ice rink; and Anita Rao, "Host & Creator of Embodied" wearing glasses and a black blazer in a radio studio. Text at bottom reads "Click the link in bio to tune into How Competitive Figure Skating Shaped A Sibling Relationship."
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Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
@nicoleharoutunian.bsky.social interviews @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social, author of Motion Dazzle: A Memoir of Motherhood, Loss, and Skating on Thin Ice:
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On Pain and Priorities: A Conversation with Jocelyn Jane Cox
When my friend Jocelyn Jane Cox emailed me an early draft of Motion Dazzle: A Memoir of Motherhood, Loss, and Skating on Thin Ice, I sped through half the book before I remembered I was supposed to be...
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Roz Morris @rozmorris.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Perfectionists, how to be gentle with yourself in the chaos of publishing. @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @annajrollins.bsky.social @mfraterrigo.bsky.social at @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/p... #publishing #memoir #newbook #writingcommunity
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Finding Beauty Amidst the Publication Chaos
THREE MANTRAS By Jocelyn Jane Cox, Anna Rollins and Melissa Fraterrigo Books (once published) are relinquished to the world, out of an author’s hands and into the hands of others. This is an especi…
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The Belladonna Comedy @belladonnacomedy.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
“What if they don’t want to kiss or cry?” By @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social & Jennifer McClory Full piece: thebelladonnacomedy.com/alternative-...
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Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
@jocelynjanecox.bsky.social reviews @nglipson.bsky.social's memoir in essays, Mothers and Other Fictional Characters:
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Philosophical Force, Quiet Rumination: A Review of Mothers and Other Fictional Characters
Nicole Graev Lipson’s Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: A Memoir in Essays is composed of 12 long-form essays on modern motherhood viewed through a literary lens. Lipson strikes an interesting b...
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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Thanks to @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social (@vineleavespress.bsky.social), @mfraterrigo.bsky.social (@univnebpress.bsky.social) and @annajrollins.bsky.social (@eerdmansbooks.bsky.social)! Today's chat was fantastic. If you missed it, you can find the recording here: www.youtube.com/@brownbaglit...
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AppleGidleyAuthor @applegidleyauthor.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Thrilled that SIX @vineleavespress.bsky.social authors have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize @ianmrogers.bsky.social #ECBatista #JillAmberChaffin @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social #DavidHicks @nicolezelniker.bsky.social Congratulations and Good luck! preview.mailerlite.com/a0p3x5m2g3/2...
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Our 2025 Pushcart Prize Nominees!
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Roz Morris @rozmorris.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Writing is like... athletic training. @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social & I discuss nailyournovel.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/t... #writingtips #memoir #writinglife
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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
We look forward to our final event of the year with memoirists @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social (@vineleavespress.bsky.social), @mfraterrigo.bsky.social (@univnebpress.bsky.social) and @annajrollins.bsky.social (@eerdmansbooks.bsky.social)!
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Roz Morris @rozmorris.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Let's compare writing to... competitive ice skating! (And birth and death) @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social to @dianegotauthor.bsky.social at @dintywmoore.bsky.social inc @vineleavespress.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/m... #writinglife #memoir #lifewriting #skywriters
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Motion Dazzle: A Memoir of Motherhood, Loss, and Skating on Thin Ice
What is a Skating Career but 10 to 15 years of Revision and Improvement? Jocelyn Jane Cox In Motion Dazzle: A Memoir of Motherhood, Loss, and Skating on Thin Ice, Jocelyn Jane Cox shares with her y…
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jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
But I don’t want to wear a weighted vest
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jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Pub Day! If you want to know how I’m doing, I just tried to refill my coffee by turning on the kitchen sink.
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jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Thank you!!
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jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Get yourself a friend who will chat with you on the phone on the way to a coffee shop where you’re meeting up to chat some more.
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Nancy Townsley @nancytownsley.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
One tiny moment from the brilliant memoir MOTION DAZZLE: A Memoir of Motherhood, Loss, and Skating on Thin Ice by @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social. Out September 30 from Vine Leaves Press.
A comment on safety grapes.
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jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
It's not that Bruce Willis' wife Emma hired full time care for him in a separate space (they have the means to do this); it's that ALL caregivers in this country should have the access to professional help in a safe environment when the health needs escalate beyond a manageable capacity.
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jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
The freedom for so many people to have so many guns with so few regulations sure is making me feel unsafe.
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jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Have skort, will travel. (To a coffee shop.) To write. (In my financial spreadsheet.)
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jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Motion Dazzle: Here are some scenes, some moments, some stripes of my memoir…
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jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
I don’t want a ballroom. I want, among other things, PBS, clean water, and for other countries to not loathe us.
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jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
An app, but to track all the books you’ve pre-ordered from various booksellers. Which ones? From where? When arriving?
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jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I was feeling pretty good during the audiobook recording of my memoir until I came to two lines I needed to…sing.
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jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
my legs they are dotted with mosquito bites
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jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
God give me the strength to stop doing things the most inefficient way possible.
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jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
COVER REVEAL! Tah Dah! 

Motion Dazzle, my memoir about caregiving, dementia, finding love, the “sandwich generation” and new motherhood, with a figure skating backdrop and zebras galloping throughout comes out 9/30/25 from @vine_leaves_press . ✨ I am so grateful for this design. 💛
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jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
The Four Stages of Author Audacity/Gumption/Bravery 1. Writing a book 2. Querying a book 3. Publishing a book 4. Promoting a book
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jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
America ewwwww
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
AOC: Being taken is wrong, it is illegal, it is a violation of his First Amendment rights, it is an affront to every American, and we will not allow—and will continue to resist—the politicization and the continued political persecution that ICE is engaged in.
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jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
What career paths will NOT be decimated by AI in the next decade (or in the next year). How do we help our children imagine their futures?
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
#BookSky
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jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
I wish this predictable lil feud between two disgusting people was bringing me joy but it isn’t.
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jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Love this painful and beautiful piece in @havehashad.com by @esfletcher.bsky.social
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jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Things I'm wondering as a person with a book coming out in the fall: -Will all books be banned? -Will reading be banned?
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jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Keeping track of book pre-orders (which ones did order and from where?) is starting to feel like it needs a spreadsheet.
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jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Loved having this convo with @nicoleharoutunian.bsky.social for Brown Bag Lit/Milk Journal!
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Heather Sweeney @heathersweeney.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Love this creative nonfiction piece by my friend @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social. www.lindenreview.com/cox-dream-lo...
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Cox: Dream Logic — The Linden Review
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jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
How quickly my algorithm can switch from silly babies, to White Lotus, to strange chia overnight oats.
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jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
My local indie bookstore was hopping today. My whole feed is in celebration of small indie bookstores. This was a hopeful day. Here’s what I picked up - and I got to meet the authors. 💜 #indiebookstoreday
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God @thegodshow.com · 04/04/2025
I should have made more AOCs.
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jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Love having this short piece up at Cleaver today! This event happened when I lived in Philly and was trying to figure out who I was. I suppose I still am…🚲
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Jocelyn Jane Cox: TO THE DRIVER OF THE GREY SEDAN
Work by Jocelyn Jane Cox has appeared or is forthcoming in the Colorado Review, The Offing, HAD, Roi Faineant Literary Press, and more.
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jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Needed to read this thread today
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jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Soon, I too, will have a book that will be probably be shamelessly scraped. #hopelesslyhopeful #hopefulandhopeless
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jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The world is crumbling and I don't even know if we will have a country by my book's release date on September 30th. But guess who has an ISBN #? This girl! I'm enjoying every tiny step of the process bc I don't really know if it's going to happen
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jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Hear that sound? It's the collective sound of authors gasping, sobbing, and yelling out "well, f---!" after searching LibGen to see if their books have been pirated.
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jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Bravo @maryloubuchi.bsky.social - I love this intense, beautiful piece. And thanks for the shout out.
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