Jillian Bright
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INSPIRATIONAL NONFICTION
HISTORICAL fiction
ROMANTASY
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TROPES AND TAGS:
travel stories, solo travel, women’s travel, women’s solo travel, Costa Rica, around the world trips, first time entrepreneurship, act first think later, whirlwind romance, learning through mistakes, forgiveness, self-forgiveness, impossible choices, found family, cannabis growing, self-reliance and off-grid living, coming of age, self-discovery.
TROPES AND TAGS:
multi-author anthology, entrepreneurship, overcoming challenges, women’s nonfiction, BIPOC authors, LBGTQ+ authors, inspiring true stories, overcoming depression, overcoming imposter syndrome, overcoming anxiety, confronting racism, leadership, chronic illness, divorce, motherhood, building resilience, reinventing oneself.
A LITTLE about me...
I love hiking, nature, and off-the-beaten-path travel. In fact, my current hiking shoes and I have scaled mountains in California, Oregon, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, India, Nepal, Iceland, Norway, Argentina, and Italy.
My first short story that I ever submitted to a contest was about my years in Costa Rica and it won! Then it became the starting point for my first book, a travel, coming-of-age memoir, "The Trouble with Wings."
I was born in raised in a small town in Northern California, moved to a small town in Costa Rica, and now I live in a small town in Italy! Guess I'm a small town girl no matter where in the world I land...
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