About

Jennifer de Guzman is a writer and comics publishing professional living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She writes stories about sad girls, seawater, bottomless wells, airborne plagues, and horses. You can find links to some of them them in the Selected Works section or read them at her Scribd page.

What Are Possible Impossiblities?

“The Poet ought rather to chuse Impossibilities, provided they have Resemblance to the Truth, than the Possible, which are Incredible with all their Possibility.”
- Henry Fielding, quoting Aristotle in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

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Word Traveling

Faking It: Chapter One, Part Two - Funky May Day

First, yes, I am going to keep posting this. Second, I am sorry that I don’t have the picture to accompany this section yet. I’ll have to find it in the photo album archives at my mom’s house. Third, I hope everyone gets that the thing about me “pursuing coolness” is tongue-in-cheek. I do [...]

Word Traveling

Faking It: Chapter One, Part One - Cuteness Lost

Inspired by Tina Fey and Mindy Kaling, I have begun using my travel time to work to “write my memoirs,” as old Baby Boomers call it. Being under 35, I am, of course, one of those young people that those same olds worry are dangerously self-obsessed, so it is incredibly easy for me to [...]

My Faith in Womanhood

On Returning to Work

It’s been two weeks at my new job as PR & Marketing Director and Image Comics and all seems to be going well. As I noted on Twitter the other day, there’s nothing like a new job to make one swing between “I am amazed at my own competence!” and “I don’t know what I’m [...]

Life in Comics

Movin' on North

The news is out: I am now working at Image Comics as their PR and Marketing Coordinator. Today was my first day and it was a whirlwind.

Please note that Sarah deLaine, who previously held that title is still here — she is now the Event Coordinator and focusing on conventions, trade shows, and [...]

Life in Comics

An End Is a New Beginning

This is a post that I’ve been trying to write for a few days.

Friday was officially my last day at SLG Publishing, the company where I began my career in the comics industry and worked for ten years, most of them as Editor in Chief. My decade at SLG was, I suspect, like [...]