E-Story Archives | Jennifer Estep New York Times & USA Today Bestselling Author Fri, 10 Oct 2025 15:35:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.jenniferestep.com/site/wp-content/files/cropped-site-identity-32x32.png E-Story Archives | Jennifer Estep 32 32 Stings and Stones short story collection https://www.jenniferestep.com/books/stings-and-stones-short-story-collection/ Wed, 16 Mar 2022 23:31:18 +0000 https://www.jenniferestep.com/?post_type=books&p=7988 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Estep serves up an Elemental Assassin short story collection featuring danger, magic, and a touch of romance. Perfect for fans of Ilona Andrews, Anne Bishop, Patricia Briggs, and Faith Hunter. Flash back to one of Gin Blanco’s many missions as the assassin the Spider. Learn more about Gin’s relationships with...

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]]> Write Your Own Cake https://www.jenniferestep.com/books/write-your-own-cake/ Mon, 04 Oct 2021 00:24:36 +0000 https://www.jenniferestep.com/?post_type=books&p=7946 When it comes to writing, worldbuilding is like making a cake. Why a cake? Because every author starts with the same general ingredients of characters, plot, and setting, but it’s how each author combines and adds to those ingredients that makes a book an author’s own unique creation. This essay offers a few tips and...

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]]> The Beauty of Being a Beast short story https://www.jenniferestep.com/books/the-beauty-of-being-a-beast-short-story/ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 00:11:25 +0000 https://www.jenniferestep.com/?post_type=books&p=7836 Some curses aren’t meant to be broken . . .  Lady Griselle Mottern is cursed. On her sixteenth birthday, an evil wizard transformed Griselle into a wolflike beast because of a past misdeed by one of her ancestors. Now, with her twenty-first birthday approaching, Griselle has only a few days left to make a boy...

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]]> Carniepunk anthology https://www.jenniferestep.com/books/carniepunk-anthology/ Wed, 21 Aug 2013 00:31:22 +0000 https://www.jenniferestep.com/site/?post_type=books&p=6581 Parlor Tricks: An Elemental Assassin short story has been published in the Carniepunk urban fantasy anthology. A star-studded urban fantasy anthology starring bestselling authors Rachel Caine, Jennifer Estep, Kevin Hearne, Seanan McGuire, and Rob Thurman, and including Delilah S. Dawson, Kelly Gay, Mark Henry, Hillary Jacques, Jackie Kessler, Kelly Meding, Allison Pang, Nicole D. Peeler, and Jaye Wells,...

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]]> Haints and Hobwebs https://www.jenniferestep.com/books/haints-and-hobwebs/ Wed, 14 Aug 2013 05:39:59 +0000 https://www.jenniferestep.com/site/?post_type=books&p=6394 Even the Spider can’t escape a ghost’s web . . . I’m being haunted. As Gin Blanco, aka the assassin the Spider, I’m used to being haunted by all the bad things I’ve done over the years. I suppose it was only a matter of time before an actual ghost came back to haunt me....

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]]> Carniepunk: Parlor Tricks https://www.jenniferestep.com/books/carniepunk/ Wed, 14 Aug 2013 05:13:43 +0000 https://www.jenniferestep.com/site/?post_type=books&p=6391 Parlor Tricks: An Elemental Assassin short story has been published in the Carniepunk urban fantasy anthology. Here is the description of the anthology: A star-studded urban fantasy anthology starring bestselling authors Rachel Caine, Jennifer Estep, Kevin Hearne, Seanan McGuire, and Rob Thurman, and including Delilah S. Dawson, Kelly Gay, Mark Henry, Hillary Jacques, Jackie Kessler, Kelly Meding, Allison...

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]]> Halloween Frost https://www.jenniferestep.com/books/entangled/ Wed, 14 Aug 2013 04:30:43 +0000 https://www.jenniferestep.com/site/?post_type=books&p=6369 It’s Halloween at Mythos Academy, and Gwen Frost and her friends are ready to have a little fun. But when a mythological monster shows up, the night turns out to be more trick than treat. Halloween Frost takes place in between the events of Touch of Frost, book #1, and Kiss of Frost, book #2, in the Mythos Academy young...

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]]> First Frost https://www.jenniferestep.com/books/first-frost/ Wed, 14 Aug 2013 04:30:13 +0000 https://www.jenniferestep.com/site/?post_type=books&p=6367 I am Gwen Frost, and I have a Gypsy gift.  It’s called psychometry — that’s a fancy way of saying that I see images in my head and get flashes of other people’s memories off almost everything I touch, even guys. My gift makes me kind of nosy. Okay, okay, maybe a lot nosy —...

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