Jessica started her publishing career the traditional way — landing a contract with Kensington and learning the industry from the inside out. She went on to build a multi-pen-name indie romance business, hit #11 on Amazon's bestseller list, and publish 35 books across six brands.

Then she hit a wall.

One book. Three years. She knew the story, knew the characters, knew exactly where it needed to go — and couldn't write it. Not a word that stuck. She tried everything the writing advice industry suggests, and none of it worked.

Then she found AI tools.

Not to write the book for her — but to get out of her own way. To brainstorm without judgment, to draft without the inner critic shutting everything down, to finally move. The book got written. And then she couldn't stop.

She spent the next two years doing what she does with everything: testing systematically, breaking things, figuring out what actually works, and building systems she could repeat. In early 2025 she left a career in banking and insurance to do this full time — which tells you everything about how seriously she takes it.

Here's what makes her different from most people teaching AI to authors: she's not a tech person. She's a writer who needed these tools to work and refused to stop until they did. Every workflow, every prompt sequence, every tool comparison on this site has been tested on her own manuscripts, under real pen names, for real readers.

That's the whole point of The Invisible Pen. Not theory. Not hype. What actually works — shown, not just told.

She runs TIP from a small farm in Maine, where she writes romance, hosts the AI Writing Secrets podcast, and proves daily that you can wrangle livestock and master AI tools before lunch. Sometimes in that order.

One more thing: if you've watched any of the TIP video content and thought "she looks incredibly well-rested for someone running six pen names" — that's my AI avatar. She handles the videos. I handle the live sessions, the coaching calls, and the actual thinking. It's the most on-brand thing I do, and I refuse to apologize for it.

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