Jessica Ribera

Writer, Mother, Performer. New Book: THE ALMOST DANCER available now!

[Jessica Ribera @jeskybera]

After long months of writing, long year since I signed a contract, and long, LONG years since I danced, this book is for sale!! It’s an inside story about the ballet world, but a universal story about dreams and loss. The Almost Dancer https://t.co/jauRlSwodp

[Jessica Ribera @jeskybera]

Seattle: “hey! Something we can ‘do’ together that requires us to stay home!”

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8yo daughter: I think house elves must be based on housewives.
Me:🤯!
Let’s see: magically takes care of everything with power no one else in the home has or understands, beats self up when failing to serve well, always wants new clothes... 😳

[Jessica Ribera @jeskybera]

Then, “But, Moooom! A carrot can be from any decade. It’s science!”

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“Wake up! It’s decades day at school, so get dressed!”
8yo daughter: “oh, well then I don’t have to go to school b/c I’m dressing as a decade when humans didn’t exist yet.” 💁‍♀️

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@danielbowmanjr @KeelyBoeving @KatelynBeaty Awesome! I have been looking for this book

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The worst part of writing has been the best one too: learning to shout back into the face of the abusive, lying, kill-joy, terrified critic inside.
I think the next step is learning not to shout at her, but to bring tea and say, “I’m so sorry you got this way. How can I help?”

[Jessica Ribera @jeskybera]

@CooperCA Thanks so much! See you there 👍

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K, Twitter. Here’s what I got: Promotion for your new book is hard. Money helps. For the first time ever, i scrolled through a list of names I don’t know who are excited about my work! Also, i need more :). https://t.co/o3dbUj5aeD

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In my Lyft on way to airport, driver: “Yeah I need to get to Texas to find out what the f*^% is up with Whataburger”

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I’m SO ready, and I’ll look surprisingly like this little girl but have even more fun than she!

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@jeskybera I hope you're ready for your event on 2/3 At Lake Forest Park because we can't wait!!!

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Y’all, I met Nancy Pearl today 😊. And gave her The Almost Dancer with my own hands 🤲

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When you can’t get AM/PM right (and that hubs wallpaper is cute @abscondment )

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@kjramseywrites I’m really into @heavyweight. The stories are always relatable in some way, and Jonathan Goldstein is so uniquely clever and charming!

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Read how Jessica Ribera went from dancer to former dancer and became truly herself: The Almost Dancer.

@jeskybera @PNBallet #ballet #dance #memoir #biography

https://t.co/jV6j2We1lH

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New piece up on the Brevity Blog! And book for sale TODAY!

[Dinty W. Moore @brevitymag]

First Book: A Typeset Reverie https://t.co/v2w1oRpoTr

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I love supporting other dancers in their second careers. It took me a long time to find mine! https://t.co/sxivmmUZzR

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Jumped the shark. Just invited @NeilYoungNYA to my book release 🤩. #justtry #paystoask

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So, is it like with babies? Should I not decide about writing another book when I’m in labor?! (But I totally am, for better or worse)

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Finished review of proof copy of The Almost Dancer. Having read it a hundred times, I can’t wait to give it to others to read!! I get sick of my own voice with all this proofreading, but then I also keep being RE-rocked by reliving the experiences 🤪. Next I write fiction!!!