{"id":10092,"date":"2024-01-08T20:52:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T20:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/?page_id=10092"},"modified":"2024-01-08T20:52:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T20:52:42","slug":"jessica-ferguson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/?page_id=10092","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Ferguson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jessica Ferguson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile is-image-fill\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/awsa.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/JessicaPic.jpg);background-position:52% 11%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"519\" height=\"710\" src=\"https:\/\/awsa.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/JessicaPic.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10093 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awsa.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/JessicaPic.jpg 519w, https:\/\/awsa.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/JessicaPic-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/awsa.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/JessicaPic-110x150.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:jessyferguson@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">jessyferguson@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/jessicafergusonwriter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/jessicafergusonwriter.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>BIO:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jessica Ferguson writes fiction and nonfiction. Her devotions are in Pray a Word for Hope, a<br>Guidepost Devotional and her short romance fiction has appeared in Woman\u2019s World<br>Magazine. Jess is a former staff writer for Southern Writers Magazine. She enjoyed<br>interviewing and prying writing secrets out of bestselling authors. She\u2019s been a columnist and<br>feature writer for The Beaumont Enterprise, The Times of Southwest Louisiana and other<br>newspapers and magazines in Louisiana and Texas, wearing many hats as an assistant editor,<br>writer and photographer.<br>Jess enjoys submitting to collections. She admits that she has always \u201cchased the markets.\u201d One<br>of her greatest joys was writing a Christmas play for her church and seeing her characters come<br>alive on stage.<br>Some of her published works are The Groom Wore Blue Suede Shoes, The Little Girl in the<br>Bayou, The Last Daughter, Save The Groom, and Christmas in Love: Three stories of Faith,<br>Hope and Forgiveness. Her very first published piece was Prayer from a Divorced Woman in<br>True Story Magazine. God called her to write for Him. Jess is a prodigal daughter so when God<br>gave her Acts 4:20 as her \u201cwriting scripture\u201d she knew she would incorporate her own<br>story\u2014what she had seen and heard and experienced\u2014within everything she wrote, in one<br>way or another.<br>Jess is the founder of the East Texas Writers Association in her hometown of Longview, Texas,<br>and a past president of the Bayou Writers Group in Lake Charles, Louisiana, where she and her<br>husband retired. She is a member of ACFW, FHLCW, and Writers On The Storm, to name a few.<br>She is represented by Barb Roose at Books and Such Literary Management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Ferguson jessyferguson@gmail.com http:\/\/jessicafergusonwriter.com BIO: Jessica Ferguson writes fiction and nonfiction. Her devotions are in Pray a Word for Hope, aGuidepost Devotional and her short romance fiction has appeared in Woman\u2019s WorldMagazine. Jess is a former staff writer for Southern Writers Magazine. She enjoyedinterviewing and prying writing secrets out of bestselling authors. She\u2019s been a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10094,"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10092\/revisions\/10094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}