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Jen Dupuis
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Disabled librarian turned writer • 📚 • Mom to rescue dog Clara & cat lover • #amquerying GenX nostalgia book club fiction • 🚫GenAI
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jendupuis.com | Detroit, MI | she/her
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Ban This Book Fest 2025 in Ferndale, MI (Oct 11). The day my soul needed! Mom and I volunteered (and they were so disability-friendly and accessible) plus paid for the swag bag—worth it!

Creative, inspiring, community! 💖
#BanThisBookFest #BannedBooksWeek
Two women smiling behind N95 masks, wearing lanyards that say Ban This Book Fest 2025 Three stickers. One is yellow with words "My favorite childhood memory is actually having energy." The second is a possum holding the disability pride flag with the words "My disability may not be visible but your ignorance is." The third is a black cat with a rainbow and the words "Childless cat ladies against the patriarchy." A collection of swag from Ban this Book Fest. A Lanyard with a "Volunteer" ID, a black t-shirt that reads "imagine being afraid of drag queens and books", the front of the event program, and a yellow tote bag with the Ban This Book Fest logo -- a book with a rainbow and the words overlaid.
October 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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#DVParty #A #F #Spec

Coming next: SLIDING DOORS with hindsight of both lives. To save her sister in this life, Liza must die…again.
Silhouette of three people at sunset along a lake shore
October 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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#DVParty #A #F #CON

🎶 🎧 Ellie’s College Mixtape! 🎶 🎧
(She’s been so excited for this prompt!)

🎓 Class of 1999 🎓

On Spotify: buff.ly/l1ciuOy
A picture of a mixtape on a yellow background, with the following songs in the tracklist: Rollin’ With My Homies – Coolio; Fast Car - Tracy Chapman; Blow Up the Outside World – Soundgarden; Let’s Dance - David Bowie; Today - Smashing Pumpkins; I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing – Aerosmith; Roll to Me - Del Amitri; Fly Away - Lenny Kravitz; Livin’ la Vida Loca - Ricky Martin; 1999 - Prince
October 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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#DVParty #A #F #CON #DIS #OWN

Ellie’s biggest regret is letting Brooke vanish 25 years ago…where is she??

Her second biggest regret is:
A picture of a blank cassette with the words “One day you made a mixtape for the last time and didn’t even realize it” over a background of 90s computer symbols
October 5, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Introducing: Ellie Winters

Age: 47
Location: Chicago
Job: 💀
Status: hot romance w/ her college crush ❤️‍🔥
Pets: 🐈🐈Buttons and Mindy
Fave activity: listening to 90s music on her refurbished Walkman
Secret: she might be really sick
Regret: letting Brooke vanish 25 yrs ago…where is she??

#DVParty #A #F
A blonde woman in a Chicago t-shirt lies in a ray of sunlight. Photo by Ivay Val on Unsplash
October 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Hello #DVParty !

Introducing the mixtape vibes of my contemporary book club fiction with nostalgia, friendship, romance, and mystery. And of course, lots of nineties music.

A mixtape is greater than the sum of its parts. You never know what will happen when you press Play...
Moodboard clockwise from top left: silhouette of woman sitting on bed in darkened room; Sony Walkman with orange sponge headphones; hands clinking wineglasses over table; hands on top of each other in circle; cassette tape with the tape in a heart shape; scattered Polaroid pictures; woman lying head on man’s lap in field
October 2, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Clara has a blep.
Small blond dog is sleeping with the tip of her tongue sticking out of her mouth.
August 19, 2023 at 12:46 AM
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It’s hard to get a good pic of him because he’s always on the move, but this is Zak, a kitten with feline leukemia who lost his eyes to infection. His spirit is indomitable and he is making the most of his (probably short) time here.
July 28, 2023 at 7:40 PM
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As we wrap up #DisabilityPrideMonth, shout out to all the disabled authors sharing our stories.

Mine’s a workplace romance about imposter syndrome, chronic pain, girl bosses, and falling for the one person that’s off limits. (On sub!)
A rainbow heart with a snippet superimposed that reads: She caught a whiff of the library man’s sexy scent again. Damn these migraines, they always messed with her senses. And her judgment. If only she could blame all her bad luck in love on her headaches.
July 26, 2023 at 9:28 PM
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Big storm! Hiding in the closet.
A small blond dog sits in the dark under a pair of jeans with her tongue out
July 26, 2023 at 7:31 PM
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My #WIP

🕺🏽Broadway dancing & singing in English & Spanish!
👩🏻‍🦼Chronic illness rep & anti-ableism!
🫶🏻Found family & new family!
👩🏻‍🦰Child of influencers grown up & pissed!
👩🏾‍🎨Arts & education!
🇻🇪Venezuelan food!
🐧 Penguins!
❤️ Swoony meet cute & HEA!
Moodboard left column: yellow rose, laughing redheaded woman in white dress, man aiming camera at screen; middle column: arepas, Chicago Theater, woman and man silhouetted in sunset, Playbill; right column: white redheaded woman and Black woman talking, empty theater, man and woman tango
July 24, 2023 at 8:24 PM
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Character art from my contemporary romance WIP. Let’s connect, #writingcommunity !
Digital art by Lilibeth Jimenez. A brown-skinned man with dark curly hair, wearing jeans and a white t-shirt, dances with a white woman with long red hair wearing a green dress with yellow flowers.
July 5, 2023 at 1:35 AM
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Kicking things off with a dog picture.
A small tan dog sits in front of a field of red tulips
July 3, 2023 at 9:03 PM