Carrie Jones likes Skinny Cow fudgicles and potatoes. She does not know how to spell fudgicles. This has not prevented her from writing books. She lives with her cute family in Maine. She has a large, skinny white dog and a fat cat. Both like fudgicles. Only the cat likes potatoes. This may be a reason for the kitty’s weight problem (shh ... don’t tell). Carrie has always liked cowboy hats but has never owned one. This is a very wrong thing. 

In January, 2007, she graduated from Vermont College’s MFA program for writing. She has edited newspapers and poetry journals and has recently won awards from the Maine Press Association. 

In 2006, she recieved a Maine Literary Award for non-fiction as well as the Martin Dibner Fellowship. Her first book, Tips on Having a Gay (ex) Boyfriend is set for release May 2007. The sequel, Preggers, should be on shelved in 2008. A third book, True Grit or The John Wayne Letters will be published after that. She is a member of the Class of 2k7, a group of debut authors.

Tips on Having a Gay (ex) Boyfriend
Carrie Jones
Flux (Llewellyn), 2007
ISBN: 978-0-7387-1050-1

Belle, a high school senior, has a perfect long-time boyfriend, Dylan. But it turns out Dylan is gay. Belle must come to terms with what this means for her, for him, and for the small town they live in. Not only must she deal with the all-time stinkiness of being dumped, but with Dylan being in real physical danger because of his sexuality. Belle is the high-school’s resident militant leftie and crusader for the oppressed—including homosexuals, of course. She never thought that she’d be crusading for her blonde, green-eyed ex-boyfriend.