MY NAME IS JENNIFER GILBREATH AND I'M A FANGIRLEditing Team
SOCIAL LINKS: Facebook (My Molar Pregnancy) | LinkedIn
OTHER LINKS: Red Ink Revisions (Website) | MyMolarPregnancy.com (Website) | Hidden Florida (YouTube) | Spellbound Lane (eBay store)
CONTACT: Email
BIOGRAPHY
Jennifer was born and raised in South Jersey, a 1997 graduate of Rowan University with a Bachelor's degree in English Liberal Arts and Women's Studies. After graduation she began working for Current Medicine publishing in Philadelphia, PA, as an Editorial Assistant. Within 2 years she was promoted first to Developmental Editor and later to Books Department Supervisor. She also organized and taught the in-house copy editing course. In 1998 she married, and in 1999 she and her husband moved to Alexandria, VA, where she began work as a Project Editor at American Psychiatric Publishing in Washington, DC, and was later promoted to Senior Editor.
In 2001 Jennifer was diagnosed with a complete molar pregnancy, a rare reproductive condition that causes miscarriage and is potentially cancerous. During her year of treatment she founded MyMolarPregnancy.com, the first comprehensive website designed for women with molar pregnancy and choriocarcinoma. The site included information, personal stories, links, and the first-ever online support group for this condition. Since then, the site has expanded and now has members in nearly every country. There are two online support groups operating through Facebook, one for women recently diagnosed and a second for those who are trying to get pregnant again after their recovery. In 2008 Jennifer published a paperback collection of women's molar pregnancy stories, including her own, titled My Molar Pregnancy: A Collection of Personal Stories from Diagnosis Through Recovery. She published a second volume of the collection, More My Molar Pregnancy, in February 2015.
In 2003 Jennifer gave birth to her son, her most important and beloved "project." Tired of DC and anxious to be a full-time mom, she left publishing and moved with her family to Florida. She began freelance copy editing part-time in 2004. After her divorce in 2011 she began working as a branch supervisor for a major East Coast bank. In 2013 she remarried, and later that year she left her bank job and began freelance copy editing and proofreading full time. She and her husband also began an eBay store, Spellbound Lane, where they sell are variety of secondhand high-end apparel and vintage and antique items. She joined Fanboys Anonymous in October 2013 as a copy editor. In 2015 she moved to the Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia.
Jennifer is a movie junkie, a reader, a karaoke lover, and a writer of stories that only very rarely see the light of day. She has been a Titanic history buff since she was 8 years old. She's a fan of Twin Peaks, The X-Files (she met Gillian Anderson in 2002 and was one of many fans whose Internet usernames appeared in the opening credits of the final season), Supernatural, and Broadway musicals such as Les Miserables. She is a huge fan of Jenny Lawson, otherwise known as The Bloggess, whose blog and books are an absolute must read.
INTERESTS
What are some of your favorite movies of all time?
I love movies. My favorites include old-time classics such as Rebecca, It Happened One Night, The Philadelphia Story, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; 1960s films such as My Fair Lady, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and Mary Poppins; disaster flicks such as The Towering Inferno, The Poseidon Adventure, Dante's Peak, and The Day After Tomorrow; just about anything by David Lynch, especially Blue Velvet; and other random films of nearly every genre except horror. I really, really hate most horror flicks. So of course that's what my husband makes me watch. Wonder Woman is my current favorite.
What are some of your favorite TV shows of all time?
I may hate horror films, but I love The Walking Dead. I'm also a fan of Game of Thrones, Bones, NCIS, Rizzoli and Isles, Criminal Minds, Person of Interest, Supernatural, Twin Peaks, The X-Files, Profiler, Crossing Jordan, and Saving Grace.
What are some of your favorite video games of all time?
As some of my TV favorites will attest, I'm a bit older than the average Fangirl. I was an arcade rat during my youth in the mid-1980s, playing Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Centipede, Galaga, Q-Bert, and other games few people today have ever heard of. I was the first kid on the block whose parents had an original Atari system, and I loved Pitfall, Frogger, and Paperboy. I've always been surrounded by gamers—my brother, my first and now second husbands, my dad, etc.—but I'm more of a quick, single-player game kind of person. These days I play just Tetris and Bejeweled.
What are some of your favorite books or comics of all time?
My all-time favorites are Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte), Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen), and Kindred (Octavia Butler). I've discovered that the best place to get books is in thrift stores, so I've been adding tons of (very cheap) hardback popular books to my already large library, including books by John Grisham, David Baldacci, John Lescroart, Tom Clancy, Tess Gerritsen, Kathy Reichs, Michael Connelly, and more. I also have a pretty extensive collection of classic literature and Titanic history. Lately I've been obsessed by Jenny Lawson's books Let's Pretend This Never Happened and Furiously Happy as well as her coloring book You Are Here.
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