About Jen
Jen Dodrill, retired Navy wife and homeschool mom, is living out her dreams on the pages of her books, bringing readers compelling stories of inspiration and hope for good times and bad.
Her family-focused novels depict her values of cooperation, connection, compassion, and community, demonstrating the importance of helping one another brave the waves of the world together.
As a mother of five, family life and travels have left her with decades of stories to tell, and she cherishes the time she has now to tell them, in between her honored role as Grandma, her passion for reading, and her adoration of all things coffee.
Mission Verse
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.
Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NIV)
Birds Alive! An Empty-nesters Cozy Mystery, Book #1
When empty-nester Peg starts a birding group, trouble—and dead bodies—seem to follow her. Join her and her assorted odd duck friends as they solve mysteries with humor, twists, and turns that will have you rooting for the good guys in the Empty Nesters Birding Group.
In August 2023, Jen signed a three-book contract with Scrivenings Press for a cozy mystery series. Her first book, Birds Alive! An Empty-nesters Cozy Mystery was released on February 27, 2024.
Keep an eye out for Where’s the Quetzal which releases February 25, 2025!
SeaBreeze Obsession
In July 2024, Jen signed a contract with Scrivenings Press for the Trinity Sands Beach Club novella collection. Her story, SeaBreeze Obsession, is romantic suspense, and it will be published in June 2025.
A human life has seasons much as the earth has seasons, each time with its own particular beauty and power. And gift. By focusing on springtime and summer, we have turned the natural process of life into a process of loss rather than a process of celebration and appreciation. Life is neither linear nor stagnant. It is movement from mystery to mystery. Just as a year includes autumn and winter, life includes death, not as an opposite but as an integral part of the way life is made.
— Rachel Remen
