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About A Cup of Jo

Joanna Goddard

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My twin sister and I were born in Paris in 1979, and grew up in France, England, and (mostly) the suburbs of Michigan. After graduating from the University of Michigan in 2001, I moved to New York City. I launched my career at Cosmopolitan, where my editorial responsibilities included stopping good-looking men on the street and asking them sexy questions. After working for women’s magazines for three years, I became the editor-in-chief of Bene, a small award-winning magazine about Italian life and style. From 2005 to 2007, I launched and ran the quarterly, which covered fashion, design, food, wine, travel and lifestyle. In 2008, I left Bene to write for magazines, including Glamour, Elle, New York, Budget Travel and Cookie. I was the relationships blogger for Glamour.com for two years, and also blogged for Conde Nast Traveler and Martha Stewart Living. During this time, I started A Cup of Jo as a weekend hobby, but after a few years — to my surprise — the site grew big enough to become my full-time job. (Here’s a post about blogging as a career.) My husband and I now live in Brooklyn with our two little boys, Toby and Anton.

Please feel free to email me anytime at hello@cupofjo.com, or find me on Instagram and Twitter. Thank you so much for reading.

Meet the Team

Caroline Donofrio

Editor

Caroline moved to New York in 2002 to attend Barnard College. She began her editorial career as an intern at Vogue, where she spent many hours in the fabled fashion closet, trying on exquisite shoes and even lovelier jewelry. Though the shoes were nice, Caroline decided she loved books more and made a jump to publishing, spending the next few years at the talent and literary agency William Morris Endeavor. From 2011 to 2014, she worked as an editor at Penguin, where she acquired and edited fiction and nonfiction books. Though she loves blogging, she’ll never completely turn her back on books — she is currently at work on one of her own. Caroline lives in Brooklyn with her small dog and far too many beauty products. You can reach her at caroline@cupofjo.com, or find her on Twitter and Instagram.

Lexi Mainland

Alexis Mainland

Managing Editor

Lexi joined A Cup of Jo in the spring of 2015, after working for more than eight years at The New York Times in a range of storytelling, editing, and digital strategy roles. She has run blogs and interactive projects, written a weekly column about shopping, spent a year interviewing unique New Yorkers (an undertaking that won her an Emmy, which has its own shelf in her clothes closet), covered elections and political scandals, and led a team focused on social media. Before The Times, Lexi worked in documentary TV and digital media at WGBH, the flagship PBS station. She is a committed news junkie, but her truest passions are design, food, culture and online communities like this. Lexi lives in Brooklyn with her husband, toddler son and King Charles spaniel. You can email her at lexi@cupofjo.com, or find her on Twitter and Instagram.

Stella Blackmon

Editorial Assistant

Stella grew up in Springfield, Missouri, where for many years she assisted and collaborated with the fine arts photographer Julie Blackmon, her mom. In 2013, Stella began her editorial career writing about road trips and entertaining tips for the women’s lifestyle site Clementine Daily. After graduating from college in 2015, Stella spent the summer as an intern at A Cup of Jo. She joined the team as a full-time staff member that fall. Stella lives in Brooklyn with two friends and her treasured collection of Nora Ephron films. You can reach her at stella@cupofjo.com, or find her on Instagram.

Praise For

A Cup of Jo

Founded in January 2007, A Cup of Jo covers fashion, beauty, design, food, travel, relationships, motherhood and lifestyle. Our readers are enthusiastic, style-conscious women who love shopping online and discovering new things. Cup of Jo receives 5.5 million monthly page views and approximately 1 million monthly unique visitors.

“One of the Top 10 Lifestyle Websites for Women" and “One of the Top 100 Websites for Women."

“The blog read by the entire fashion and beauty industry.”

“One of the 10 Most Influential Personal Style Bloggers.”

“One of the Top 50 Design Blogs for Moms.”

“The Queen of the Blogosphere.”

“A remarkably fresh curatorial eye . . . Plus, honest posts about motherhood will speak to you instead of at you.”

“We love Joanna for her tell-it-like-it-is posts on motherhood and her genius finds from around the web.”

“There are more than a few devotees of Joanna Goddard's witty blog around here.”

“Goddard's keen editorial eye and singular literary voice have made her one of the most admired bloggers on the Web.”

CONTACT US

We love getting emails from readers. Please feel free to write to Joanna at hello@cupofjo.com, Caroline at caroline@cupofjo.com and Lexi at lexi@cupofjo.com. If you have a question, you can also take a look at our FAQ page — the answer may be waiting there for you.

ADVERTISING & PARTNERSHIPS

We love working with brands and businesses and are happy to create partnerships of all shapes and sizes. Please email Joanna at hello@cupofjo.com for our media kit.

LET’S HANG OUT

You can follow A Cup of Jo on Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook and Instagram. We’re also in the process of developing a weekly email newsletter, and you can subscribe here now if you’d like.

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Susan Sleeman

About Susan

Susan SleemanSusan is the bestselling author of Christian/inspirational and clean reads romantic suspense and mysteries. She grew up in a small Wisconsin town where she spent her summers reading Nancy Drew and developing a love of mystery and suspense books. Today, she channels this enthusiasm into writing romantic suspense and mystery novels and hosting the popular internet website TheSuspenseZone.com.
Much to her husband’s dismay, Susan loves to look at everyday situations and turn them into murder and mayhem scenarios for future novels. If you’ve met Susan, she has probably figured out a plausible way to kill you and get away with it. Don’t worry, she’d never follow through on it.
Susan currently lives in Oregon, but has had the pleasure of living in nine states. Her husband is a realtor and they have two beautiful daughters, a very special son-in-law and an adorable grandson. In her spare time, you can find her enjoying her grandson, reading, gardening or working on TheSuspenseZone.com.

Fun Facts About Susan
Caution, one is false.
Can you tell which one?
Susan Sleeman
1Susan once received an award from the Holloway Candy Company for her achievement in stretching a Slo Poke sucker to extreme lengths, earning her the coveted title of Super Sucker Stretcher.
2Susan is the only one in her immediate family who cannot raise one eyebrow at a time. Not that she loses any sleep over it as she is certain this is not a necessary skill in her search for self-actualization.
3Susan’s husband was late for their wedding due to a fishing trip with his buddies that went awry. At least that was the excuse he offered, but she’s still wondering if this is the real reason or if it actually involved an intervention by aliens as his face still takes on a greenish hue when the topic is brought up.
4Susan’s first experience with self-tanners went awry. Most of the color washed off her legs from the knee down when she stepped into the river on a singles’s canoe trip. She is still searching for a plausible explanation for her two-toned color scheme.
5Susan has been known to be restroom-sign-impaired making for a very interesting travel experience. Details withheld to protect the innocent.
And the answer is. . .
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Susan Sleeman
Susan Talks!
Q: What inspired you to become an author?
The life long love of reading inspired me to want to write a book, but I never found the time to write. I’ve always enjoyed writing from creative to technical writing I’ve done in the corporate world, and I said for years that I was going to write a book, but I was so busy working full time and raising children that I never made the time. Then I had some health issues that limited my physical activity and I was forced to sit for long periods of time. So I started to research the craft of writing and began my first book. Soon I was writing as much as I could and actively pursuing publication.
Q: What is the most important thing you want your readers to take from your books?
I want readers to be entertained and yet come away from the book thinking about the characters’ struggles and how they overcame adversity. To then think about their own lives and realize they too can overcome any adversity put in their path.
Q: Do you put yourself into your books/characters?
Because of our experiences and perceptions, all authors put something of themselves in their characters, but I try to make each character different and unique and that means they have to possess a variety of characteristics. If anything, I try to write characters that have features I would want to have or that I admire.
Q: Name one of the craziest things you’ve ever done.
Oh, wow, just one? There have been so many things in my life that in hindsight, I see as crazy, but at the time, they were perfectly sound decisions and plans. Probably the one that stands out in my mind is when I was first married and lived in northern Wisconsin. We had a winter with seriously cold days that never ended. I mean really cold. Minus 25 degrees day after day.
One of our friends had moved to Texas and we thought it would be great to get out of the cold. So, without jobs or a way to support ourselves, we moved to Texas. When we arrived there, I discovered I was pregnant. So, both unemployed and now a baby on the way, we found ourselves in a strange town in a strange state. It all worked out well though. My husband found a teaching job and I worked as a substitute teacher until our daughter was born.
Susan Sleeman
Q: What has surprised you most about being a published novelist?
The biggest surprise beyond the amount of time it takes to market and promote your books, is how intrigued people are with writers. We are not so different than the average person, except that we put our daydreams in writing, but I think most people have at one time or another thought about writing a book and wish they could do so. Also, people often think-as they do of actors-that we are the people we write about. Though we do put some of ourselves in a character, they are fictional people. And they also think that writers are all wealthy. That we all receive huge advances for our work. The truth is, many writers work full time jobs in addition to their writing to make enough money to live on.
Q: What is your typical writing day like?
I don’t really have a typical day as my writing day depends on whatever deadline I have at the moment. Let’s say that I don’t have a contract deadline, but pray that it never happens, and focus on what I would do if a day were typical.
While drinking my coffee, I start the day answering emails and posting Facebook and Twitter updates. Then I read the chapters I wrote the day before to get back into the feel for where I left off and do a bit of light editing as I read. Next I write the next chapter or as much as I can write before I no longer know where the story is going or need to do research. If research is required, I make calls, send emails, or work on the Internet until I resolve the issue. By now it’s lunchtime and as I eat I read postings from various news lists or groups I belong to. This is followed by checking email and of course wasting a bit of time on Facebook. Okay so maybe I do the Facebook and Twitter thing more than this, but hey, the writing business is a lonely business to be in.
I will write until about four in the afternoon at which time I’m kind of brain dead and I work on my website or work on updating www.thesuspensezone.com until dinner, which I or my wonderful husband will cook. I take a short break for dinner and then continue the website work. When my eyes are crossed from the computer, I pull out a suspense book and read. Now that is a wonderful way to end the day.
Susan Sleeman
Q: What is something most people don’t know about you?
Something many people don’t know is that due to both my work and my husband’s work, we have lived in nine states since we’ve been married. We started our married life in Wisconsin where I grew up-go Packers-and then moved in order to Texas, Minnesota, New York, Michigan, Georgia, Alabama, Oregon, Texas again (it’s such a big state you have to live there twice), Florida and finally back to Oregon to be near our daughters. We have loved every place we’ve lived but do have a special fondness for the Portland, Oregon area where our daughters and grandson live.
Q: What is your favorite book?
I don’t have a favorite book, but favorite genres. I read mostly mystery, suspense, and romantic suspense because I like a book that moves along and has a mystery to solve. As a writer, there are books that I love because of the prose, books I love because of the great/creative plots, books I love for wonderful/quirky characters, books I love for the message, and of course, books I love for the pure entertainment value. When a book includes all of these under one cover, I cannot put it down.
Q: What is your favorite movie?
Oh, now that is really tough. I can’t say that I have a favorite movie, but love to watch chick flicks. Not a big comedy person, but I do love a good thriller.
Q: What is the accomplishment that you are most proud of?
Though, I don’t think of this as an accomplishment per se, I am proud of my two daughters. Of the women they have become and the values they hold.
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