Author’s Note:
I am currently seeking literary representation for You Seriously Don’t Want to Know. For professional inquiries, please contact ejdonovanauthor@gmail.com.
Hi — I’m E.J. Donovan, the name I write under. The life behind it is mine, but the pen name gives me enough room to tell the truth the way fiction sometimes requires.
I write in the space where the real world and the imagined one blur — where grief bends time, where dogs become mythic, where memory refuses to stay quiet, and where everything begins with a single question: What if?
I grew up in New Jersey on steep hills overlooking a big lake — the kind of place that leaves a permanent echo in you. Those hills and lake shape much of my work, including my truth-based fiction novel, You Seriously Don’t Want to Know, which I finished this year. I’m now in the hunt for a literary agent, hoping to bring this story into the world the way it deserves.
I work full-time in New York City and write everywhere life gives me a corner — on commuter ferries, in quiet kitchens before sunrise, and at night when the house settles and the dogs finally stop arguing with gravity. I live with my husband and our two German Shepherds: Ariel, the escape artist, and Diana, the lovable menace. My soul dog, Zee, shows up in my dreams and on the page with perfect timing.
This year has been one of the hardest of my life. I lost my second mother, and I’ve been walking through that grief with my dad — a good man, trying to stay upright in the middle of heartbreak he never wanted to experience twice. Somehow, in all of it, we’re still looking up. Still moving. Still choosing the next step.
I don’t chase trends. I just try to tell the truth — even when it arrives disguised as fiction.
