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“I just read your essay on leaving New York and it touched me to the point that I felt the need to write to you and say that it did. Thank you for the words.”
 
(An email I received from a reader in Romania.)

Happy February, <<First Name>>!

I hope 2019 is treating you well so far.  January was full of personal and professional highlights for me:
  • I adopted a dog (my first pet EVER)!
  • I was commissioned to write an e-book for Fiverr, which was sent to every small business owner who uses their site.
  • And, I had the most successful month of my freelance career to date. 
But January wasn’t all roses.  There were a few defeats too. I didn’t advance to the third and final round of the MACRO Episodic Lab Screenwriting Contest, I received another rejection from a book agent, and one of my essays was turned down for inclusion in a forthcoming anthology.  In short, doors were opened and others were closed.
 
I’m choosing to focus on the positive and channel that energy into my creative work.  Throughout the last month, I’ve tried some new things at Uptown Bourgeois.  I relaunched the Bourgeois Brief as the Color Brief, a more succinct daily summary of news about creators of color (available as a blog post and podcast), I published a new review about Hulu’s The Bisexual as well as a humorous listicle about my dog and an op-ed about the Kevin Hart Oscars controversy.
 
Whether people want to publish them or not, I have plenty of stories to tell this year, and I hope you’ll keep following along.  See below for links to my latest work and have a productive February!
 
Best,
 
Jefferey
 

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