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Jessica Stone

Such Lovely Skin

2023 Unpublished Contest - Runner-up (Mystery & Thriller)

Jes Hart Stone’s mystery, Blood on a Blue Moon, was awarded First Place—Best in Category in the Mystery and Mayhem Division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (2020) and Best Mystery Award, Black Magnolia Press (2019).  Stone’s action thriller, Turbulent Waters, launched in April 2022.

The Last Outrageous Woman (under Jessica H. Stone) won 1st in Category in the Somerset Awards Division of the Chanticleer Writing Competition (2018).

Such Lovely Skin placed 3rd in the Mystery/Thriller/Horror category—PNWA 2022 Literary Contest.

As an avid blue water mariner, Stone authored two nonfiction books on sailing, including the popular Doggy on Deck, and two long-running online columns, “Cruising with Critters,” and “Living Aboard.”

Jes divides her time between two seaside villages in the Pacific Northwest and Mexico.

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