About J F Rogers

J F Rogers, also known as Jennifer Faith Rogers, is a work in progress. She was raised by a single dad with way more on his plate than he bargained for. J F had a crazy imagination and always wanted to be a writer. In High School, Queensryche’s song Silent Lucidity inspired her to write a full-length novel.

But try as she may, the novel wouldn’t come.

After several false starts, life got in the way, and the novel was forgotten.

A decade or two later, after her divorce, J F experienced the best worst year of her life. She lost her job. Overqualified in a recession, she couldn’t find another. She was a single, unemployed mom.

Not at all how she expected her life to turn out.

Though J F had nearly given up, the God she barely knew never did.

It was during that best worst year that J F took a rather terrible job (but that’s another story). She found herself with more time to go back to school, get her degree in Behavioral Science, and work on that book.

It was also during that time that J F finally acknowledged that she had made a mess of her life and decided to try things God’s way for once. She dropped to her knees and vowed to follow God to the best of her limited understanding and ability.

From that moment on, J F’s life was a whirlwind of seeming insanity. She drove an hour and a half one way to attend her brother’s new church. From the moment she sat in that sanctuary, she knew God was there. So that’s exactly where she wanted to be.

During that year, she persisted in the three-hour round trip to church, never missing a Sunday. She reconnected with and married her first boyfriend from high school, got baptized, moved closer to church, got a better job, earned her degree, and finished the book.

The book, Astray, was never intended to be a Christian story. Perhaps that was why she couldn’t write it. Because that’s exactly what it became.

J F still resides in the home they bought to be closer to church with her husband and daughter. She became heavily involved in her church where she now teaches 5th-7th grade Sunday School in hopes of sparing those kids the wasted years she experienced. And she’s since completed Ariboslia and The Cursed Lands series, The Smeraldo Flower, inspired by her daughter’s favorite group, BTS’s song The Truth Untold, and several short stories. She’s now working on Date with Death—a supernatural novel.

J F is still a work in progress. Her writing is a fulfillment of her vow to follow God, doing what He has called her to do, to the best of her limited understanding and ability. God found her where she was at and showed her that He loved her despite her ignorance and limitations. She hopes to share that love with you, ensuring that you know that you, too, are loved.

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