I didn’t actually really even think about it in those terms, but that was something I really wanted women to be able to see - there is a way to do this. But it did make me happy to have women out there figuring out how to do something that made them happy and that they want to do, and then succeeding at it. So I try to come up with backstories where they got the money to have their business. Something in fiction is to be able to let people have their passion projects, and one thing I definitely thought about for all of those things was, “How can they afford that?” Because it does drive me a little up the wall sometimes when I see people having their own shop with where did the money come from for that. All of these businesses are basically passion projects. She has been published in The Toast and The Hairpin, has towering stacks of books in her living room, a cake for every occasion, and upward of fifty lipsticks. I just love the idea of women creating things for themselves. Jasmine Guillory is a lawyer, a graduate of Wellesley College and Stanford Law School, and a Bay Area native who lives in Oakland, California. Why is this something you want to show in your writing? You have incredible female-led businesses in your story, from Nik’s freelancing to the cupcake shop to a female gym.
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