The Fascinating Mind of J.A. Rose

What if?

Jasmine Aguilar who referred to her author self as simply J.A Rose was a multi-genre writer who deeply loved to speculate the universe and the mysteries of the unknown.

She didn't only wonder. She brought those speculations into her writing. She had a curious mind with a hint of darkness and her stories reflected that.

Jasmine started writing from a very young age. It could be said as soon as she learned how to hold a pen and spell her name, she was writing stories. Over those years, she experimented with trial and error and found her writer voice. While she ventured into various genres, genres she never thought she'd step one foot in, her favorites were science fiction and paranormal horror. Those genres felt like home to her.

In a strange sense, she found comfort in the world of the paranormal and the unknown. Her paranormal horror stories (a genre that is highly speculative) in particular were open to deep speculation and reader interpretation often faltering between nightmare scenes and reality. Writing such stories provided her a way to investigate the unexplained and better understand it.

She found the paranormal world and the various urban legends around the world truly fascinating. These concepts not only gave her chills like they would anyone, but also a deep sense of curiosity.

What if there is something out there? What if we aren't alone?

She was also highly fascinated by fringe science - Cryptozoology. Parapsychology. Quantum Physics.

Reading her work, one might speculate that she was deeply inspired by the concepts of parapsychology and quantum physics and that might have been the inspiration behind her sci-fi novel Insight.

Analyzing her science fiction works, most fell into the category of soft science fiction while some of her work could even be considered hard science fiction. And no matter what she wrote, she made those concepts easy for the reader to understand and relate to.

Her dream was to become the next prominent female writer of science fiction. The next Octavia Butler or Margaret Atwood. Reading her work, she might have even been inspired by the works of Ray Bradbury, R.L. Stine, and Edgar Allen Poe.

Often, she would even joke that her work probably wouldn't get noticed, that no one would even recognize her as an author until long after she was gone.

And even so, those who have known her and got to read her works found out soon enough that she was a positive and humble soul eager to show her work. While there might have been a few who have been inspired by her speculative stories to write their own, she was deeply honored and simply stated that she was still learning herself how to improve as a writer.

"Even the most successful and established writers still have something to learn," she'd say. "Think about your favorite authors. Where and who did they get their inspiration from?"

Throughout her time writing across different genres, she studied the craft of writing. How to write a beginning scene that hooks a reader. How to create relatable and believable characters. How to create a compelling villain.

Her work offered more that just fun futuristic worlds to explore and chilling paranormal stories that scared you. They required you to think. To speculate long after you turned the last page.

Perhaps that was her hope for anyone who has ever read her work. To not only be entertained but to encourage a sense of curiosity. To pause for a moment in the middle of her stories and speculate, what if?

Just as she had done so writing them.