Jennifer Musselman is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer. She is author of the newly released Own It! The Ups and Downs of Homebuying for Women Who Go It Alone, The Hip Girl's Handbook for the Working World and co-author of The Hip Girl's Handbook for Home, Car & Money Stuff. She has been featured on television's HGTV, The Other Half, Fox 11 News and other local television and radio news programs nation-wide and in For Me magazine empowering independent women with hip-how-to on everyday living matters. She has also served as guest speaker at several colleges and low-income housing workshops as a girl-next-door, lifestyle expert.
Prior to books, Musselman began her writing career in magazines and has been published in Shape, Seventeen, Teen, CosmoGirl and Twist, among others. Simultaneously, Musselman has risen up the ranks at MTV Networks' Nickelodeon Television Channel over the past 11 years where she is currently Sr. Director of Communications overseeing and implementing corporate initiatives in the media. She was born and raised in Iowa before trekking all her worldly goods — clothes, toiletries and more clothes — half-way across the country at 21 years old in her very bright, '93 teal-blue Dodge Shadow car for her promising career as an unpaid intern with Fox 11 News. To eat, Musselman served up fried awesome blossoms at Chili's restaurant and she now reveals, "I failed the menu test the first time, so they wouldn't hire me. Luckily, they let me take it again."
Now Musselman serves on her homeowner's board of directors after purchasing her very first home, a humble, but adorable condo, in Santa Monica, California where her playful and sweet puppy, Leo, lets her live too.
