First Cup of Coffee – July 15, 2024

How gardening is a great metaphor for life and creativity – accepting loss and treating that as an opportunity to plant anew, embracing change, and giving up control. Also, ways to be kind to ourselves.

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - July 15, 2024

July 15, 2024

Jeffe Kennedy

How gardening is a great metaphor for life and creativity - accepting loss and treating that as an opportunity to plant anew, embracing change, and giving up control. Also, ways to be kind to ourselves.

Stephanie Pui-Mun Law's special edition Tarot deck is here https://shadowscapes.com/Tarot/deckSE.php

The preorder links for RELUCTANT WIZARD, out August 27, are here https://www.jeffekennedy.com/reluctant-wizard

The posture-correcting sports bra I love almost more than life itself is here https://forme.therave.co/37FY6Z5MTJAUKQGA

You can buy tickets for Wild & Windy in Phoenix (February 2025) here https://www.wildandwindybookevent.com/phoenix-authors

Join my Patreon and Discord for mentoring, coaching, and conversation with me! Find it at https://www.patreon.com/JeffesCloset

You can always buy print copies of my books from my local indie, Beastly Books! https://www.beastlybooks.com/

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First Cup of Coffee – October 30, 2023

Why do some tasks feel more difficult that others and what makes them easier all of a sudden? Also, reader events and my process for deciding which to attend. And a recommendation for a really great, data-filled podcast!

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - October 30, 2023

October 30, 2023

Jeffe Kennedy

Why do some tasks feel more difficult that others and what makes them easier all of a sudden? Also, reader events and my process for deciding which to attend. And a recommendation for a really great, data-filled podcast!

The Faroween giveaway is here https://farofeb.com/giveaway/

The podcast I mention is here: The Minimum Viability Threshold (Why Some Books Don’t Sell) https://publishingrodeo.wordpress.com/2023/07/14/s1-ep23-the-minimum-viability-threshold-why-some-books-dont-sell/

You can find  Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle here https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/592377/burnout-by-emily-nagoski-phd-and-amelia-nagoski-dma/

Join my Patreon and Discord for mentoring, coaching, and conversation with me! Find it at https://www.patreon.com/JeffesCloset

You can always buy print copies of my books from my local indie, Beastly Books! https://www.beastlybooks.com/

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First Cup of Coffee – January 12, 2023

On burnout – how to identify it, prevent it, and recover from it, should you have to. Also other thoughts on sustainable creativity, monetization (and not) and making a living from your art or passion.

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - January 12, 2023

January 12, 2023

Jeffe Kennedy

On burnout - how to identify it, prevent it, and recover from it, should you have to. Also other thoughts on sustainable creativity, monetization (and not) and making a living from your art or passion.

FIVE GOLDEN RINGS is now available here: https://jeffekennedy.com/five-golden-rings SAPPHIRE is available here: https://jeffekennedy.com/sapphire and PLATINUM is available here https://jeffekennedy.com/platinum. RUBY is available for preorder here https://jeffekennedy.com/ruby

THE LONG NIGHT OF THE RADIANT STAR, a midwinter holiday fantasy romance in the Heirs of Magic series, now available!! https://jeffekennedy.com/the-long-night-of-the-radiant-star

SHADOW WIZARD, Book One in Renegades of Magic, continuing the epic tale begun in DARK WIZARD. https://jeffekennedy.com/shadow-wizard is out now! Including in audiobook!

Interested in Author Coaching from me? Information here: https://jeffekennedy.com/author-coaching

ROGUE'S PARADISE is out (https://jeffekennedy.com/rogue-s-paradise). Buy book 1, ROGUE'S PAWN, here! (https://jeffekennedy.com/rogue-s-pawn) and book 2, ROGUE'S POSSESSION, here! (https://jeffekennedy.com/rogue-s-possession).

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First Cup of Coffee – December 7, 2021

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - December 7, 2021

December 07, 2021

Jeffe Kennedy

Body image, changing my relationship to exercise, grappling with things my body remembers being able to do, but no longer does, and incorporating playfulness and joy into both that and writing. Also: audiobook!

The book I mention is Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski PhD and Amelia Nagoski DMA and you can find it here (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/592377/burnout-by-emily-nagoski-phd-and-amelia-nagoski-dma/). Marcella Burnard's blog post is here (https://sffseven.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-best-medicine.html).

You can order DARK WIZARD here (https://jeffekennedy.com/dark-wizard) and preorder FIRE OF THE FROST here (https://jeffekennedy.com/fire-of-the-frost), GREY MAGIC here (https://jeffekennedy.com/grey-magic), and THE STORM PRINCESS AND THE RAVEN KING here (https://jeffekennedy.com/the-storm-princess-and-the-raven-king).

If you want to support me and the podcast, click on the little heart or follow this link (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/jeffekennedy).

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First Cup of Coffee – December 6, 2021

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - December 6, 2021

December 06, 2021

Jeffe Kennedy

Why we tend to feel less competent the more books we write (or insert other expertise here), how being a creative means facing a continual cycle of failure and rejection - and how we learn to deal with that positively.

The book I mention is Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski PhD and Amelia Nagoski DMA and you can find it here (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/592377/burnout-by-emily-nagoski-phd-and-amelia-nagoski-dma/). Marcella Burnard's blog post is here (https://sffseven.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-best-medicine.html).

You can order DARK WIZARD here (https://jeffekennedy.com/dark-wizard) and preorder FIRE OF THE FROST here (https://jeffekennedy.com/fire-of-the-frost), GREY MAGIC here (https://jeffekennedy.com/grey-magic), and THE STORM PRINCESS AND THE RAVEN KING here (https://jeffekennedy.com/the-storm-princess-and-the-raven-king).

If you want to support me and the podcast, click on the little heart or follow this link (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/jeffekennedy).

You can watch this podcast on YouTube here (https://youtu.be/Et3fFV85nH8).

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