First Cup of Coffee – January 3, 2022

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - January 3, 2022

January 03, 2022

Jeffe Kennedy

What we can learn from population biology on strategizing our writing careers, why there's so much push to track ad spend and sales but not investigating our own creative process, and a big F**K OFF to people who say "stay in your lane."

You can order FIRE OF THE FROST here (https://jeffekennedy.com/fire-of-the-frost) and DARK WIZARD here (https://jeffekennedy.com/dark-wizard). You can preorder , 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).

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First Cup of Coffee – December 31, 2021

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - December 31, 2021

December 31, 2021

Jeffe Kennedy

My final installment on tracking the metrics of your creative work. If you track ad sales numbers, why not the fundamental work that makes the rest possible. As promised, I give a summary of my own metrics.

You can order FIRE OF THE FROST here (https://jeffekennedy.com/fire-of-the-frost) and DARK WIZARD here (https://jeffekennedy.com/dark-wizard). You can preorder , 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).

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First Cup of Coffee – December 30, 2021

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - December 30, 2021

December 30, 2021

Jeffe Kennedy

How to ensure that setting goals isn't "setting yourself up for failure," more on our relationship with observing ourselves with compassion and scientific distance, and what this has to do with knife-throwing. 

The blog post I mention is here (https://blog.jeffekennedy.com/2021/12/29/adjusting-those-variables-for-the-new-year/).

You can order FIRE OF THE FROST here (https://jeffekennedy.com/fire-of-the-frost) and DARK WIZARD here (https://jeffekennedy.com/dark-wizard). You can preorder , 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).

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First Cup of Coffee – December 28, 2021

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - December 28, 2021

December 28, 2021

Jeffe Kennedy

Continuing my series on tracking your productivity and why I think it's super important for both traditionally published and self-published authors. I delve a bit more into the metrics I track and why. 

You can order FIRE OF THE FROST here (https://jeffekennedy.com/fire-of-the-frost) and DARK WIZARD here (https://jeffekennedy.com/dark-wizard). You can preorder , 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).

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THE FIERY CROWN today at GRRM’s Beastly Books!


Check out this super cool video of THE FIERY CROWN from George R.R. Martin’s Beastly Books here in Santa Fe!

This was supposed to be a live event, but it’s virtual now. Instead of a live interview, Melinda Snodgrass, of Star Trek: The Next Generation fame, interviewed me via Zoom and we had a great conversation. You can watch it this afternoon at 4pm Mountain Time here. You can also support this wonderful local indie bookstore by ordering a signed copy of THE FIERY CROWN from them – plus get it well before the May 26 release date! (Or you can preorder via the links below.)

Afterward, I’ll be doing a Facebook Live *and* Instagram Live Q&A. Look for me on Facebook or Instagram, according to your preference. I’ll be on once the Beastly Book event ends, around 5pm Mountain Time.

Our topic at the SFF Seven this week is “Updated writing tools/apps – what’s new and different in your writing world.” My answer? Umm… nothing? I’m pretty happy with my current system, which I’ve been using for years now. I write in Word, track everything on my own spreadsheets I’ve meticulously retooled in Excel, and I save everything in Dropbox. It works well for me and I see no reason to add more “tools.” Come on over for my (non-) answer!

 

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