First Cup of Coffee – December 13, 2024

Understanding what I need regarding taking time off – or NOT! – and how important it is for us to collect data on our own process. Also, the inevitability of losing friendships as we build our careers and businesses.

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - December 13, 2024

December 13, 2024

Jeffe Kennedy

Understanding what I need regarding taking time off - or NOT! - and how important it is for us to collect data on our own process. Also, the inevitability of losing friendships as we build our careers and businesses.

The book I mention THE FRIEND WHO GOT AWAY is here https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385511868

The Happy FaRoDays event is here! https://farofeb.com/happy-farodays/

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RELUCTANT WIZARD is out now and audiobook is live!! https://www.jeffekennedy.com/reluctant-wizard

You can preorder STRANGE FAMILIAR at https://www.jeffekennedy.com/strange-familiar

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First Cup of Coffee – November 21, 2022

THE LONG NIGHT OF THE RADIANT STAR is out today! I’m burbling about that, controlled chaos, the importance of female friendships, and also story structure and applying screenwriting tricks to writing novels.

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - November 21, 2022

November 21, 2022

Jeffe Kennedy

THE LONG NIGHT OF THE RADIANT STAR is out today! I'm burbling about that, controlled chaos, the importance of female friendships, and also story structure and applying screenwriting tricks to writing novels.

THE LONG NIGHT OF THE RADIANT STAR, a midwinter holiday fantasy romance in the Heirs of Magic series, now available!!

The book I mention, The Friend Who Got Away: Twenty Women's True Life Tales of Friendships that Blew Up, Burned Out or Faded Away, is here (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/262687).

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!

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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 – January 14, 2022

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - January 14, 2022

January 14, 2022

Jeffe Kennedy

Retellings vs. tropes and what illuminates a story. Also thoughts on friendships, and how they can be situational (occupational?) and thus pass away when the situation does. Do professional relationships count as friendships?

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 – September 18, 2018


First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - September 18, 2018

September 18, 2018

Jeffe Kennedy

Talking today about how "networking" is truly making friendships and supporting each other. Updates on THE ORCHID THRONE and THE ARROWS OF THE HEART, too.

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On Professional Jealousy – and Three Ways to Shut It Down

Last weekend I got to visit my lovely writer friend Grace Draven – that’s me enjoying the gorgeous trees in Texas hill country – and this weekend my fantastic writer friend Anne Calhoun came to visit me. As a result, I’ve had about ten days worth of intense writer conversation and am wrung out.

I’m also late with this post to the SFF Seven because of it. Last week I didn’t do one at all, though that was largely because the topic was Flash Fiction and I just don’t much like doing those. Flash fiction can be an interesting form, but my fiction-writing energy goes into my current project and I find working on anything other than that feels tangential at best and counter-productive at worst.

I am, however, blessed by having these friends to talk writing with and my well has been refilled to brimming.

And this week’s topic is about writing relationships: A Cringeworthy Moment of Professional Jealousy & How You Dealt With It. Come on over to hear mine