Tag: Never the Roses

First Cup of Coffee – Spending Smart as a Creative 10/21/25

Jeffe Kennedy / / Blog, Podcast

Your friendly neighborhood author is doing author-ly things this upcoming month! Hummingbird House is officially OPEN FOR BOOKING🕊️ Meet me Nov. 1st at the BookQuest A Day with Santa Fe Authors and Nov. 2nd at Books on the Bosque📚 Magic Reborn has reached a half way point! And also, my two cents on how to make a living for yourself as a creative.

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Upcoming Events ~

Meet me at Books on the Bosque Nov. 2nd:

Learn more about A Day with Santa Fe Authors here

LoveLitCon is a weekend of romantasy and bookish fun and I will be attending! Buy LoveLitCon tickets here using LOVE8368 for $10 OFF!

Tuscon Festival of Books is March 14th-15th this year! See you there *Wink*

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Among the Thorns will be here July 14th – Preorder Now!

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First Cup of Coffee – The Connection Between Fantasy Fiction and Politics 10/17/25

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“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” – Pablo Picasso said and then painted Guerica in response to the 1937 bombing of the Basque town of Guernica by Nazi and Fascist forces. “The artist’s role is not to look away.” – Akira Kurosawa, Japanese filmmaker once said and then directed High and Low, a film about the moral dilemmas of a capitalist society and the consequences.
“Art holds up the mirror to nature.” – William Shakespeare, Hamlet (Act 3, Scene 2) a sentiment similar to Aristotle, who once said “Art imitates life.” The duty and role of an artist in society is not always to simply entertain. For more information about the No Kings protest, please visit https://www.nokings.org

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First Cup of Coffee – The Comet in the Romantasy Genre 10/14/25

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Romantasy is booming and reader expectations are changing. Responding to a DM review of Never the Roses, offering book recs for fantasy with romantic elements, and reflecting on Meta platforms. And also Wood is a banger – pun intended.

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First Cup of Coffee – New Cover Reveal 10/10/25

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COVER REVEAL(S) Yes, Plural! New paperback covers for Never the Roses and the long awaited cover reveal for AMONG THE THORNS is here! Among the Thorns will be here July 14th – Preorder available following this link here!

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First Cup of Coffee – Friday, October 3 2025

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Happy The Life of a Showgirl day!!! Team Jeffe is really Team Swiftie, and all of us are hand-hearting. Do we have any outfit ideas inspired by The Black Dog for the movie premiere on Sunday? In other news, let’s talk about asynchronous order of events in writing and how Octavia Butler uses this plus foreshadowing to craft an excellent story. And also an idea brewing about how I can use such things to satisfy my creative urges.

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Friday, September 26, 2025

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Magic Reborn is up to 15,000 words! Lust, Lies, and Ley Lines cover art is coming soon – and why having “mean” friends is actually a good thing. And Sydney the Tyrant strikes again as she workshops a new intro/outro for the podcast.

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First Cup of Coffee – September 5, 2025

Jeffe Kennedy / / Blog, Podcast

Supporting creativity, creators, and their creations vs. demanding a product and how parasocial relationships have fostered a tension there. Self-love and self-care vs. self-indulgence. Also, I turned in AMONG THE THORNS!



First Cup of Coffee – August 8, 2025

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All about the extraordinary thing that happened this week regarding NEVER THE ROSES – and about serendipity, bolts of lightning, what you can and can’t plan for, and why I love working with smart women who also talk about skin care routines.



First Cup of Coffee – August 1, 2025

Jeffe Kennedy / / Blog, Podcast

My recap of San Diego Comic Con, including the amazing panel I got to be on there and what I learned about worldbuilding details from it. We talked about debt and finance in mind-blowing ways!