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 – December 11, 2020

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - December 11, 2020

December 11, 2020

Jeffe Kennedy

Why it's important to learn what YOUR process is and own it, plus a bit on keeping sane in an insane world, using pennames, and updates on new books!

The books I mention are:
Petals & Thorns
Sapphire
The Golden Gryphon and the Bear Prince

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From the Bone Yard: a BDSM Beauty and the Beast!

This week at the SFF Seven, we’re digging in the bone yard and resurrecting… a backlist book!

Yeah, okay – not all that creepy.

But I did pick one of my very first publications that has significant creepitude. Come on over to find out more!

First Cup of Coffee – January 16, 2020

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - January 16, 2020

January 16, 2020

Jeffe Kennedy

Recapping my planning call with Agent Sarah and talking about resurrecting old work, and what I've learned from it. Also revising vs. redrafting and writing without voices in your head. And what I thought about Little Women!

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Retelling the Fairy Tale

Our topic at the SFF Seven this week is which fairy tale would you pick to rewrite and why?

It’s kind of a funny question for me, because it’s starting to be more accurate to ask me which fairy tale I *haven’t* rewritten yet. Come on over for more. 

 

The Island of Lost Book Projects

Our topic at the SFF Seven this week is all about the things we want to do. We’re asking everyone to name three projects we’ve been planning to work on for a long while and haven’t yet touched.

It’s kind of like the writer version of the Island of Lost Toys. Come on over to find out mine. 

A Better Answer to: Where Do You Get Your Ideas?

Last week I attended SFWA’s Nebula Conference and got to meet our 2018 Grandmaster, Peter S. Beagle. I legit teared up when we talked and he signed my battered old copy I received forever and a day ago. I felt like a teenager again and all those feelings that led into my early love of fantasy rose up and swamped me.

The conference in 2019 will be at the Marriott Warner Center in Los Angeles. I highly recommend it! It’s become my absolute favorite gathering of SFF writers and industry professionals.

Our topic this week at the SFF Seven is “Where do you get your ideas – the least popular question ever.” Come on over for three avenues I rely on for ideas. 

 

Backlist Valentine: PETALS & THORNS

This week we’re giving a valentine to the books of years’ past and sharing a title from our backlists. A little love for those publications that might even predate the creation of this blog!

For mine, I’m sharing my first standalone fiction publication. It was my first sale as a novelist, even though it’s technically a novella at 81 pages, and I originally published it with Loose ID. (Now sadly going out of business.) It’s an erotic fantasy – a BDSM Beauty and the Beast – and is still one of my best-selling titles ever. Also, I originally published it under the pseudonym “Jennifer Paris,” the one time I used that name. When I got the rights back and self-published the book (also my first venture into self-publishing), I did it under my own name. A bit of history there.

In exchange for her father’s life, Amarantha agrees to marry the dreadful Beast and be his wife for seven days. Though the Beast cannot take Amarantha’s virginity unless she begs him to, he can and does take her in every other way. From the moment they are alone together, the Beast relentlessly strips Amarantha of all her resistance. 

 If Amarantha can resist her cloaked and terrifying husband, she gains his entire fortune and will be allowed to return to her family and a normal life. But the Beast seduces her at every turn, exposing, binding, tormenting, and pleasuring Amarantha until she no longer knows her own deepest desires. Increasingly desperate to break the curse that chains his humanity, the Beast drives Amarantha past every boundary. But her desire for a normal life may jeopardize the love that will save them both.

 

 

As an interesting aside, here’s this article on how Facebook is “flattening” content and reducing the ability of creators to share quality stuff. I’m trying to share it widely in places that AREN’T Facebook.