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

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First Cup of Coffee – December 3, 2020

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - December 3, 2020

December 03, 2020

Jeffe Kennedy

Why authors shouldn't review their own books, how it's bad form and has nothing to do with being proud of or standing by your books. Also various metaphors on trying to get through a plot difficulty.

The Cary Library panel is here (https://tinyurl.com/y4ol29hb).

The movies I mention are The Five Year Engagement and Mortal.

And this is the calendar I ordered (https://www.llewellyn.com/product.php?ean=9780738754727).

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First Cup of Coffee – December 2, 2019

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First Cup of Coffee - December 2, 2019

December 02, 2019

Jeffe Kennedy

Welcome to December! I'm enjoying my advent calendar and buckling down for some serious book-finishing before Christmas.

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First Cup of Coffee – November 4, 2019

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First Cup of Coffee - November 4, 2019

November 04, 2019

Jeffe Kennedy

#PantsNaNoWriMo day 4: Creating a story as a leap of faith. Knowing that angst is okay. And, as in our lives, trusting that even our mistakes bring us to where we should be. 

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First Cup of Coffee – September 5, 2019

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - September 5, 2019

September 05, 2019

Jeffe Kennedy

Talking on my way in for Writer Coffee today, still musing on Carnival Row and how its *so important* to always elevate story over agenda. 

Photo today from the Stephanie Pui-Mun Law calendar. 

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First Cup of Coffee – June 3, 2019

Updates on my weekend (low key), The Fiery Citadel revision (coming along), and our perceptions of the writers life vs. the reality. Plus cat wrangling.

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - June 3, 2019

June 03, 2019

Jeffe Kennedy

Updates on my weekend (low key), The Fiery Citadel revision (coming along), and our perceptions of the writers life vs. the reality. Plus cat wrangling. 

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First Cup of Coffee – March 1, 2019

 

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - March 1, 2019

March 01, 2019

Jeffe Kennedy

Reminiscing about my Brother Correctronic and how that likely shaped the way I write for discovery - and how I shape Act I of any book in general. Also news on the cover of Lonen's Reign!

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First Cup of Coffee – February 1, 2019

 

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First Cup of Coffee - February 1, 2019

February 01, 2019

Jeffe Kennedy

A bit of a rant today on being gracious to other authors and watching what you put on social media. Also an explanation of how blurbs work and why it's a big ask. 

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First Cup of Coffee – January 2, 2019

 

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First Cup of Coffee - January 2, 2019

January 02, 2019

Jeffe Kennedy

Welcome to 2019! I'm talking about how time off lets us rebuild - or form - habits with mindfulness. Also some about my preparations for the new year and maybe a bit too much information on how crunching financials on self-published projects works. The blog post I reference is Rejuvenation and Goal-Setting

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