First Cup of Coffee – August 30, 2021

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - August 30, 2021

August 30, 2021

Jeffe Kennedy

I'm addressing the challenge of book marketing, how it varies by platform and how there's no formula and only one "trick" that works. Also about openings, cuing where the story is going, and the importance of genre cues.

If you're curious about the Missed Connections books that I mention, you can find them here (https://jeffekennedy.com/series/missed-connections).

You can preorder THE DRAGON'S DAUGHTER AND THE WINTER MAGE here (https://jeffekennedy.com/the-dragon-s-daughter-and-the-winter-mage).

Find DARK WIZARD and BRIGHT FAMILIAR here (https://jeffekennedy.com/series/bonds-of-magic), the Forgotten Empires trilogy here (https://jeffekennedy.com/series/forgotten-empires), and the Heirs of Magic books here (https://jeffekennedy.com/series/heirs-of-magic).

If you want to support me and the podcast, click on the little heart or follow this link (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/jeffekennedy).

You can watch this podcast on YouTube here (https://youtu.be/If-b7NPzk7s).

First Cup of Coffee is part of the Frolic Podcast Network. You can find more outstanding podcasts to subscribe to at Frolic.media/podcasts!

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First Cup of Coffee – August 27, 2021

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - August 27, 2021

August 27, 2021

Jeffe Kennedy

First podcast in a week! I'm back, talking about time off, unplugging our brains for maximum productive creativity, advice for creatives who can only work at the end of the day, Nomadland, and how grief can paralyze.

You can preorder THE DRAGON'S DAUGHTER AND THE WINTER MAGE here (https://jeffekennedy.com/the-dragon-s-daughter-and-the-winter-mage).

Find DARK WIZARD and BRIGHT FAMILIAR here (https://jeffekennedy.com/series/bonds-of-magic), the Forgotten Empires trilogy here (https://jeffekennedy.com/series/forgotten-empires), and the Heirs of Magic books here (https://jeffekennedy.com/series/heirs-of-magic).

If you want to support me and the podcast, click on the little heart or follow this link (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/jeffekennedy).

You can watch this podcast on YouTube here (https://youtu.be/ZLy9LQsriUw).

First Cup of Coffee is part of the Frolic Podcast Network. You can find more outstanding podcasts to subscribe to at Frolic.media/podcasts!

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First Cup of Coffee – August 20, 2021

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - August 20, 2021

August 20, 2021

Jeffe Kennedy

A shout out to L. Penelope on the release of REQUIEM OF SILENCE. Also repairing Grace Draven's rep and a discussion of process types and why pre-plotting and outlining isn't the only or even best way to write a book.

You can find Leslye Penelope's REQUIEM OF SILENCE here (https://lpenelope.com/book/requiem-of-silence/).

Check out the gorgeous cover for THE DRAGON'S DAUGHTER AND THE WINTER MAGE! You can preorder the book here (https://jeffekennedy.com/the-dragon-s-daughter-and-the-winter-mage).

Find DARK WIZARD and BRIGHT FAMILIAR here (https://jeffekennedy.com/series/bonds-of-magic), the Forgotten Empires trilogy here (https://jeffekennedy.com/series/forgotten-empires), and the Heirs of Magic books here (https://jeffekennedy.com/series/heirs-of-magic).

If you want to support me and the podcast, click on the little heart or follow this link (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/jeffekennedy).

You can watch this podcast on YouTube here (https://youtu.be/Wac8cE6Wt64).

First Cup of Coffee is part of the Frolic Podcast Network. You can find more outstanding podcasts to subscribe to at Frolic.media/podcasts!

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Contact Jeffe!

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First Cup of Coffee – August 19, 2021

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - August 19, 2021

August 19, 2021

Jeffe Kennedy

Answering questions and responding to comments on Tuesday's podcast on success and our personal earnings ceilings. Thus I'm explaining a bit about how money in publishing works and how "good" books don't always sell well.

Tuesday's podcast is here if you missed it ((https://blog.jeffekennedy.com/2021/08/17/first-cup-of-coffee-august-17-2021).

Check out the gorgeous cover for THE DRAGON'S DAUGHTER AND THE WINTER MAGE! You can preorder the book here (https://jeffekennedy.com/the-dragon-s-daughter-and-the-winter-mage).

Find DARK WIZARD and BRIGHT FAMILIAR here (https://jeffekennedy.com/series/bonds-of-magic), the Forgotten Empires trilogy here (https://jeffekennedy.com/series/forgotten-empires), and the Heirs of Magic books here (https://jeffekennedy.com/series/heirs-of-magic).

If you want to support me and the podcast, click on the little heart or follow this link (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/jeffekennedy).

You can watch this podcast on YouTube here (https://youtu.be/1pPNJChRnY0).

First Cup of Coffee is part of the Frolic Podcast Network. You can find more outstanding podcasts to subscribe to at Frolic.media/podcasts!

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Cover Reveal! THE DRAGON’S DAUGHTER AND THE WINTER MAGE

I’m super excited to share the stunningly gorgeous cover for THE DRAGON’S DAUGHTER AND THE WINTER MAGE, Book #3 in my Heirs of Magic series, releasing September 24!

 

Book Three in the adult Fantasy Romance adventure series from award-winning, bestselling author Jeffe Kennedy. Follows the prequel novella, The Long Night of the Crystalline Moon, in the Under a Winter Sky romantic fantasy holiday anthology—now available as a standalone—and Book One of Heirs of Magic, The Golden Gryphon and the Bear Prince, and Book Two of Heirs of Magic, The Sorceress Queen and the Pirate Rogue.

Invisible Loner

Gendra—partblood daughter of an elite mossback soldier and the only shapeshifter to achieve the coveted dragon form—is anything but interesting. She’s actually plain and awkward and … invisible. Every guy she meets either looks right through her or—worse—thinks of her as just a friend. Fortunately Gen is far too practical to wallow in self pity. Much.

A Search for True Love

But as Gen accompanies her oldest friends on a quest for Her Majesty High Queen Ursula, she can’t help feeling bitter about her lonely fate as, two by two, they pair off with each other. As usual, everyone but odd-woman-out Gen seems to be finding the happiness in true love that has always eluded her. And Gen’s pathetic attempts to come out of her shell have only met with social disaster.

Dragon’s Daughter

Still, with magic rifts plaguing the Thirteen Kingdoms and a strange intelligence stalking them from an alter-realm, Gen has plenty to deal with—especially when she’s cut off from the group, isolated and facing a lethal danger. It just figures that Gen is on her own, once again. But with no one coming to save her, she has only herself to rely upon.

And, perhaps, the help of a mysterious, stranded magician…

 

Ready to see it?

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First Cup of Coffee – August 17, 2021

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - August 17, 2021

August 17, 2021

Jeffe Kennedy

My head is full of big thoughts on success, our personal ceilings of success and how those work, and how we can move past our self-imposed limitations to increase our reach as creatives. Or if that's even important.

Amanda Palmer's book THE ART OF ASKING is here (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20980987-the-art-of-asking-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-let-people-hel)

Find DARK WIZARD and BRIGHT FAMILIAR here (https://jeffekennedy.com/series/bonds-of-magic), the Forgotten Empires trilogy here (https://jeffekennedy.com/series/forgotten-empires), and the Heirs of Magic books here (https://jeffekennedy.com/series/heirs-of-magic).

If you want to support me and the podcast, click on the little heart or follow this link (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/jeffekennedy).

You can watch this podcast on YouTube here (https://youtu.be/bQtlEgjf-oA).

First Cup of Coffee is part of the Frolic Podcast Network. You can find more outstanding podcasts to subscribe to at Frolic.media/podcasts!

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First Cup of Coffee – August 16, 2021

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - August 16, 2021

August 16, 2021

Jeffe Kennedy

An alternative to writing with a wordcount goal-and how to know which method is better for you as a writer-along with words to search for when polishing, and a pervasive device I really don't like and why.

Find DARK WIZARD and BRIGHT FAMILIAR here (https://jeffekennedy.com/series/bonds-of-magic), the Forgotten Empires trilogy here (https://jeffekennedy.com/series/forgotten-empires), and the Heirs of Magic books here (https://jeffekennedy.com/series/heirs-of-magic).

If you want to support me and the podcast, click on the little heart or follow this link (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/jeffekennedy).

You can watch this podcast on YouTube here (https://youtu.be/yeJAAXYJlxY).

First Cup of Coffee is part of the Frolic Podcast Network. You can find more outstanding podcasts to subscribe to at Frolic.media/podcasts!

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First Cup of Coffee – August 9, 2021

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - August 9, 2021

August 09, 2021

Jeffe Kennedy

On what a great tool tracking your own productivity can be, how to treat the information like useful data without emotional investment, and what I've learned about myself recently from over a decade of tracking.

Find my Bonds of Magic series here (https://jeffekennedy.com/series/bonds-of-magic), the Forgotten Empires trilogy here (https://jeffekennedy.com/series/forgotten-empires), and the Heirs of Magic books here (https://jeffekennedy.com/series/heirs-of-magic).

If you want to support me and the podcast, click on the little heart <3 or follow this link (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/jeffekennedy).

You can watch this podcast on YouTube here (https://youtu.be/w3M4FUN2psc).

First Cup of Coffee is part of the Frolic Podcast Network. You can find more outstanding podcasts to subscribe to at Frolic.media/podcasts!

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First Cup of Coffee – August 2, 2021

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - August 2, 2021

August 02, 2021

Jeffe Kennedy

On the great value of unplugging for a day, getting away from the To Do List, and rediscovering a mental space that isn't being online. Also the tale of my bookshelves and how I became a trope of myself.

Victoria Helen Stone's phenomenal and brilliant JANE DOE is here (https://victoriahelenstone.com/book/jane-doe/).

You can watch this podcast on YouTube here (https://youtu.be/GXo5H3J8JSg).

First Cup of Coffee is part of the Frolic Podcast Network. You can find more outstanding podcasts to subscribe to at Frolic.media/podcasts!

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First Cup of Coffee – July 30, 2021

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - July 30, 2021

July 30, 2021

Jeffe Kennedy

How our author assistants are actual human beings with names, and who are our friends, treating assistants of all types well, the attempts at rebuttal and shaming I've been receiving, and an actual update on WRITING!

Victoria Helen Stone's phenomenal and brilliant JANE DOE is here (https://victoriahelenstone.com/book/jane-doe/).

You can find the link for the Love's Sweet Arrow panel here (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-fantastic-evening-virtual-event-tickets-163283708969).

You can watch this podcast on YouTube here (https://youtu.be/eFuBTDU8LMw).

First Cup of Coffee is part of the Frolic Podcast Network. You can find more outstanding podcasts to subscribe to at Frolic.media/podcasts!

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