First Cup of Coffee – December 31, 2020

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - December 31, 2020

December 31, 2020

Jeffe Kennedy

How to know where to start a story and why this can be such a struggle even for experienced authors, how to take critique and make decisions on what to fix and how to go about it - and beginnings and endings in general!

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Cover Tease

Look for the cover reveal of THE GOLDEN GRYPHON AND THE BEAR PRINCE on January 6! In the meanwhile, here’s a teaser of this truly gorgeous – and smexy! – cover. The book, first in my new Heirs of Magic series, releases January 25, 2021. You can preorder the ebook now. 🙂  (Print will be available closer to release date.)

A Legacy of Honor

Crown Prince Astar has only ever wanted to do the right thing: be a credit to his late-father’s legacy, live up to his duties as heir to the High Throne of the Thirteen Kingdoms, and cleave to the principles of honor and integrity that give his life structure—and that contain the ferocious grizzly bear inside. Nowhere in those guiding principles is there room for the fierce-hearted, wildly free-spirited, and dizzyingly beautiful shapeshifter, Zephyr. Still, even though they’ve been friends most of their lives, Astar is able to keep Zephyr safely at arm’s length. He’s already received a list of potential princess brides who will make a suitable queen, and Zephyr is not on it.

A Longtime Obsession

Zeph has wanted the gorgeous, charming, and too-good-for-his-own-good Astar for as long as she can remember. Not that her longing for him—and his perfectly sculpted and muscular body—has stopped her from enjoying any number of lovers. Astar might be honorably (and foolishly) intent on remaining chaste until marriage, but Zeph is Tala and they have no such rules. Still, she loves Astar—as a friend—and she wants him to at least taste life before he chains himself to a wife he didn’t choose. There’s no harm in him having a bit of fun with her. But the man remains stubbornly elusive, staving off all of her advances with infuriatingly noble refusals.

A Quest to Save the World

But things change when a new terror threatens the Thirteen Kingdoms. Following prophecy, Astar and Zeph—along with a mismatched group of shapeshifter, warrior, and sorceress friends—go on a quest to stop a magic rift before it grows beyond anyone’s ability to stop. Thrust together with Zephyr, Astar finds himself increasingly unable to resist her seductive invitations. And, in the face of life and death battles with lethal monsters, he begins to lose sight of why having her, just once, is such a terrible idea…

First Cup of Coffee – December 29, 2020

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - December 29, 2020

December 29, 2020

Jeffe Kennedy

Creating the shape of your life on a daily basis, how THE PROMISED QUEEN was my pandemic year book, tips on writing Dedications and Acknowledgments and the upcoming @farofeb event!

You can find the FaRoFeb Facebook group here (https://www.facebook.com/groups/429207234870645).

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First Cup of Coffee – December 18, 2020

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - December 18, 2020

December 18, 2020

Jeffe Kennedy

On nurturing inspiration, taking care of new, shiny ideas so that you avoid shaken baby syndrome, and not giving your fire away too soon.

The quote I mention is correctly "Be careful how quickly you give away your fire," by Robert Bly.

You can read my post about Shaken Baby Syndrome here (http://lovepowerandfairytaleendings.blogspot.com/2011/07/shaken-baby-syndrome.html).

And you can read THE LONG NIGHT OF THE CRYSTALLINE MOON - to celebrate our own longest night! - in the UNDER A WINTER SKY anthology here (https://jeffekennedy.com/under-a-winter-sky).

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First Cup of Coffee – December 17, 2020

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - December 17, 2020

December 17, 2020

Jeffe Kennedy

I'm breaking down how I track revising - both how to avoid the negative wordcount blues and tracking pages revised to predict how long a revision will take.

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First Cup of Coffee – December 14, 2020

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - December 14, 2020

December 14, 2020

Jeffe Kennedy

A bit more on what "not making it in trad publishing" does and doesn't mean, along with some inside information on what's not always clear to the reading public. Also adventures in trying to buy books.

You can watch the online panel I mention here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwRMBPUdfFo&fbclid=IwAR1XHyiIgqH3oF_A_io07ITd6C3yFqKLGv-z17g_ltZc-CfxYG_9ZlVGIi4)

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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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First Cup of Coffee – December 10, 2020

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - December 10, 2020

December 10, 2020

Jeffe Kennedy

Geeking out over structure today - of a book and a series - and extending the analogy of being an architect or a gardener. All spurred by being nearly done with THE GOLDEN GRYPHON AND THE BEAR PRINCE.

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First Cup of Coffee – December 1, 2020

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - December 1, 2020

December 01, 2020

Jeffe Kennedy

What do you call your writing space? Thoughts on office vs. study, and more on deliberately creating inspiration by feeding your creative subconscious with the input it craves.

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A Pre-Release Peek at UNDER A WINTER SKY!

This week at the SFF Seven, we’re sharing a snippet from a work in progress. We’re supposed to “tease” with one paragraph, but I’m going the extra multiple-paragraph mile. Since UNDER A WINTER SKY releases this week (you can preorder until Thursday for only $5.99, when the price goes up), I’m sharing the first chapter and a hint of the second chapter of my novella, The Long Night of the Crystalline Moon. This story is a prequel to a brand new series I’m starting, Heirs of Magic. Book One is THE GOLDEN GRYPHON AND THE BEAR PRINCE, and will be out in January. It picks up where The Long Night of the Crystalline Moon leaves off.

You can preorder UNDER A WINTER SKY via the buttons below on follow that link to my website. I’ll also be adding the preorder for THE GOLDEN GRYPHON AND THE BEAR PRINCE this week.
 

    

 Come on over to the SFF Seven for Chapter One and a glimpse of Chapter Two of The Long Night of the Crystalline Moon from UNDER A WINTER SKY!