RITA ® Award-Winning Author of Fantasy Romance
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This week’s topic at the SFF Seven is whatever is on our minds. Now that The Promised Queen has been out for nearly a week, I’m once again reminded of the many, many scavengers that begin circling the sparkling and hopeful fresh meat that is a new release.
So, as a general warning, remember that there are a LOT of people out there looking to make money off of authors. Come on over to find out how to spot the bad ones.
//I'm back home, talking about how a disruption in my beloved (and, okay, a bit rigid) schedule made release day even better. Also on being back home, getting back in the flow of writing - and how to release anxiety about not writing.
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Our topic at the SFF Seven this week is “Avoiding Same Protagonist, Different Name, Different Story: How do ensure your lead characters are unique per series/standalone?” Come on over for my take – and a peek at The Promised Queen.
//About choosing a "publishing company" name for your self-published work (or not), titanium jewelry in the 80s, my new secret project and how I'm going about trying to add to what I'm doing without overloading.
THE PROMISED QUEEN is here (https://jeffekennedy.com/the-promised-queen).
You can register - for FREE! - for my launch day conversation with Jennifer Estep here (https://www.therippedbodicela.com/events-and-tickets).
You can watch the You Tube video of the podcast here (https://youtu.be/MHIUA_3KXo0).
First Cup of Coffee is part of the Frolic Podcast Network. You can find more outstanding podcasts to subscribe to at Frolic.media/podcasts!
Contact Jeffe!
Find me on Threads
Visit my website https://jeffekennedy.com
Follow me on Amazon or BookBub
Sign up for my Newsletter!
Find me on Instagram and TikTok!
Thanks for listening!
//THE PROMISED QUEEN comes out in one week!
I had a super fun conversation with the gals at Paper and Vices. You can listen to our wide-ranging discussion of The Forgotten Empires and Bonds of Magic, the possible exhausting complications of Reverse Harem romances, genres, and traditional vs. self-publishing. Listen here. 
On release day, Jennifer Estep and I will be hosted by The Ripped Bodice for a free, online discussion of all things romantic and fantastic (in the best sense of the word). Register here.
//This week at the SFF Seven we’re discussing The Necessity of Death.
In fiction, of course!
We’re asking “Do You *Have* To Kill Characters for there to be enough risk? What other threats work better or just as effectively?” Come on over for my take!
//With THE PROMISED QUEEN – the stirring conclusion to the Forgotten Empires trilogy! – releasing in just two weeks, my publisher is offering a fantastic sale on the first two books in the series. Now is a great time to glom those books and be on fire to read book three!
“A fantasy romance by a writer at the top of her game.There are two strands to this story and each is beautifully distinctive. The chapters portraying Lia, the virgin queen who protects her people from the ruthless emperor through statecraft and artifice, are lush and hypnotic. Those that follow the damaged Conri and his army of rebel slaves are raw and propulsive. Kennedy plays with these differences building tension so that when the two come together it is like a match to tinder. The world building is immersive and there are secondary characters to root for (especially fond of Ambrose, Conri’s wizard). I only wish I didn’t have to wait so long for the 2nd book.” – Maria Vale, author of The Last Wolf
//Splitting hairs on subgenres - what does historical fantasy mean and what are the expectations? - and how those labels affect marketing and discoverability. Also, marketing your backlist and writing consistently FTW.
THE TALON OF THE HAWK is here (https://jeffekennedy.com/the-talon-of-the-hawk).
You can watch the You Tube video of the podcast here (https://youtu.be/XU5mSJ6S3Jk).
First Cup of Coffee is part of the Frolic Podcast Network. You can find more outstanding podcasts to subscribe to at Frolic.media/podcasts!
Contact Jeffe!
Find me on Threads
Visit my website https://jeffekennedy.com
Follow me on Amazon or BookBub
Sign up for my Newsletter!
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Thanks for listening!
//Amazingly enough, it’s already May – which means THE PROMISED QUEEN, the third and final book in the Forgotten Empires trilogy, is out in just two weeks. That comes as a shock to me, I can tell you!
It also makes this particular graphic quite apt and goes well with our topic this week: “When Life Gets In The Way: dealing with a schedule for writing when the world wants to go off the rails.” Come on over for my best advice.
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