First Cup of Coffee – October 7, 2024

How not to lose your mind about typos, proofing, and addressing corrections at various stages of editing. Also endorsement quotes, ARCs, and what the expectations are. Plus Jennifer Aniston or Angelina Jolie?

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - October 7, 2024

October 07, 2024

Jeffe Kennedy

How not to lose your mind about typos, proofing, and addressing corrections at various stages of editing. Also endorsement quotes, ARCs, and what the expectations are. Plus Jennifer Aniston or Angelina Jolie?

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First Cup of Coffee – November 3, 2020

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - November 3, 2020

November 03, 2020

Jeffe Kennedy

How #NaNoWriMo is most useful for writers and finding the rhythm that works for YOU. Also mulling on grammatical sins of self-publishing authors, place as a character, and the Rebecca remake.

This is the blog post I reference on gradually increasing word count during #NaNoWriMo (https://blog.jeffekennedy.com/2018/11/01/increasing-word-count-and-training-for-nanowrimo-2/).

The 2020 version of Rebecca is here (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2235695/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0)

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Screwing Up in that First Book

I’m always terribly amused by these signs. Apparently in flat, desert landscapes like we have in New Mexico, one must beware of sudden lakes. 

A big mistake, to be cruising along and not realize the road ends in a cliff dive into water. 

That segues pretty naturally into this week’s topic at the SFF Seven: “Looking Back: Your first book’s (published or not) most cringe-worthy gaffe.” Come on over to find out about mine…