First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy
First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy
The Year of the Fire Horse
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All Magic Reborn audiobook is live. You can get all three Forgotten Empire books on audio for like $4 for readers. If you are looking for ways to get my print books, you can get them through my web store. You can get them signed by me and personalized. Good morning everyone. This is Jeffe Kennedy writing as Jennifer K Lambert. Both of us and all our multitudes writing epic fantasy romance. And here was my first cup of coffee. That's delicious. You can always feed back to me, correct my pronunciations, answer the questions when I can't think of that word or the name of that movie or book, all by clicking the link at the morning refill in the show notes. I was super excited to see first thing an Instagram unboxing video from my Italian publisher. I reshared it on Instagram and what Killian is not interested in my, Italian edition of Never the Roses. The translation works out to midnight Rose. It's a beautiful unboxing. It's a beautiful addition. I haven't gotten to see the edition in real life yet. I sent it to my friend and she said, now you know what to say. When people ask what your books are like that I could say, well, my last one was on a library's on a regional a dark romantic, contemporaneously in Estonia. Enemies to lovers like a deer. Mosey on there. I'm adding Italian gestures because I think that that helps. He was done with me, then was being in here. So anyway, that's my attempt to pronounce Italian. But when I had said that, she would have to coach me on my pronunciation if I am to memorize and say that, which it sounds really good in Italian, doesn't it? She said, just say it in French and like pronounce the vowels at the end with it in Italian. It was not helpful. But I said, well, half the words are in English anyway, which I think is funny. And we were both kind of bemused that romantic and especially Enemies to Lovers is in English. And I said that yeah, it must be enough of a trope that it's kind of like a reverse in media is which, okay, let's face it, made no sense. What I was trying to say was actually what she replied. She said I was thinking it's something that circulates in online fan culture spaces, which use English as the lingua franca. And I was like, yeah, that's what I said. Yeah, I just think it's interesting how certain phrases, retain that quintessential meaning that it has to remain in that language, which is what I meant by using in Mirror Media is and what she's doing playing with me, saying in Lingua Franca, in the original language. Right. So enemies to lovers is, even in an Italian, publication, it's still going to be, una still the, enemy is to love or is a weak, dear emotion. So anyway, check out the unboxing video. The edition looks beautiful. I'm so excited to see it. Right now, Tripp is having an audiobook sale of a bunch of my books. Or they have audiobook deals through March 23rd. You can get the mark of the dollar, and you can get all three Forgotten Empires books on audio for like $4 each. But, door kits are on fire. A crown promised Queen, all available for cheap. Also, the one that started well, that started all but was my first big book for which I got many awards. The markups, the Tala. For some reason, Kensington only has that one in audio. They've never recorded the others. And amusingly, here's a little insight into the business. They actually sold the rights for the pages of The Mind and the edge of the blade. Asked them if they wanted to go back and record The Tears of the Rose on the telling of the Hawk, which happened in between. And they, you know, crickets on that. But they actually sold the audio rights for the pages of The Mind and the edge of the blade. And I got an advance for that, which is great. We like money, but then they've, like, never recorded it. And periodically we inquire and say, so are they actually going to record those books? And I just I don't know, I don't understand publishing. Sometimes they pay money out and then don't do the things that will actually help them recoup the money. It's it's a mystery. I do keep asking Kensington to return those audio rights to me so I could have them recorded for you. But so far, that is not happening. You could write an angry letter or a sternly worded letter. You could, mention it to them. I don't know if it would do any good. I now have a direct order form for any of you out there who have brick and mortar bookstores, or have a brick and mortar bookstore in your neighborhood that would like to order my books. The direct for order form is available, through my website. You can send a note to the contact form and I will send you my books, 40% off, which is a better deal than you get to Ingram. So I know a number of other indie authors have started doing this. This applies to my indie books. For the traditionally published books, you have to go to the publisher or distributor. But for my indie books, if you would like to carry those. And I know a lot of you lovely bookstores do, I would be delighted to work that out with you. For readers, if you are looking for ways to get my print books, you can get them through my web store. You can get them signed by me and personalized. You can also go to Beastly Books here in Santa Fe, either in person or online, and get signed books from me. I've been busy taking care of life like and writing blades books and the bandit. Last Saturday I went down to books on the bus, which is a fabulous bookstore in Albuquerque, and they had their romantic Si readers group, which was huge. I don't it was like 30 or 40 people there, and they meet monthly, and it's such a great group of people and they read yeah for the roses for their February read and invited me to join in. And we had such a great time. They asked me questions and, yeah, it was it was delightful. It was very well refilling for me to get to be around a bunch of people who had read the book and had great questions about it. There were a couple of people who hadn't finished it, but everybody was like, you know, we're just going to spoiler you on the end because we can't not talk about this. And it was delightful. I've been trying to get my mom's car transferred to my name. I went back to MVD for the second time yesterday. I have to go back for the third time today, but it should be the final time. And I have my replacement title to sell the Lexus. So, you know, it's like all of these little things. I've been getting the new dining room set up. I had a guy come over and hang my grandmother's chandelier, which has been in a box for 16 years, and I was talking about this in therapy. I'm just taking care of these things that for some reason, I have not done in the 16 years that we've lived in this house, and I do love this house. I think some of it was because when we first moved here, I didn't think we would be here that long, but the last house we had in Laramie, Wyoming, we had for five years, and I did so much stuff to that house and, and now I'm doing those things here. And so I did I mentioned it to my therapist and, and she kind of gasped. She's lovely. I really like her a whole lot. And the therapy is helping so much. But I look forward to seeing her. But she kind of gasped and she's. And I said, what is that psychologically significant? And she's like, well, she said, yeah, I think it is, don't you? You know that you're like getting these things into place, taking possession of things and kind of I'm feel like I'm moving forward in my life and I'm feeling like, you know, my mom's in a good place. She's happy and healthy, being looked after. And it feels like that whole chapter is closing off now, in another two weeks, it will be the two year anniversary of my stepfather's death. And it's just feeling like I'm being able to finally seal off some of these open, bleeding vessels that have been going to other things. And and it feels really good to be able to do that. My partner David has Parkinson's disease, which he's had for 15 years. And so, you know, like that feels like the last big piece on my plate. My therapist, Catherine, is great about giving me tools, strategies for, coping, which has been immensely helpful. She asks me things like, what am I doing for myself? And it does feel like this is something I'm doing for myself, you know? Finally getting my house in order and having a dining room table. And I want to start having dinner parties again, which I stopped doing. And it's one of those things that, like the last 15 years, has been a lot since we moved to this house, and I really kicked my writing career into high gear, but also, I think we don't really notice with chronic diseases, when you are the partner of someone who has a chronic disease that is progressive and degenerative, you don't realize how that is like a slow bleed over the years and you don't realize all of these minor adjustments that you make, you know, like day by day, week by week, month by month, year by year, until your life is, like, really different than how it looked before because you've done all of these things to compensate. Or you know what? They can no longer do, what they need, how you have to be there for them. You know, it's it's interesting coming to a place where with my mom handled that at least I have freed up some of that energy. And so it's sort of like gradually freeing up these things that I was devoting so much energy and just sort of that constant attention. You know what? You're monitoring something my my therapist and I joke about that I miss responsibility, that I take responsibility for everything. And I mean, it's not wrong. And so I'm trying to get better at that, you know, like that. I don't have to be responsible for everyone else reclaiming some of these things that I used to enjoy doing and want to do again. So I'm excited about getting the house set up right now. My garage is in chaos. It's got so much stuff in there. I don't know if this is making sense, but sort of like these getting these, oh, you know, like, I almost think of it like on a, on a ship where you have to get everything stowed and tied down before you can take off. So I was reading about the Chinese New Year, Lunar New Year, and that this is the year of the fire horse, and I am a fire horse. So, yeah, I'm turning 60 this year. And apparently this is like a big deal in Chinese astrology. So I was born in the year of the Fire horse, and now Fire horses come back around for the first time in my lifetime. And I was reading about how this is supposed to be a big deal. You know, that it's like a life changing year, that it's a year where a lot of things, come to fruition and that really move forward. So it's interesting that that's how I've been feeling. Caution you, you know, like what fire horses have to be careful of. And they said that you need to show compassion, that you need to remember to be more compassionate to others. And so that was why I brought this up to my therapist, not realizing or not even sort of completely processing the fact that she is, Chinese, at least in part. And so as I started to say that she, you know, she's this wonderfully expressive person and she, like, clasped her hands together and she goes, this is your year. She said, I didn't realize that. But yes, this is your year. And she was so excited for me. And it was lovely. But then, when I was saying this, you know, about, like, I feel like I should have more compassion for my partner, that I'm not always good at that. And she said, oh, please, please have compassion for yourself. Please do that. And I don't know if we always think in terms of that, having compassion for ourselves. Maybe we talk around it in some ways, but, you know, like I have a a friend who tends to be very down on herself, and, you know, won't give yourself a break a lot of times and, is having trouble moving past mistakes that she made or, you know, these, these failures. At one point, I quoted to her the line that is used in Star Trek Next Generation where Picard says, you know, it's possible to do everything right and still fail. And she said, well, I don't think either one of us believe that. And I said, but I want to believe that. I believe it's true. If I said to you the things that you say to yourself, you you would be terribly hurt. And I and I said, and you would never, ever say those things to me. Right. But she will say them to herself. And I think that that's, you know, we have to hear ourselves and, and have compassion for ourselves. I, I do believe that. Oh. Magic reborn audiobook is live. It's live on Kobo. It's supposed to be going live on the other side. You might have to just keep checking. You know, it's sort of like whenever they decide to make them go live, I don't understand why it takes weeks to do this, but there we are. I hope you all are enjoying, the end of February, beginning of March. I hope Fire Horse year is good too. I feel very good about fire horses. We may not be strong and compassion, but apparently we're lots of fun. And, Yeah, we're going to make it a good year for everyone. There's going to be a big rotation. I'm feeling good about this. Let's do this thing, people. You all take care. Bye bye.