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January 25, 2015
Three Ways to Put More Emotion on the Page
I’m over at Word Whores, giving my tricks for putting more emotion on the page – something that was not intuitively easy for me.
January 20, 2015
Treadmill Desks and Genre Crossing
I’m in a couple of places today – on the Harlequin blog, talking about my treadmill desk. (By popular demand!) And also at Here Be Magic, where I talk about using paranormal elements in contemporary erotic romance, mainly because I can’t help myself.
January 19, 2015
Under His Touch In Your Hands!
Release Day for Under His Touch!
“Kennedy’s novel has all the addictive tension and high-stakes passion that fans crave. Her main couple’s interactions are intense from the start, and she doesn’t shy away from either realistic details or dreamy fantasies. Best of all, she moves beyond their overwhelming physical passion to the emotions that drive them both, including the achingly real fears that threaten their happiness. As a result, this book is as touching as it is torrid. “
-RT Magazine, 4 1/2 stars!
You can read excerpts here and here. 
Amazon: http://amzn.to/1CGSziZ
Barnes & Noble: http://bit.ly/1wlzQo8
All Romance: http://bit.ly/1IYjivk
Carina Press: http://bit.ly/17YBAiN
Google: http://bit.ly/1KVjs8y
Kobo: http://bit.ly/1wlzYE5
January 18, 2015
Secret Tricks for Optimizing Research
Tomorrow sees the release of Under His Touch, one of my contemporary erotic romances. The lovely ladies at That’s What I’m Talking About are hosting a Sunday Snippet from the book, if you care to check it out. It’s one of my favorite scenes in the book, when my very correct Brit hero just can’t quite stop himself from touching the heroine. A chaste caress, but oh, so fraught.
My favorite thing!
Okay, one of my favorite things…
This week’s topic at the Bordello is Research Tips and Tricks – stop by to find out my Super, Sekrit Method.
January 15, 2015
Enter the Sandman – Working Paranormal Elements into Other Genres
Today at the Fantasy, Futuristic and Paranormal blog, I’m talking about my upcoming release, UNDER HIS TOUCH, and why I incorporated elements of the Dream King from Neil Gaiman’s Sandman.
January 14, 2015
Men Don’t Get Morning Breath…
RT Book Reviews is hosting Under His Touch for their Hump Day Excerpt today. There’s a very yummy scene over there, for your delectation.
I’m also over at the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers blog, angsting about, well, writerly angst.
January 13, 2015
Tell Me to Stop…
UNDER HIS TOUCH comes out next Monday – yay!!!!
“…the core of the story is the development of a gripping and realistic relationship between two well-drawn characters.”
“Kennedy’s novel has all the addictive tension and high-stakes passion that fans crave. Her main couple’s interactions are intense from the start, and she doesn’t shy away from either realistic details or dreamy fantasies. Best of all, she moves beyond their overwhelming physical passion to the emotions that drive them both, including the achingly real fears that threaten their happiness. As a result, this book is as touching as it is torrid. “
-RT Magazine, 4 1/2 stars!
Preorder linkys:
http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/under-his-touch-2
https://play.google.com/…/Jeffe_Kennedy_Under_His_Touch…
https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-underhistouch…
http://ebooks.carinapress.com/…/en/ContentDetails.htm…
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/…/under-his…/1120159551…
http://www.amazon.com/Under-His-Touch…/dp/B00MTGFACQ
January 11, 2015
How Writing 1st Person POV Gave Me Boy Cooties
Yesterday, at #LERANM, my local RWA chapter, I gave a tutorial on using Twitter. We had a great time and the lovely and viviacious Katie Lane snapped this pic as I was talking. And gesticulating. LOL!
I’m over at Word Whores, talking about perspective – as in first, second or third person point of view (POV) – which works best for us and why.
January 9, 2015
Can Books Be Like Music?
This time of year in Santa Fe, we can get gorgeously warm days. On Tuesday we ate lunch on the patio in shirtsleeves and the kitties stalked the restless gophers. Good times were had by all. Of course, today it’s cold, stormy and overcast, but I’m ensconced in my cozy chair with a teapot on the warmer and life is still good.
A funny thing – I use Tweetdeck to sort my Twitter feeds, to help manage the flow of information. I also have columns devote to searches for mentions of my name or of my book titles, so I can see when people are talking about them. A couple of my titles overlap with album titles – particularly THE TALON OF THE HAWK and COVENANT OF THORNS. I think this is kind of cool, that I title musically, in a way.
The upshot is I see conversations – and fan enthusing – about these, especially Talon of the Hawk by The Front Bottoms. I’d never heard of this band, but I impulsively bought the album so I could listen, since we have this serendipitous artistic overlap. I like it. And wow – do other people love, love, love this album! People tweet about it all the time, say how he listened to it over and over, sang all the song with her sister on a road trip and expressing all the love. They discuss how awesome this album is. And tons of them want to get tattoos of the knife on the album cover.
It just makes me think.
Readers do this to an extent, but not nearly so many and not to the same extreme. I think there are a few reasons for this. A lot more people listen to music than read books. In 2013, 76% of American adults had read at least one book during the year and the typical American reads five books a year. Compare that to the stat that the average American listens to four hours of music a DAY. An enormous difference, huh?
Also music is social in a way that books tend not to be. Listening to music can be a gregarious event, from singing while road-tripping with your sister to attending a massive stadium rock concert. Books, even if we discuss them at length, tend to be a fairly solitary experience with a huge internal involvement.
Still.
I clipped this quote from Kurt Cobain once, which I have not been able to find. It’s probably floating aimlessly around in some forsaken file folder. At any rate, it’s amazing because he’s talking to an author about how he imagines readings are like rock concerts, with screaming fans and a mosh pit. It’s kind of adorable, how mistaken he is – and also enlightening. I read it and thought, why CAN’T it be like that? Wouldn’t it be great if it was?
I dunno – maybe I’m dreaming. What do you guys think?
January 6, 2015
Hottest Heroine!
SO excited that the cover for THE TALON OF THE HAWK totally won the Hottest Heroine Cover over on Addicted to Heroines. It’s such a great cover and for such a wonderful heroine, I’m just thrilled.
Coincidentally (OR NOT???), I received some fax pages yesterday from my awesome production editor at Kensington, Rebecca Cremonese. She wanted me to see the design and particularly the sword symbol in the line breaks. In celebration of this MAJOR WIN, I thought I’d share them here. Whee!
Yeah, yeah – these are screen shots of a third-generation fax. Good luck making out the text. 
Come on – you guys know what a tease I am!
Speaking of teases, you can still register through today for my online workshop on Sex as a Tool for Character Transformation. You still have time to catch up on the first assignment, because it’s easy. We have a great group – 27 participants at this point – so come join in the conversation!
