Jenna Jones

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A writer who has never told the truth about her life hires a biographer to finally get that story.

This book is lovely.

When I read this again, and I know I will even with the mystery resolved, I’m reading it with a highlighter so I can find all the good sentences again. There are many, mostly about the comfort to be found in beloved books. This is a novel about stories, true and false ones, and how to find the truth buried in fiction. It’s about the search for family, which sometimes you find and sometimes you lose, and about making peace with your ghosts.

I bought this book entirely on impulse—I liked the cover, there’s something so homey about a stack of books—and I’m so glad I did. It’s like having a three-hour conversation with someone you’ve just met. You look up and realize you’ve found a friend.

People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation. For in the books they write they continue to exist . . . It is a kind of magic.

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Oh, hey, I never posted September’s word count, did I?

29636 / 16000 words. 185% done!

And here’s October’s:

30230 / 16000 words. 189% done!

And here’s the yearly word count:

205839 / 200000 words. 103% done!

I was so uncertain when I started this that I could make the goal, but, well, look at that. I don’t think I’ll be at 250,000 by year’s end, but over 210,000 would be just fine. Which I’m already creeping towards . . .

I don’t know what my goal will be for next year, if I’ll try for 200,000 again or more or less. I know I want to write more publishable stuff next year, since I Have Plans that require me to be more prolific, but there’s no predicting how the brain is going to work, you know? (I hate to say “the Muse” or something silly like that—it’s too passive. But inspiration is like a capricious goddess much of the time.)

Anyway. I don’t have to figure it out tonight.

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New Google Alert today, informing me yet another one of my books is being pirated.

I hate getting these alerts. They’re fucking demoralizing.

Look. I have over ten years’ worth of free fiction (yes, it’s fan fiction, but the recent stuff is damn good if I may say so myself) at misslucyjane.com. And the published stuff is not expensive. I know times are tough—I haven’t bought many books this year myself—but again, the published stuff is not expensive, particularly in ebook form.

What she said: if you love a writer, buy their books. Granted, that blog entry is geared more towards writers’ support system rather than general readers, but the principle remains.

If you enjoy a writer, buy their books.

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Last December I signed up for a writing challenge called Get Your Words Out, and set the goal of writing 200,000 words in a year. I wasn’t sure I could do it, since that was over twice what I normally write in a year.

Well.

200269 / 200000 words. 100% done!

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I decided to remove the contact page. I was getting far too much spam from it and not enough actual contact. You can contact me by leaving a comment to any open blog post or using the contact information on my About page.

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Elisa Rolle is creating the LGBT Rainbow Awards and is taking nominations in the following categories:

Fiction
Contemporary
Contemporary Erotica
Fantasy
Futuristic
Historical
Historical Erotica
Paranormal / Horror
Paranormal / Horror Erotica
Mystery / Thriller
Coming of Age / Young Adult
Comedy

Non Fiction
General Non Fiction
Biography / Memoir
History
Poetry
Travel

Further details are at her livejournal.

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1. Are you a “pantser” or a “plotter”?

A plotter who often pantses. I like knowing how a story is going to end when I begin it, but there are often places in my outline (which are pretty rough to begin with) that say “something happens here to get us there.” I look at my outlines as Point A, Point B, Point C . . . and quite often I won’t know what Point B is, even if I know Point A and Point C down to the last detail.

2. Detailed character sketches or “their character will be revealed to me as I write”?

Detailed character sketches, but I allow characters to surprise me as I go. For instance, in Something Beautiful Stuart reveals he has children, which is something I didn’t know until I wrote it. And that gave me plot for the next novel. La la.

3. Do you know your characters’ goals, motivations, and conflicts before you start writing or is that something else you discover only after you start writing?

I know them before I start, generally—but again, I let them surprise me. Sometimes I know a goal but I don’t have motivations quite figured out until about halfway through.

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What’s the most romantic thing you’ve seen in a movie/read in a book/said or been said to you?

My number one is from “Fools Rush In,” when Matthew Perry says to Salma Hayak, “You’re everything I never knew I always wanted.” (Not a spoiler: it happens about ten minutes into the film.)

So, what’s yours?

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At Rainbow Reviews. Thanks, Indigene!

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The meter is available from Language is a Virus.

August total:

24420 / 16000 words. 153% done!

Yearly total:

145973 / 200000 words. 73% done!

The sad part is, I feel like I’ve written a lot but haven’t accomplished anything. Woe.

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This is the true story of several bottles of wine reputed to have been owned by Thomas Jefferson. They were bought by collectors and connoisseurs, and then suspicions began to arise that these bottles, and several others said to be of 18th-century vintage, were frauds.

I basically had two reactions to this book as I was reading. I’m not a drinker, due to my upbringing, and I’m unlikely to ever be due to health issues, so the chapters on how wine tastings go and how wine actually tastes were interesting, as were things like learning about chateaux and first growths. But it’s also hard for me to feel sympathetic towards the superwealthy who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on a bottle of wine they never intended to drink. I mean, holy conspicuous consumption, Batman.

So, while it’s well-written and taught me a lot about the world of wine, it also pointed out to me this is a world I’d never want to join. *knocks back a can of green apple Izze*

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The Queen of Wands by Jenna Jones.

All of his adult life, J.T. Forgarty has worked to keep his vast, politically active family safe from scandal. When his late cousin’s son Charlie Tate returns to their hometown for the first time in twenty years, J.T. realizes there’s more to life than covering up other people’s mistakes.

J.T. has dealt with his guilt about the accidental death of Charlie’s father by being the “cleaner” for his family, guided by his cousin Dilys. With Charlie back in her sphere of influence, Dilys intends to guide Charlie’s career, and his life, in the same way she has with so many others.

However, J.T. is so taken with Charlie that he rebels against Dilys and takes Charlie under his wing, allowing himself to return the attraction Charlie feels for him. Can J.T. and Charlie move beyond the secrets in their past and find a way to stay true to each other?

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Reviews

Rainbow Reviews

The melee of these character attributes brings a quality of innocence and purity to the dynamics of their relationship juxtaposed with the ugliness of the cloak and dagger family drama unfolding around them and makes their coming together both romantic and sublime.

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The Queen of Wands.

All of his adult life, J.T. Forgarty has worked to keep his vast, politically active family safe from scandal. When his late cousin’s son Charlie Tate returns to their hometown for the first time in twenty years, J.T. realizes there’s more to life than covering up other people’s mistakes.

J.T. has dealt with his guilt about the accidental death of Charlie’s father by being the “cleaner” for his family, guided by his cousin Dilys. With Charlie back in her sphere of influence, Dilys intends to guide Charlie’s career, and his life, in the same way she has with so many others.

However, J.T. is so taken with Charlie that he rebels against Dilys and takes Charlie under his wing, allowing himself to return the attraction Charlie feels for him. Can J.T. and Charlie move beyond the secrets in their past and find a way to stay true to each other?

The Queen of Wands is available in ebook from Torquere Books. Read a sample here.

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I’m hosting at Torquere Social today, over at the Livejournal. Come over, come over.

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Sorry about the sudden flood of entries: I'm completely overhauling jennajones.com and forgot I had the crossposter plugin on. My bad!

Going to the Chapel: stories by Jenna Jones, JJ Massa, and Alexa Snow

Who doesn’t love a wedding? The three stories in Going to the Chapel prove that everyone has a special day. In Apples and Gin by Jenna Jones, country singer Sawyer Shaw loves photographer Noah Kingston and is tired of hiding it. He’s kept his sexuality hidden for the sake of his career and his family, but over the past ten years Sawyer has come to realize what matters most to him is Noah and his happiness, and Sawyer is ready not only to make it public but also to make it permanent.

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Reviews

Rainbow Reviews

The story is well told; the information comes in real time and back story. It paints a detailed and interesting picture of how Sawyer and Noah turned a first meeting into a quiet but devoted seven year relationship.

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I’ve fallen out of the habit of reading, and it’s been hard to get back into it. I decided to start with an old favorite, Jane Eyre, which I’ve read nearly every year since I was twelve until I got caught up in teh interwebs and its own particular form of entertainment. I mean, I have been reading, just not books.

So the Big Damn Read is slower to start than the Big Damn Write, which is chugging along pretty well. I’m averaging 1000 words a day, which is twice as many as I need to hit my yearly goal but just what I need to hit my monthly goal. If I get more than 200,000 words this year—much more—I’ll be fine with that.

And in purely unrelated to either of these projects news, two of my books each got a new review lately and a fic from 2007 got nominated for a fandom award. So yay :D. My ego will survive another day.

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Stormy Glenn has been kind enough to promote Four of Cups, and will be interviewing me after the new year.

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