Jenna Jones

Noah and Sawyer from Apples and Gin had planned to spend a romantic Valentine’s Day together, but Noah is stuck away from home while his flight waits out a storm. Sawyer won’t let distance spoil their holiday, though: he’s got a plan to make Noah’s Valentine’s Day romantic even while they’re apart. Memories, animal crackers, help from friends and a lot of banter combine to make waiting as sweet as reunion.

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Wow, two posts in two days . Feels like some kind of record.

There is a point to all this! In June my story “Apples & Gin” was released in the Going to the Chapel anthology (you can read a NSFW excerpt here.)

The sequel, “Apples & Gin: Animal Crackers” will be out February 6th. I’ve put a little excerpt below.

Noah and Sawyer planned to spend Valentine’s Day together, but bad weather and flight delays have prevented that. So how do two lovers keep in touch two thousand miles apart? Technology.

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24969 / 200000 words. 12% done!

Yes, this again.

As ever, the fanfic is at misslucyjane.com, and the published stuff is here at jennajones.com. There will be a new short story published either this weekend or next, for instance. La la la.

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…at Jessewave. Thanks, Wave!

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I’m hosting at torquere_social on Livejournal today, starting with an excerpt from my upcoming release, “Apples & Gin: Animal Crackers.”

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Curl Up With a Good Book Sale!

Winter is in full swing here in the Northern Hemisphere, so we’re having a Curl Up With a Good Book Sale!

Get 15% off on your purchases at Torquere Press between now and Sunday at midnight (EST).

Use the coupon code “curlup” when you check out to get your discount.

So get out of the cold and curl up with a good book today! And if you’re in the Southern Hemisphere — find some shade and curl up with a good book!

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All of my websites are acting up today .

The table generator can be found at Language is a Virus.

November word count:

20032 / 15000 words. 134% done!

2009 word count, now with new total!

225871 / 250000 words. 90% done!

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Join Torquere Press for our Post-Thanksgiving Print Blow-Out Sale!

Get 25% to 50% on over 70 print titles.

We’ve marked over seventy of our print titles down to $6.99 and $9.99 — so
visit Torquere Books and pick up your favorites today (while quantities
last).

Check out the titles on sale at:

http://www.torquerebooks.com/index.php?main_page=specials

As well as our print blow-out, we’re offering you 15% off everything on our
catalog!

Just type in thanks09 into the coupon code when you check out of Torquere
Books (www.torquerebooks.com) to get 15% off on your purchase.The coupon is good for today and tomorrow, so make sure you get you
purchases in before Saturday at midnight (est).

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Join Torquere Press for our Post-Thanksgiving Print Blow-Out Sale!

Get 25% to 50% on over 70 print titles.

We’ve marked over seventy of our print titles down to $6.99 and $9.99 — so
visit Torquere Books and pick up your favorites today (while quantities
last).

Check out the titles on sale at:
http://www.torquerebooks.com/index.php?main_page=specials

As well as our print blow-out, we’re offering you 15% off everything on our
catalog!

Just type in thanks09 into the coupon code when you check out of Torquere
Books (www.torquerebooks.com) to get 15% off on your purchase.The coupon is good for today and tomorrow, so make sure you get you
purchases in before Saturday at midnight (est).

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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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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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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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