A couple of weeks ago an ex-MFA (Master of Fine Arts) teacher published a – I’m calling it a bitter rant – about how he can tell the “truth,” now that he’s no longer teaching. I think that’s a fair representation, given that the article is titled “Things I Can Say About MFA Writing Programs…
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Convention Report – Coastal Magic Con
By Jeffe Kennedy A year ago, a gal I knew through Twitter pinged me and asked if I’d consider attending her conference as a featured author the following spring. She promised me Florida beaches in February, enthusiastic readers and great, organized programming. Wow – did she ever deliver! I just last night returned from the…
Angsting Through the Walls
I do it every damn time. I keep thinking one of these days I’ll learn, but I never seem to. In every single book, I hit a point where I’m completely and utterly convinced that it’s terrible. That THIS one is the book I’ll have to pull the plug on and admit to failure. It…
Facing Fear of Failure
By Jeffe Kennedy This is the cover for my next TWELVE KINGDOMS book, THE TALON OF THE HAWK. It comes out May, 2015, but the Addicted 2 Heroines blog is running a Hottest Heroines cover contest for all covers revealed in 2014. I was thrilled they chose the TALON cover for round one, and even…
World Fantasy Con 2014
By Jeffe Kennedy Last weekend I attended the 40th World Fantasy Convention (WFC). In fact, I’m writing this post as I fly home, so I’m in that post-conference phase where everything I heard and learned has melted together in my brain. This was only the second time I attended World Fantasy—the first being two years…