Hola friends, countrymen, and future super fans!
Happy Labor Day Weekend, and welcome to my First Official Blog, or in JC-speak, the necessary evil that drags me kicking and screaming from penning hot-as-hellfire heroes, and forces me to socially connect with the real world: my buddies, supporters, fellow authors, and all those soon-to-be-smitten rom/com hounds out there in erotic fantasyland.
(Connect at least until the kettle corn finishes popping, that is.)
Anyhoo…
For inquiring minds that need to know, here’s what’s been shakin’ behind my busy-ass keyboard of late:
As some of you Jaye Birds can attest, way back in frigid February, Yours Truly hosted a ‘soft launch’ for my first potboiler, NEED IT, BAD. (The passionate adventures of sassy Bebe and hunky Tommy.)
To my glee, over 50+ of JC’s loyal street team showed up in vino-guzzling solidarity: snagging boxloads of the initial printing, which I quickly discovered was diabolically premature on my part.
I repeat: diabolically premature!
TYPOS!
REPEATED WORDS!
GRAMMATICAL ERRORS!
TWO MISSING (SEX) CHAPTERS!
OVERSIZED UNDIES ON COVER THAT COULD HOUSE A PREGNANT ELEPHANT!
Yiiiiiikes.
Back to the trenches I slunk, cowed and repentant.
Six months older (shoot) and wiser (yay), I’m pleased to report this focused authoress and her markedly dirty mind have succeeded in accomplishing the following semi-phenomenal feats:
*More or less rewritten the entire little devil, front to back*
(They do say the first one’s the most painful. Hey, now. The first book, that is.)
*Joined the prestigious ‘Romance Writers of America’ network*
(Whoa. A star-spangled group, indeed.)
*Attended the RWA annual conference in Times Square*
(Fabulous learning experience. A big shout-out to my fabulous niece Alex, for allowing Auntie J. to crash in her funkadelic crib, and riffle through all her sweet beauty products. And yes, Times Square sucks.)
*Met a veritable shazitload of authors, editors, and ridiculously talented pros*
(Amazing women, who gently led this tenderfoot down the righteous path to getting ‘er done right.)
Great news ladies! Even as you read this, the carefully-massaged version of NEED IT, BAD is heading to final editing, and will be available online in a few months’ time, both in kindle and print format.
Git your little butts ready!
Oh, wait. And I changed the cover.
Super-hot! Wait until you see!
Oh, wait. And I came up with a kick-ass new subtitle.
‘The Breakaleg Trilogy’. Humerus, no? (har)
Oh, wait. And I cranked pedal to metal, and completed book number two,
NEED IT, WORSE. (The sizzling tale of gorgeous Tansy and spectacular Gash.)
Woo Hoo!
Oh, wait. And I drank lotza yummy wine in giddy self-celebration.
(Oops. That last one probably doesn’t count so much, huh?)
Bottom line, here:
Rest assured, the very nanosecond NEED IT’S out there for the
hungry masses, you, dear reader, will most definitely know it!
(Yeah, beware… your screens and cells gonna be exploding, girlfriends.)
Hey! Listen up! To all my peeps who purchased the first draft of ‘NIB’ with its crudely-rendered artwork (perhaps one day as coveted as the Beatle’s decapitated doll cover!): you will receive a no-charge copy of the revised edition, along with a huge ‘thank you’ for being such gracious guinea pigs!
O-kayyy… Happily, that about sums it up from
‘Don’t-Show-This-To-The-Kids’ Central.
Sure been me a busy little beaver, n’est-ce pas?
All this, and I got to rock out with the mighty Stones in Chi-Town!
(Best tune: ‘Midnight Rambler’.)
And Skynyrd in the Finger Lakes!
(You need to ask? Free Bird’, natch.)
To close, many thanks for hanging with me for a few paragraphs, and I implore you sweethearts to spread the word far and wide to any and all Romance Junkies in your widespread stratospheres to be sure JC JAYE is locked and loaded on their ‘need-to-read’ radars!
I’ll close with a few urgent ‘next steps’ for You Know Who.
Be sure to check out these sites often, and to friend/follow me! Let your people know!
Remember, every new contact is a potential new super fan!
JC’S MARKETING MUSTS
(*Online scrabble breaks allowed only when absolutely necessary*)
A: Sort through daily logjam of industry emails (jcjayeauthor.com)
B: Update woefully inadequate website (jcjaye.com)
C: Post assorted crap on FB regularly (jcjaye)
D: Figure out my fricking Instagram (jcjayeauthor)
E: Try. Not. To. Freak. Over. All. The. Above.
(*Insert scared, media-inept emoji here*)
Fear not, my pretties: these daunting tasks will get done!
(Mayhap with some much-needed assistance, but they will get done.)
Onward and upward… the naughty Jaye-word must be spread!
After all, the third and final book in my smokin’-hot trilogy, NEED IT, WORSE THAN BAD awaiteth!
We can’t keep Iris and Axel waiting, now, can we?
XXOO
Over and out for now. In humor, lust, ‘n love,
JC
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