Author Spotlight on Jennifer Kacey and TOGETHER IN CYN

IMG-20120528-01451A little bit more info on Me – Jennifer Kacey

1. Take us back to the minute you received the call and tell us what happened? 

I work full time and pretty long hours because my husband and I own a manufacturing company. So one night I’m home sitting at my computer trying to catch up on emails and my PC dings that I have a new email. I look down in just enough time to catch the preview screen at the corner of one of my monitors. All I can see is that it’s from the editor at Ellora’s Cave I’d sent the Together in Cyn R&R to. It said, “After reviewing the re-write, I…”

By this point my heart is racing, my stomach bottomed out, and I’m darn close to puking.

I’d already had a bad day and I was thinking, “NOOOOOOO!!!!” This was the closest I’d ever come to getting published and I did not want to read a rejection letter saying, it just wasn’t what she was looking for.

So…do I look now and rip off the band-aid? Or wait until I’ve got my head on straight in case it’s a big fat goose egg?

I couldn’t get to that email opened quick enough!!!

I’ll be honest – I skimmed it, and one word jumped out…accepted!

And the crowd goes wild!!!!!!! I jumped out of my chair, raced halfway up the stairs to my husband’s office, ran back down because I’d completely forgotten to send an email back accepting the acceptance, then hightailed it upstairs again. We squealed and jumped around for close to two days. It was AWESOME! I will never forget it as long as I live.

Now 6 short months later I’ve got 9 more contracts for books in the same series and Together in Cyn is available to purchase.

I LOVE MY LIFE!!!

2. When did you start writing and what were some of your struggles?

I had several dreams in 2008 that started it all. I HAD to write them down, and 100,000 words later a book was born, Final Promise. It’s the first book I’d ever had any inclination to write, and I’m sure it’s going to need a HUGE overhaul before it’s ready for publication. But I love the story. Writing the end on something is addictive. My biggest struggle has been and probably will always be time. I’m REALLY busy and getting published takes dedication, and time, time, time. When someone said the easiest thing about getting published is writing the book, that is SO true! I have a fantastic editor, I love Ellora’s Cave and all the awesome people that work there, helping make my dreams come true. My agent rocks, my family and friends are all supportive. I’m crazy lucky and wouldn’t change a thing. Well maybe more time in the day – that would be great!

3. Please share your unique way of sharing the release with your co-workers and friends! 

OMG I loved this! I bought each of my girls at work a dick ring pop and candy in the shape of small penises with balls. It was awesome! And no I did not give these to any to my male co-workers. Sexual harassment cases for half the employees will be quite enough to keep me busy for a while. **GRINS**

togetherincyn_msrTogether in Cyn

Members Only, Book One

She knows it’s wrong. Cyn shouldn’t have feelings for fraternal twins Jared and Chris, her best friends. She shouldn’t want them to tie her up or strap her down, to take her one at a time—or together. The only way to control her taboo desires is to write them down and lock them away in her diary. Guys like Jared and Chris could never be interested in someone like her, or in the kind of sex she craves.

But Jared and Chris have read her diary, and sweet little Cyn is in for the shock of her life. The brothers not only own a members-only BDSM club, they want her. Need her. And now, with their unlimited funds and an entire establishment devoted to fulfilling her darkest pleasures, they’re going to claim Cyn for their own.

Inside Scoop: If you have a kink, this book probably has it too. If you like your ménage romances extra hot with a side of male-male romance, spanking, voyeurism and girl-on-girl action, come and get it.

A Romantica® BDSM erotic romance from Ellora’s Cave

Buy Links

Amazonhttp://www.amazon.com/Together-Cyn-Members-Only-ebook/dp/B00DEK1THQ/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1371385194&sr=8-2&keywords=together+in+cyn

Ellora’s Cavehttp://www.ellorascave.com/together-in-cyn.html

Websitehttp://www.jenniferkacey.com/
Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/jennifer.kacey.7
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/JenniferKacey
Goodreadshttp://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6941549.Jennifer_Kacey
Pinteresthttp://pinterest.com/jenniferkacey/

 

Bio -

Jennifer Kacey is a wife, mother, and business owner living with her family in Texas. She sings in the shower, plays piano in her dreams, and has to have a different color of nail polish every week. The best advice she’s ever been given? Find the real you and never settle for anything less.

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Eating Right with Cancer and WHY should you care if you don’t have it?

 

Healthy lifestyle concept. Diet and fitnessEating Right with Cancer and WHY?

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Comparing This Week Bestsellers Lists to Last Week for the Self-Published

Depositphotos_3147619_msmI’m comparing the USA Today Bestseller list and the New York Times Bestseller lists on Thurdays now…two weeks in row.  However, I hope to do it often, if possible.

On the USA Today list, which consists of 150 books, I found 12 books that were self-published Last week there were 18.  I think that’s still outstanding!

The stats dropped from 12 percent last week to 8 percent this week.

#88 Don’t Say A Word by Barbara Freethy has been on the list 13 weeks! And it’s also on two New York Times Besteller’s lists.

Two first week authors:

#125 Cutthroat Business Mysteries Boxed Set by Jenna Bennet who is a previous USA Today Bestseller with other books

#129 Romancing Wisconsin by Stacey Joy Netzel

All 8 books are ROMANCE 

Since the  New York Times list numbers stayed the same I’m wondering if they change a different day than the USA TODAY

Under the Combined Ebook and Print Fiction is a list of only 25 books. 3 of them were self-published. Again 12%

The New York Time list under Ebook Fiction is also a list of 25 books. 5 were self-published. Hello!  That’s 20%!!!!!!!!

I’m still saying this a great time to be self-published! June 13th 2013

 

A Good Time To Be Self-Published? #USATODAYbestseller #NYTimesBestseller

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Because the First Day of Chemo is so STINKING Scary!

Link to the real me: Because the First Day of Chemo is so STINKING scary!

 

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For the LOVE of BOOKS!

Depositphotos_15353737_lsmI remember falling in love with books… It was a spiritual, profound experience for someone so young and socially backwoods. (Yes, I meant to use that word.) My young mother was from a rural mountain in West Virginia, and I didn’t know my father who was a doctor.  I had no clue that I had a thirst for knowledge…not an inkling.  I was alone in my bedroom with the Bobbsey Twins.

In my memory it was summer, but more than likely that’s because The Bobbsey Twins in the Country is set at the beginning of summer.  I deeply bonded with Nan and Bert described as eight years old (older and more mature than I) and I tolerated Freddie and Flossie aged four.  And I don’t have a clue how many times I read that book.  It was my first and only at the time.

I went on from there to Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I read both books dozens of times as I slowly built my tiny library.  

Life doesn’t always give us what we want.  But inside the pages of a book we can find our Depositphotos_5129161_originalsmheart’s desire.  Do we manifest:

Travel…

Adventure…

Mystery…

Love…

Depositphotos_2537822_xlsmDo your dreams center around family?

Love…

Contentment…

Commitment…

Happily-ever-after…

Is your goal spiritual enlightenment?Businesswoman in suit standing near stairs

God…

A Higher Power…

Nirvana…

Stairway to heaven….

Or are you more down to earth, do you manifest riches?  Or is you manifestation a combination of all of the above. What I eventually came to understand is that some of us are born to write…nothing can stop us.  I think I’ve written somewhere near 50 books now…and I hope to live to write another 50.

 

 

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