There is no disguising the smile on my face today!
Accent have not only given me two gorgeous new covers for the e-versions of my novel Another Cup of Coffee, and its novella sequel, Another Cup of Christmas…
…but they have also put together a beautiful cover for my brand new novel, Romancing Robin Hood, which will be out later this year!!
Watch this space for further release news!!
Jenny xx
Santa’s gonna find out who’s naughty and nice is he? Well- I wonder which side of the chocolate coin he’ll decide I’ve come down on this year…because this Christmas I can offer you the choice of nice or naughty….
My “Nice” side is curtsey of Jenny Kane with…
Another Cup of Christmas– a festive novella sequel to Another Cup of Coffee…
Blurb-
Five years ago the staff of Pickwicks Cafe in Richmond were thrown into turmoil when their cook and part-owner, Scott, had a terrible accident. With help from his friends, his wife Peggy, and the staff at the local hospital, he made an amazing recovery. Now Pickwicks is preparing to host a special Christmas fundraiser for the hospital department that looked after Scott.
Pickwicks’ waitress Megan has been liaising with the ward’s administrator, Nick, as all the staff who helped Scott’s recovery are invited are invited. As the problems of organising the fundraiser take up more and more of their busy lives, Megan and Nick contact each other more frequently, and their emails and phone calls start to develop from the practical into the flirty.
But can you actually fall for someone you’ve never met?
As the fundraiser draws closer, Megan is beginning to think that she had imagined all the virtual flirting between herself and Nick – he promised to arrange to meet her for real, but he hasn’t done so. Now he’s bringing someone with him to the fundraiser, and they’re just bound to be everything Megan feels she isn’t …
If you’d like to buy Another Cup of Christmas it is available as a downloads from all good eBook suppliers including-
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As Kay Jaybee I can most certainly cater for your “Naughty” side with…
Christmas Kink a collection of five erotic stories penned especially for the festive season. This book is FREE on Amazon until 2nd December!!!!
Blurb-
What’s your favourite part of the Christmas celebration? Decorating the tree with tinsel, the heavenly aroma of cinnamon and fruit from Christmas cakes and puddings, the office Christmas party, a visit to Santa’s grotto, the presents?
Kay Jaybee’s Christmas Kink twists all of these festive traditions into five individual episodes of hot erotica that will leave you fanning yourself with the nearest Christmas card…
Featuring Santa’s Little Helper, decorations, Cake Mix, Candy at Christmas and the Little Red Dress you can read smutty tales of lustful romance, S&M, pony play, FF action, and more…
You can buy Christmas Kink on Amazon at-
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GI2DDQM
So what will it be dear readers…a little kink, a little comfort reading…or maybe a little bit of both…
Happy festive reading!!
Jenny/Kay xx
A Very Fitting Title
With the exception of spending time my family and friends, there is nothing I like more than curling up with a large cup of coffee and a good book. These days however, I’m more likely to be seen bent over a desk (with a large coffee within grabbing distance), with a story manuscript of my own before me, than enjoying the labours of someone else.
It was my non-stop coffee drinking lifestyle that that influenced part of the plotline of my contemporary romance novel- the title alone gives that away! Another Cup of Coffee.
I have always found it a challenge to come up with good titles for my books. It is really difficult to come up with a short snappy sentence or phrase that both entices the reader to pick up a book, and also encapsulates the plot. Occasionally, I come up with a title first- think it sounds great, and so start a story based on that original thought, only to find my plot moves on so far that the original idea, that is no longer suitable, and a new title needs to be found!
This was the case with Another Cup of Coffee. Originally it was entitled ‘Coffee Stops’- the affectionate name my Mum and I have always given our habit of having lots of coffee breaks, in as many cafes as possible, whenever we go anywhere. However, there is just too much else going on in my novel for that title to work.
It was my wonderful editor at Accent Press, Greg, who suggested Another Cup of Coffee – and it was perfect!
Another Cup of Coffee is a well chosen title for two reasons. First, all of the main characters find life best faced over a steaming cup of caffeine! Especially Kit- an erotica writer, who can only write in cafe’s with coffee to hand- rather like a certain Kay Jaybee, who I know fairly well!!
The second reason Another Cup of Coffee is such a perfect title, revolves around Jack. Always hopeless at expressing his feelings, Jack uses song lyrics to help him get his point across. This is a habit picked up on by his friends- until someone (I’m not ruining the novel by telling you who!!!) begins quoting “Another Cup of Coffee” by Mike and the Mechanics at Amy…with very good reason (and not just because she loves coffee…)
You can buy Another Cup of Coffee as an eBook or a paperback from –
Happy Reading,
Jenny xx
When my first romance novel, Another Cup of Coffee, came out three weeks ago I had a secret wish- I wished (well, I hoped), that the Kindle version would hit the top 50,000, and the paperback would hit the top 100,000 books in the Amazon charts.
Not high aims you might think; but there are hundreds of thousands of books in the Amazon chart to try and sell against. This massive competition, combined with the fact that this is my debut novel in this genre, made me wonder if perhaps I was actually aiming too high.
It has been with some surprise- and no little amount of delight – that I’ve peeped through my fingers, and nervously watched Another Cup of Coffee climb the charts, a few places at a time. Sometimes it goes up a bit, sometimes it goes down- and when, at the end of last week ,the paperback book got into the top 50,ooo an the Kindle version hit the top thousands- well, I just couldn’t look any more!
My husband told me the Kindle version had reached no. 454 this am!!! It may well have gone down a bit by now- I don’t dare look!!! The charts are updated at frequent intervals, so where a book is during one hour, might not be the same place as you’ll find it in the next hour!!
What I have been brave enough to check out however, is the Amazon UK Kindle romance chart- and major EEEEEEKKKKKKKKKK- Another Cup of Coffee is in the top 100!!! At no.96!!! Chuffed to bits!!
So- forgive me for this blog- it feels a bit like I’m simply showing off- but I promise you I’m not. I’m merely full of shock and pleasure!!! I have no idea how long this good run of sales will last, and I’m bracing myself for the run of bad reviews (the genuine ones, and the ones fuelled by sour grapes), that always follows a run of good reports- but I just wanted to say thank you for all your support in the meantime!!
If you haven’t found Another Cup of Coffee yet, and you fancy a read, you can find the Kindle version here-
Okay- so I’ve been a little misleading with the title of the blog. It should really read ‘Strangers on a Platform’- but somehow that doesn’t have the same ring to it- it’s less dramatic somehow!!
Anyway, I digress!!
I’m writing this on a train. A train that’s very delayed due to a combination of failed signals and carriage malfunction. I admit the moment I saw I was to be a hostage to the tiny rather chilled waiting room at Westbury station my heart sank. However, never one to be dismayed for long, I soon struck with conversation with my fellow hostages, most of whom held either paperbacks or kindles.
You can see where I’m going with this can’t you!
Always one for a bit of free marketing, and always curious- okay, nosy- about what sorts of reading matter folk favour- I was soon chatting away about the benefits of reading Dexter over Grisham, King over Barker, Fforde over Trollope and Pratchett over just about anyone. The discussion was lively and good natured, and soon the time was flying by, as some lively chap asked if I’d read Fifty Shades of Grey, and I did my very best not to groan.
It was at this point that further time was added to our delay, and the kiosk lady announced we’d all have time for another cup of coffee should we want one….cue my chance to recommend my own book. Who’d have thought my title could be so user friendly!! As you can imagine, I grasped my chance to endorse a certain Jenny Kane.
It’s always weird talking about myself in the third person, as if the story I’m recommending was written by a stranger- and yet, if I’m honest, there is a small kick to be gained when people scribble down the title of your work to try sometime when they aren’t doing it just to be polite because you’ve just told them you wrote it! And, to me, who hates pushing herself forward, it is so much easier to market my work if it doesn’t feel as if I’m showing off!!
So, I thought I’d write this little blog to say thank you to those lovely chatty, fellow train-waiters, at Westbury, and to apologise for my subterfuge!! I hope, if you do read Another Cup of Coffee you thoroughly enjoy it!!
Happy reading,
Jenny xx
YIPPEE!!!!!! The paperback release of Another Cup of Coffee has been bought forward to 16th Sept in the UK, and 19th Sept in the US!!!
Although I have been writing for some time, and have had 16 solo erotic novels, anthologies and novellas published before, this novel feels like a major first for me!
I love writing as Kay, and the erotica world has been very kind to me- but I must confess to feeling quite different about Another Cup of Coffee– partly because the story is based on a decision I had to make once upon a time (I tell you about that another day if you are very good), and partly because of the marketing issue- it is just so easy to tell people about my new novel!!
When you write erotica, you are preaching to the converted- to a small group of the population who love the genre. With romance, on some level, there is always the chance your work will appeal to everybody.
I love writing erotica- and it is a genre I really believe in- but forget 50 Shades- I’m talking real erotica, which is full of well crafted, well thought out, sexy stories. Some are mysteries, some thrillers, some crime based, others romantic, some emotional journeys- just like in any other branch of fiction.
The thing is though, in erotica you have to second guess people all the time. You can’t just stick up a poster up in a café or library advertising erotica for fear of offending, you can’t drop it in to conversation with people you don’t know well for the same reason- everything you say has to be judged on instinct. And to be honest- I’m okay with that- it is difficult and often frustrating, but I really don’t want to offend people – although to be honest, I don’t think actually would if people stopped to read some, rather than assume they know what it’s going to be like.
Anyway- that’s an argument for Kay’s site- today I’m simply enjoying how lovely it is to be able to say, ‘I’ve written a novel called Another Cup of Coffee, can I put up a poster, can I read in the library, can I launch it at a National Trust house….” and not have to wonder what response I’ll get! It is a very freeing feeling!!
So I’m raising a coffee to my first novel as Jenny- to all the lovely people who have bought it already, and the lovely reviews it’s already received- who knows, if I sell enough paperback and Kindle copies, I might get it in some bookshops!!
Kindle-
Happy reading,
Jenny xx
Age– 34
Hair– Blonde, long, straight
Eyes – Blue
Employment– was a business growth advisor in Scotland, before leaving her job in search of a new life in England.
Relationship Status – Single- for absolutely ages (one broken heart was enough)
Characteristics– shy, clever, lacking self-confidence, determined, kind, forgiving- some might say, too forgiving…
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Shrugging off her khaki jacket, Amy bent to pick up the pile of post that lay waiting on her doormat. As her hand reached to retrieve the small brown package half-buried beneath some junk mail, Amy froze. She knew that handwriting. She also had a funny feeling that she knew what was going to be inside.
But why return it now, after all these years?
The poorly-wrapped parcel broke open as her fingers fumbled at the sticky tape, and a music cassette slipped into her hands. The cover was unmarked, just as it had been when he’d taken it from her. Amy stared, disbelieving, the blood draining from her already pale face…
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Fifteen years ago Amy Crane was a shy but happy-go-lucky archaeology student.
Fourteen years ago Amy met Jack.
Thirteen years ago Amy ran away. 600 miles away. From England to Scotland.
Now, spurred on by an unexpected arrival in the post, Amy realises she doesn’t want to hide any more.
Fed up with her job, missing her university friends, and disappointed in her own feeble behaviour, Amy finds the courage to face the ghost of her past and forge a future.
Armed with her mantra, New Life, new job, new home- which she repeats to herself over and over again, Amy Crane leaves her job, leaves her rented flat, and with more courage than she’s shown in years, heads south…
Find out more about Amy in Another Cup of Coffee…coming soon…
Jenny xx
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