tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post4620550351003126766..comments2024-03-29T02:43:11.575-04:00Comments on Jungle Red Writers: What We're Writing - Jenn McKinlayJungle Red Writershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16646429819267618412noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-19607441274976837412018-12-17T21:58:02.588-05:002018-12-17T21:58:02.588-05:00I love your Hat Shop Series,2020 cannot get here q...I love your Hat Shop Series,2020 cannot get here quick enough.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10475632518074495740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-28051247710805562672018-12-17T14:43:29.829-05:002018-12-17T14:43:29.829-05:00Amazing! You work hard and it certainly pays off....Amazing! You work hard and it certainly pays off. :) Thank you! Katherinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05556046667339075506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-31477243628793894642018-12-17T08:45:41.507-05:002018-12-17T08:45:41.507-05:00Hi, Katherine, I write 10 pages/day every day. Lik...Hi, Katherine, I write 10 pages/day every day. Like any habit, I’ve gotten really good (after ten years) of sharpening my focus so I can get 10p out in about four - six hours. Then I reward myself with something I want to do (eat cookies!) so I stay motivated during the four hours. The big thing is not getting distracted (curse you, Internet)! And on days when I’m at the kids’ school doing the PTO thing or chaperoning whatever, then I have to work in the evening to make up for it. My laptop goes where I go, so if they have a two hour guitar lesson, I am nearby in Starbucks working. Mostly, I take advantage of every second that I would otherwise be stalking old boyfriends on Facebook to write. :) Jenn McKinlayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13589365995413467367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-28588554419866189132018-12-17T08:37:47.740-05:002018-12-17T08:37:47.740-05:00Good for you, Sally! I think humans (most) improve...Good for you, Sally! I think humans (most) improve with age. Life has a way of bringing out the kindness in people.Jenn McKinlayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13589365995413467367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-90856275233285234932018-12-17T00:49:53.551-05:002018-12-17T00:49:53.551-05:00Great sample! But I have to ask - how do you prod...Great sample! But I have to ask - how do you produce so many books in so many series so often? What is your writing schedule? How many hours do you write per day, and how many days per week do you stick to that schedule? That's just an amazing number of books, it seems to me. If you'd be willing to share I would love to know more about how you actually accomplish this amazing feat. I'm imagining you working around the clock, waving to your kids as you run past them to your writing room (pretentious, obviously), eating via IV so that you can hydrate and fuel while writing...am I close? :) <br /><br />As far as reunions go, with social media I keep in touch with those I want to already. I don't know that reunions have the same shock factor they used to, where you showed up with literally no idea what had happened to your classmates (friends and otherwise) since graduation. I've declined reunions to date, but maybe some day I'll want to attend. <br /><br />Thanks for your time responding, and for all of your hard work writing all these series! <br />Katherinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05556046667339075506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-64075051778749322492018-12-16T18:17:38.745-05:002018-12-16T18:17:38.745-05:00At first I didn't go to my reunions because my...At first I didn't go to my reunions because my mother had some bad experiences with hers. Also, I was literally the shiest girl in the yearbook so I didn't know everyone in my class. A classmate from my church convinced me to attend two, and I had a good time. Maybe because we were older, everyone talked to everyone. Our 50th is next year, and I plan to go. Sally from PAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03649707016754971847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-31475302964326184602018-12-16T17:52:41.208-05:002018-12-16T17:52:41.208-05:00I've always wondered what life in an all girl&...I've always wondered what life in an all girl's school would be like. I was such a tomboy - it might have killed me.<br />Jenn McKinlayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13589365995413467367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-74680791159309434942018-12-16T16:32:34.119-05:002018-12-16T16:32:34.119-05:00Well, I’m another person whose head is spinning fr...Well, I’m another person whose head is spinning from reading Jenn’s schedule! Jenn, I’m amazed that you sleep at all, never mind six hours!<br /><br />Two years after I graduated from high school there was an all-class reunion. It consisted of dinner at a local restaurant. We were told we could bring “a female guest”. (Yeah, it was an all-girl school.) If there have been any reunions since then, I never heard about them. I graduated fifty-one years ago and thought there might possibly be announcements somewhere about a reunion as we approached fifty, but there was nothing. I doubt that I would have gone, though. Still too shy! I’m happy with my circle of friends in the town where I live now!<br /><br />DebRo Deb Romanohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01650858888197217258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-51727714133092865622018-12-16T15:14:01.704-05:002018-12-16T15:14:01.704-05:00Oh my, such a tragedy. I am so sorry. Oh my, such a tragedy. I am so sorry. Jenn McKinlayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13589365995413467367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-70129293076396446712018-12-16T15:13:15.430-05:002018-12-16T15:13:15.430-05:00Yeah, I’d want my squad to go but we’re all so sca...Yeah, I’d want my squad to go but we’re all so scattered. *sigh*Jenn McKinlayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13589365995413467367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-41154418938262988122018-12-16T15:12:26.176-05:002018-12-16T15:12:26.176-05:00I love that! I’m eager to see a few people not in ...I love that! I’m eager to see a few people not in my class so this would work much better for me! Jenn McKinlayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13589365995413467367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-36238487377040799632018-12-16T15:11:00.427-05:002018-12-16T15:11:00.427-05:00LOL - let fiction do the work for you! I dig it.LOL - let fiction do the work for you! I dig it.Jenn McKinlayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13589365995413467367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-15752502693819136382018-12-16T15:10:07.128-05:002018-12-16T15:10:07.128-05:00Thank you, Kathy! I love reunion stories, too. The...Thank you, Kathy! I love reunion stories, too. There’s something powerful about revisiting your old self. Jenn McKinlayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13589365995413467367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-67527302860643408982018-12-16T15:08:51.284-05:002018-12-16T15:08:51.284-05:00Thanks, Marla! I hear you on the too far!Thanks, Marla! I hear you on the too far!Jenn McKinlayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13589365995413467367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-22195117023803903532018-12-16T15:08:14.021-05:002018-12-16T15:08:14.021-05:00My best friend said the same! Nope!My best friend said the same! Nope!Jenn McKinlayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13589365995413467367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-7612478301714386372018-12-16T14:35:31.833-05:002018-12-16T14:35:31.833-05:00Jenn, I love the cover for Devil's Food novel!...Jenn, I love the cover for Devil's Food novel! I look forward to the new Hat Shop novel in 2020. <br /><br />Haven't attended high school reunions because we did not have high school reunions for my class. The vice president of our Senior Class killed himself several years ago. His wife was pregnant with their first child when she was killed in an auto accident. He killed himself within weeks after his wife died. He was a brilliant person. I think we lost heart in organizing high school reunions after he died.Bibliophilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07764234701385787238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-7071130234383362212018-12-16T13:46:52.567-05:002018-12-16T13:46:52.567-05:00Nothing stirs controversy like the threat of a hig...Nothing stirs controversy like the threat of a high school reunion. I went to 3 different high schools so have no real connections to any. I did go to a 40 year reunion for the school I went to the longest since it happened a few months after I returned to Houston. It was disappointing as no one I used to hang out with attended. I swore them off after that. Pat Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12732230586783432052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-19392157702408341762018-12-16T13:33:54.518-05:002018-12-16T13:33:54.518-05:00I finished high school and never looked back. Exce...I finished high school and never looked back. Except in the past 15 years, the internet happened. I reached out to some but very few reached back. Some folks reached out to me on Facebook but frankly, I don’t really remember any of them from high school. Someone organized an upscale reunion at a nice hotel which I have stayed at many times over the past 30+ years. That was this past August. I seriously thought of attending but at the last minute, I decided I couldn’t afford the expense. Apparently, some folks had similar feelings and they organized a free reunion right on the beach where we all lived. Classes from 1945 through 1978 were represented. It was in the daytime and the venue was a large sandwich shop on the now concrete boardwalk. You could buy drinks and food. The only downside was that to buy anything you had to wait on a half-hour long line. I didn’t know anyone except a few from Facebook. We had beautiful weather. A woman my age, not part of the reunion, happened by and sat down, introduced herself to me and we sat and talked for almost two hours. Traveling, it took me almost 3 hours on the bus and subway to get there and a similar ride home. I hadn’t been back there where we all grew up for almost 50 years. They are doing it again next year. I probably will go.David Squireshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17144607647071920674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-31560793914747532292018-12-16T13:16:58.116-05:002018-12-16T13:16:58.116-05:00Jenn, you are absolutely amazing!!! And you know h...Jenn, you are absolutely amazing!!! And you know how much I love the Hat Shop books so will be eagerly awaiting--maybe a sneak peek next time??<br /><br />As for reunions, since I dropped out at the beginning of my junior year, I don't have great high school memories. I've been to one--my 14th. Go figure. That said, I don't have any negative feelings about them. Most of the kids from my high school class I went all the through school with, so it would be fun to catch up. I'm friends on Facebook with a couple of people from elementary school, and I talk to my best friend since third grade nearly every day. Maybe one of these years I'll make it to a reunion. (Oh my gosh, I just figured out that my 50th is coming up. How did that even happen????) Until then, I'm happy to read about Angie and Mel!Deborah Crombiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16988750789088153601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-46809170544313386062018-12-16T13:15:45.860-05:002018-12-16T13:15:45.860-05:00I love high school reunion stories, and Dying for ...I love high school reunion stories, and Dying for Devil's Food sounds like it's got some powerful feelings involved in its reunion. I'm guessing that those feelings are powerful enough for a murder to occur. And, the cover is amazing. My high school reunions over the past fifteen years have been loads of fun. We're all past the age where there's any feeling of the need to impress each other. Well, there is the one guy, a really nice guy actually, who surprised me by showing me a picture of his house on his phone, and he even said "All of that is my house." He's done well for himself, and I'm happy for him, but I thought he still must have had some insecurity if he needed to show me his large house. <br /><br />Jenn, I think if I were to look up the word "busy" in the dictionary, there would be a picture of you, along with your name and all your book titles. I'm delighted to have the titles and dates of your 2019 titles so that I can add them to my New Books 2019 list. I so want to read your Library Lovers series, and I do have the first two waiting on my TBR table. They've been patient, but I don't want to keep them (or me) waiting much longer.Kathy Reelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17004247271452356577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-48448309739172276742018-12-16T11:54:29.452-05:002018-12-16T11:54:29.452-05:00I have no idea how you're keeping all those pr...I have no idea how you're keeping all those projects straight. As for high school reunions, I went to one. It was good to catch up with old friends. I haven't been to the others only because it's so far to travel. Looking forward to reading Dying for Devil's Food!Marla Bradeen/Paige Sleuth, Mystery Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01920956529695986188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-8240864156276647772018-12-16T11:47:56.101-05:002018-12-16T11:47:56.101-05:00Jenn, thanks for the list! I didn't realize ho...Jenn, thanks for the list! I didn't realize how MANY series you have going. More for me to read. Yipee!<br /><br />As for high school reunions...nope! Lyda McPhersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05211808700153787911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-15776742795783308932018-12-16T11:41:14.529-05:002018-12-16T11:41:14.529-05:00It’s weird, isn’t it, Lois? My 30th just passed an...It’s weird, isn’t it, Lois? My 30th just passed and I’m bewildered by how this can be so! What the what? I’m only 35! Right?Jenn McKinlayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13589365995413467367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-46628279240248615722018-12-16T11:40:15.724-05:002018-12-16T11:40:15.724-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jenn McKinlayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13589365995413467367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-81204209596686562122018-12-16T11:38:54.666-05:002018-12-16T11:38:54.666-05:00After writing this book, I am determined to get to...After writing this book, I am determined to get to a reunion. I bet I’m still the tallest (with my pal Amy) girl in school! LOL!Jenn McKinlayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13589365995413467367noreply@blogger.com