Sadie Jay

Playing with a bio blurb. This is what I came up with: Sadie Jay grew up amongst the  Illinois  cornfields but instead of wandering the rows of cornstalks, she wandered the library’s book stacks. She majored in psychology even as she dreamed of being a writer. For a couple dozen years, her family and an ever-revolving mini-zoo kept her occupied. Instead of a shiny mid-life-crisis car, Sadie discovered fandom in her late 40s and, better yet, fanfiction. She wrote her first m/m short when she was 48, and soon turned that into full-length novels. The discovery of supportive writers’ groups online sealed the deal and she’s been writing ever since. Now a grocery pimp by day and a writer of relationships by night, Sadie gives her gay and bi men all the angst, but they also always get their well-deserved happy ending! 

Finally! I made it to 20K on Cut Shot ! Not sure why 20K is a milestone for me, but once I hit that mark, I feel like the story has a solid foundation, that now I just need to work towards the end. Even though it's not the half-way point, it's set enough that I know what I'm working with and I what I need to continue. Which doesn't mean that the story I have outlined in my head won't change a dozen times before I type the last sentence! I'm really not too sure why this book is taking so long. I know that part of it was vacation, as I'd mentioned before. But I think part was just getting back into "creative mode". Between editing Embers and Flame and Blind Anti , and then going straight to the Headphones rewrites, there was too long of a gap--a good six months, I think. I'm not letting that happen again.   But...I took a week-long break to write a short story to submit for an anthology. It came together easily and I had fun writing it...

I haven't updated for awhile. The April Camp NaNo didn't end so well--I barely made it over 10K for the month. I had hoped, even with vacation, that I could do twice that, but Cut Shot is giving me a little trouble. I see the story in my head, but it's not hitting the page very quickly. But I'll keep working on it. I think with planning vacation, being on vacation, and then simply dealing with everything when we got back cut into my time. It seems I've been working in15-minute segments for the entire month. It's definitely been a paragraph by paragraph book so far! Still, there are some things I like about it. My boys are starting to take on more personality in my head and hopefully I'll be able to get that where it needs to go. Ian, especially. Since Jeb came from another story, I knew him a little better. But I'm finally getting to know Ian! First draft exerpt from Chapter 5: Ian couldn’t decide if he was uncomfortable or amused, but ever sin...

I feel like I'm starting to get back on track, become a bit more focused again. Maybe it's just those last few months of winter--they do seem to weigh heavy on me. I've also changed my plans a bit from my last post. I'm going to go ahead and do the April Camp NaNo, but I'm keeping my goal low because of vacation. I'm going to try and get some words down for Cut Shot , and then with any luck I'll have it done by July, plus the rewrite on the second Headphones installment. I'm not planning any further than that. After all, my plans constantly change. Let's just say I have some ideas on what I want to complete by the end of the year and leave it at that! Excerpt from Headphones: Summer Heat , chapter 10: Headphones sat curled in the center of the soft leather of the couch as she watched the rain through the big bay window. A gully washer, her dad would have called it. The evergreen was bending in the wind while thunder shook The House. The light...

     I've not updated for a while, but to be honest, I haven't felt overly productive lately. I finished the editing on Embers and Flame and got a good start on the second installment of Headphones , plus adding a few words here and there to Cut Shot . But there was a major upheaval in M/M Romance Twitterland last week that put me into a deep state of mourning that made me question whether or not I wanted to continue. But I've put too much of my heart, not to mention time, into my writing to throw my hands up and be done. So, this is what I'm going to do:      Over the next few weeks, I'm going to pop around from project to project. I've found that while doing the Headphones rewrites I feel like I'm losing my ability to come up with new content. Now probably that's not true. But imagining the characters, bringing them to life, is what I like to do. Originally I was going to complete the first draft of the Headphones series before moving to other thin...

This week I got some feedback on Embers and Flame and did some editing accordingly. Now, to get some more feedback from some more beta readers. Please feel free to let me know if you are interested in giving it a read. Anyway, I did a little work on Headphones , played with some ideas on a couple of other stories I've got percolating, and basically let the events of the last few days bog me down. Does writing rants on Facebook count towards my weekly goals? I don't know, but Grammarly says I wrote more words than I can account for on Google Docs, so at least there has been an offering of words! How about for this week's excerpt I share the first page of the first (very rough) draft of Cut Shot ? I'm thinking it's going to be my CampNaNo project: Jebediah could feel the man’s gaze as if it was a physical thing. There was weight to it, a lowering of air pressure, a buzz behind his ears. He bent over the pool table and studied the balls, doing his best to not tur...

               I wrote my synopsis and blurb for Embers and Flame: Charles “Cherry” Andrews is trying to prove to himself that he can have a life on his own. His ex left him the couch, the bed, and the camping equipment. Replacing the city and hospital sounds with crickets and birdsong at his favorite campground feels like the perfect vacation, but instead of finding peace, he’s simply bored. Ben Torres set out on a motorcycle tour of the country as a way to find his own peace after the death of his mother, but a bad baffle curtails his plans within hours of leaving home. Luckily for him, the guy in the next camp spot happily shares his fishing equipment as well as offering to play taxi. An unplanned kiss on their last day together leads to an afternoon of discovery that turns into a summer romance that begins to feel like a long distance relationship. Everything would be wonderful if they could spend the rest of their life in a small te...