Jaye Wells
@jayewells.bsky.social
Author, professor, aspiring crone. Creator of the bestselling Sabina Kane and Prospero's War series. www.jayewells.com
Learn about making genre promises in your fiction at The Messy Muse.
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Promises and Payoffs in Fiction
Genre Promises Part 2
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April 23, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Learn about making genre promises in your fiction at The Messy Muse.
jayewells.substack.com/p/promises-a...
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The first part of my Australia journal is up at The Messy Muse. open.substack.com/pub/jayewell...
April 21, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The first part of my Australia journal is up at The Messy Muse. open.substack.com/pub/jayewell...
April 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I'm writing a book on my Promises and Payoffs method for writing good stories and posting chapters each week. Subscribe and follow along!
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April 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I'm writing a book on my Promises and Payoffs method for writing good stories and posting chapters each week. Subscribe and follow along!
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I've restarted my sjbstack newsletter, The Messy Muse, with tarot prompt, writing advice and general creative living magic. Check it out!
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March 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I've restarted my sjbstack newsletter, The Messy Muse, with tarot prompt, writing advice and general creative living magic. Check it out!
open.substack.com/pub/jayewell...
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Anyone I know coming to the Author MBA events in the NOLA this month?
March 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Anyone I know coming to the Author MBA events in the NOLA this month?
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The world is falling apart but I’m going to look cute, make art, and care for my people just as long as I can
(Not necessarily in that order)
(Not necessarily in that order)
March 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The world is falling apart but I’m going to look cute, make art, and care for my people just as long as I can
(Not necessarily in that order)
(Not necessarily in that order)
The Mardi Gras queen has entered the chat.
March 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The Mardi Gras queen has entered the chat.
I'm starting to suspect that certain people who fetishize freedom don't actually know the meaning word.
February 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I'm starting to suspect that certain people who fetishize freedom don't actually know the meaning word.
Welcome back to the Gaslight Nation. You're not crazy. This is not normal.
January 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Welcome back to the Gaslight Nation. You're not crazy. This is not normal.
Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen is an unflinching look at T*umps first term. The emphasis the ways his regime uses rhetoric to manipulate makes it a must read.
January 20, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen is an unflinching look at T*umps first term. The emphasis the ways his regime uses rhetoric to manipulate makes it a must read.
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Mark Zuckerberg appears to have personally approved training Meta's genAI models on an entire "shadow library" of pirated books:
www.wired.com/story/new-do...
www.wired.com/story/new-do...
Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal
One of the most important AI copyright legal battles just took a major turn.
www.wired.com
January 9, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Mark Zuckerberg appears to have personally approved training Meta's genAI models on an entire "shadow library" of pirated books:
www.wired.com/story/new-do...
www.wired.com/story/new-do...
With all the editing and annotating I do, I've been thinking of getting a Kindle Scribe. Do you have one? What's your experience?
January 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
With all the editing and annotating I do, I've been thinking of getting a Kindle Scribe. Do you have one? What's your experience?
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brand new tingler THIS SENTIENT ICED TEA AND LIVING LEMONADE GET ME OFF BISEXUALLY is out now. please enjoy. get it on way of amazon here www.amazon.com/dp/B0DS598WBV or true buckaroo tier patreon here www.patreon.com/posts/this-s...
January 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
brand new tingler THIS SENTIENT ICED TEA AND LIVING LEMONADE GET ME OFF BISEXUALLY is out now. please enjoy. get it on way of amazon here www.amazon.com/dp/B0DS598WBV or true buckaroo tier patreon here www.patreon.com/posts/this-s...
The TSA agent who was patting me down said I smell good. So I've got that going for me.
January 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The TSA agent who was patting me down said I smell good. So I've got that going for me.
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One more New Orleanian PSA~
Want to help victims + locals impacted by the Bourbon Street terrorist attack?
The admirable Mods at the r/NewOrleans subreddit are amassing a list of trustworthy places to donate. It’s a WiP so plz share + check back frequently.❤️🩹⚜️ #nola
www.reddit.com/r/NewOrleans...
Want to help victims + locals impacted by the Bourbon Street terrorist attack?
The admirable Mods at the r/NewOrleans subreddit are amassing a list of trustworthy places to donate. It’s a WiP so plz share + check back frequently.❤️🩹⚜️ #nola
www.reddit.com/r/NewOrleans...
From the NewOrleans community on Reddit: Resources for the Victims of the Bourbon St. Attack
Explore this post and more from the NewOrleans community
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January 2, 2025 at 1:48 AM
One more New Orleanian PSA~
Want to help victims + locals impacted by the Bourbon Street terrorist attack?
The admirable Mods at the r/NewOrleans subreddit are amassing a list of trustworthy places to donate. It’s a WiP so plz share + check back frequently.❤️🩹⚜️ #nola
www.reddit.com/r/NewOrleans...
Want to help victims + locals impacted by the Bourbon Street terrorist attack?
The admirable Mods at the r/NewOrleans subreddit are amassing a list of trustworthy places to donate. It’s a WiP so plz share + check back frequently.❤️🩹⚜️ #nola
www.reddit.com/r/NewOrleans...
New Orleans life: There's a man in my building's courtyard playing The Outlander theme song on a flute.
December 29, 2024 at 5:49 PM
New Orleans life: There's a man in my building's courtyard playing The Outlander theme song on a flute.
Listened to the audio book of A Long Time Dead by Samara Breger on a long drive yesterday. Highly recommend! Gothic Sapphic vampire romance with wit and so much yearning. www.goodreads.com/book/show/85...
A Long Time Dead
Samara Breger's A Long Time Dead is a lush, Victorian r…
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December 29, 2024 at 4:22 PM
Listened to the audio book of A Long Time Dead by Samara Breger on a long drive yesterday. Highly recommend! Gothic Sapphic vampire romance with wit and so much yearning. www.goodreads.com/book/show/85...
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A shy rescue dog named Scrim has been on the run after jumping from a second floor window. It was his second escape and the jump was caught on surveillance camera. People have been posting sightings of the dog running around various neighborhoods of New Orleans ever since.
‘We all see ourselves in him’: How Scrim went from shy stray to New Orleans’ favorite outlaw
“Scrim, it turns out, had a whole life before New Orleans,” said Doug McCash, arts and culture writer for The Times-Picayune.
www.wwno.org
December 26, 2024 at 8:44 PM
A shy rescue dog named Scrim has been on the run after jumping from a second floor window. It was his second escape and the jump was caught on surveillance camera. People have been posting sightings of the dog running around various neighborhoods of New Orleans ever since.
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Yay Berkley!!
Berkley, a large romance imprint of Penguin Random House, on AI submissions:
"Authors may not make submissions that have used AI in their creation, whether in the outlining or writing of the manuscript."
#RomanceWritersAgainstAI
#Romancelandia #EduSky #AIRefusal #AIResistance
"Authors may not make submissions that have used AI in their creation, whether in the outlining or writing of the manuscript."
#RomanceWritersAgainstAI
#Romancelandia #EduSky #AIRefusal #AIResistance
December 14, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Yay Berkley!!
Good morning ing from Scotland's Book Town
December 10, 2024 at 9:05 AM
Good morning ing from Scotland's Book Town
Give this headline writer a raise
December 8, 2024 at 2:54 PM
Give this headline writer a raise
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Writers: yes, you are still a "real" writer if you
- have never published anything
- have no readers
- didn't write anything this month
- didn't write anything this year
- can't articulate words anymore
- can only float and mournfully wail
- were murdered ten years ago on this very spot
- have never published anything
- have no readers
- didn't write anything this month
- didn't write anything this year
- can't articulate words anymore
- can only float and mournfully wail
- were murdered ten years ago on this very spot
December 2, 2024 at 7:59 PM
Writers: yes, you are still a "real" writer if you
- have never published anything
- have no readers
- didn't write anything this month
- didn't write anything this year
- can't articulate words anymore
- can only float and mournfully wail
- were murdered ten years ago on this very spot
- have never published anything
- have no readers
- didn't write anything this month
- didn't write anything this year
- can't articulate words anymore
- can only float and mournfully wail
- were murdered ten years ago on this very spot
In one week, I am flying to Scotland to cosplay a bookseller for a week in a small town righr before Christmas. My life has become a Hallmark movie and I'm not mad about it.
November 30, 2024 at 6:50 PM
In one week, I am flying to Scotland to cosplay a bookseller for a week in a small town righr before Christmas. My life has become a Hallmark movie and I'm not mad about it.
Happy Thanksgiving! I ho0e you're as grateful and excited today as my mom's dog was when he ate half the cooling dinner rolls I made from scratch.
November 28, 2024 at 2:59 PM
Happy Thanksgiving! I ho0e you're as grateful and excited today as my mom's dog was when he ate half the cooling dinner rolls I made from scratch.