Hello everyone. With 2023 coming to an end, now seems like a good time to wrap up my year in reading and writing. This is a bit of a hard thing to do, because I feel that the last three years have been one massive blur. It was surprise to me to starting writing about …
Author: Jayde Holmes
NaNo Results
Okay, just done my first NaNo, and feels good to go get a lot of writing down, even if I did fall a little short of the 50,000 word target. Well... maybe a lot short. Definity short. I wrote 17,419 words of my novella Amanidas, increasing the total wordcount to 29,866. And you know what? …
Kinda Doing NaNoWrMo
So, I'm kinda doing NaNoWrMo this year. By that, I mean I'm hanging out on the official forums and aiming to write 50,000 words, but I am not starting a new novel. I'm continuing with my current project, a story about a little girl called Astra who lives on a deserted space colony called Amanidas …
Hugo Talk, NaNoWrMo Plans, and Holiday Sketches
Just a quick update on things happening with me. And also a look at the Hugos, though not much since I haven't really been following them this year. I could pretend to be really noble and say I was boycotting them due to China's human right's issues, but whilst that certainly turned me off, I …
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Ayreon Live and Europe Adventure
So, I've been a bit quiet lately. No twitch streams, no new stories, and no posts on either this blog or my socials. That's because I have been on an adventure for the last two and a half weeks. For the last year or so I've been saving and planning to travel to Europe to …
More Reedsy Stories Come Home
As long time readers of this site may know, I do occasionally participate in the Reedsy Weekly Writing Contests. I find it a fun little exercise that encourages me to actually write, which is one of the harder parts of being a writer. There also is a good community there, and I've come across a …
The Complete Neighbor
Hello everyone. It's been a very busy month over here, with my short story The World in a Ramen Cup coming out in Analog and my novella Neighbor going live on this website. To everyone who has discovered this site through Analog, welcome. Sit back, grab a book bingo card, read through my early attempts …
Got Interviewed by Analog
Thank you to the Analog team, especially Emily Hockaday, for interviewing me at the Astounding Analog Companion. Was really nice to talk about 'The World in a Ramen Cup' and well, all the other stuff I veered off into. Everyone, you should go check out the interview. https://theastoundinganalogcompanion.com/2023/06/21/qa-with-jayde-holmes/
The World in a Ramen Cup
Hello everybody, I'm back with some big news that's been some time in the making. After many years of writing stories, I have finally met Stephen King's criteria for being a talented writer: “If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if …
Neighbor and News
Hello friends. It's been a while since I've updated this blog, and I'm pleased to be back with some big news. And some little news. And also hints of more news to come. So, little news first. I'm on Mastodon now, and hope to make that my main social. I'm still finding my way around …
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