Pure Textuality

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Indie Author J.M. Gregoire

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Hello everyone. My name is Jena and I am a fiction junkie. *Mumbles fill the air as everyone in the circle of addicts greets the newcomer* I love to read. The first “real” book I remember reading was Stephen King’s The Stand. Unabridged. At 11 years old. I was in 6th grade and we had a Read In. Everyone wore pj’s to school, brought their blankets, pillows and books. We spent a full week doing nothing but reading and I loved it. I also ended up in the principal’s office with my mother on speaker phone because my teacher HIGHLY disagreed with my choice of reading material. My mother’s response? “Where do you think she got it?!?!? Hello?!?!?” I won that fight and spent the next 5 days reading my first favorite author.

Since then, I’ve read so many books (in most cases, multiple times over) that I would never even know where to begin if someone asked me to name my favorite author or my favorite book. There are far too many to list for far too many reasons. For a long time now, I’ve been toying with the idea of starting a blog for book reviews. But not reviews of just what’s new. There are so many people that have missed out on some great books over the years.

I have a Kindle, a Kindle Fire, a Kindle Fire HD and the Kindle app on both my phone and my computer. I have an iPod armed with an Audible membership. I have a huge library of physical books at home. If I am not reading something, chances are pretty good that I am listening to an audio book. If I am not listening to an audio book, I am probably working on my own upcoming novel, The Devil You Know.

Jena’s Adventures in Writing a Novel: Part I

Jena’s Adventures in Writing a Novel: Part II

Jena’s Adventures in Writing a Novel: Part III

Jena’s Adventures in Writing a Novel:  Part IV

On October 2nd, 2012, I published Burning.  Burning is a short story prequel for my Demon Legacy series.  The Devil You Know will be book #1 in that series and I am in the process of writing it as we speak….err…..type…..YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN!

I have discovered a new pass time!  Reading FanFic!!  lol  I had read some short “one-shot” stories in the past but I had no idea that people were actually writing full on BOOKS!

A great site for fanfic is FanFiction.net.  The have fanfic for everything – movies, tv shows, books – you name it, it’s on there.

I originally found this website via EricNorthman.net.  I saw them post on Twitter that they had added a new fanfic called Put Me First by AlphaEN.  Holy Hell!!!  I started reading and couldn’t stop.  However, only the first piece was on En.net.  I had to pop over to fanfiction.net to read the rest.  2 hours later – I was finished and the story wasn’t!

I know when I finished reading Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris, my first thought was all the different ways I would use the cluviel dor.  Well, you can hop on over to ericnorthman.net, go to the fanfiction section and read DeeDee’s ‘Back From the Dead’ – it’s her take on what will/should happen in Book 12.  And she’s doing a fantastic job!!

There are some terrific writers out there.  There are also some not-so-great writers so if you get a dud story, move on to another!

One more great thing about fan fic – it’s a great way to get a fix of your favorite characters between releases in a series!  

Here are links to some of my favorite pieces so far:

 (Me and my “dog” Sausage)

(My daughter Kaylee – Halloween 2009)

(My son Ryker – December 2010)