BDSM Bedtime Stories Season Two Episode Five ~ Jeffe Kennedy
Trivia 1: Jeffe Kennedy studied Kung Fu for over fifteen years and knows a number of martial arts styles.
Kung Fu
When you take a little 
and add a what does this equal?
Back to some
delicious M/f! This sexy little scene is
too hawt for the office. Play it at home
with a toy handy.
New to me author, Jeffe Kennedy is here with me today for
an exclusive interview. She's also
graced us with an excerpt of her book. Before we dive into the
interview, check out J.A. Rock narrating a sexy excerpt of Ruby.
La Crimson Femme: I recently read
an article with you talking about writing real
people. I found this
interesting. Have you written characters
based on real people? If so, did they figure out it was them? And
how did they respond?
Jeffe Kennedy: Well, in that
article, I mention that I used to write a lot of essays. One was published in
Redbook Magazine. It was about when my stepson was hospitalized and my early
struggles to define myself as a stepmother (at 24). The boy’s mother had a lot
of animosity for me and that was part of the story – including a scene where
the nurses mistook her for my sister. I tried to portray her fairly – and I did
change identifying details – but of course family recognized her. She read the
magazine article and had a complete meltdown, which included sending me a
vicious letter telling me how her kids hated me, etc. I’ve saved it all these
years, though now my stepson is getting married this winter and my stepdaughter
has provided us with two grandchildren.
La Crimson Femme: Wow, I can understand why you wrote this article. At the time, it must have been intense. It's good to see now, years later, you have
moved on. Why would an author base a character on a real person? Do you
get a certain thrill of making them do what you want to do? Forcing them
into a position they might necessarily do in real life?
Jeffe Kennedy: In that case, I
wanted to tell the story of finding my role as a stepmother and it was
necessary to include the other people involved. In fiction, I don’t really do
that. I have friends who love to murder people fictionally who make them angry.
I try to let go of that stuff. There’s a saying that holding onto anger is like
carrying around a poisonous snake that keeps biting you. I believe that’s true.
La Crimson Femme: I agree with you. I
do find that it is more detrimental to the person holding on to that
anger. Sometimes, it isn't in anger
though. For example, comic book writer,
Brian K Vaughn, created characters loosely based on his mother and
sister. He brutally tortured these characters and killed them. He
even used a variation of their name. Is this a kind of extreme you would
do to your characters based on real people? Or would you seriously kink
it up so that they are depraved hedonists?
Jeffe Kennedy: Ack! I didn’t know
that. No, I wouldn’t do that, even with someone who’s tried to attack me. It’s
just not worth it, as I said above. Also, my characters are very real people to
me. They have their own lives, goals, inner conflicts and personalities. I would
have to twist them to make them fit an agenda like that – and that would ruin
the story.
La Crimson Femme: Noted, so no murdering of people who pissed you off. *snickers* Now, back to
the interview. You write in a few
different genres. How do you decide which on to write in? Do you
ever feel the need to pull back from mixing the genres too much? For
example, do you sometimes feel you are adding too much romantic interest into a
Sci-fi Fantasy novel?
Jeffe Kennedy: I don’t really
choose the genre, I more choose the story. After it’s done, I (or my agent,
poor thing) try to figure out which genre to wedge it into. That’s of course a
consideration, what the readers expect, but so far I’ve been very lucky that
way. My editors have never told me I have too much or too little romance. I do
have an unsold book, that my agent says is like epic fantasy and urban fantasy
had a lurid affair and this is their bastard child. LOL! I may end up rewriting
that one. Or the market will open up enough to make it work.
La Crimson Femme: Ohh! A bastard
child?! I love both epic and urban
fantasy. Now I'm intrigued. *scribbles down note to ask for a copy to read*
Jeffe Kennedy: Well, I suppose
most of us authors are promo hos to a greater or lesser extent, so I thought
hey cool!! It was a fun opportunity. When I got there, it turned out I was
supposed to provide interview questions and I hadn’t. Oops. So the interviewer
said, well, I’ll just ask whatever comes to mind and we’ll see how it goes,
okay? That worked great. I think I wouldn’t change how I present myself or
doing public appearances due to kink level – I’m proud of my stories and I own
what’s in them. I believe sex is beautiful and there’s no room for fear or
shame about it.
La Crimson Femme: What is the craziest thing you've heard of but you are
afraid of trying?
Jeffe Kennedy: Bungee jumping!
Why why why?? *Waves hands wildly in the air*
La Crimson Femme: *chortles*
Do you ever go to a new location, pick up a new
hobby or try something new just so you can write about it?
Jeffe Kennedy: I did make a
special trip back to Charleston, to refresh my sensual details of the city for
PLATINUM. Otherwise, I think I like to travel so much and try so many things
that I have kind of a “bank “ of them. They all feed into my stories.
La Crimson Femme: Do you have any writing restrictions from your publisher?
Have you ever had any writing restrictions from a publisher? If so
what was it and how did affect you? For example, one erotic publisher
will not allow books with children in the book. We're not talking about
sex with children. We're talking about main characters having children.
Jeffe Kennedy: The only one I can
think of is a story that involves minors. It’s about young women growing up in
a cult compound, much like the FLDS one in Texas, with the marriage bed in the
temple. I really want that story to tell how young women – teenage girls, really
– can be sexually and emotionally manipulated by older men. So, there’s
orgasmic sex, without informed consent. My girls will have their revenge, but
so far, no one will touch the story. I might self-publish it at some point. But
things like characters having children or other plot details? No, not ever.
La Crimson Femme: I can see how
this one would be touchy with teenage girls.
Sometimes it feels as if we are going the opposite direction in our
protection that we lose the original intent.
It's one thing to have sex with minors for sensationalism. It's another when you are trying to prove a
point with a social commentary. Thank
you for stopping by!
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