Mother’s Are Made of Wonder- A Poem

* Happy Mother’s Day to my Wonder Mom. I love you!Mothers are magic

 

When I was young,

I learned the love of stories from you.

You showed me the magic

of delving into other worlds

in order to find pieces of myself.

You would mend my cuts

with just a kiss or a touch or your hand.

When I was older,

I learned the love of writing from you.

You showed me that I could

create my own stories

and my own worlds in which to live.

You were a fount of wisdom and your words

guided me through a world that was

strange and frightening,

but you showed me that the world

shone from within the shadows if I was willing

to look for the light.

Now that I am older still,

words continue to flow from me,

my own kind of magic.

You have taught me to live a life

that is full of magic and one that is completely mine.

There is so much you have given me,

so much of it beyond the physical.

I know now that you are made of wonder.

It is your wise words I hear inside of me,

it is your strength I carry within me,

it is the courage that you instilled me with

that has helped me thrive into the man

I’ve become.

I have you to thank for this

and for everything you have given me

and all that you have made possible.

You are made of stardust

and you are everything

magical.

All I can do is give you my love

and hope that it is magic

enough.

Life and Lemonade – AVAILABLE NOW!

Small Life and LemonadeCheck it out! My new novel, Life and Lemonade, is available now!

It follows the adventures of Blaine, Nancy, Mike, William and Poppy who you met in Lust and Lemonade. Here’s a bit about the novel:

Blaine and his friends have all found love, but there are others who aren’t so lucky. In a world filled with all kinds of relationships, some of them can heal while others can hurt. Blaine and friends must find their way around their relationships, new and old, if they are to make sense of the world around them. Sometimes love pulls people together, even when life is trying to push them apart. All is fair in love and war…but sometimes, life gets in the way.

You can get the book in paperback from my publisher Renaissance Press:

https://renaissancebookpress.com/product/life-and-lemonade/

And you can get the eBook from Amazon:

https://www.amazon.ca/Life-Lemonade-Jamieson-Wolf-ebook/dp/B07CQVTKGC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1526085374&sr=8-1&keywords=Life+and+Lemonade+Jamieson+Wolf

I hope you enjoy reading the book as much as I enjoyed writing it! If you read the book, I’d really love a review!

Stay tuned for more news and updates as things begin to take shape!

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Starboy and My Return to Romance

TheColorOfLove-300x454In 2013, I stopped writing romance novels.

I had written a lot of them. Twenty-four of them are still available, but there were others that went out of print. At the height of my romance career, I had written over forty of them. That’s a whole lotta lovin’.

Then in 2013, my life changed. I changed. I became a different person. At the time, I was dealing with a lot of health issues. I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. I was dealing with the breakup of a marriage and a horrible relationship.

To say the least, I wasn’t in a good place at all.

As I healed and learned to do simple things again, like walking and typing, and speaking, I came to the realization that I had written my romances while married to my ex-husband. I wrote about the love I wanted…not the love I had. I decided that I was done with romance. I decided that I wanted to write “serious” books, whatever that means.

Added to that, I didn’t feel attractive or very loved. I felt like I was part man, part monster. I didn’t feel like writing about other men living out their romantic adventures when I wasn’t able to have my own.

Then a strange thing started to happen.

I began to see myself in a whole new light. Even though I had MS, I was still a sexual being. When I met Michael, I realized that my having MS didn’t change that fact. I had been tempted to go back to writing romances, but I was done with them, wasn’t I?

I had finished with romance…The only thing was that romance had not finished with me.

Though I had supposedly turned away from writing romance, I wrote novellas with romantic elements in them, novels about people finding love in the modern world, poems to the man that became my husband that were filled with romance and with the healing power of love.

Some time ago, I wrote a flash fiction piece for fun. It was very romantic and at the time, it felt like I was dipping my toe back into the water of romance. It was like a breath of fresh air after a long time of not breathing properly.

I set the piece aside and thought that was that…only my Muse would not leave me alone. She kept trying to tell me to pick that story back up again, that it could be more, that it could be something full of magic.

I decided not to ignore my Muse; she gets quite cranky if I do that. I decided to see what would happen…

And now you will be able to find out what happened with Starboy Book One: The Color of Love. It’s available from the good folks at Cobblestone Press on May 15th! I can’t wait for you all to read it.

It’s short, just over 5,000 words. But think of this as the prologue for the tale that is about to come. I don’t know how many books it will be, but I’m thinking five, as a Star has five points, right?

I hope you’ll come with me to meet Alexander and Troy and to experience the beginning of their story.

In the meantime, if you’re looking for something to wet your whistle while you wait, you can view all of my books with Cobblestone Press here:

http://www.cobblestone-press.com/catalog/author/jamiesonwolf.htm

It’s been a long and winding road to this novella…five years in fact. I hope it’s worth the wait for you as much as it has been for me.

I Hope You Know – A Poem

My dear Husband:small mountain

I hope you

know that I

would climb mountains

for you if

the only thing

that would make

you well was

an herb that

grew on the

topmost peak. I

hope you know

that I would

swim across the widest

sea if the

only thing that

would mend your

cuts was a

salve made from

leaves of a

tree that only

grew on the

other side of

that ocean. And

I hope you

know that if

you had a

fever and the

only thing that

would calm it

was tea from

across the world,

I would scour

the Earth to

find it, so

that I could

make you well.

Just as you

take care of

me, I will

care for you.

My dear Husband,

I hope you

know how much

I love you.

So much so

that it defies

description.

 

 

Free eBooks! The Elemental Poetry Series

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To celebrate the eBook release of Singing to the Spirit, the four previous books are free for the next five days on Amazon! That’s four free eBooks! How awesome is that? You can find the books here:

Talking to the Sky

https://www.amazon.ca/Talking-Sky-Jamieson-Wolf-ebook/dp/B00I7BZXLU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1524359507&sr=8-1&keywords=Talking+to+the+Sky+Jamieson+Wolf

Walking on the Earth

https://www.amazon.ca/Walking-Earth-Jamieson-Wolf-ebook/dp/B00SYWNCA6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1524359592&sr=8-1&keywords=Walking+on+the+Earth+Jamieson+Wolf

Dancing with the Flame

https://www.amazon.ca/Dancing-Flame-Jamieson-Wolf-ebook/dp/B01AL29MDM/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1524359632&sr=1-1&keywords=Dancing+with+the+Flame+Jamieson+Wolf

Living Beyond the Waves

https://www.amazon.ca/Living-Beyond-Waves-Jamieson-Wolf-ebook/dp/B01MR8MM5C/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1524359676&sr=1-1&keywords=Living+Beyond+the+Waves+Jamieson+Wolf

The eBook of Singing to the Spirit just released the other day. You can find your copy of that here at a special price of $0.99 US or $1.25 CAD for a limited time:

https://www.amazon.ca/Singing-Spirit-Jamieson-Wolf-ebook/dp/B07CJPG7YL/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1524359796&sr=1-1&keywords=Singing+to+the+Spirit+Jamieson+Wolf

When I first published Talking to the Sky in 2014, I had no idea that it would be the start in a series of poetry anthologies. I had no idea that Talking to the Sky would reach the #1 spot on Amazon either. I had put the book together on a whim during a time of recovery.

Each of the anthologies have a different theme and they ended up being part memoir, part journey to self. If I had to give the series an overall title, it would be The Elemental Poetry Series. There is a lot of me within their pages.

If you read any of these books, I would appreciate a review. You can get the books free from today until April 25th.

I hope you enjoy them!