Jamieson Wolf
Number-one bestselling author
Starboy and My Return to Romance
In 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:
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
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
Walking on the Earth
Dancing with the Flame
Living Beyond the Waves
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:
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!
The Song Within Me – A Poem
All my life,
there has been something
that sang within me.
I heard this song
everywhere I went,
this lovely melody
that called to my spirit.
It was as if someone
had turned the volume down,
keeping it low so as not to
wake anyone else.
I would try to tune into it,
to hear it more clearly,
but it remained soft.
I wished for you,
for someone that I thought didn’t exist.
The music was at its strongest
when I wished for you,
and pictured who you would be,
as if a gentle wind flew underneath the notes
of music within me and lifted them higher
so that I could hear them more clearly.
When I met you,
the music increased in volume
until I didn’t have to strain to listen to the notes.
They rang right through me
and my spirit sang when you touched me.
I came to realise that you were always there within me,
waiting for the moment we met
in order to fill me
with light and song.
Life and Lemonade – The Cover!
Check it out everyone!
I am so thrilled to show off the cover of Life and Lemonade, Book Two in the Lemonade Series. Isn’t it GORGEOUS?!
Nathan Frechette did an AMAZING job. His artistry skills are out of this world. He really brought my characters to life!
Here’s a bit about the book:
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 his 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.
Not only that, you get to see the fancy things that everyone had to say about my little book. Check out the lovely quotes I got from some amazing authors:
“Jamieson Wolf is a gifted writer!”
Kelley Armstrong, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Women of the Otherworld Series.
“It was like Season 2 of my favourite series got released and I had to binge-watch it. Jamieson Wolf takes us deeper into the lives of Blaine and his crew, and it’s so hard to stop reading what comes next!”
Cait Gordon, author of Life in the ’Cosm
“Walk through the lives of friends and lovers. Feel the joy and the sorrow, the fear and the victory. Mr. Wolf has captured the real lives of these characters. You will laugh and cry and curse and cheer along with them. And I promise, you will fall in love with them – as I have.”
Dava Gamble, Author of Jade Ascent and Jade Bestowed
“A frothy, big-hearted, romantic delight, with grit and steel at its core, and told in every colour of love in the rainbow.”
Stephen Graham King, Best Selling Author of Soul’s Blood and Gatecrasher
“Jameson takes the big—and little—moments of life and infuses them with such a wonderfully queer reality. The older aren’t necessarily wiser, the younger aren’t necessarily the go-getters, and the end result is a sense of living, breathing chosen family that charms.”
Nathan Burgoine, Best Selling Author of Exit Plans for Teenage Freaks and Triad Blood
I am eternally grateful to the other authors that read Life and Lemonade and had such kind things to say!
We’re one step closer to publication!
Woohoo!
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Jamieson Wolf has written a compelling story about navigating multiple sclerosis and cerebral palsy. His story will touch your heart, make you cry, then laugh, and inspire you. A touching memoir with a bit of magic…and tarot! ~ Theresa Reed, author of The Tarot Coloring Book
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