Jade Alyse Writes

Why Should You Care About Jade Alyse?

   

Why Should You Care About Jade Alyse?

It's National Novel Writing Month, and every author (independent and traditional) is fighting for the spotlight.  Why should you care to read anything written by little ole me?

  • Everything I've written has a song associated with it.  I have a large music library.  I'm very passionate about music.  I cannot write without it.  I listen to a song, envision the scene in my head and write it from there.
  • Interracial dynamics fascinate me.  The casts in my stories will never all be one race.  I, myself, thrive in an eclectic, racially diverse environment.  This is 2012; the reality is, whites will date blacks, have sex with them, marry them, have kids by them.  The state of California is creating a whole new race by itself.  America exists in a shade of gray.
  • My sauciest, most intense scenes come from drinking wine.  I think that one pretty much speaks for itself.
  • My heroines are bitches.  But they are bitches who have the capacity to love and be loved.  All too often I've read heroines or other leading women, who submit to their men no matter how controlling or crazy they are.  Nope.  Absolutely not.  My women will never submit to a man so easily.  The book would be over very quickly, no?

Do You Have To Suffer For Your Art? Or Can Happy Writers Be Successful?

The list of authors who have taken their own lives is tragically long and reads like a who’s who of the literary world: Sylvia Plath, Ernest Hemingway, Anne Sexton, Virginia Woolf, David Foster Wallace, Hunter S. Thompson, and hundreds of other authors have been stolen from the world by suicide. The list of those who have battled serious depression is even longer: Hans Christian Andersen, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, J.K. Rowling, Anne Rice, Amy Tan, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Baudelaire, John Keats, Walt Whitman, and countless others.

A Girl Who Reads...

If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are. Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.”

Robert Pattinson 

20 Books You Should Read in Your 20s

20 Books You Should Read in Your 20s

When you're twenty-something, you're doing a lot of changing, a lot of growing and learning. You're setting a foundation for your life and these are the books that will make you think. These are 20 books that will open your mind and change you. They will inspire and make you laugh, and some will make you cry. There's something for everyone on this lis,t but honorable mention goes to The Complete Works of Shakespeare - which didn't make the list because you all should be smart enough to read that without being told. I can't do everything for you guys! So, take a look at the 20 books you should read in your twenties.
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