At Renaissance CON (June 2020), S.M. Carrière noticed my beard that I started growing out in January 2020. She mentioned it was an impressive COVID beard and I said, “It’s a novel beard. I’ll shave when I finish this darned book.”
Fast forward to last week and I finally finished the darned book.
Here are pictures of a wild bearded author who just finished his book (and received another):
Coffee Shop Between the ‘Verses is now available at your local bookstore or on our website.
And now here are the pictures of a newly sheared author who has much too much face for his own liking:
With Dragon doing full digital school, we’ve decided to move things around a little. Here’s the schedule for the foreseeable future.
Monday
Éric Desmarais will randomly write things like an unspecified number of monkeys with typewriters… which is totally not how he writes his posts… *Shifty Eyes* EDIT: Please send bananas.
Tuesday
Guitar Lessons Jen is learning guitar and her journey is quite a lot of fun to follow. Certainly a Major Scaled accomplishment.
JenEric Movie Reviews continues to watch movies, over-analyse them, and tell you all about it.
Friday
The monkeysÉric returns with serial stories, regular stories, rants, coffee info, and really whatever comes out of the typewriters… uhm mind, his mind.
Saturday & Sunday
Unless 2021 ends up being as movie watching heavy as 2020, these will be left blank and let the monkeys, time machine, and musicians rest.
We are doing the Holiday Calendars again this year. YAY!
They are whole bean, fresh roasted coffee which is a custom blend of Peruvian, Mexican, Guatemalan, and Sumatran beans.
Here are the options for this year:
24 Bags at 1oz each ($50)
12 Bags at 2oz each ($50)
24 Bags at 2oz each ($100)
This is a pre-order for our Holiday Calendars. All bags will include fresh roasted whole bean coffee from a variety of locations.
Flavours will be picked from our current selection and a few experimental flavours.
There will be two sets of pre-orders. Deadline to order first wave September 30th – Orders will ship mid-October. Deadline to order second wave November 5th – Orders will ship mid-November.
Each Holiday calendar will come packaged with a surprise.
*ALLERGY* If you have allergies please email us at JenEricDesigns(AT)gmail.com to let us know your specific allergy.
Small businesses and musicians have something in common, they start planning for the holiday season in August and September.
That means that we are slowly planning this years JenEric Coffee Advent Calendars.
So this is the time that we ask you to let us know what you’d like to see in this years Coffee Advent Calendar. Let us know what your favourite flavours were from last year? Did you want more options?
Tomorrow from 10am – 5pm est, we will be participating in Virtual NerdCon.
Virtual Nerdcon is a nerdy convention hosted in an ACTUAL virtual world! You can customize your avatar, make friends, and shop from actual booths! It has all of your favourite nerdy hobbies and interests for you to shop from AND you can support small businesses! Best part is, you technically don’t even have to get out of bed!
Date: July 10th Time: 10am – 5pm EST Price: $1 CAD/ticket
All proceeds from ticket sales are going to helping Native Women in the community through the charity Native Womens Wilderness.
Native Women’s Wilderness was created to bring Native women together to share our stories, support each other, and learn from one another as we endeavor to explore and celebrate the wilderness and our native lands.
This year we’re making changes to the schedule of posts. Here’s what’s going to happen:
Monday
Éric Desmarais will randomly write things like an unspecified number of monkeys with typewriters… which is totally not how he writes his posts… *Shifty Eyes*
Tuesday
How I Taught My Dragon will post the results of the previous week with all the cute pictures of Dragon learning.
How I Taught My Dragon will post the plan for the next week of Draconic (but rarely draconian) learning.
Friday
The monkeysÉric returns with serial stories, regular stories, rants, coffee info, and really whatever comes out of the typewriters… uhm mind, his mind.
Saturday
JenEric Movie Reviews continues to watch movies, over-analyse them, and tell you all about it.
Sunday
Unless 2021 ends up being as movie watching heavy as 2020, this will be left blank and let the monkeys, time machine, and Dragon rest.
Looks like another exciting year for JenEric Designs. Hope you enjoy it!
4. Ensure there’s content 5 days a week on JenEric Designs (Success)
It’s a year of change and there will be more in the new year.
5. Design and Produce 2 new coffee flavours (Success)
We released Apple Pie and a new branding for our unflavoured medium coffee. I’ll take that as a win.
6. Print, Package, and Sell Oneshot – The Simplest RPG (Fail)
I really think this will sell better at conventions if I can keep the price down. It’s on hold until the world is more vaccinated.
Editing and Marketing
7. Finish Playtesting the higher levels of Fadds (Success)
We tested the higher levels and it was great. I have a really good group at the moment and they’re finding all the loopholes and issues. I’ll hopefully keep going in the new year.
8. Figure out how to market my books better (Fail)
This is a great goal and a great idea… I wish I had something beyond this… I’m not great at pushing my stuff.
Personal
9. Read 20 books (Failed)
I managed 11 books this year. It’s not as much as I’d like, but like writing, I’ve had a hard time finding time to read.
10. Don’t Burnout (Success)
November almost killed me after some health issues. I came very close to a total burnout.
11. Be More Patient (Partial Success)
I’ve lost my temper a lot more than I should. I hate yelling. I hate that sometimes it’s the only way either child listens to me. I think I’ll say I half succeeded.
12. Play Some Video games with Dragon (Success)
It’s been ridiculously busy but we’ve played a few times. It’s fun and I hope we can manage it more in the new year.
13. Play Some Board Games with Dragon (Success)
We’ve played a few times and the holidays will hopefully lend themselves to some more games.
Looks like 7.5 successes out of 13… That’s 58%. For 2020, I’ll take it.
Here’s to hoping 2021 is a better year, for everyone.
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