Hello Coffee Lovers,
ALL ORDERS MUST ME PLACED BY TONIGHT AT MIDNIGHT!!!
Would you or a loved one want 24 bags of coffee for advent? Or would you prefer 12 larger bags?
JenEric Coffee has you covered.
This is a pre-order for our Advent Calendars. Flavours will be picked from our current selection and a few experimental flavours.
Orders will ship mid-November.
Pick up will be available Ottawa Comiccon: Holiday Edition 2019! (November 9-10)
Enjoy!
Éric
Hello My Imaginary Friends,
This past weekend the entire JenEric family went to one of our favourite conventions; Can*Con. The people were lovely and the event was wonderful, but boy am I glad it’s over.
It’s definitely the most stressful convention for me. Most conventions, my job is to stand there, look pretty, and sell coffee. At Can*Con, I’m also an author and need to talk about my books and my experience. Often times, with people I respect and am in awe of.
This year I had a panel about multiple point of view narratives with Tanya Huff and Kevin Hearn. Both amazing writers and extremely intelligent panelists. I think, to my surprise, I didn’t come off as a complete fool, so yay. (A personal fanboy moment was when Tanya chided me for not mentioning my Aurora nomination.)
Took a deep dive into multiple POVs at the Who’s your Hero Panel today. Thanks for the insights @KevinHearne @TanyaHuff @EricDesmarais @KVJohansen @CanConSF pic.twitter.com/VCuOcol326
— Colleen Winter (@ColleenWinter3) October 20, 2019
I also had a signing with Charles De Lint. I spent half the time chatting with people in line to talk with him and half the time chatting with him. He’s a really nice person and we chatted about book formatting and support structures.
Now all that was stressful but awesome. Unfortunately, all 4 of us came down with a cold just before the convention. So doing a convention with a 3 year old and a baby while being sick was… exhausting.
Despite all of us being exhausted, we decided we needed to go to the Aurora awards banquet (we were both nominated but didn’t expect to win). Dragon wanted to dress up and we were just too darn tired so we didn’t. We were the schlumps in t-shirts and jeans but we had a great time.
On the Sunday I had a reading and took Dragon to ensure I had an audience. To my surprise, there were three other people. At least one of which was there to hear me read. Yay, I have a fan! Thanks S!
Doing conventions with kids is hard but totally worth it. Pegasus mostly slept, but Dragon was as good as possible. She listened, didn’t touch things, and only melted down a few times. I’m really proud of them.
Doing conventions with kids isn’t easy, but what makes it infinitely better is doing it with people who love them and like to entertain them. S. M. Carrière being the godmother spends a lot of time helping us at almost every con. Nathan of Renaissance was amazing despite being busy 99% of the con. Heather Chambers was absolutely fantastic with Dragon. She drew with her, played, and spent lots of time laughing.
There are more people that helped then I can name.
To everyone who helped, chatted, bought something, listened to me read or rant, or just made this convention amazing. Thank you so much!
I’m exhausted but happy.
Thank you again,
Éric
Hello Coffee Lovers,
Would you or a loved one want 24 bags of coffee for advent? Or would you prefer 12 larger bags?
JenEric Coffee has you covered.
This is a pre-order for our Advent Calendars. Flavours will be picked from our current selection and a few experimental flavours.
Orders will ship mid-November.
Pick up will be available Ottawa Comiccon: Holiday Edition 2019! (November 9-10)
We will be delivering or shipping any orders received before the 31st of September in mid-October. Any orders received between the 1st and 31st of October will be delivered or shipped in mid-November.
Enjoy!
Éric
Hello lovers of warm drinks,
This year at Ottawa Comiccon there was an awesome tea vender, who is based in Montreal. We bought some fantastic Sailor Venus tea that Jen loves.
Since then, we’ve tried a half dozen more of their teas and they’re amazing. They have a great selection of fandom tea.
Bonus; they are also selling an advent calendar.
Go check out their site and get some tea for those that don’t want to drink coffee all the time.
Later days,
Éric
Hello Coffee Lovers,
Would you or a loved one want 24 bags of coffee for advent? Or would you prefer 12 larger bags?
JenEric Coffee has you covered.
This is a pre-order for our Advent Calendars. Flavours will be picked from our current selection and a few experimental flavours.
We will be doing 2 waves; the first wave will ship mid-October. The second will ship mid-November.
Pick up will be available at Can*Con 2019 (October 18-20) or Ottawa Comiccon: Holiday Edition 2019! (November 9-10)
We will be delivering or shipping any orders received before the 31st of September in mid-October. Any orders received between the 1st and 31st of October will be delivered or shipped in mid-November.
Enjoy!
Éric
Hello My Imaginary Friends,
It’s July 2nd and that means half the year has passed us by… whoa. That was fast.
Let’s see how I’m doing with my resolutions.
So far, so good; I’ve written one every month except for April. But I wrote an extra chapter to make up for it so I consider that good.
Go Read Seren Plentyn and the Secret of Hokulua Station
I haven’t touched this yet… Hopefully I’ll get a chance this summer.
I’ve written 8 of 15 chapters… so that’s good.
I started the year with 10 of 30 chapters… so that’s a good thing… I’m not sure I’ll get this done but I’d really like to.
We broke our 6 year streak with a missed post in February. The post was set for the right day but didn’t actually post and we didn’t notice until the next day; so it’s a fail.
We debuted Mighty ThOrange, In Another Castle, and Unbirthday Cake this year. So I went a little overboard.
You can buy them and JenEric Coffee!
I haven’t looked at it… 🙁
I wrote a draft letter, list of names, and started things off. It’s all up to my publisher now.
I’ve playtested level 10-11. In the fall, I’ll start a level 12-17 campaign.
After a lot of thought, I’m come to realize this is a great concept, but not an easy thing to implement… I’ll think of something.
The game is great and works, but I have to find a better way to market/gimmick it.
I’ve read 13 of 20 so that’s great. I’m kinda hating the book I’m reading now, but we’ll see if it gets better.
I’m doing okay. I’ve come close a few times and been really in need of some rest, but overall I’ve done okay.
I’m trying… Really I am. I have my moments, but overall I think I’ve been better. My wife confirmed that I have been. Yay!
I still need to work on it. Especially at bedtime when all I want is sleep.
I’ve played some mobile games with her; she helps a little. Hopefully on parental leave we can try some console stuff.
So the breakdown is Succeeding/Succeeded 9, Failing/Failed 2, and No movement 3. At this rate I’m on course for a 60%+.
Hope you’re doing just as well!
Éric
Hello My Imaginary Friends,
This was Dragon’s third Comiccon and she had a blast! (Read about last year here)
She spent this year playing with her new (they were actually her mum’s) Fisher Price Little People, hanging out with Vic, Aunt Lindsay, Modryb Sonia, and all the other wonderful people who vend around us.
Her favourite thing to do was stand on the cooler and “help” me sell coffee. Other things she enjoyed include:
The two big highlights for her were Daleks and amazing cosplayers. (Tinkerbell by Princess of the North, Sailors Moon and Venus by Mysticfae, and Rapunzel and Eugene by East Coast Speedster)
Dragon had another great year at Ottawa ComicCon.
Thank you to everyone who interacted with her and helped us this year.
Éric
Hello Imaginary Friends, Coffee Lovers, Blushers, Fandom Travellers, TARDIS lovers, and Crochet aficionados,
THANK YOU! To everyone who came to see us this past weekend at Ottawa Comic Con. It’s not the venue or the guests that make a great con, but the attendees, and this year you were extra awesome.
Without you ,there would be no JenEric Coffee, Designs, Travelling TARDIS, or Blush. (Aspiring Something would still exist because I don’t think I could stop writing, but it would be much less fun alone.)
Thank you again and see you next year at Ottawa ComicCon 2020!
Éric
Hello!
JenEric Designs, JenEric Coffee, The Travelling TARDIS, and Eric Desmarais will be at this weekend’s Ottawa Comiccon. We’ll be at booth 2606 and 2608 Friday, Saturday, and Sunday!
Hope to see you this weekend at Ottawa Comiccon!
Hello My imaginary Friends,
This year has been extremely busy. I’m trying not to fall into old patterns of stress and overwork but it feels hard to avoid sometimes.
I’m surviving and I’ll be okay.
The past few weeks I’ve written a Ghostship story for July. You’ll get the next instalment in the Sun Speaker Series while we recover from the arrival of baby Pegasus.
Beyond that, I’m going to try and push to continue writing the novels that are calling me. I have two on the go and little to show for my writing this year. But I’m going to start… today even. I hope.
I do have an outline for another novel, which is awesome, but it’ll be a while before I get to it.
I’ve been frantically roasting coffee. I’m roasting almost 150 lbs this year which is more than we’ve ever had before. We’ll have 17 flavours available for Ottawa Comic Con.
I’m loving the new roaster and the new method is working great. I’m still getting used to getting the perfect roast, but overall I’m extremely happy with it.
I have the edits for A Case of Synchronicity and will work on those this week. I’m still waiting on the second round of edits for Everdome but they should be here soon.
I’ve been playing very few games. Haven’t touched Lego Incredibles in a few months. With most weekends dedicated to roasting, I don’t have as much time.
I have been playing Elder Scroll Blades on my phone. It’s an extremely beautiful game. It’s also repetitive and nearly impossible to do anything without paying. There are chests you can never encounter in the game but you can buy. Overall, it’s very much a micro-payment play-to-win style game.
Preparations for the baby are in full swing. We have a room, it has a bed, we have decorations, and a GIANT pile of clothing.
I got my tattoo this weekend. (More on that in another post.)
Things are feeling more real. I think after comic con, I’m going to quickly transition to impatiently waiting.
So in an eggshell (Easter joke intended) things are going well and I’m busy.
Now lets get to writing… after some breakfast and coffee.
Later Days,
Éric
