Artist, Writer & Wild West Woman
Wednesday, 31 July 2024
JO. B. CREATIVE!: THE MAKING OF JEANNIE MORGAN BY THE AUTHOR - ME
JO. B. CREATIVE!: THE MAKING OF JEANNIE MORGAN BY THE AUTHOR - ME: THE MAKING OF JEANNIE ALEXANDRA SARAH MORGAN, THE FASTEST GUN IN THE WEST, BY THE AUTHOR I'VE POSTED THESE IMAGES MANY TIMES (MY APOL...
Tuesday, 23 July 2024
JO. B. CREATIVE!: ALIAS JEANNIE DELANEY - BOOK 2 - THE OUTLAW'S RETU...
JO. B. CREATIVE!: ALIAS JEANNIE DELANEY - BOOK 2 - THE OUTLAW'S RETU...: Alias Jeannie Delaney - Book 2 - The Outlaw's Return Launch on August 3rd. Pre-order is available on Amazon. Fancy reading a western wi...
Monday, 15 July 2024
JO. B. CREATIVE!: CALAMITY JANE & ME
JO. B. CREATIVE!: CALAMITY JANE & ME: CALAMITY JANE & ME THE REAL CALAMITY Is it just me? Okay it's just me. Who else is disappointed with the ending of Doris Day's ...
CALAMITY JANE & ME
CALAMITY JANE & ME
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THE REAL CALAMITY |
Is it just me? Okay it's just me.
Who else is disappointed with the ending of Doris Day's rendering of Calamity Jane in 1953?
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CALAMITY JANE'S BEEN TAMED! NOOOOO.....! |
But, unlike the real Calamity Jane, who looked like the back end of a cow in later life, bless her, and almost permanently drunk,
Jeannie is tomboy beautiful in face and figure and truly charismatic, and although she loves her drink and does get drunk easily, she's not prone to being drunk most of the time, which Calamity Jane was, particularly towards the end of her fifty-two years, I think it was.
My Calamity Jane - Jeannie - is bisexual and the fastest gun in the west. I couldn't explain the sexuality part to folks way back when who wanted details about my novel, or the fact that she's embroiled in sexual juicy bits and violence, as does happen in a traditional western in which the fastest gun is always a bloke. She's a woman, and she's entangled in all the stuff that happens to guys in westerns. I was as red-faced embarrassed as a drunken mountain man in the days I was first writing this thing. Nice girls don't write nasty stories like that. Fluffy bunny stories, that's what I was supposed to write. So yes - the Calamity Jane explanation came in very handy, particularly as I'd researched Calamity pretty well.
Ever since hubby took over the process of my becoming self-published, I've written about her on social media and sold a lot of the first book, Alias Jeannie Delaney - Book 1 - Go West, Girl!. Yes, Alias Jeannie Delaney turned into a trilogy, much to my surprise, and has turned out to be really popular, and many readers have quickly pre-ordered Book 2 - The Outlaw's Return, which feels totally surreal. I've grown to accept Jeannie, and my embarrassment has worn away with time. I can even say her name out loud! About time.
Now - Calamity Jane, the 1953 (the year of my birth, coincidentally) musical starring Doris Day as Calamity - is so disappointing. It's great fun at the start, with a buckskin clad Calamity having a ball on the roof of the Deadwood stagecoach and singing the opening number, followed by fun and frolics in the saloon.
She's attractive, funny, cheeky and in a class of her own. I identify far more with Calamity in this instance than I ever did with my Jeannie, who's tough n' rough (although I am her, apparently, according to fans). But the end of the film, when Calamity is dressed in white and driven away by Wild Bill after their wedding #**#!! WHAT?! No way!
So no - I can't watch the film and see Calamity's character cleaned up and tamed into submission. That final scene ruins the whole thing for me. But I guess that's the 1950s for you. So disappointing. I wasn't going to have any 'taming' done in Alias - no siree. Jeannie remains true to herself throughout, although her sometimes overwhelming character is held back for short periods at various, appropriate points in the story. No taming here otherwise!
Tamed? Hah! 😝
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Alias Jeannie Delaney, my epic western trilogy, follows the life of devastating and charismatic pants-wearing cowgirl Jeannie Morgan, who's the fastest gun in the west and a magnificent lover to both men and women. This is her journey to find her true self on the wild frontier throughout deadly confrontations and personal tragedies. Will Jeannie find happiness or will her tomboy beauty, powerful persona and lethal gun ultimately be the death of her? Read the three novels and find out!
Book 2 - The Outlaw's Return
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Thursday, 11 July 2024
THE EXTRAORDINARY TOURIST (TET)
I'm delighted to announce that a blog acquaintance of mine, David Arandle, has posted the following article about my soon to be launched novel, Alias Jeannie Delaney - Book 2 - The Outlaw's Return, on his own blog TET (The Extraordinary Tourist).
Almost a year ago I featured Book 1 - Go West, Girl! - of author Kit Mackenzie's Alias Jeannie Delaney series.
Now, the next book in the series, Alias Jeannie Delaney - Book 2 - The Outlaw's Return, is to be released on August 3rd, and is available for pre-order on
Amazon.
If you love a powerful female lead in a traditional western packed with action and adventure, this is the novel for you.
The story centers on Cowgirl Jeannie Morgan who grew up in Coyote Creek, Wyoming, where she became persecuted for her lethal gun and a sexuality that swings both ways.
Tomboy beautiful and tough as the nails in a miner's boots, she is on the run with a bunch of boys who would die for her.
Her snake strike gun, soul-slicing gaze and dangerous magnetism leaves a trail of intense emotions, killings and would-be death threats in her wake. Heading south, she finds herself becoming a legend.
She's in deep trouble, but her home town demands her return and they pin a badge on her. It's her job to kill or be killed. If she survives, will it be happily ever after or will her dynamism, snake-strike gun and sexuality finish her off?
Author Kit Mackenzie (also known as Artist, Writer, and Mental Health Advocate, Jo B Creative, to long time readers of this blog, writes for her blog, Jo.B.Creative) lives in beautiful Hampshire, in the UK, with her soulmate hubby and their lovable cat Lulu.
Kit has been fascinated by the wild west since her teens - which she considers strange, due to her own bucolic English environment. Writing a novel was among the zillion things Kit wanted to accomplish.
That became reality when she committed to writing Alias Jeannie Delaney, the life story of a female frontier hero who's the fastest gun in the west - a cowgirl, outlaw leader, jailbird, deputy sheriff, and ultimately a powerful rancher and mayor and posse member.
Even after finishing this mammoth three-book epic western, Kit feels she still has more stories to write about Jeannie, and I hope she does.
Alias Jeannie Delaney - Book 2 - The Outlaw's Return is available for pre-order on Amazon.
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Tuesday, 9 July 2024
JO. B. CREATIVE!: THE STORY BEHIND THE BOOK COVER REVEAL
JO. B. CREATIVE!: THE STORY BEHIND THE BOOK COVER REVEAL: THE STORY BEHIND THE COVER REVEAL OF ALIAS JEANNIE DELANEY - BOOK 2 - THE OUTLAW'S RETURN It's a gr...