Jade C. Jamison

Writing about Sex, Love, and Rock 'n' Roll. Somebody's gotta do it!

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Too racy for Facebook? (What's a romance writer to do?)

#rockstar #romance Too racy for Facebook

These days, getting your book seen (and read) involves marketing and promotion. A lot of times, the easiest way to do that is to put a book (or series) on sale and then advertise it. But when you’re marketing your book to a new audience, you sometimes have to give them more than just the book cover. While a crappy cover will tank sales, good covers will tell a reader that your book is in the…

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Killing my gargantuan rock star romance project (it's for the best)

Killing my gargantuan rock star romance project (it’s for the best)

To my rock star romance loving friends: As you might know, since June of 2021, I have been obsessed with finding every single rockstar romance book that had ever been published, even if it’s no longer available to purchase and read anymore. I wanted to find them all, because I figured it was a newer subgenre of romance (unlike, say, historical romance, which has been around for decades)—and I…

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Fifteen Female Rockstar Romances You'll Love!

Fifteen Female Rockstar Romances You’ll Love!

I know female rockers are no anomaly–but, in the world of heavy metal where most of my rock stars live, they are. When I was much younger and metal was newer, I could count the number of female rockers on one hand. While they’re not so rare anymore, they’re still unusual, even in rockstar romance fiction. I myself love writing about hardcore female rock stars, but I’m not the only author who…

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Ten Friends-to-Lovers Rockstar Romance Novels That'll Make You Swoon!

Ten Friends-to-Lovers Rockstar Romance Novels That’ll Make You Swoon!

OMG, what’s not to love about friends-to-lovers romances? Two best friends who already adore each other, love spending time together, maybe all the while harboring a secret crush. Then, when it happens, the awkwardness of it all that threatens to destroy any semblance of a relationship. The two of them figuring out how to make things work. Or not! Sometimes, these amazing authors find a way to…

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Twenty Second Chance Rockstar Romance Books You'll Love!

Twenty Second Chance Rockstar Romance Books You’ll Love!

If you’re here, then I already know you love rock star romance–but lots of readers love second chance romance, too–and second chance rockstar romance? It doesn’t get better than that. I love the second chance trope, because sometimes we have regrets…the “what ifs.” And it can be so fun and realistic with rocker romance. Small town boy leaves to pursue rock star dreams and decides he can’t live…

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Twenty Small Town Rockstar Romance Reads You'll Love!

Twenty Small Town Rockstar Romance Reads You’ll Love!

If you haven’t read one before, you might think small town and rock star don’t go together, but I assure you they do–and they can go together quite well! There are hundreds of rockstar romance books out there that blend these subgenres/ tropes easily, but I just wanted to share a few. If this is new to you, then I hope this list merely ignites your new obsession. If you’re already a fan of this…

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Deleted chapters from ON THE RUN

If you like #deletedscenes or #rockstarromance, check out today's post!

It’s so easy to point out problems in retrospect, isn’t it? Such was the case for my rockstar romance trilogy The Vagabonds. I experimented with a lot of different elements (such as the cover) but, ultimately, I learned a lot of lessons. I also realized, a few years later, that the first book, On the Run, took a little too long to get into the thick of things. A rookie mistake, something I knew…

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New release rock star romance books for second half of 2021

New release rock star romance books for second half of 2021

If you’ve been following my blog (or even if you read my post about new rocker releases for the first half of 2021), then you’ve been expecting this! So, without further ado, let’s take a look at the newest, hottest rockstar romance novels published between July and December of this year! July 2021 Rewind – The Price of Fate (Everhide Rockstar Romance #5), Tania JoyceRestless Beat (Love in…

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Holiday Rock Star Romance Books to make you smile

Holiday Rock Star Romance Books to make you smile

Make your holidays bright and cheery with a few of these rocker Christmas stories! (The links go either to Amazon or Goodreads, so if you purchase your books on another site, you’ll have to search for them–sorry for the inconvenience!) You’re All I Want for Christmas (Of Love and Madness #1.5/ #4), Karen CimmsRogue Christmas Story (Rogue #7), Lara Ward CosioLast Christmas (Bound Together #1.5),…

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Review of The Dean's List by Kelly Collins

Review of The Dean’s List by Kelly Collins

If you’re a fan of Kelly Collins’s Aspen Cove series, you may not be familiar with some of her older works. I read The Dean’s List quite some time ago, and it’s high time I reviewed it. Many of my faithful readers avidly devour romance in multiple genres, so I believe they just might enjoy this steamy contemporary read! Kelly Collins and I became friends several years ago—my star was on the way…

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Love and Christmas is live!

Love and Christmas is live!

The final book in the Small Town Secret series is now live! Love and Christmas, just in time for the holidays! The Small Town Secret project has been a labor of love for a couple of years now, as I’ve been rewriting old books to make them better. Love and Christmas is the end of that project, and I’ve enjoyed making those books lots better. Seriously, some of them are way better! And 2022 will…

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A philosopher for Gen X: Review of Corey Taylor’s Seven Deadly Sins

A philosopher for Gen X: Review of Corey Taylor’s Seven Deadly Sins

For a long time, I’ve been meaning to read Corey Taylor’s books. After all, I love his wordsmithery in terms of song lyrics, so I suspected I’d enjoy his prose. I started with Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good. Yes, I finally read this book! One thing I noticed by perusing previous reviews was that a lot of readers have taken issue with the fact that most…

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The ultimate compilation of rock star romance novels

The ultimate compilation of rock star romance novels

If you’ve been following my blog over the last few months, then you know that I’ve been compiling lists of rockstar romance books. I’m trying to find ALL of them in every sub subgenre. I started out with just a couple of years (2011 and 2012), but then I realized there were far more books published than I’d realized. Before I knew it, it became an obsession. I had to track down every single rock…

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Check Out These Rock Star Romance Novels Published in 2010 and Earlier

Check Out These Rock Star Romance Novels Published in 2010 and Earlier

Hey, my rockstar romance reading friend! If you’ve been following my posts for the last few months, then you know that tracking down old rocker romance books has become an obsession for me. SERIOUSLY. What’s cool about that, though, is that I’ve discovered so many books that I’ve missed from my past posts that I’ll be adding. But that’s also what sucks, because it’s more work. That being said,…

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New release rock star romance books for first half of 2021

New release rock star romance books for first half of 2021

If you saw my list for 2020, you know it was HUGE. Rocker romance is here to stay, and I’m going to catalog every new release in the subgenre that I can find for you! Part of that involves keeping up with new releases…and so, on that note, here are the new rockstar romance novels released during the first half of 2021! January 2021 Rock (Black Hearts Still Beat), L A Cotton Reckless Reunion…

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Get your fill of rock star romance: new rockstar releases of 2020

Get your fill of rock star romance: new rockstar releases of 2020

2020, a year that we will never forget. I think, more than ever, readers wanted more stories so they could escape what was happening in the real world. What I’ve always loved about rockstar romance is that, for me anyway, it involves a little more fantasy than other books, because they’re celebrities, so that makes them a little more unreachable. And we needed escape in 2020. So, without further…

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Tour with the band without leaving your couch: rock star romance novels of 2019

Tour with the band without leaving your couch: rock star romance novels of 2019

I am so happy and so lucky! I have so many friends I’ve met online because they started as readers—and they are huge rock star romance readers! Several of them have clued me in to authors or books that I’ve missed. Thank you to everyone who contributed. LaDonna of Backstage Blogs sent me a HUGE list. So once I’ve caught up to present day, I’m going to go back through all the old posts and add all…

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