Hello, Magical Book Nerds! ✨📚💫 I’m excited to share that I’ve achieved my GoodReads Challenge goal of reading one book this year! Yes, “only” one book was my goal, and here is why. That book was The Unmothers by Leslie J. Anderson, and it...
Content Warning: This excerpt contains strong language about sexual situations. Have you ever found yourself so wrapped up in a book that it feels like it’s reading you instead? That’s precisely what happened with this chapter from The Unmothers by Leslie J. Anderson,...
A few weeks ago, the YouTube algorithm blessed me with a video everyone in the creative, marketing, and social media space should watch. It’s called “YouTube Has a Pyramid Scheme Problem,” and I’ll embed it below (at the bottom of this post) so you can give it a...
As we celebrate balance and prepare for the cooler days ahead, why not start envisioning your spring garden now? From setting powerful intentions to choosing enchanting flora, discover how planting seeds this season can bring renewal and hope through the darker...
Delve into the enchanting corridors of knowledge and mystery with our new video, “Wednesday Study Hall Op. 1 – Nooks & Books.” Inspired by the enigmatic Wednesday Addams from the iconic Addams Family series, this video is a tribute to all the...
A Midsummer Night’s Faerie Garden is Here! 🧚🏻♀️✨🌸 Recently, on my Substack, I shared a sneak preview of a visual story I’ve been working on since April, and today, I’m so excited to reveal the full fairytale! 🧚🏻✨🧚🏽♀️ A Midsummer Night’s Faerie Garden is now...
When I worked in corporate television, one of my favorite bosses—hello, Larry!—not only encouraged his team of producers and editors to keep our reels updated, but he would tell us to block out time on the job to get them edited. “At least once a month,”...
In case you missed last week’s teaser, the new video is up on YouTube and Spotify!! When I posted this last night, I hadn’t even thought of Daylight Savings Time, but what a great week for a sleep story! Enjoy! With Love & Magic, ~Jaye Watch the Video on YouTube...
As winter’s last dance turned my Art Deco apartment into a snow globe this week, the feeling was bittersweet: although I’m looking forward to spring’s waking life, a part of me will always long for the ethereal magic of winter. Thankfully, storytelling knows no...
Happy Samhain, you magical creatures! It’s time to ring in this most hallowed holiday with my witchiest, most spine-tingling, and darkly magical book trailers, starting with the most recent projects fresh out of the editing bat cave and ending with a music video...
This is the continuing story of a YouTube Channel that’s gone to the dogs. This article first appeared on my Medium blog. Enjoy! 🥰 I’m about to tell you a story about a video editor who won multiple Telly, Davey and Pixie Awards over the years for her work — but...
Being a new YouTuber is messy. And hard. And fun. And baffling. Here are five ways I’ve messed up so far… and how I plan to fix them. 1: Perfectionism. I’ve been so obsessed with doing my videos in a certain (unsustainable) way, it’s got me...
Quitting social media was not unlike the opening scene of Zack Snyder’s (amazing) Dawn of the Dead remix, when a pajama-clad Sarah Polley fought for her life to outrun a sudden zombie apocalypse: I woke up rather abruptly one day, felt the monsters invading my...
I started my vlogging adventures in June with books, so naturally, my next vlog just had to be a Halloween entry for Vlogtober! Two of my favorite things are books and Halloween, so it was a natural progression in this great experiment I call “Having a YouTube...
Hello everyone, it’s 2020 Jaye, and now that a year has passed, my opinions about The Reading Rush have greatly changed since 2019, as have my thoughts on how to “do YouTube.” It was a fun first attempt, but greatly unsustainable. 😵 I’ve...
