I'm sure this has been asked but are there any updates in Jay Cantrell?
try a search of this forum. Numerous and recent posts about him,,,as recent as April this year
Reason for edit - change "it" to "him"
The last time he logged on (at least under that name - don't know if he uses any others) was 2019-12-25.
The last time he logged on (at least under that name - don't know if he uses any others) was 2019-12-25.
He posted in his blog on December 31, 2020. His email is still active so he must have logged in after that too, he just didn't post anything.
His email is still active
uhh, nope.
I suppose it's possible his "year" expired at midnight - after you looked - but I seem to remember his email as having been deactivated for a while now.
Does the admin have a real world email? I worry he may be lost to this world. His patreon had been shut down.
I'm waiting for Azkoval.
I'm a little afraid of any conclusion he may write to unending night. I'll read it for sure, but I don't see how it can live up to expectations. Unforgettable weeks was pretty good, but to me, unending night is one of the best stories on the site. It's
short and doesn't tie up all the loose ends -- but thats what makes it work so well. It reminds me a lot of American graffiti.
I'm waiting for Azkoval.
Yeah me too. I just finished reading it again and would love to see it finished...and Andy and Regan too :D
SunSeeker
I thought about writing a "fanfic" bonus chapter to Unforgettable Weeks that would end the story on a bit more of a "happily ever after" trajectory and send it to Cantrell with a message to please please please approve it as a story coda if he didn't think he'd ever get back to writing it himself.
I never did.
He started to write the next novel and there was a chapter on his Patreon where they were getting ready to go to England. You can consider that a happier ever after, if you want.
Did anyone else smile a little when the real-world Liz Larimer started dating a sportsman called Travis? And then it made me sad that we probably won't get any more Cantrell stories.
Yes, there is a resemblance, but I don't think this Travis is going to quit his very rewarding job to help a Liz who is doing a great job of running her own life. But it is a nice parallel.
A gawky Midwest girl (with ridiculously long legs) who moved to a Nashville as a teenager, hit instant stardom on a very label-friendly contract, got a reputation about having a lot of boyfriends and then writing breakup songs about them, before crossing a variety of genres and putting on huge stadium tours?
I told him once that "Brock Miller" reminded me of an active player, he replied that he (JC) had used characteristics of two players to create BM and that I had identified one of them.
The other one later played for the damyankees, I wonder what JC thought of that.
The other one later played for the damyankees, I wonder what JC thought of that.
For a moment my brain processed JC as J.C. Michaels (the character) and couldn't remember anything said (by him) about the Yankees.
More caffeine much more caffeine
limab
Given that JCM was much happier in the relatively small town of Cleveland than he had been in LA, I can't imagine he'd have been particularly enthusiastic if he'd been traded to either of the NY teams.
Send him to Detwoit!
Okay, playing stadiums in 2016 checks out. Somehow, I'd pegged it as an earlier story, like pre-2011, when TS wouldn't have been so big.
Then again, there's an offhand mention of a former up-and-coming country artist Trinity Quick that they've all been ignoring since her last album, when she switched to pop.
(One thing that struck me, this read through, is how tightly plotted this story is. So many bits of foreshadowing, for events to come, deftly dropped as if they're background details. There's a stretch from, oh, maybe chapters 100-130, where this stops happening, and the story feels less tight, but it resumes in the final chapters. Nicely done.)
"...The scrutiny she gets, how much she has a magnifying glass on her, every single day, paparazzi outside her house, outside every restaurant she goes to, after every flight she gets off, and she's just living, enjoying life. When she acts like that I better not be the one acting all strange."
https://www.wsj.com/style/travis-kelce-chiefs-taylor-swift-relationship-413ce0d7?st=vrs47i3wcchrksy
If someone wanted to invest a fair amount of time and effort they would probably locate him. That's assuming the details he posted about his real life are true.
To be clear, I don't think it is appropriate to dox someone who clearly wants to distance himself from here.
if I had a dollar for every query or post about his status...
if Jay had a dollar for every query or post about his status... ;-)
AJ
if Jay had a dollar for every query or post about his status... ;-)
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Back when "Don Lockwood" had stayed away from this site for three full years and his stories were to become Premier Only, Lazeez made the executive decision to declare him a national treasure and keep his stories public.
I'd say Jay C was another obvious candidate for that status, except that Lazeez may have implemented it already. Jay's most recent blog entry was at the end of 2020, it all depends on when (and if) he stopped visiting altogether.
probably more than 2 years ago as he is on readerinfo.
definitely more than 1 year as he has no email menu item
The date on readerinfo is pretty meaningless in this context.
An author can turn his "email" off himself - for example if he's tired of answering "are you coming back?" messages.
I was not reflecting on the date on readerinfo, merely on his presence on readerinfo.
Isn't someone's presence on readerinfo equivalent to either being absent for 2 years or explicitly announcing a hiatus or retirement (which does not match his Unknown status on readerinfo)?