Every week, on Mondays, I’ll be blogging over at my new group blog, The Novelty Girls. This is fantastic bunch of ladies, so go read it every day (but definitely Mondays when I’m there).
Also, FOUR DAYS LEFT UNTIL FULL SWING COMES OUT!
Go here to join my contest and win free stuff.
Horatio Hellcat is mad at me. Again. He and I are at a stand-off over whether or not my hair ties double as his chew toys. Cat drool in my hair is unacceptable. I mean, I already scoop his poo, what more does he want from me? Argh!
So, I ran across this test and had to take it. “Are you more cat or dog?”
Stupid evil cat!
| You Are: 40% Dog, 60% Cat |
 You and cats have a lot in common. You’re both smart and in charge - with a good amount of attitude. However, you do have a very playful side that occasionally comes out! |
**We interupt our regularly scheduled broadcast of Inside the Writer’s Studio to bring you a special announcement**
Okay, so I want to really push my book this week and I’m gonna have a contest. Anyone who blogs about the release of Full Swing between now and 12pm EST next Thursday will be entered to win a copy of my book AND a gift certificate from Cobblestone Press. The winner will be announced here and on my blog at 5pm next Thursday.
Email me or reply here with a link to your blog or the site where you promo’ed my book and you’re entered.
To make it really easy for you, you can just copy and paste this message into your site:
FULL SWING by Crystal Jordan
(Cobblestone Press, August 18, 2006)
The only place they still communicate is between the sheets…a professional woman golfer and an Army Ranger struggle to save their marriage after he’s seriously injured in combat and has to retire. Outside the bedroom, everything is falling apart because he believes she deserves better than a broken man, but she dreams of a future when they stop fighting and start talking long enough to reclaim the happily ever after that once seemed so certain.
ABOUT CRYSTAL JORDAN
Crystal Jordan only began writing about a year ago after she finished graduate school and needed something to fill the hours that used to be eaten away by homework. What started as a hobby has quickly become a new career. She now writes paranormal, futuristic, contemporary, and erotic romance. Additionally, she is a member of RWA and its erotic romance chapter, Passionate Ink. She also belongs to the award winning author’s resource website and forum RomanceDivas.com, where she serves as a moderator and Paranormal Co-Liaison.
AVAILABLE AUGUST 18!
Coming in late today, folks, to give you some news. I have resigned from the library, but I’ll stay until the end of the semester (December) until they can find someone to replace me. Remember how I said library interviews are a full 8-hour day? Well, it takes 3-6 months to weed through the candidates to pick the 2-3 lucky people we put through the all day marathon.
And now I get to do that too. (Yipee) I’m moving closer to family on the West Coast, so if you know of any libraries in California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, or Arizona who want a new librarian, slip me a note. ;-)
Two good pieces of news for you:
I have today off, and I seriously planned to get up early and write my butt off.
Didn’t happen.
I crashed last night and all the sleep I haven’t been getting for the past few months finally caught up to me. I passed out until about fifteen mintues ago. That’s 11am here in my neck of the woods.
So. Not. Like. Me.
But here I am, well rested. I have a meeting at 1pm that’ll probably last an hour to an hour and a half and then the rest of the day I might write and I might sleep more. Apparently, I really needed the rest.
See you tomorrow, all bright eyed and bushy tailed.
A few months ago, you may have read that I entertained Dixie Chick’s family with my weird Californian ways. I was, in fact, the rare Pacific Library Monkey.
Now that there are a bagillion people coming to campus to interview, I find myself more and more cast into the Pacfic Library Monkey role. Must perform, must entertain.
While we entertain our potential employees, I have demands to tell my stories about moving here, finding people who speak my language, what it’s like in California, and other random happenings that I’ve mentioned over the past year.
Who knew you needed a Master’s degree for this? People can just point and stare as they go past.
Oooohhhhh! Look, isn’t it cuuute?
This week we’re interviewing a whole slew of new people for positions here at the library. Normally, you’d be like “whateva” but lemme tell you a bit about the torture of academic/university library interviews.
Oy!
Okay, I am in deadline hell. I have two novellas to get to Cobblestone by November and I’m thinking about adding in a short story submission to the mix. These characters just won’t go away.
Back in May, I had the idea for this story. I knew what I wanted to do with it, I knew the characters and their names and their conflict. This story was for Ellora’s Cave Cavemen anthology. Easy-peasy, right? Wrong. I got requests for other stories and I decided to put this story off until next year rolled around. This contest comes every year, so if it was a good story now, it’d be a good story then.
Except.
Except now this story keeps nagging at me. Bugging me. Wanting to be written right now. The EC entries aren’t due until September 30, so techincally I have time. And cranking out a 10-12K story I know this well shouldn’t be a problem, but I have another story due in early September and another one the first of November. So. Adding the EC story will mean I have a month for each story. I could probably do it, but I have to keep my poor hands and wrists in mind while I plan to torture with an overabundance of work.
So, am I crazy to think I could do this or just plain cuh-razy to even attempt it?
Stay tuned to find out.
This week’s quiz is “What kind of meat are you?”
I like pork as much as the next girl, I can live with that. However, I don’t smoke and the rest of this just seems wrong and diiiiiirty. All I could say when I took this quiz is:
“Where’s the Beef?”
| You Are Pork |
 You like to think you’re the other white meat, but many people don’t want anything to do with you. You probably smoke. And it’s likely that no body part of yours is off limits. |
Today we’re in the studio with newbie Karen Erickson. Her first book, Release Me, came out yesterday. Seriously, I love the cover for this book. Scroll down to take a look. Okay, on with the deep, probing questions:
1. What is your favorite word?
Right now for some reason I’m liking the word slurp. Don’t ask.
2. What is your least favorite word?
Ok, I said this in another interview, the word c*u*n*t. Yes, I write erotica. I have no problem with all of those frank words, but that one gets me. I don’t mind reading it so much in other people’s writing, but I can’t use it. I just can’t. I can’t even type it w/out the stars in between the letters! I’m so lame…
3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
I can be inspired by a photo, a movie, a book. Especially a good book. I’ll read a book that touches all of those emotions listed above and I’m like, “I gotta go write something - right now!”
4. What turns you off?
Rude behavior, smelly stuff. Unnecessary violence.
5. What is your favorite curse word?
I have two favorites - ass and fuck. I like to say, “what an ass.” Drawl the word ass - it’s fun. And fuck just cos it’s so bad. A fun word, lemme tell ya.
6. If you could live in any time period other than this one, who would you sleep with in that time and why?
Oooh! The Regency period in England, and I would find some rogue Earl or Duke (yeah, a Duke!) and hope to God he’d ravish me, corrupt me and then have to marry me. Love it!
7. If you were stranded on a deserted island, what three books would you like to have with you?
This is difficult. Okay, I think I would bring the Nora Robert’s Three Sisters trilogy because all three of those books are so good (you gotta love books about witches) and everytime I read them (especially the first one) I feel like I’m there. Like I’m hanging out in the bookstore with the characters. Great books.
8. What is the ugliest rejection you have ever gotten from a publisher/editor/agent?
Please, nobody hit me or hate me but…I haven’t received a rejection yet!
9. What sound or noise do you love?
My childrens’ laughter. Nothing sounds better than my kids cracking up.
10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
“You’re here! Come on in.”
Book Pimpage Info:
Release Me
Cobblestone Press
Available August 4th
contemporary erotic romance
11. Describe the premise of your book in three sentences or less.
Sommer Daniels vows to take control of her orgasms and ends up having lots of them on her desk with the IT guy! Ted Maxwell wants everything she’s willing to give and more, but will the sparks they share be enough to overcome his secret? (I cheated - it’s the blurb from the publisher website!)
12. Your website or blog.
www.karenwritesromance.com
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