Crystal Jordan :: Blog

Hey all!

I’m still on the road, checking in on some hairy scary dial-up. I really need your help. I’m going to be without internet for an unspeficifed amount of time while I move and get settled. My next book comes out on Friday. Help me get the word out by posting the blurb and cover below on your website or blog. As a thank you gift, you’ll be entered to win a gift certificate from Cobblestone Press.

Thanks so much, you guys!
-Crystal

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WEREPLANETS: IN ICE

Available October 13, 2006 from Cobblestone Press (http://cobblestone-press.com)

Jain Roberts’ spaceship was supposed to dock at the new colony on the water world of Aquitilis. Instead, she crash lands after 500 years in cryongenic freeze on an icy mountainous planet. A planet populated by monstrous predators and shape-shifting bears. Kesuk, the Arctic Bear leader, rescues her from the snow, but the laws of his people say she is now his slave until she repays him for the favor. He intends to give her over to the first trading vessel bound for Aquitilis, if he can convince himself to keep his hands off of her.

Okay, so I’m embarking on this whole new path in my life. It pretty much took a big ass left turn and I’m just hanging on for the ride.

So, I couldn’t resist this week’s quiz when it said it was going to tell me about my life path. This I gotta see…

Your Life Path Number is 22

Your purpose in life is to use your power for good Of all the life paths, yours has the most innate power. Your power lies in your vision, and you must recruit others to help you in this vision. You are able to be a great idealist, but you still have the practicality to get things done. In love, you tend to be a big romantic - but you also tend to keep your distance. You have a lot of potential, and it’s sometimes hard to live up to. Sometimes you just feel like slipping into obscurity and doing nothing. You tend to be prone to dramatic emotions, until you step back and look at things honestly.

I got the new cover for my book that comes out this friday. Leita Stevens, my stepmom, did this for me. She’s a cover artist at Cobblestone Press. Take a look at this!

I’m sorry, but he’s just hawt. And I think his eyes are following me. Yum.

Emma’s second book comes out today! This one is about dragon shifters. How awesome is that? Trust me, this stuff is sexy!

Here’s the info:

It’s Dragon Kin alpha Maya Ayida’s breeding time, a time when her kind seek her out with two purposes in mind: to procreate or kill and Eric Dogori is no different. Maya trusted Eric once and he betrayed her. If she trusts him again will it cost Maya her life?

Go HERE to buy her book!

It’s that time of the week again. I’m over at Shadows of Passion talking about how to pull off an action scene with paranormal aspects thrown in.

Like…how to singe the hair off a werewolf.

Take a fire ball from a witch.

De-fang a vampire.

Defy gravity a la Neo and Trinity.

Fun for the whole family basically. Go read.

Here’s a little something to get you over the hump this week. It’s all down hill from here into the weekend, just remember. And if it gets too bad, you can always hop back onto my site for a bit of gratuitous eye candy.

And firemen, can we say HAWT? I mean I could make all the old light my fire baby jokes or say he’s smokin’….but I’d rather just stare and drool.

One word: Yum.

Isle of Desire
by Eden Bradley

Is it really possible to fulfill the fantasy of a promise made in the passion of youth? On a beach on the small Venezuelan island of Isla de Margarita, Isabel Asher meets once more the love of her life, Rafael Cruz, the man she left behind twelve years earlier. Desire ignites, but can the sultry tropical nights spent in his bed lead them back to love? She’s about to find out, and maybe to have her heart broken in the process.

Available NOW from http://www.cobblestone-press.com/

Sorry this is getting posted so late, but hey…it’s my birthday and I can post blogs late if I want to. Yes…I actually made it to 25. Although, I am not sure if I will survive the after effects of the Flogging Molly concert I went to last night!! So without further ado…

Crystal here, reporting from the road.

Here’s a few bits of fun and games for you:

1. I had lunch with the fabulous Jill Monroe and Gena Showalter at a Mexican food place in Oklahoma City. They, of course, were charming and funny as hell. Gena’s phone howls like a wolf when her husband calls, and Jill actually procrastinates longer on her deadlines than I do. I, of course, made a few lame attempts at humor and was more like the special needs author at the table. My one contribution? A description of the disgusting hatching of the cicada invasion of 2004. I refuse to post this on my blog, but if you don’t know what a cicada is, be horrified here. I also may have explained the concept of a heterosexual life partner. Don’t ask, I don’t want to have your therapst bill me. All I can say is it’s all Mad Madam M’s fault.
2. Shawn totally dared me to add this information to the post, so here you go. Gena almost brought Matt, her bootyliscious brother-in-law to the lunch, but apparently he had to build a fence. I have no idea if “build a fence” is dude-speak for “need to wash my hair.” If you are sadly unfamiliar with the muffiny goodness of Matt’s backside, click here. It’s too bad he couldn’t make it, as he missed out on the magic of me. You never know, violins could have played, a Danielle Steele made-for-Lifetime-movie-type romance could have ensued. Just as long as he liked to pose nude–for inspiration of my books, of course. If he had shown and I had witnessed The Muffins in person, I might have felt compelled to created a sonnet in memory of the momentous occasion. In iambic pentameter, of course.
3. I have discovered I lose my funny mojo under pressure. The only reason this post is even remotely amusing (if it is at all) is because I had the entire drive from OKC to Amarillo, TX to compose it in my head. Well, that and think about my new erotic romance. If this post and my plotting got a bit tangled and my next book features a hero with dirty blonde hair and a luscious ass, I confess to nothing. Though I may have to write that poem as part of the dedication. I’ll have to ponder this further. To be or not to be…

So there. I went through with the dare. Met and exceeded, as Gena and Jill would say. I only hope to God poor Matt never reads this.

Also…today is Novelty Girls Day. You know what to do.

What famous painting best describes you? That’s the quiz of the day.

This quiz is short and sweet. And SWEET! I got Georgia O’Keeffe. She freaking rocks.

So…who’d you get?

You Are Best Described By…

From the Lake, No. 1 by Georgia O’Keeffe