The winner of my Christmas in Paradise contest is Sherry Haut/blakemom1.
Congrats Sherry! Send me your snail mail addy at crystal@crystaljordan.com to claim your ornament!
Thanks everyone for playing!
And for the quiz this week, find out how many people have your name. There are quite a few Crystal Jordans out there.
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Hey all!
A few author friends and I are getting together to chat over at EBook Love today. Every single one of us will be giving away a copy of our holiday release. So, if you want a copy of All She Wants for Christmas, stop by! I’ll be there mostly in the morning, but I’ll be asking you to email me to enter the contest for the give away. At the end of the day, I’ll draw a name from my inbox.
Check us out. I love all these ladies books, so you could maybe win a ton of books here if you get way lucky.
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Hey everyone!
This is a reminder that my Christmas in Paradise contest ends on Sunday, December 10. The contest is to celebrate my two recent releases Finding Paradise and All She Wants for Christmas. So, here’s the cute ornament I’m giving away. To enter, you sign up for my Yahoo Group.
Here’s a form to make it easy to enter, or you can go on over and check out the group by clicking here. Good luck to all who enter!
I hate when this happens.
I’m working on a project, a perfectly good, inspiring, fun project and some random idea comes to insinuate itself into my brain. I know it has to go on the backburner. I have at least managed to train myself not to take on 60 projects at once, but still it nags at me, always there trying to tempt me away from the project I’m working on. I’m plowing through Every Witch Way and this alternate universe idea hits me. And the hero is hot. Not that I ever write a hero that isn’t, but this one is the big quiet type. Mmmm-hmmm.
Enough of that. I have discovered (thanks to a pic on Gena Showalter’s site) a new cache of awesome pictures. Today I’ll showcase a spoof on Precious Moments, those cutesy kiddie cartoons. These are called Semi-Precious Moments. Had to show you, couldn’t resist.
As with every Wednesday, we have a special blog edition. I’m over at Shadows of Passion talking about picking up a project that you left to mold for far too long. Dusting off the cobwebs can be a painful process.
As for Hump Day Hotties, I’m doing a two-part special edition on my favorite actors. Today will be the hotties who have acting talent and next week will be the Dumb But Cute edition.
First up is Hugh Dancy. He was an iffy on this list. He’s cute, has acting ability, but is extremely unfortunate in his project decisions. So, that almost put him in the dumb category, but he made it over here just for being willing to take a risk.
Next is George Clooney. ‘Nuff said.
He’s yummy, accomplished, talented and has enough moxy to pull off the crazy ass politically motivated indy stuff he’s being doing lately. Hats off, George.
Brad Pitt. Ah, Brad. It really depends which Brad you’re getting on whether he’s in the good actor or Dumb But Pretty category. Ocean’s Eleven is the one that clinched him a spot on this coveted list. One of my fave movies of all time and he was brilliant in it.
I had to add Matt Damon. He’s not the hottest of actors, but he does qualify as talented and pretty. Matt’s here by the skin of his Ocean’s Eleven/Dogma/Bourne movie teeth.
Last up is Clive Owen. He’s hot, willing to take some risk, and manages to pull it off. He’s also an amazing, sexy villain in the first Bourne movie.
So.
I’m reading over Every Witch Way last night (before my first round of edits came in for Revenant–squee!) and I spent the whole time going Holy Geesh! What was I thinking?
This is going to take a lot of work to fix. I knew I was going to have to overhaul, but I had no idea I was going to have to completely re-write it.
On the one hand this is a good thing because it’s proof positive that my writing has improved in the past year and a half (which is roughly how long I’ve been writing creatively–grad school will suck that out of you). Every Witch Way was the first book I ever seriously tried to write.
My real first go was a horrific fantasy romance that will never ever ever see the light of day. I may have to burn what I wrote just so there’s no evidence that it existed at all.
I am enjoying going over Every Witch Way. I really do love these characters and would like to finally finish this book, if for no other reason than that these characters have been nagging me to finish since I set them aside last January to focus on naughtier books.
Hey, naughty works for me.
I finished. I finished. I fiiiiiinished!
I posted a bit more about this over at The Novelty Girls, but I finished my Valentine’s Day vampire story Big Girls Don’t Die.
Yay me! Woot woot!
Sorry, I’m still a bit punchy because my bum has been stuck in this chair for two days straight and it’s kind gone numb. Like, past the point of tingling and all the way to Is It Still There? Which is not doubt far more than you ever wanted to know or hear or think about my backside, so let’s move on.
I do have a big announcement to make. Okay, so not earth-shattering huge, but it’s big to me. Since I’m ahead of schedule on deadlines (for the moment) I’ve decided to resurrect a story that I set aside earlier this year.
The working title is Every Witch Way and I’m going to need to completely overhaul it, but it’s sitting at 60K. I like to think that my writing has improved, gotten stronger, since I last opened this book so maybe I can figure out what went wrong and try to make it work. If not, I can have bunches of fun banging my head against the brick wall until I’m back on deadline at the first of the year.
Wish me luck!
Today’s quiz is about what planet you’re from. Why? Because I sold the second book in my Wereplanets series! This one is called Wereplanets: In Heat and it’s about the weretigers of Vesperi. Varad from the last book gets his own story here.
So squeeeee! I sold, I sold, I soooold!
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I have three books to tell you about today. Two are holiday releases, and the last is a sexy little paranormal book. These books are awesome, sweet and hot. Check them out!
Blurb:
Lola Beckham is a hard working single mother, caring for her deaf son. Her ex-husband left her early in their marriage out of youthful ignorance and an inability to cope with a child with a handicap. She has managed, and over time, Bennie has regained a relationship with his father and his current wife and children. Lola is glad for the family Bennie has and is thankful that Rick has matured enough to share his twin daughters and life with his son. She only wonders when she’ll be able to stop living as a statistic and find a man who can accept her and the responsibility of her life and son.
Blurb:
It’s just before Christmas and Lilly Rawson is trying to escape her old life, taking her young son with her. When a blizzard hits, she gets in a serious car wreck and wakes to find herself in the arms of an attractive man. Trapped in a small town, hope for love is allowed to bloom in heart, but is it strong enough to convince her to stay?
Blurb:
Gavin Mackenzie is a best selling horror author and amateur ghost hunter. His plans to investigate paranormal activity at a local mansion are denied by the sexy new owner; even as she makes it clear she’d welcome him in her bed.
Taylor Ammons is using the mansion for her new business: holding educational sexual retreats for women. She’s not prepared for her attraction to her quiet neighbor, or his determination to convince her that the mansion is haunted.
Then strange things start happening, and Taylor has to bring Gavin in for some exploring that goes beyond the bedroom.
There are two public service announcements for today. They constitute minor acts of pimpage.
The first is to those of you who don’t know I revamped my website. There are new pictures of flower girls on every page, and updates have been made to everything. I also created a site just for those of you who liked or want more info on the Wereplanets series. Check out www.wereplanets.com
Let me know what you think! Are the girls not great? Does anything not display correctly? Were there any burning questions I didn’t address? Comment here or email me crystal@crystaljordan.com
Second, my girl Jennifer McKenzie has her first book Yule “Tied” coming out from The Wild Rose Press today.
Here’s the Blurb:
When a marriage is cooling off, how do you stoke the fire to burn hot again? Jamie and Anthony Guiterrez have been married for five years, but his career, business trips and long hours have taken a toll on their relationship. This Christmas, Jamie has picked out a few gifts she hopes will rekindle her husband’s interest. Little does she know, Anthony is on his way home with a bag of goodies sure to send them both up in flames.
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