Crystal Jordan :: Blog

So, I’m doing my usual end of the month thing over at the Aphrodisia Authors blog. We redesigned the site, so it’s pretty awesome looking. Courtesy of the awesome sauce that it Croco Designs.

AND I’m over on the Samhain blog talking about my obsessive need to write series, but this last one was all my editor’s fault! No, I swear.

Because this week of cool where my book came out isn’t awesome enough–I’m also on Author Talk!!

Jill Monroe and Gena Showalter took the time to interview me for Author Talk at RWA this year. I was totally spazzing out for my very first live interview, so pay no mind to the fact that I played with my shirt nervously the whole time! I totally meant to do that. It was planned. Seriously. I swear!

Gena and Jill were, of course, totally professional the whole time. And then Gena begged me to spank her, but we didn’t get that on camera, sadly. Gena likes to beg me for things…you’ll have to watch to see what I mean.

Also, they Author Talked Nora Roberts and if you look closely in the opening scenes, you’ll see me there! I was in a video with La Nora! Though…she never actually met me, I’ll pretend she did!

I’m remodeling my apartment and decided to go through all the old boxes in my storage closet and ditch all the old crap I didn’t want along with the old furniture I was getting rid of. I hired a removal company (who just happened to have very fine looking men working for them–thankyoujesus) so I figured get it all over with in one go.

While purging myself of useless old stuff, I found all kinds of letters that I apparently kept to torture myself, every paper and notebook I had ever written in college or grad school, an angsty teen diary…and a few post-it notes of very bad nonsensical poetry I had written when I was around 17. I don’t remember if I was drunk or high or had just hit my head when I wrote it, but I decided to let you all vote on that one.

I give you…tormented teen weirdness. They have no titles, just badness (original bad spelling and grammar provided for extra amusement), and thankfully they’re all short. This is why I write romance now and not books of poetry.

Bad Poem #1

here we are today in forever tomorrow,
not withstanding interupption
though stopping now and then to smell the roses

Bad Poem #2

The world I love is crumbling,
within itself,
into a destitute manner,
uncaring of all who nurtured its womb and
crave its solace for their own purposes

Bad Poem #3

When love is not enough
it withers as in Autumn
to fall into despairing self-gratification,
lacking warmth and seeking only its former luster
as it settles in and wraps itself
around a wintering heart

Bad Poem #4

hello,
how are you doing today in this world
of forever tomorrows,
however undone within itself
or wholly loved by others
and given respect by those who don’t know any better

I vote that I was definitely on some kind of intoxicant when I wrote these because, damn, they don’t even make sense most of the time. And, apparently, I had a thing for “forever tomorrow.” Oy.

So, I’m finally getting around to updating the pictures in my office. I mean, I’ve used the same ones for years now. For as long as I’ve been a librarian who had an office. In my last job too, so these are some old ass pics.

In various sizes, here are the ones that made the cut:

Me and Calamity Jane at her graduation.

Me and M at Calamity Jane’s graduation.

Me, Robin Rotham, and R.G. Alexander in China Town during the RWA conference.

Me and M at the Romance Divas dinner during the RWA conference.

A group shot of Divas on our way to the Harlequin Party during the RWA conference.

No, not THOSE kind of afternoon delights.

After 27 plus years of sleeping on hand me down beds and mattresses, I finally upgraded to one of my very own that no one has ever slept on except me. It was delivered yesterday afternoon and I slept on it last night. It was delightful.

And it looks lovely with the new sheets Grams got me as a queen-sized gift.

Here’s how I feel about it. I found this on Flickr and it expressed things so perfectly. Though my last mattress was a double and not a twin.

So, today is the official day. Sexy Beast V starts shipping from Amazon today and should be in bookstores this week. I want to see people with pictures of it. I’m going to have to hunt up a copy at my local Barnes & Noble and make the Persnickety Hooch pose with it. Maybe I can even get her to do a little dance. Stay tuned for that.

And you can also get it from Barnes & Noble, AND for those of you up in the great white Canadian north, it’s shipping from Chapters.ca too!

Meanwhile, Harmonic Threads did a book trailer for me that encompasses not only “In Ice,” the novella in Sexy Beast V, but also the follow up novellas in Carnal Desires, which releases in December. Check it out!

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