Crystal Jordan :: Blog

I’m announcing the winner of my contest on the Smutketeers blog later today. Hop on over and see if you won!

I’m blogging at RTBookReviews.com today and they’re giving away goodies for people who comment by 10pm. Go on over and say howdy for a chance to win!

They also did a video of the Smutketeers at RT.

It’s been a crazy week coming down off the rush of RT, so I completely forgot about posting a contest to win my new book, Wasteland: The Wanderer. Since, I’m easy…I’m going to make this simple for you. Post a comment over on the Smutketeers blog between now and next Thursday, and you’ll have a shot at winning a copy of my book. If you’ve already bought it… First, I love you! Second, you can pick any other Samhain book off my backlist as your prize. So, you’re still eligible for goodies if you’ve already bought the book. Comment anyway!

Here’s what it’s about…and isn’t the cover just pretty? I lurv it!

Wasteland: The Wanderer by Crystal Jordan

Love is the most dangerous experiment of all.

There is only one rule in the Wasteland: survive.

The few remaining women are as reviled as they are worshipped, a commodity any man must pay to touch. And to touch a Wanderer, he may pay with his life.

For Ezra, the risk is worth the reward. People speak his name with the same reverent terror reserved for ancient wrathful gods, but he must always be ready to fend off those who would take what’s his. And what he wants to be his is Kadira.

Kadira, adopted after she witnessed the slaughter of her devoted parents, has vowed never to love or need anyone. It seems only fitting that she, an outsider, accept Ezra’s demand in trade for the fuel technology her clan needs—but her deep, unexpected need for him is the torture she’s fought all her life to avoid. Worse, the greater her wrath, the more he seems to like it.

Ezra’s mercenary half delights at having the warrior woman in his arms. His scientist half can’t resist the urge to see what makes her react—and what makes her explode.

The real experiment: if the bond they forge is strong enough to make her want to stay.

Warning: Threesomes, foursomes, boy on boy, girl on girl, boy on boy on girl, voyeurism, exhibitionism, sex at knifepoint, anal sex, ritual orgies, and, well…it’s just a really dirty book.

I found out Friday afternoon that my story, “Naughty or Nice” in the Under the Covers anthology is a finalist in the National Readers Choice Award. Woot!

Even cooler? I had a few friends final in other categories, which means we could all win and I wouldn’t have to feel bad because another friend lost. So, let’s hear it for my friend sweep of the contest!

Patti O’Shea for Edge of Dawn in the Paranormal category.

Gemma Halliday for Scandal Sheet in the Mainstream with Romantic Elements category.

Victoria Dahl for Talk Me Down in the Single Title category.

Sabrina Darby is up for Best First Book with her story “Roses are Rogue,” which I think is a novella in her On These Silken Sheets anthology.

We interviewed Rhiannon Leith over at Smutketeers today…so come on over and find out a little more about her and the dirtiness she has in store for her fans. I love Rhiannon’s writing, and in awesome news, she’s giving away a copy of her new book to a commenter on her interview! Go check it out!

I did an interview for I Do Not Want To Wait, I Want The Book Now, and they’re giving away the first book in my Unbelievable series, If You Believe, since the second book, Believe in Me, came out this week. Go win some stuff!

Or, I guess, “we placed, we placed!” would be more accurate. Anne Cain made me a fabulous cover for It’s Raining Men, which I entered in the Houston RWA “Judge a Book By It’s Cover” Contest and we placed third in the sexiest cover category. The only ebook cover, too.

Here’s the rankings.

I grabbed four winners for my Win It Before You Can Buy It contest, two for the print book and two for the e-book. Thanks to all who entered, congrats to all the winners!

Under the Covers:

Cari Quinn
Danielle Yockman

If You Believe:

Chandra Ryan
Barbara Elness

So, today, I’m throwing a Win It Before You Can Buy It contest. Why? Because I have new books coming out. Two of them, in fact. One ebook from Samhain and one print anthology from Kensington. I have my author copies of both and thought, why not give some away?

If You Believe (eBook, Samhain Publishing)

When it comes to her love life, the name of Aubrey Mathison’s coffee shop says it all: “Bean There, Done That”. There’s only one harmless man in her life right now—the homeless one parked outside the shop. Except the crazy things he says keep coming true.

She has to laugh at “You’ll meet your soul mate today”, though. Divorce taught her that men as gorgeous as sexy police chief Price Delacroix are not to be trusted. She’s totally up for a one-night stand, but more than that? No, thanks.

Price bears his own scars from the past, but he knows instantly that Aubrey is his. How to convince her he wants more than to be her personal jungle gym? Cut her off. That means no more mattress gymnastics—until she starts seeing things his way.

Aubrey is just as determined Price’s campaign to wear down her resistance is going to fail, no matter how wickedly determined he is. Until her resident prophet spouts a new prediction: her soul mate’s life is in danger…

“Naughty or Nice” in Under the Covers (print anthology, Kensington Aphrodisia)

Dayna Sharp has the perfect job, the perfect man…the perfect life. So why is the prospect of marrying Mr. Wonderful so perfectly boring? It’s a question Dayna can’t shake when she brings her fiance home to meet her spectacularly un-boring family–and finds herself pursued by a bad-boy bearing gifts that could burn a hole in more than her Christmas stocking…

As always, I like to make it easy on you. Just comment on my post and tell me which one you’d like to win–or tell me you’re not picky and would take either to go in both pools. I’ll draw a few random winners from the comments and will announce winners Monday afternoon.

Just a reminder that I’ll be chatting for an hour on the Joyfully Reviewed Yahoo Loop today (Thursday, June 18) from 9-10 pm EST.

Come chat and have a chance to win some fun stuff!

Here’s the link: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Chatting_with_Joyfully_Reviewed

It’s a whole Author Day there, so you can go place with everyone else too:

Joyfully Reviewed Author Hour
Thursday, June 18

Lise Fuller (10 am)
Jo Davis (11 am)
Elizabeth Amber (noon)
Melissa Schroeder (1 pm)
Karin Tabke (2 pm)
Robyn Carr (3 pm)
Lacy Danes (4 pm)
Sally MacKenzie (5 pm)
Maya Banks (6 pm)
Patti O’Shea (7 pm)
Shelly Laureanston (8 pm)
Crystal Jordan (9 pm)
Shelley Bradley aka Shayla Black (10 pm)