Jaci Burton’s Muse

Author Nicola Marsh is starting a huge Be My Valentine blog party tomorrow, and she’s giving away some great prizes on her blog every day. I’ll be participating, along with a slew of other authors. Here’s the list:

Fri Feb 1st: Liz Fielding
Sat Feb 2nd: Jill Shalvis
Sun Feb 3rd: Lucy Monroe
Mon Feb 4th: Anna Campbell
Tue Feb 5th Kate Walker
Wed Feb 6th: Nalini Singh
Thurs Feb 7th: Bronwyn Jameson
Fri Feb 8th: Jaci Burton
Sat Feb 9th: Julie Cohen
Sun Feb 10th: Fiona Lowe
Mon Feb 11th: Christine Wells
Tues Feb 12th: Yvonne Lindsay
Wed Feb 13th: Barbara Hannay and Kate Hardy
Thurs Feb 14th: Nicola Marsh

You have to go to Nicola’s blog every day to enter, the prizes are going to be great so it’s worth it. Make sure to bookmark her blog addy, cuz you don’t want to miss this! Click the link here to go check out the rules.

Doesn’t it look great? Awesome authors. Wish I could play

It’s blog tour time.

SOLAR HEAT by Susan Kearney
(TOR Books, February 5, 2008)

WATCH the book video here: www.susankearney.com

Is she an indispensable ally. . . or his worst enemy?

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I was reading the Samhain blog today and came across this book. I don’t know this author, never met her, but fell in love with the title of this book and the cover, so I bought it.

If you want to read more about the book, check out Kerri’s blog post here, because she has a rockin’ awesome video about the book posted, and you can read more about the book and find the buy link here.
Blurb below

Kyra Adams feels like she is living someone else’s life. The problem is, she’s right…

At thirty-six, Kyra has a workaholic husband, an ailing mother, a radiant daughter, and a dream home in the heart of suburbia. Her days are filled with saccharine ‘Mommy and Me’ play dates, but her nights are haunted by terrifying dreams of a girl with no reflection.

When her daughter becomes lost in a department store, Kyra’s dream intrudes on her waking state, and a threatening voice in her head challenges, “If you lost her, who would you be?”

Terrified by the realization that she is disappearing into the footnotes of other people’s lives, and yearning for a full and genuine life of her own, Kyra seeks solace at a writer’s retreat in rural Vermont. What she expects are answers. But what she finds is a deeply troubled stranger with a tragic past, and a powerful secret that pierces into the heart of her family, testing the limits of forgiveness.

Are some secrets better left untold? Kyra is about to find out.

This is her debut book, so go show the love!

RIDING WILD releases a week from today! Though a few people are telling me they’ve started spotting it in bookstores. Let me know if you see it!

I’m over at the WRITEMINDED blog today, talking about kick butt characters. Come join me.

I finished the novella! The Ties That Bind is done, and I’m thrilled. Now I have to edit it and send it off to my publisher, which I hope to do within the next couple days.

Copyedits have arrived for The Darkest Touch, so I need to get busy on those as soon as I finish editing The Ties That Bind.

Ack. Busy Busy Busy.

And stay tuned, because there’s some great blog fun and contests coming up at the end of the week.

On February 1, by 1pm PST I’ll be doing a blog Round Robin with FOUR other authors who also have Berkley releases the first week of February! We’ve come up with five off-the-wall questions to answer. Our five responses to each question will be posted on the five respective blogs, and at every blog you’ll have the chance to answer the question yourself and win prizes! So come here on February 1 after 1pm PST, and you’ll be able to link to the other four blogs from here. Participating will be Meljean Brook, Nalini Singh, Joey Hill, and Dakota Cassidy

Sound fun?

Hey, I’m excited!

Romance Reviews Today (erotic) gave UNWRAPPED their La Grande Mort Award! (In French, that means grand death, or really, in sexual terms it means big honkin’ orgasm. In other words, they gave it a Perfect 10 (that’s how it translates in RRT’s non-erotic world :giggle:)

I couldn’t be more excited! Thank you Kate at RRT for this rockin review, and for the award for my book. :hips:

Check out this snippet of the review:

The love scenes between Amy and Justin are sexy and sweet. And when Mitch joins in the fun, this romance turns into the ultimate fantasy for any woman. UNWRAPPED is written by a pro, and I know when reading a story by Jaci Burton I will experience the best that erotic romance has to offer. UNWRAPPED rightly deserves the La Grande Mort award for an overall luscious romance and one of the best ménage a trois scenes I have read in awhile.

You can read the full review here

Now y’all have read UNWRAPPED, right? It’s a novella, available here at Samhain

It’s winter, ya know. Wouldn’t you like UNWRAPPED to keep you warm? :sasmokin:

Meljean was nice enough to let me have an advance peek at Demon Night, releasing Feb 5th from Berkley. This book is part of her Guardians series, and trust me when I tell you that if you haven’t started reading this series, you’ve missed out on some of the best paranormal books out there now, and some of the greatest characters to hit the scene in years.

In this book, we meet Ethan and Charlie, who know each other but Charlie hasn’t really met Ethan in person yet. And so the story begins. Charlie has had some hard knocks and has picked herself up and is working hard on her own personal redemption. Ethan is sworn to protect Charlie, and that he does…in his own way, and in the best way he can, despite seemingly overwhelming odds against him.

Ethan. Oh, Ethan. A sexier hero I don’t think has ever been created. You like western heroes? Trust me, even though this is set in contemporary times, you’re gonna love Ethan. Ethan made my toes curl. Meljean seduces the reader with hundreds and hundreds of pages of sensual tension that make you white knuckle the book until you want to scream. Isn’t that great?

I’m not very often at a loss for words, but Meljean’s writing puts me there. She mesmerizes me, grips me by the throat and takes me along on this magical ride where I’m completely lost in her worldbuilding, unable to put the book down until the story ends (just ask Biker Dude, who grumbled at me for a few middle-of-the-nights while I was reading this book).

You can read about all the books in the Guardian series here at Meljean’s website. I highly recommend you start with the first and immerse yourself in her world, then read every book so you’re ready for Demon Night. And you can read more about Demon Night here.

Oh, and Ethan is mine. Mine mine mine.

:sasmokin:

Using ye olde randomizer to choose the winning number, the winner of the autographed copy of RIDING WILD is:

SUSAN SHAY!

Congrats Susan! Email me at jaci at jaciburton .com with your address, and I’ll send your book off to you!

Thanks to everyone for posting your bike ride fantasies. I really enjoyed reading them and I thought y’all did a great job.

RIDING WILD releases two weeks from today!!!!

Okay, so guess what?

Me

Meljean Brook

Nalini Singh

Joey Hill

Dakota Cassidy

We all have releases on Feb 5th. (Just makes your freakin’ wallet groan, doesn’t it?)

We’re also cooking up something really special for our blogs to promote these releases.

Stay tuned. :sasmokin:

And don’t forget the contest to win an autographed copy of Riding Wild is still going. I’ll draw a winner soon! Click here to enter.

Come join me and Steph, Amy, Larissa and Maya/Sharon from Writeminded over at Writerspace at 9PM Eastern Time tonight. We’ll be there for an hour, so please come by and say hello and have some fun!!!