Jaci Burton’s Muse

NOTE: Paperback Writer(PBW) has organized an awesome group of bloggers doing Left Behind and Loving It workshops all this week and weekend while everyone’s away attending the RWA National Conference. Click here to find the links to all the workshops, including PBW’s!

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NOTE: Paperback Writer(PBW) has organized an awesome group of bloggers doing Left Behind and Loving It workshops all this week and weekend while everyone’s away attending the RWA National Conference. Click here to find the links to all the workshops, including PBW’s!
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DARE TO LOVE is now available from SAMHAIN PUBLISHING!

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CHARACTER RELATIONSHIPS AND SEX

NOTE: Paperback Writer(PBW) has organized an awesome group of bloggers doing Left Behind and Loving It workshops all this week and weekend while everyone’s away attending the RWA National Conference. Click here to find the links to all the workshops, including PBW’s!

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I’ll be doing a workshop all this week on sex scenes. How to write them, hopefully how to write them well.

Paperback Writer has organized a massive mini conference here online for those not attending the RWA convention. Go here to check out all the people participating and giving workshops this week. It’s truly going to be a great array of presentations, so you don’t want to miss them.

THE ANATOMY OF SEX SCENES

How to Write Really Great Sex

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I used random.org to select a winner of DARE TO LOVE.

The winner is:

CAFFEY! (Post #17)

Congrats, Caffey! Please email me at jaciATjaciburton.com and let me know what format you’d like the book in.

Thanks to everyone who entered the contest. I hope you buy the book when it releases on Tuesday from Samhain Publishing!

DARE TO LOVE releases from Samhain Publishing next Tuesday, July 29th. Here’s your chance to win an early copy.

NOTE: This is an e-book, not a print book.

A romantic game of chicken—and they’re both too stubborn to flinch.

Lucy Fairchild, lawyer and heiress to the Fairchild fortune, has just had the worst day of her life. Her father has found the perfect man for her to marry. Yes, she’s thirty and single, but that doesn’t give her father the right to run her life. She’ll choose her own husband—someday.

Jake Dalton is struggling to make his fledgling construction company a success. Ever mindful of his father’s derogatory comments that he’d never amount to anything, he’s spent his entire life trying to prove he’s not a failure.

From their first meeting on a construction site, verbal sparks fly. Their argument escalates into a dare for a date—and the game is on. Lucy thinks Jake is the perfect fake boyfriend to parade around in the hopes of getting her father off her back. Jake is amused by the chance to annoy both Lucy and her dad—he doesn’t intend to take the dating thing seriously.

But the heart is a fickle thing, and not above playing dirty. In their quest to prove something—to each other, or maybe to themselves—they find themselves building a case…for love.

And suddenly all the rules have changed.

To enter the contest, tell me what was the last e-book you read. If you’ve never read an e-book before (*gasp*), tell me what was the last book you read and why you’ve never read an e-book (really, I won’t flog you or anything for not reading e-books. )

I’ll be at a conference all weekend, so I’ll draw a winner on Sunday. Please check back to see if you’ve won.

The Writeminded blog, talking about game shows.

AND

I’m at Mandy Roth’s blog for Working Women Wednesdays, harping about the environment and all the things you can do to help save it.

Blog hop! Come visit me!

Multiple projects are getting done (Finally!!!!)

Turned in Riding On Instinct to Berkley a couple weeks ago.

Turned in Taken By Sin to Bantam Dell today.

Two MAJOR projects completed and off my desk. I can’t tell you what a huge relief it is to have those two projects completed.

I have a conference this weekend (Conestoga, here in Tulsa, in case anyone wants to come). It should be fun. I’ll get to see a lot of my pals. I’m excited!

Now all I need to do is write a proposal and get that turned into my agent, then I’ll be all set to take vacation in a couple weeks.

I so need a vacation….

So Biker Dude and I took this long bike trip this weekend. We did about 260+ miles in one day. Fun. Long hot day, but fun.

I’ll tell you all about that later. What’s interesting is that when I ride with him, I have a lot of time to enjoy the open road and do some thinking. One of the things that popped into my mind over the weekend was….what if he and I died? Who would notify my online friends?

Biker Dude knows my closest friends are here online. If something should happen to me, he knows who to call. But what if he and I should have an accident or die together? My kids wouldn’t have the slightest idea who in my list of cell phone contacts to call. Should I put a (bff) next to their names so they’d know?

Yes, I know this is a morbid topic (one of said bff’s, Angie, did the same kind of post this morning. You can tell we hit on a hot topic. But it’s one that was seriously thought provoking.

A lot of us forge friendships here on the Internet. Maybe not in person ones, but bonded ones nonetheless. What if one of us just disappeared? Would we know who to get in touch with? Do our loved ones/family members know who to call if something should happen to us?

Deep stuff for a Monday, huh?