Jaci Burton’s Muse

RT Book Reviews gave NAUTI AND WILD an awesome review in their August issue!

These two authors prove once again why they are at the top of the erotic genre. These motorcycle-themed novellas are complete stories, not just chopped-up sex scenes with minimal dialogue. Burton’s story especially is put together masterfully; it’s a job well done.

Big thanks to Jacqui McGugins of RT for the awesome review!

I have ARCs in for RIDING THE NIGHT and I’ll be doing a giveaway of those sometime soon. So excited about the final two books in the Wild Riders series releasing in August and September. And in the meantime, if you want postcards or bookmarks for the Wild Riders series, just holler at me at jaciATjaciburtonDOTcom with your full name and mailing address. I have awesome postcards and bookmarks for the Wild Riders series! Check them out below.

More aptly titled, What The Hell Has Jaci Been Doing And Why Is She Ignoring Her Blog?

You know, it seems like only yesterday that I blogged. Not last week. But I looked up from my desk and saw that it had been an entire week. Sorry about that. The world keeps spinning around me, and the tornado of my life keeps throwing its debris at me, so I’ve been busy chasing after it so it doesn’t come crashing down.

When I sat down to write this blog I figured I’d fill you in on everything that’s been going on since last week since I was obviously way too busy to blog.

Yeah, I’ve got nothin’. Routine, mundane, everyday tasks like writing the book (lots of time spent flogging the book. Lots and lots of lots of time), doing the laundry, grocery shopping, picking vegetables from the garden, trying to keep the dogs from having heat stroke because it’s whoa and damn hot outside. People, it’s only June and we have heat indexes over 100 degrees already. What will August be like? Ugh. Biker Dude and I went for a long ride on Sunday and it was eleventy million degrees outside. He loves the heat. Me, not so much. I needed many stops at air conditioned convenience stores for ice cold drinks. Am certain he hates me because I’m such a sissy. (Sorry, babe.)

Since my last blog I have ordered new sunglasses to replace the ones I stupidly lost (I know, you’re all thrilled for me, aren’t you?). Went shopping over the weekend and bought some stuff for the RWA National conference in Orlando in July. And then ordered more stuff online. I do love to shop, and there are a few more things I still need to get. Gah. Conferences are expensive, especially when you need cocktail dresses and shoes.

I got the new iPhone4! Very excited since my last iphone was the 3g i bought almost 2 years ago. This new one is slick and shiny and fast and graphically beautiful. Just activated it started playing with it today, and loving it so far.I use the camera on my phone a lot so having the zoom will be fun, and it has video! Wheee! So are you all iPhone junkies, or are you AT&T haters and you do other phones and services? I’m always interested in where people stand in cell phone land.

Will be back tomorrow. I promise. :-)

So #1 son and his family have packed up and moved back to California. That means I won’t get to see this beautiful face:

Or this beautiful face:

I’m going to miss them all so much. Much unhappiness at my house this week.

And then yesterday I was out running errands and somehow managed to lose my WileyX sunglasses. They’re my favorite sunglasses. Biker Dude called me old and senile. Then again he lost his wedding ring several years ago, so he’s still the biggest loser. Heh. Still, my sunglasses!

To top it all off I’ve been fighting some bizarre stomach virus this week that’s making this horrible week even worse. And the allergy cough that’s keeping me up at nights. I’m exhausted.

And don’t even get me started on the biblical type rains that have dumped epic storms on us the past few days:

Can this week be over now please?

Remember my vegetable garden in April?

Let me remind you what it looked like when we planted it:

Here it is now:

It’s grown into some bizarre alien life form. Not even kidding.

The tomato plants are taller than me. Here’s a peek at some of the tomatoes in there. We can’t even see all the tomatoes, but I’m sure we’ll have plenty well into fall.

The cucumber plant is winding it’s way around the entire garden and every day I look there’s a new cucumber or two.

And the green beans that I planted from seed are growing beautifully. In fact, I need to go out and pick some.

I harvested this green pepper last week and put it in a salad. It was yummy!

We’ve already pulled out and eaten a lot of our potatoes and onions and they were great.

For our first year vegetable gardening, we’ve been astounded at the growth of everything. I really believe it’s all the rich dirt we brought in. And the manure (veggies must really like to grow in shit. Heh). And the hella rain we got this spring.

More updates next month!

How about all you gardeners out there? How’s it going?

Thanks so much to everyone who commented on the NAUTI AND WILD ARC Giveaway! I really appreciate it!

I chose two winners using random.org and the winners are:

Jennifer D (comment #39)

and

Rachel Riddles (comment #6)

Congratulations to both of you! I’ll email you shortly and get your info so I can get the ARCs to you!

Thanks again, everyone!

NAUTI AND WILD releases AUGUST 3rd from Berkley Sensation! This anthology contains my Wild Riders story, RIDING THE EDGE.

I have two ARCs of NAUTI AND WILD to give away on the blog, so I’m going to have a contest!

Lora Leigh, the New York Times bestselling author of Nauti Intentions and Nauti Dreams revisits that sultry and “sinfully good” Southern landscape with a story of a good girl gone bad–and doing it for all the hottest reasons. But she’s not the only one going down that road…

Jaci Burton, the national bestselling author of Riding Wild and Riding Temptation, lets loose in a story of a hot biker hired to keep an eye on the reckless daughter of a Nevada senator. She’s hooked up with a rival biker gang–a dangerous move that makes the wild beauty more vulnerable than she imagined…

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I’m so excited to be in this anthology with Lora Leigh. Lora and I go way back to when we first started out. She befriended me when I was a newbie author, and I’ll never forget that. She has an insanely busy schedule now as you can well imagine and we don’t get to chat as often as we used to, but she’s still my friend and one of the nicest, most gracious people I’ve ever known. I know that I can pick up the phone and call her and we can still chat like it’s the old days. I love her to pieces and I’m so honored to have a book with her, especially one of her Nauti books coupled with one of my Wild Riders books.

So for the contest, in the comments, let me know if you’ve read any of my Wild Riders books, or any of Lora’s Nauti books. If you have, which one is your favorite. If you haven’t, then check out my Wild Riders series here, or Lora’s Nauti Boy series here, and tell me which one intrigues you the most. See, it’s that easy.

I’ll choose the winners on Friday.

Congratulations to CARINA PRESS, a new digital first publisher! Today is their launch day and I hope you all will go check them out! They’re an offshoot of Harlequin, and specialize in all genres, so something for everyone.

My awesome friend Angela James, formerly of Samhain Publishing, is their Executive Editor. Angie is smart and savvy and has a keen eye for great books so I know they’re going to put out amazing content!

There are 10 launch books available today in multiple genres, so go check them out here!

And I personally recommend EXCLUSIVELY YOURS! It’s a funny, warm, romantic contemporary romance. I got an advance peek and just loved it!

You can also buy all the Carina titles at your favorite online booksellers.

Go buy today!

Did you all know that NAUTI AND WILD releases on August 3rd? That’s just about 2 months away until the next Wild Riders book! Wheee! And then RIDING THE NIGHT releases on September 7th!

I have some great news about RIDING ON INSTINCT. It’s a finalist in both the NATIONAL READER’S CHOICE AWARDS and the BOOKSELLER’S BEST AWARDS. I’m so excited about this, so grateful that the book has received this recognition from these quality contests. The winners of both contests will be announced at this year’s ROMANCE WRITER’S OF AMERICA conference in Orlando in July. Since I’ll be going to the conference this year I’ll be able to attend the reception for both, so I’m really excited, but mainly excited for my book. It’s such a thrill when a book resonates with readers and I’m so grateful for that.

And if you haven’t read the Wild Riders series yet (really? You haven’t?) you can check them out here

I’ll post some excerpts from RIDING THE EDGE, my book in the NAUTI AND WILD anthology, and RIDING THE NIGHT, very soon. And contest to win an ARC of NAUTI AND WILD will be coming up soon too so stay tuned!

Thanks so much to everyone who posted. I really appreciate all your comments about websites, whether they were generic website comments or comments about my website in particular, good or bad. They’re all going to be extremely helpful as I move along in getting my website redesigned. Thank you!

I used random.org to select a winner of the $20 Amazon Gift Certificate, and the winner is:

Booklover1335 (Comment #17)

Congrats! I’ll email you shortly!

And thanks again everyone!