Category Archives: Writing & Publishing

I’m a Fresh Pick Today!

Wild Riders Series, Writing & Publishing

RIDING WILD is today’s Fresh Pick over at Fresh Fiction! :boobie: Go check it out, and all the other great things to be found at the Fresh Fiction site.

This is rockin cool because the Fresh Pick is voted on by readers. Thank you readers! I’m really honored you chose RIDING WILD.

Fresh Fiction has also reviewed RIDING WILD and had this to say:

A wild ride is exactly what you’ll get with this steamy romantic caper

Jaci Burton’s RIDING WILD is true to its title. This sexy and sizzling hot story will leave you breathless and wanting more. Especially if more includes Mac’s yummy and gorgeous friends.

Reviewed by Mandy Burns

Thank you Fresh Fiction! :cheer:

This and That

Life in Motion, 70 Days of Sweat Writing Challenge

Today I’m over at the 70 Days of Sweat blogging about Comparisons. It’s hard for a writer not to compare his or herself to others, but really, try to avoid this!

So I made bread last night (yeah, with my current schedule I’ve got time for that, right?) But Angie bought this great cookbook called Aristan Bread in Five Minutes A Day (the link to the book…pic included) is on the sidebar of Angie’s blog) and told me about it and Biker Dude and I love homemade bread so I just had to try it out. Loved it. It’s a little bit of work but not the kneading and rising and more kneading kind. And it tasted awesome and looked beautiful so I’m really pleased how it turned out. I’m really not the gourmet chef kind of person, but I do love to cook…as long as it’s easy. :giggle: Anyway, trust me when I say this is easy. If it’s complicated, I don’t do it. Heh.

So this week I have to work both on my daily writing goal and on galleys for The Darkest Touch. I’m not fond of juggling multiple projects. I’m a one project at a time kind of writer. But sometimes I have no choice. I can’t set aside the writing to work on the galleys because I have a drop dead deadline on this book I’m writing, which means I have to write every day. And the galleys are due back next week, which means I have to work on those every day, too. So I juggle. 😥 Sometimes you just gotta make it work.

Anyone watch American Idol this week? What did you think? I think Kristi really needs to go home. And what the hell was Carly doing in the bottom 3?

Monday Stuff

Life in Motion, 70 Days of Sweat Writing Challenge, Events

Happy St Patrick’s Day! Are you wearing green today?

I’m not at all Irish. Italian and German here. Still wearing green though. One must get into the spirit of things, ya know. Even Biker Dude went to work decked out in green today, and he’s not Irish either. :giggle:

So last week was busy. I had an appointment of some sort or another every single day last week. For some reason that really cuts into my writing mojo. I like to get up in the morning, sit at my desk and get to work. Anything that makes me stop screws with my writing flow. Urgh. But I still managed 12,000 words last week. I wanted to get 15,000. I blame all those appointments.

At least the word count is on track. I want to finish this book by the end of the month. We’ll see how I do. This weekend I wrote myself into a plot corner again and spent a lot of time staring at the words on the page, trying to figure out how to get two characters in the same geographical place who weren’t in the same place at the moment, and a plotline that required them to stay in different places. Oy. I think I have it figured out and I’m moving on. (I’ve found that staring at the page really gets you nowhere. You have to keep writing. You can fix it later)

Tonight the Writeminded gals are chatting at Writerspace at 9 p.m. Eastern. Come visit with me, Steph Tyler, Larissa Ione, Amy Knupp and Maya Banks and talk about…well, we tend to talk just about anything :giggle:

Click here for the link to the chatroom

Anyone have fun plans for St Patrick’s Day? Hitting an Irish pub? Making corned beef and cabbage? I’ve never made it, but I love to eat it. We’re out of food here and I haven’t been to the grocery store yet so it might be peanut butter and jelly sandwiches tonight. Um, Irish Jelly. Heh.