Joely Sue Burkhart's Blog, page 83

The Finish Line is in Sight

You've probably noticed the lack of "normal" blog posts this month.  There are a couple of reasons for this.  MayNoWriMo about killed me.  All that admin stuff just keep me crazy busy.  Then with The Bloodgate Guardian releasing this month, there were more guest posts to write and organize, which I got behind on, and then my website was down several days last week, throwing another kink into the mix.  I still owe some interview stuff to people – but until I meet my current deadline, I'm...

Review: The Bloodgate Guardian Recommended Read!

Rae Lori has posted a review of The Bloodgate Guardian as a recommended read:

 I really enjoyed this book filled with action, adventure, a little bit of romance and a lot of suspense. One of the many strengths of this book was the characters and story pacing. I loved that Jaid is not a generic kick butt heroine who rejects all feeling except her libido to do whatever needs to be done.

One last aspect out of many I really enjoyed about this story was the world building and the history of the...

Carina Guest: Claire Robyns

Thanks for having me here, Joely.

I'm Claire Robyns and I'm very excited about my Carina Press release as this is my debut book. Betrayed is a medieval romance set in Scotland during the reign of King James I shortly after his release from England. This turbulent period fascinates me – think of the most outlandish plot, and you'll probably find a documented occurrence of a border laird doing just that.

 Betrayed releases from Carina Press on 5th July.

  

Two Feuding Families

Amber Jardin has no...

And we're back!

Sorry about the down-time this week.  At last, I'm entirely free of yahoo after they held my blog hostage and the fiasco last year when I thought I'd transferred my domain AND my hosting but had only taken care of the latter.  Since I'd cancelled my account with yahell, they were charging me the low low price of $38 a year (cough) for my domain.  I paid about that for two years with GoDaddy including the privacy stuff.

I owe some guest blog spots, which I'll work on this weekend.  I've been...

Swelter

My beloved Sis once wrote a short story with this title.  I never thought *we* would be sweltering.

Our 2007-installed Trane AC compressor has never worked right.  When we moved in here last year, the previous tenants had never changed the filters and they had three cats —-> quilts over the air returns.  The unit froze up the first month we were here and we've had problems with the stupid thing ever since.  It works fine up to a certain point — so the three technicians we've had out couldn't f...

Carina Guest: Alice Gaines

 From Miss Foster's Folly, by Alice Gaines (www.alicegaines.blogspot.com) available now from Carina Press (www.carinapress.com) 

      David Winslow, the Marquis of Derrington has arrived at the home of American heiress, Juliet Foster, to ask her to become his wife… 

      Miss Juliet Foster rose when he entered, but she hardly resembled the Juliet Foster he'd encountered before. Instead of a dress in mourning black, buttoned up nearly to her chin, she wore a ball gown in crimson silk. The...

Organization

I'm making a conscious effort to get more organized, both in writing and my personal and business life (because they go hand in hand).  I cleaned up my Evil Day Job workarea this week, recycled all the old scribbles, and put all my current notes into one folder.  I'm also trying a new filing/organization system that I've been reading about at The Simple Dollar called Getting Things Done (the book should arrive today).  I don't know that I'll be able to devote a huge amount of time to make...

Blogging at Embrace the Shadows Today

To learn about how important the jaguar is to the Maya, stop by Embrace the Shadows today.  Bonus:  another exclusive excerpt!

Another Use for Notecards

I don't know if this has ever happened to you (or whether I'm the only obsessively anal neurotic writer out there), but I recently faced a problem where I could NOT make a decision.  I had two choices for how a story could unfold.  I knew each path pretty well, and both had their positives and negatives.  But which was the BEST?  I couldn't decide.  I waivered back and forth, stewing about the right choice, and meanwhile, I couldn't make progress down either path, because OMG, what if I was g...

Review and a Note about Tomorrow

First, an incredible, tear-wrenching review from My Beloved Sister Molly Burkhart for THE BLOODGATE GUARDIAN:

This book isn't a page-turner. It's a page-devourer. The demons and their hell are chilling. The sense of danger surrounding the hero and heroine is suffocating. And yet, in all of that darkness, there is a light. And that light is always Joely's gift to her readers. It shines in all weather, and it cannot be quenched, though her characters sometimes lose sight of it.

Hugs, wipes tears ...