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Snippet Saturday

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Welcome to Snippet Saturday, where authors share snippets of their work.

Today is Weaponry! Wheee! There's nothing I love more than writing about weapons and the characters who use them. It's probably why I love writing action and suspense stories….my characters often get to play with weapons.

The most fun I ever had researching weapons was for my Demon Hunters series. Here's a scene from SURVIVING DEMON ISLAND, the first book in the series. Hope you enjoy!

Then she saw it. A flicker of...

A Little Advice…

I recently had the opportunity to do some contest judging for an unpublished author contest. And many of the entries had the same types of problems, so thought I'd share some of my general opinions here.

Now I'm no expert, and not an editor. But I am a reader and know what I like and what I don't and I've been writing long enough after 40 something books to know what the common mistakes are.

The mistake I saw the most in these entries was lack of pacing. Lack of decent pacing will kill a...

Nalini Singh Book Winner!

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Nalini Singh contest! I used random.org to select a winner.

Congratulations to BOOKLOVER1335 (comment#2)!!! You've won your choice of a signed copy of Branded by Fire or a mass market copy of the An Enchanted Season anthology!

Email me at jaciATjaciburton.com with your full name and mailing address and I'll get your info to Nalini so she can send your book to you.

Thanks again everyone, and thanks to Nalini for offering up the prize! For those who...

Vegetarian Meals Day…Uh…Whatever- Mexican Lasagna

Yes I've lost count and I'm too lazy to go back and look it up.

Using one of the brilliant Larissa Ione's recipes again (this time from The Write Ingredients cookbook, which by the way is full of awesome recipes and is a charity cookbook, so please go buy it!), I made Mexican Lasagne.

Let me explain the photo. By the time I pulled this out of the oven, Biker Dude and I were starving. And it smelled so good. I spooned it out onto our plates and thought….shit…I forgot to take a picture. So the p...

Nalini Singh's Blaze of Memory (And A Contest!)

I love Nalini Singh. She's one of the nicest people I've ever met.

I also love Nalini's books, and you've heard me singing their praises her before, especially her Psy/Changeling series.

Blaze of Memory is the newest book about to release from that series. I'm reading it now and like usual Nalini sucks me into her world with memorable characters and gripping emotion.

Read on about Blaze of Memory and how you can win one of Nalini's books:

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BLAZE OF MEMORY

BERKLEY BOOKS

Out 3 November 2009

Nalini ...

Vegetarian Cooking - Day 4 - Pizza and Salad

Okay so it wasn't really cooking since we ate out last night. But it was vegetarian so I must share. [image error]

One of THE best pizza joints in Oklahoma is HIDEAWAY PIZZA. If you ever come here, you have to eat at Hideaway. Their menu is amazing. Seriously. Here's the link to their menu but it does have music so hit the mute button.

We started with salad. Lettuce, tomato, eggs, olives. yum.

We had Pizza Of The Gods (Yes, that's what it's called) - Olive oil, Garlic Glaze with Provolone and Mozzarella...

Vegetarian Cooking - Day 3 - Cheese Soup & Beer Bread

This is one of my favorite recipes that required very little adaptation for vegeterian (It calls for bacon which I ommitted).

Cheese Soup

Ingredients

1 stick butter

8 T Flour

3 cups grated cheddar cheese

3 cups chicken broth

2 cups Milk, scalded

1 onion, finely chopped

1 cup warm cream

4 slices bacon, diced and cooked (I ommitted the bacon last night for Vegetarian week)

Dash Cayenne Pepper

Melt butter. Add flour, stir til smooth. Add cheese & broth, stirring constantly. Add milk & onions...

Day 2 of Vegetarian Cooking - Ziti Pasta with Mushrooms

Big thanks to Larissa Ione, my vegetarian expert, for this recipe! [image error]

And as a side note, my friend Angie pointed out that photography is not one of my awesome skills. If you want gorgeous pictures of food, see The Pioneer Woman's blog. It's definitely her forte and will make you drool. You won't see pretty pictures of food here. But I will put up photos of what I cook and my camera isn't the best out there. So there you have it. And Angie….. [image error]

Yesterday I fixed Ziti Pasta with Mushrooms and...

Day 1 of Week of Vegetarian Cooking - Caesar Salad with Egg

We started our week of vegetarian cooking Saturday night with a recipe I adapted from Rachael Ray's magazine. This is actually a Bacon and Egg Caesar Salad, so I just left the bacon out and it still tasted great.

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I found this recipe a couple years ago in Rachael Ray's magazine and fell in love with it. Sometimes I like a salad for dinner. The bacon and egg in it is a unique twist and I love the dressing. Like I said, for Vegetarian Week I left the bacon out but I'll go ahead and include the f...

Snippet Saturday

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Welcome to Snippet Saturday, where authors share snippets of their work.

This week we're doing emotional scenes. And hey, isn't that what romance is all about? Emotion? Fun stuff!

Here's a scene from RIDING WILD, the first book in my Wild Riders series. Mac and Lily have a past…and ten years of emotional baggage to wade through together.

Hope you enjoy!

He pulled away from her embrace. "You have to trust me on this, Lily."

She hooked her thumbs in the belt loops of her jeans and blew out a...