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February 17, 2014
Fat Princess Day from Jackie
What do a coconut, a waffle iron, $27.00 in change, a half pack of cigarettes, the latest Avenge Sevenfold CD, a pound of decaf Sumatra, a copy of Kelly Meding’s book Another Kind of Dead and a left flip flop have in common?
Last night when I went to bed, I promised myself after a hard week, I was going to have a Fat Princess Day. But at 6am I get a phone call asking me to come in and work a small shift—a princess shift—which in Starbucks means anything four hours or less. I’m okay, I can do that, which proves another thing, when you call me at 6am on any given morning, I will agree to anything—rob a bank, bury a body, run naked down the freeway. At 6am Jackie is your girl. I go into work, come home and instead of just kicking off the shoes, taking off my bra and mixing a margarita, I realize I need to clean out my car cause I’m sitting on the sofa my little mind wanders and I remember something I read that said a cluttered car is the sign of a cluttered mind. Or some such thing.
I don’t want a cluttered mind, so I decide to de-clutter my car which goes back to my first sentence—I found all of the above stuff in my car. What does that say about me? What am I going to do with the waffle iron, set it on my engine block, make myself waffles with shredded coconut on top, reading a book and rocking out to Hail to the King while smoking a cigarette? Come to think about it not a bad way to spend a day.
My mind is not only cluttered, but cluttered with some incredibly random shit. How I get anything done is a minor miracle. (Miriam snickers.) It is even so bad, that I rebought the book and CD and threw away the unmatched flip flop before I found its mate. Now, it didn’t even occur to me to look in my car for some of this stuff.
I’m kind of mad at myself because I missed Fat Princess Day. And FYI what is Fat Princess Day is. It’s when you get out of the bed between noon and one, eat a popsicle (blood orange flavor because I ate the last pomegranate one last night) for breakfast, binge watch Arrow which is straight up hot man TV. Steven Amell is hot and scarred. David Ramsey is tight-assed and hot. Manu Bennett is evil and hot and even Paul Blackthorne who always looks like he’s hung over is hot. My point right there. I had a mind wander.
Back to Fat Princess Day. It is a do nothing harder than pushing the pause button on the remote and getting up to go to the refrigerator. The day is gone because I worked at Starbucks, I have cleaned out my car(but didn’t wash it) and now doing laundry and I’m thinking, maybe I should clean out the refrigerator while I’m thinking about it. I know I’m going to talk Miriam into writing today cause God knows I can talk and clean out the refrigerator at the same time.
So much for a day off.
WAIT. I’m off tomorrow. Fat Princess Day is on. Don’t call me, I’m not answering the phone.
Much love, Jackie
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February 9, 2014
Random thoughts from Jackie
The other day, I forgo
t my book. So I had to suck it up and read the New York Times on my lunch break. An article caught my eye about a billionaire building shelters for stray dogs at the Sochi Olympics. I had to laugh because it reminded me of something my mother used to say when we were kids and we weren’t being appropriately grateful. “You could be a child living in Russia, standing in line for hours for a piece of moldy bread.” But I digress. The root of this story is a day in the life of Ranger Hamilton, my dog.
Ranger’s day starts at 6 am when Ranger decides he wants to go outside. So I put on slippers. Someone left the door to the garage ajar and Ranger, a master of escape, gets out. I have to chase him. I’m wearing pink and red fuzzy slippers, mismatched pajamas, hair in a dew rag and no bra. And I always think when Ranger does these things, he’s transmitting into my head, like ‘bye Felicia’ while he’s running around the cul-de-sac and eventually right into the arms of my incredibly hot neighbor. Refer back to how I’m dressed. My neighbor hands me my dog, I say thank you trying not to get too close because I have morning breath, and trudge back to my house.
Later on the same day, Ranger gets into the trash. I’m scolding him and he and I can see the wheels turning in his brain. Reduce, reuse, recycle. He’s thinking he just eliminated a part of my carbon footprint. A half hour later, he recycles that trash on the tile floor in the kitchen. Sigh. He gives me another look that says ‘it’s easier to clean the tile than the rug. I did you a favor.’
I clean up the barf and put him outside. He comes back. What’s he carrying in his mouth? Poop. He drops the poop at my feet like he’s giving me a diamond. And in his little doggie thought bubble, ‘it’s not my poop,’ which makes it okay.
So I’m outside smoking a cigarette and of course Ranger and Snuggle come out with me to take care of business. It’s not he hasn’t done it before, but there he goes again, peeing on Snuggles. He walks by me and his thought bubble says, ‘she’s my bitch.’ Snuggles doesn’t seem to care which worries me, but that’s another story.
I have to go to work. I get out of the shower and I find him on my bed chewing underwear. I can just imagine him saying, ‘Hey. You said you needed new underwear. I’m just hooking you up.’
I’m grateful to go to work because I apparently will need new underwear. I get home and I fix myself a cocktail because it was one of those nights that had bourbon written all over it. I’m planning to sit down and watch the season finale of American Horror Story: Coven, but Ranger has other plans. At midnight, after a hard evening of slinging lattes and Frappuccinos, Ranger want to play chase. I’m running around the house, barefoot so I don’t make any noise, chasing Ranger around the dining room table. I’m done. I just look at him and say, “Ranger, you could be a dog in Russia.” And in that moment, I know, one of my worst fears has come true. I have become my mother and the curse she heaped on me years ago has finally been fulfilled. I have a child, admittedly one with four legs and a tail, who now is just like me.
Until next time, much love, Jackie
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February 3, 2014
Love Takes All
Our May 2014 cover. Love Takes All.
The cards are dealt. Now let the game of passion begin…
Architect Hunter Russell’s grandmother just won a Reno casino in a high-stakes poker game! And she wants Hunter to help renovate it. It’s a crazy idea, and he is just about to tell her so—until he meets the stunning young woman who is his grandmother’s new business partner. Suddenly Hunter is tempted to say yes.
Lydia Montgomery has lived the life of a trophy wife. Now she’s a trophy widow, with a young daughter to support, longing for independence and purpose. The last thing she needs is another strong-willed man in her life. But Hunter’s surprisingly sensual touch, an intoxicating mix of desire and tenderness, is making her reconsider.
Can a man who has always been alone, and a woman who has never stood on her own, take the biggest gamble of all…together?
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January 27, 2014
Love Takes All by J.M. Jeffries, May 2014
Have you heard the good news? Love Takes All, originally scheduled for December 2014, has been moved to May 2014.
Jackie and I are so excited to announce our new Passion;s Gamble series featuring the Hunter family who own a casino in Reno, Nevada.
Watch for updates.
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November 2, 2013
Calfornia Christmas Dreams.
It’s here. It’s here. It’s here.
So excited to have our newest book in the book stores. Available in print and ebook. California Christmas Dreams received a 4 star review from Romantic Times Book Review Magazine.
Every writer is taught to write the book of their hearts. Jackie and I wanted to write a Christmas story set in California for the longest time. And here it is. We really wanted to set it at a Disneyland type theme park, but using an amusement park turned out so much better.
Come take a ride on our romantic carrousel.
Love always, Jackie and Miriam aka J.M. Jeffries.
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August 27, 2013
California Christmas Dreams by J.M. Jeffries
Coming in November from Harlequin Kimani.
California Dreaming…
Former child star Meredith Alcott knows life isn’t like the movies. But now she has a chance to realize her own Hollywood dream by restoring a rundown amusement park to its former glory. Clashing with the owner’s arrogant, all-business son wasn’t in the job description…even as Jake Walters sweeps her into a romance she never wants to end.
As financial adviser to the stars, Jake always has his eye on the bottom line. He doesn’t want an outsider anywhere near the legendary institution that’s been in his family for generations. Yet Meredith gets top billing when she’s hired to revamp his family’s park. The bewitching designer challenges him at every turn while arousing a passion that fulfills Jake’s wildest fantasies. But, sabotage threatens to turn all their passionate dreams to dust. Unless Jake can come up with a design for loving that keeps the magic going—and Meredith in his arms forever.
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June 23, 2013
Vegas Bites, Vegas Bites Back, Vegas Bites: Three of a Kind bundle
PDF format $4.99
(Kindle format available June 24 from Amazon.com)
For the first time, all three Vegas Bites books (twelve novellas) in one volume in ebook format including a sneak preview of Vegas Bites Four: From Vegas With Love.
What howls in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
Welcome to the French Quarter, Sin City’s premier casino, where the high rollers are vampires, the sexy showgirls are werewolves, and the lounge magician is a djinn. Where a hot hell hound meets a cool werewolf and were-jaguar meets her mate.
Beneath the sexy, sassy, smoldering action, danger lurks and Lady Love reigns supreme. Below the glittering, glitzy Las Vegas front lies a struggle for life, death, and dominance of the most powerful werewolf pack in North America.
Explore this high roller fantasy world of feuding werewolf packs, high-stakes thieves, a sexy djinn, and a mystical medallion, a hell hound and a were-jaguar.
But baby it’s only Vegas.
Heat by L. A. Banks
The Hunger Within by J.M. Jeffries
Double Down by Seressia Glass
Out of the Dark by Natalie Dunbar
Channeling Moonlight by Seressia Glass
Passion’s Blood by Monique Lamont
The Golden Wolf by Natalie Dunbar
Ain’t Nothing But A Hell Hound by J. M. Jeffries
In Walks Trouble by Seressia Glass
Royal Pursuit by Monique Lamont
The Wolf That Wasn’t by Natalie Dunbar
The Nature of the Beast by J.M. Jeffries
Sneak Peek — Vegas Bites 4: From Vegas With Love by J.M. Jeffries
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June 7, 2013
Working, Working, Working
Jackie and I have been working, working, working. We have just received the line edits for California Christmas Dreaming. We’re up to 112 pages on our newest book. If we keep up this pace, we’ll have the first draft finished by the end of June, or first week of July. I want to be as close to finished by the end of July in order to enjoy my sister who will be arriving Aug 1 and staying the whole month.
Vegas Bites 4: From Vegas With Love is currently #53 on the Kindle ebook best-seller list. We’re very excited and thankful to all the wonderful readers who have read Iva’s story. You can purchase Vegas Bites $: From Vegas With Love from Amazon.com for $1.99.
A very special thank you to all our readers.
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May 30, 2013
Vegas Bites 4: From Vegas With Love
Vegas Bites 4: From Vegas With Love now available from Amazon.com for only $1.99
Iva’s story.
Iva Temple doesn’t expect to be kidnapped by the Siberian wolf pack and taken halfway around the world from her home in Las Vegas. The sexy alpha, Luka Vadim, makes her blood run hot and her heart pound. He’s handsome, arrogant and in a ton of trouble. Iva wants to help and discovers that there is more to Siberia than just majestic forest, snow-capped mountains and the hottest alpha in the world.
Luka Vadim is in trouble. Since becoming alpha after his father’s murder, he’s battling his second in command, his brothers, and the savage Mongolian pack for supremacy of his beautiful home. When his two wayward brothers kidnap Iva Temple, he gets more than he hoped for. Iva is smart, sassy and so beautiful he doesn’t want to let her go. And she can cook up a storm.
In the beautiful Siberian wilderness, Iva and Luka find they are made for each other. Falling is love is just the beginning.
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May 1, 2013
Protecting Lulu on Smashwords
Protecting Lulu is now available through Smashwords and those distributors Smashwords works with. Available in a number of different formats.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/312086?ref=ParkerPublishing
We changed the cover design. Tell Jackie and I which one you prefer
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