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FIRST BOOK CLUB WINNERS 2008-05-19 14:38:14 Just last week I told you about signing your book club up to win autographed copies of my books as I’m drawing two winning clubs a month. The first was drawn over the weekend, so congratulations to Let’s Read of Oldfort, TN! They’ll be receiving their copies of a best-seller soon.
I’ll draw again at the [...]
RESEARCH 2008-05-21 08:28:16 When I speak to to writing groups one of the questions I’m always asked is: “How do you do your research? Now, this question doesn’t come up once in a while. No siree. It’s asked every time and I find it a little odd as I think it’s pretty obvious. But maybe I’m mistaken, so [...]
DAVID COOK & MEMORIAL DAY 2008-05-22 16:22:08 I’m taking the next few days off, but I did want to say after a great season of American Idol (okay, okay, I guess I will tune in next year) that was one killer show last night. I’m thrilled that David Cook won.
Did I vote? Of course not. I thought it might be better if [...]
HIGH STAKES 2008-05-26 18:35:05 HIGH STAKES is on the stands.
It’s ironic, I think, that of all my books, HQN has decided to release HIGH STAKES, a book that is really two of my older “classic” Lisa Jackson novels, GYPSY WIND and DEVIL’S GAMBIT, this year when the thoroughbred racing season is so filled with controversy. I wrote GYPSY WIND [...]
I LOVE L A!!! 2008-05-28 19:58:44 I’m off to Los Angeles tomorrow for Book Expo where I’ll meet with publishers, booksellers and old friends. It’s a huge convention where thousands of people who love and work with books collect. I always get some insight into how vast this book business is.
It should be fun, if a whirlwind. Since I’m under tight [...]
QUESTIONS FOR YOU 2008-05-31 19:00:22 I’m home again and already back working on WICKED GAME. Writing a book with my best friend (who just happens to be my sister) is so much fun and no, so far we haven’t even talked about killing each other.
LA and Books Expo was fabulous, even if I was there less than twenty-four [...]
MAY WINNERS 2008-06-02 16:52:25 I wanted to let you all know that the winners of last month’s JUST BEACHY CONTEST have been drawn! (Well, along with some other contests as well!)
Congratulations to Suzann of Lower Burrell, PA, Debbie of Monroe, MI, Martha of Webb City, MD, Paula of Norfolk, VA, and Laci of Tollhouse, CA who all [...]
THE CURSE HAS BEEN LIFTED 2008-06-05 19:51:33 That would be the Internet Connection Curse.
It was placed on me this week and that’s why I’ve been absent.
And I’ve been crazy.
Nothing came make me lose it like Internet/computer problems. They stress me out to no end and this week has been a doozy. I’ve been writing along on WICKED GAME and that, thank God, [...] Read more:CURSE
BETWEEN THE COVERS 2008-06-09 22:29:50 I was shown the mock up for the cover of MALICE, my 2009 hardcover this past week and I thought it was stunning, chilling and would intrigue readers. In a nutshell–perfect for a book that is definitely a romantic suspense novel. I think the art department at Kensington Publishing is incredible and [...]
WICKED RESEARCH 2008-06-12 07:02:27 Obviously, it always helps with research when I can actually visit the place where my books are set. There’s just a familiarity to the place that makes it easier to write about. Today, via the Internet, it’s easy to locate maps and pictures and read journals about remote areas. It’s also [...]
JUNE BOOK CLUB WINNERS 2008-06-17 12:12:43 Ta-DAH! Drum roll please!
We had a drawing and the first winner of the book club drawing for June is:
Page Turners from Sterling, VA. This lucky group will be the recipient of five copies of a best selling Lisa Jackson title. To sign up your club just go to “For Book Clubs” on [...]
LOVE SCENES–HOW HOT? HOW MANY? 2008-06-16 10:54:32 I guess the “how hot” is a simple question and answer. Most of us like hot love scenes, or . . . if not erotic, the love scene has to be emotionally charged. It’s the sexual tension that provides the thrill in those scenes, not necessarily the act itself. Because, come [...]
WEDDING BELLS 2008-06-23 15:59:55 I don’t usually discuss my personal life, because it’s just that.
However, this post is a little out of the ordinary.
Last weekend my oldest son got married.
He married a woman I absolutely adore. They met about five years ago and have been dating ever since. Their engagement was eighteen months and their wedding was absolutely [...]
THRILLER TITLES IN SERIES ORDER 2008-07-06 11:06:41 It’s still the weekend, so I haven’t settled down to write more about LEFT TO DIE and how that book was conceived, so I’m going off track a bit. So many of you ask the order of reading my “series” books, so I’m going to list the books again. The first book will [...]
LOST SOULS CONTEST WINNERS!!! 2008-07-03 13:58:53 Just in time for Independence Day!!
I hope you all have a great weekend and, for those of you who are interested—drum roll please:
Congratulations to the winners of the LOST SOULS: Lost and Found contest! The grand prize of the first season of Lost on DVD, an over the door organizer and an autographed [...]
THE RACE IS ON!!! 2008-07-02 10:41:30 Only 27 days until LEFT TO DIE is published. Wow. Hard to believe that the “August Book” is nearly out. Yikes. That means I’ve really got to crank on next year’s “Spring books.” Thankfully WICKED GAME is nearly done. I’ll have my part wrapped up soon after the Fourth of July and Nancy’s already trailing [...]
LEFT TO DIE–THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY 2008-06-30 16:59:51 Often times I’m asked, “Where do you get your ideas?” Actually, I’m asked this every time I’m at a conference and giving a speech or workshop. Of course it varies, but a lot of ideas come straight out of the news.
That was not the case with LEFT TO DIE, however. This book was inspired by [...]
ALL OVER THE BOARD 2008-06-29 18:45:22 It’s Sunday night, the start of the week we celebrate Independence Day, or the Fourth Of July and boy was it hot here in the Pacific Northwest. With temperatures hovering near 100 degrees and the start of the holiday week, the migration to the beach was phenomenal. Cars lined up for miles and miles and [...]
JUNE CONEST WINNERS!!!! 2008-06-25 23:08:02 We have winners!!!
Congratulations to the Grand Prize winner for June, Laurie of Fort Wayne, IN who won the 4th of July basket and an autographed Lisa Jackson title! Congratulations, as well, to Alicia of Fresno, CA, Caren of Fairfax, VA, Judy of Gilbert, AZ, Arthur of Chatsworth, GA, and Melanie of Branford, [...]
TAN LINES, by JJ SALEM—A HOT SUMMER READ 2008-07-21 09:44:34 Okay, I’m back!!!
Who woulda thunk that a weird looking little cord of about six inches could be the gatekeeper to all things technical? Yeah, I was doing laundry, piling it up as I have no basket yet, and apparently the AORTA of my cable TV and computer wireless system is centered by the sink [...]
GRRR . . . 2008-07-20 17:21:53 After the high of getting WICKED GAME out the door and into the mail, I’m facing serious Internet problems. It makes me crazy even though for the better part of my life I didn’t know a thing about email, websites and Amazon.com or any dot-com for that matter.
So, until I get this fixed, I’m [...]
WICKED GAME— A DONE DEAL 2008-07-18 17:28:58 It’s done, it’s done, it’s done!!!!!
My sister and I are dancing in the streets that this one is “in the can.” YAY, YAY and DOUBLE YAY!
Well, the fat lady hasn’t actually sung yet, but she’s in the wings and getting close to stepping on stage. If course I’m not done working on WICKED GAME. Nor [...]
THIS SUMMER’S A KILLER 2008-07-17 09:38:13 I’ve been playing catch up all summer and now, in less that two weeks LEFT TO DIE will be in the stores! Yikes! Yes, of course I’m thrilled, thrilled, thrilled, but there’s so damned much to do before a book is released, I feel like I’m drowning. The recipes are up, yes, and those pictures–hey, [...]
MOUNTAIN MEN (LONERS WE CAN’T RESIST!) 2008-07-14 22:37:33 What is it about those loner types that women find so fascinating? You know the kind I’m talking about–they spend their times outdoors and are solitary to the point of living alone. We women fantasize about taming them, or at least falling in love with them.
Zane MacGregor is one of those men. He walks [...]
WEARING PJS TO WORK–ON CAMERA!!! 2008-07-11 08:39:08 Well, that’s a little bit of a lie.
But I’m going to sidebar here and talk a little bit about promotion and publicity. Why? Because yesterday I spent the day “being myself” for the camera. Walmart.com will be doing a new promotion and it involves a taped interview, which was very interesting as the crew came [...]
LEFT TO DIE TRAILER!!! 2008-07-10 09:47:44 Well, it’s getting close!!! LEFT TO DIE will be out soon and the book trailer is now on the website. It looks great, I think! (I worry to death about these things, but this time, I think COS, the production company, and Kensington Publishing did a bang up job!) And I have an e-postcard that [...]
WHY MONTANA? 2008-07-08 07:15:17 When I set out to write LEFT TO DIE, I had to plan a setting and I wanted my characters to live in a place very different from New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana where I’d set so many of my books, starting with COLD BLOODED. I love writing about that intriguing city, but I [...]
STAR-CROSSED 2008-08-06 10:41:22 In most of my books, I give the killer a name. Though I attempt to keep his identity a secret, I either have him name himself as in Father John in Hot Blooded or The Chosen One in Cold Blooded. Each of my murderers has an agenda and names himself accordingly. Well, [...]
SO FAR, SO GOOD! 2008-08-05 16:29:30 Since we’ve been discussing the characters in LEFT TO DIE, I thought I might tell you about the character gallery on the site. (). Take a look and let me know if you think the characters match the descriptions in the book–and yes, I do realize there is a goof. Bianca Pescoli should be red [...]
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