MC: Hi Crystal! Tell us about your life as a librarian? Is it fabulous working around lots of books all day?

CJ: It is! As much as I love the books, that’s really not what I work with all day. I work with people who need information. Students, teachers, kids, people who wander in and want to know where the bathroom is.

MC: What’s the toughest thing about being a librarian?

CJ: Not being able to help people! Sometimes the all-knowing librarianista just has no clue how to find something.

MC: You say you’re an alphabet person now. Can you tell us what letters follow your name?

CJ: MLS, which stands for Master of Library Science. Though someday I want it to be PhD, just so people have to call me Doctor.

MC: Tell us about your book Full Swing.

CJ: *sigh* This was the first story I ever finished and I still can’t believe I sold! It just blows my mind on a daily basis. I have a book. And a pretty cover! With my name on it and everything! So, about the story. Jill is a woman with everything. She’s the Tiger Woods of women’s golf and has a hot Army Ranger husband. They have a solid marriage and have been together for years. Then he’s injured in combat. Life altering-type injury and suddenly her perfect life is unraveling at the seams. He wants her to have better than a broken man, and she wants them to do more than have sex to avoid talking to each other. No matter how hot the sex is (and it really, really is). This is the story about life getting in the way of love.

MC: Do you play golf, yourself?

CJ: I used to. I was on the varsity girls’ golf team my senior year of high school. I was part of the group that started the program. And I was really, really bad at it. I haven’t played since then, and I don’t even want to know what my handicap is now, but I had a lot of fun way back then.

MC: Tell us a little about IN ICE, your Octoberfest release.

CJ: This is the first in my four-part Wereplanets series where humans are extinct except for genetically altered humans who were developed to adapt to the harsh environments of colonized planets. Basically, humans were gene-spliced to become wereanimals. I’ve got dragons and mermaids and tiger and bears. Oh, my! In Ice is the story of Jain and Kesuk. She’s the last surviving human who crashed onto an ice planet after drifting in space in cryogenic freeze for centuries. Kesuk is the bear-shifter who saves her from the snow. Ice planet or not, their romance is pretty hot.

MC: How did you get involved with The Novelty Girls?

CJ: The same way I got involved with Cobblestone Press. Loribelle Hunt and Shelli Stevens made me! They were looking to start a new group blog and they asked me to join in. We have an awesome group of authors over there. We’re all highly motivated and really want to dig into this industry.

MC: Who are your favorite authors and why?

CJ: Oh, hell. I have no idea. My favorites are like my weight: subject to change without warning. Right now I’d have to go with Suzanne Brockmann because her new one, Into the Storm, is freaking awesome. And I met her in real life and she’s so nice!

MC: What do you do in your spare time? Any hobbies?

CJ: Well, writing was supposed to be my hobby, and it kind of turned into a second career. I’m afraid to find any more hobbies or I won’t get to sleep anymore. So, writing, reading, and sleeping are it right now. I lead such a fascinating life.

MC: Where would you like to visit? Any place you’ve always longed to go and why?

CJ: Australia. I have a crush on the cute swimmer from the Olympics. Ian Thorpe, I think his name is. Yeah, he’s way too young for me. But the accent down there is hot. And I hear it’s a pretty country too.

MC: What’s your favorite holiday?

CJ: Halloween. It’s the one day of the year where I get to dress crazy, gorge myself on candy, and not share any of my goodies with anyone else. What more could I ask for in a holiday?

MC: Tell us about your kitty.

CJ: *groan* Horatio is my little Hellcat. He’s a gorgeous little flame-point half-Siamese cat. He has big blue eyes and his points look like an orange tabby cat. He’s also Satan in a fur coat. He’s systematically broken every lamp in my apartment and cornered a mouse in the bathroom with me, but didn’t bother to kill it. So, I had to deal with a scared little mouse while buck naked and dripping wet at 6am. Sometimes I’m really grateful I’m single and no one who has to sleep with me can see me in situations like that.

MC: Five words that describe you?

CJ: Sarcastic, funny, intelligent, creative, driven

MC: Favorite food?

CJ: I have a three way tie for first (Hey, I write erotic romance. A three-way was bound to come up sometime). Enchiladas, chicken chow mein, and BBQ steak. Yep, I’m a carnivore.

MC: Favorite beverage?

CJ: My grandmother is an English immigrant, so I’m a big fan of hot tea with cream and sugar. She raised me right.

MC: Favorite place to read?

CJ: In my chair. It was a present from my mother and it’s a big cushy vintage 1950s armchair. In pink tweed.

MC: Five favorite movies?

CJ: Summer Magic (old Haley Mills musical), His Girl Friday (hot men, hot dialogue, old black & white classic), Pirates of the Caribbean (for obvious reasons), Clerks 2 (one phrase: interspecies erotica–LOL), Chronicles of Riddick (Vin Diesel is hot)

MC: How about TV shows?

CJ: CSI (the original), Grey’s Anatomy (go George!), Gilmore Girls (wholesome family fun), and The OC (my guilty pleasure).

MC: How can readers get in touch with you?

CJ: Check out my website (http://www.crystaljordan.com) and blog (http://crystaljordan.blogspot.com) for updates on my writing career and sad love life. Or email me crystal@crystaljordan.com

Thanks for having me Madison! This was loads of fun.

Thanks Crystal!

2 Comments

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  By Ann Cory, August 26, 2006 @ 3:48 am

  I thought this was a FANTASTIC interview Way to go Madison!!!
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  By Shelli Stevens, August 26, 2006 @ 6:08 pm

  Great interview, Crystal and Madison! Crystal you crack me up!

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