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Booklist reviewed WILD HEARTS!

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I’ve been keeping this to myself (SO HARD) for about a week or so, but I can finally share! The fabulous BOOKLIST reviewed WILD HEARTS! The review will be printed in the May 1, 2015 edition. Here’s the review! 🙂 🙂 🙂

Wild Hearts.

Burkhart, Jessica (Author)

May 2015. 304 p. Bloomsbury, hardcover, $17.99. (9781619632585). Bloomsbury, paperback, $9.99.

(978619632592).

A cowboy and a developer’s daughter lock horns in the latest teen romance from the publisher’s If Only

line. When Brie and her family arrive in Lost Springs, Wyoming, to build another hotel in her father’s

extended-stay empire, locals rebel at the idea that the new development will disrupt local fauna and occupy

land used by wild mustangs. Local guy Logan bumps into Brie, and their initial disagreement slowly turns

into something that looks a lot like love. As Brie begins to see Wyoming through Logan’s eyes, everything

changes. However, her father is completely opposed to their new relationship, and the couple must get

creative to find ways to be together. Peppered with authentic details about ranch life, this will have readers

sharing Brie’s delight in the wind-swept landscape—and, of course, Logan. A romance that thunders along

with hoof beats and heartbeats.

— Erin Downey Howerton

Thank you, thank you, Booklist and Erin Downey Howerton for reviewing WILD HEARTS! I appreciate it so much! ❤

WILD HEARTS countdown! 8 . . .

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Omigosh!

I can’t believe there are EIGHT days left until WILD HEARTS hits shelves!

There was some confusion on my IG, this book is NOT just releasing in e-book format for Nook or Kindle. It comes out in HARDCOVER and PAPERBACK, too! 🙂

There is a contest running on my IG, speaking of which! You have until May 3rd to send me a screenshot of your pre-order of WILD HEARTS to hartsforjess AT gmail DOT com to be entered to win . . . an EARLY copy of HEATED sent to your inbox before it is published! So show me those preorder screenshots! 🙂

Happy Monday!

xoxo

WILD HEARTS countdown! 9 . . .

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9 days, people!! wild hearts rack cards

If you pre-order it, I’ll be your BFF for life! ❤ 🙂

It’s here:

Hardcover, paperback, Kindle AND audiobook!

Amazon
($6.99 for Kindle–um, score!)

Barnes and Noble
($6.99 for Nook!)

Books a Million

Your support of my work, truly, really, means everything. By purchasing my new novel, it allows me the freedom to keep working on other VERY important projects that I don’t get paid up front for like the Canterwood e-stories.

I believe if you’re a fan of Canterwood, you’ll like this book! 🙂 It’s full of mustangs and a hot cowboy!

Remember, screenshot your receipt of WILD HEARTS and email it to hartsforjess AT gmail DOT com for a secret prize!

Listen to my Horse Radio Network interview! :)

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Hey, guys!

How’s your week going so far? The days are going by SO CRAZY fast for me and I have a crazy ton of work to do. Eep!

I was lucky enough to be interviewed by HORSE RADIO NETWORK’s HORSES IN THE MORNING last week! I had a BLAST with Glenn and Jamie. 🙂

If you guys want to listen to my interview, you can here: (I come in at 36:48 if you want to skip ahead!)

http://www.horsesinthemorning.com/hitm-for-04-17-2015-by-kentucky-performance-products-las-vegas-world-cup-wild-hearts-author-almost-new-jumping-horse/

Love you all and sooo happy that it’s finally spring! What’s your fave thing about spring? ❤

WILD HEARTS Book Signing in Lexington, KY

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Hi, guys!

The lovely folks at Joseph Beth in Lexington, KY have offered to host my first WILD HEARTS signing! Of course, there will be Canterwood books to sign/sell as well as Breyer models. This is a free event and no tickets are needed. If you’re coming, it would be awesome if you let me know so I can be on the lookout for you! 🙂

Here are the event details:

Joseph-Beth Booksellers

161 Lexington Green Circle
#B1
Lexington, KY 40503
Wednesday, May 13, 2015 from 7:30 PM to 9:00(ish) PM (EDT)

If needed, you can reach JB by phone at 859-273-2911 and their website is http://www.josephbeth.com.

I really, really hope you come! Since they’re in Lexington, they have tons of fun, cool horsey stuff at the store and it’s so much fun there. I can’t wait!

xoxo ❤ 🙂

PRIZES!!

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So, WILD HEARTS is up for pre-order and is out on May 5th! I can’t wait!!

If you pre-order it, snap a pic of the receipt and email it to hartsforjess AT gmail DOT com, I will do a 15 min Skype sesh with you!

Pics must be received by May 5th!

Thank you SO much for supporting me and my new book!

YA book bloggers! Anyone want to host me?

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Hi, guys!

The publication date for WILD HEARTS–May 5–is fast approaching! I would love, love to do a blog tour with some YA book bloggers who would be interested in having me. In return, I’ll post a link on my blog and will Tweet about the visit, too.

If you want to discuss it, please email me at hartsforjess AT gmail DOT com. Thanks so much!

Wild Hearts marketing cards!

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It’s no secret that I LOVE Vista Print. I made ALL of my marketing material from them and they’re so easy to use. I just ordered this WILD HEARTS cards! I made them last night and they’re blank on the back. Vista Print is great because they had a 33% site wide discount and I got 750 rack cards for a fab price!

I booked two conferences (I can’t say what ones yet!) so I needed marketing material for WILD HEARTS. Plus, I need WH material to distribute to local bookstores and libraries.

What do you guys think? The trailer is coming from, Jill, my fab Elite Team member, too! So, yay!

Just trying to keep super, super, SUPER busy to take my mind off what’s going on right now.

A lovely review for WILD HEARTS from Kirkus!

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“Fresh, fun and oh-so-romantic, WILD HEARTS had me galloping through the pages. I absolutely loved it.” ~ Lauren Barnholdt, author of TWO-WAY STREET and DEVON DELANEY

Enjoy Wild Hearts and the other standalone titles in Bloomsbury’s contemporary If Only romance line centered around an impossible problem: you always want what you can’t have!

Brie Carter’s father’s land development business has taken her family all over the world, but as soon as they arrive at their new home in Lost Spring, Wyoming, the town turns out to protest. They don’t want a new hotel if the resident mustang population will be displaced or hurt as part of the deal. Then Brie meets Logan, a gorgeous local who has a special connection to the mustangs, and she is immediately drawn to him . . . and the horses. However, with Logan’s father leading the protests and Brie’s father refusing to budge, it’s clear that their parents are heading towards an all-out war. Can Brie and Logan find a way to save the mustangs and be together? Or is their love doomed from the start?

This new title in the If Only line is the perfect summer read and proves that love flourishes in the wildest places!

From Kirkus Reviews:

Brie is used to constant travel; she’s not accustomed to caring passionately about a cause—or a young man. Brie’s dad is a land developer, so they move from place to place worldwide. Home-schooled, Brie has never made attachments. When she and her parents move to a one-main-street town in Wyoming, the welcome is frosty, as its citizens protest the uprooting of the wild mustangs for the hotel Brie’s dad is building. The loudest opponent is the father of a handsome, kind, cowboy-hatted boy named Logan. This quickly becomes more than a budding romance between Brie and Logan, as they take up the cause to create a sanctuary for the mustangs. She finds within herself a stirring love for the horses and a deep desire to do something good. However, caught in the middle of the heated battle, this is the first time Brie has contradicted her father and the first time she’s fallen in love. Burkhart’s uncluttered prose easily develops both characters and complications, making for a smooth-reading romance. Each chapter is headed with a pithy quote—”Cowboy proverb: The bigger the buckle, the better the cowboy”—lending light wisdom to the tale. This inspiring look at the plight of undomesticated landscape and wildlife nestled in a tender romance is a surprisingly sweet and resonant story. (Fiction. 12-18)

WILD HEARTS is available NOW for pre-order in hardcover and paperback with audio book coming soon! It releases on May 5, 2015!

Thank you Lauren, Kirkus, Laura Whitaker–my editor of awesome, Sarah Shumway, the Bloomsbury Team and to my Harts!

First review of WILD HEARTS AND 25% off Amazon purchase!

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The lovely Christine at the Bridgewater Public Library posted a very kind review of WILD HEARTS on the library’s Facebook page. I’m reposting it below. Thank you so, so much, Christine! ❤

Looking for a book for teens who love horses?

Check out Jessica Burkhart’s Wild Hearts, coming to stores in May! Brie Carter doesn’t think she fits in anywhere. Homeschooled and constantly moving due to her dad’s job, she also works for him at his land developing business. Her mother wishes she would get involved in something, like photography. Arriving in Lost Spring, Wyoming, her family is met with protests over the development, which would disrupt the local wild mustang population. Among the protesters is Logan, whose love of the horses is so strong, he’s willing to do anything to save them. Brie begins to hang out with Logan and see his side of things…too bad her father doesn’t feel the same way. Nor does he know that she is hanging out with the enemy and his father, who is leading the protests. Together with new friend Amy, Logan and Brie work together to save the mustangs.

This book is a good young adult choice for those who are interested in horses and looking for a romance book. That being said, this book is mostly parent friendly- Brie does sneak out of the house and go camping with Logan, but there is no sex or drugs. The story revolves around Brie’s growing friendship with Logan and Amy, and the attempt to save the mustangs of Lost Spring. You can tell the author did her research on wild mustangs before writing this book. Good pick for those looking to get into teen books without the teen drama.

WILD HEARTS is available NOW for pre-order in paperback and hardcover! 🙂 It releases May 5, 2015.

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