QUEEN Countdown - Day 11
"As I was saying, your heartbeat is fine and strong. As is the child's."
It's October 11th, Day 11 of our QUEEN OF SONG AND SOULS release countdown!
Days until the release of QUEEN OF SONG AND SOULS: 16
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We are counting down the days until the release of QUEEN OF SONG AND SOULS, book #4 of the Tairen Soul quintet. Each week, I'll be choosing winners to receive an autographed copy of QUEEN, so don't miss out!
There are two ways you can win!
(1) Join the CL Wilson Announcement List. A winner will be drawn from the announcement list each week.
(2) Read the daily countdown blog here on Blogging the Fading Lands, and post a response to the "Question of the Day". Each Tuesday, I will choose a winner from the posters for that week. For each daily blog that you respond to, you earn one chance to win. (Multiple comments to the same blog still only count as one "chance to win".)
Once you post a comment, email feyreisa@live.com with your
(1) name,
(2) mailing address,
(3) email address, and
(4) the name you posted under (please sign your post if you post as "anonymous")
If I do not receive your information, your response to today's blog will *not* be entered in the weekly drawing.
Only one entry per person per day will be counted. Personal information will remain private, will only be used to contact the weekly winner(s), and will be discarded thereafter.
I'm a big believer in dreams. Some of you may know my story about making a wish on a shooting star and having it come true. So today's QoD isn't about my books, or the book industry. Today, the question is about you and your greatest dream. Only share what you're comfortable with sharing, of couse. So if you aren't comfortable sharing your real greatest dream, pick the next best one you are comfortable sharing.
What is your greatest dream? It doesn't have to be practical or even necessarily achievable (ie, doesn't have to be a goal, can be a fantasy) -- just the one thing that says "if you could do/have/schieve/be X, I could die happy."
It's October 11th, Day 11 of our QUEEN OF SONG AND SOULS release countdown!
Days until the release of QUEEN OF SONG AND SOULS: 16
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We are counting down the days until the release of QUEEN OF SONG AND SOULS, book #4 of the Tairen Soul quintet. Each week, I'll be choosing winners to receive an autographed copy of QUEEN, so don't miss out!
How to Enter!
There are two ways you can win!
(1) Join the CL Wilson Announcement List. A winner will be drawn from the announcement list each week.
(2) Read the daily countdown blog here on Blogging the Fading Lands, and post a response to the "Question of the Day". Each Tuesday, I will choose a winner from the posters for that week. For each daily blog that you respond to, you earn one chance to win. (Multiple comments to the same blog still only count as one "chance to win".)
Once you post a comment, email feyreisa@live.com with your
(1) name,
(2) mailing address,
(3) email address, and
(4) the name you posted under (please sign your post if you post as "anonymous")
If I do not receive your information, your response to today's blog will *not* be entered in the weekly drawing.
Only one entry per person per day will be counted. Personal information will remain private, will only be used to contact the weekly winner(s), and will be discarded thereafter.
Question of the Day:
I'm a big believer in dreams. Some of you may know my story about making a wish on a shooting star and having it come true. So today's QoD isn't about my books, or the book industry. Today, the question is about you and your greatest dream. Only share what you're comfortable with sharing, of couse. So if you aren't comfortable sharing your real greatest dream, pick the next best one you are comfortable sharing.
What is your greatest dream? It doesn't have to be practical or even necessarily achievable (ie, doesn't have to be a goal, can be a fantasy) -- just the one thing that says "if you could do/have/schieve/be X, I could die happy."
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44 Comments:
Get the Fading Lands Series in Mobipocket format?
My favorite authors could compose their masterpieces as fast as I read and enjoy them.
As you can see, I'm a confirmed, un-treated book addict who's torn between fantasies.
Lynn
if i see my children grow up to become real, down to earth christians. and im not wanting them to talk the talk of christians...i want to see them walk it:) i want to see real humility, selflessness, love,and kindness in them. i want to see them give it to all the people on this earth. then i could truely die with peace and happiness in my heart.
-amanda
Greatest Dream......Some dreams are easy....Rich,pretty,great body,healthy etc.....I've always dreamed of a great relationship..Someone who would always have my back. Someone to wake up to. Someone to feel safe with. Someone to love. A shei'tan............
I want every item on my "bucket list" crossed off with a great big smiley face.
I chat with the chatelaines.
My biggest wish is for my dad. He has been sick for many years. He goes to dialysis every other day, takes about a million medicines, but is still so sick that he is miserable almost every time i see and talk to him.
If I had one wish, then it would be for my daddy to be healthy and happy again. He has always been an important part of my life, so if there was ever anything I could do to make him better, then I wouldn't hesitate.
My greatest dream is to be published. I love to write and I want to write amazing things that others can relate to. Becoming an Opera singer is a more recent aspiration but also a dream of mine. Which leads me to wonder, what am I doing studying politics? ;-P
The list is endless, there are so many things in this life that would make me happy, To live long enough to see my children grown with children of their own that would be the most amazing thing for me.
Another thing I would like to see is the books that I love really love be made into movies, though with some its less than practical to much x-rated moments, others posess such a magical story line i am convinced it could be done.
I also think that doing something so profound as to be remembered when I am gone would leave me the most peace, to know that when I leave this world my name will go on and my deeds remembered.
I write poetry so like most writers I doubt I will be famous until I am gone from this world :)
Ha! Own my own bookstore that caters to both romance and fantasy book lovers. I have this vision of it being decorated the way I decorate my personal library room, very homey and personal. And you would always smell fresh brewed coffee and cinnamon rolls...sigh, it is a dream, one I doubt will ever come to fruition, but I do so love to dream about it! Oh, and I would have the hottest and latest book authors monthly for signings! It's the best dream EVAH!!
My greatest dream, at the moment, is to add to our family. We have suffered from infertility for a couple of years now.
-Jilly
Ever since I was in high school, I have wanted to become a Geologist, because I love rocks, and everything to do with the earth facinates me. I'm currently in University to accomplish this. The next dream I have is that the person for whom i care a great deal realizes that I'm the one for him, although it's more of a pipe dream.
my greatest dream..... I dont think i have one right now. My mom committed suicide almost 2 years ago, and truthfully since then I have been concentrated on my family and escaping into my books. I have things I would like to accomplish - lose weight, write, have a sucessful home biz. But mostly I want to be a good mom, and not make the same mistakes that my mom made.
Hmm... A dream of mine is to eventually have children of my own... And I want to be as good a parent to them as my Mum has been with us.
I want to be the really cool, but down-to-earth sort of parent - someone that my kids can trust and confide in, but at the same time give them the space to grow into really cool individuals of their own...
Right now though I'm settling for being the best godmother I can be to my godchildren.
A dream of mine is to someday own a lot of land and open a horse sanctuary - a place for old, retired or injured horses (and possibly other animals) to live out their days.
Heather B
I don't really have any dreams anymore. Life, it seems, will sometimes do that to you. Maybe later, that ability will return.
The old ones were many and varied. I wanted to open a used book store when I retired. Hopefully, someday I'll actually be able to retire! Although print books may not still be around by then! : )
I used to dream of being thin and beautiful (shallow, I know, but certainly there). I used to dream of having a great and abiding love, the kind we so enjoy reading about. I had someone tell me one time to "stop reading those romances" because they unfairly colored my view of what to expect. I say, why settle for less? Why not hold out for someone who loves you completely, who's got your back, whom you can trust and be vulnerable with? I know the books are unrealistic, and I think that's why I won't give them up. It gives me a place to be where things are the way we want them to be.
Hmmm. Got a little off topic there, didn't I?
So, dreams. Well, maybe mine aren't as dead as I thought. I don't dream of the great and abiding love anymore, but that's okay, because we have Cheryl's men to sigh over instead. : )
I always thought of myself as a dreamer, so I could rattle off hundreds of dreams I have had, and still have. My greatest dreams wouldn't make sense to anyone else, so I'll leave those off.
I find that in the last few years I have found so much contentment in the life that I have now that dreams become less and less important when compared with reality. I have love, I have reasonable health, a nice place to live, and though I have troubles and worries, I can still sleep at night.
As a teenager, though, one of my highest aspirations was to be a published author. I had a whole series planned out, outlines, even a few essays on different aspects of the world I'd created. And I never wrote a single one. Somewhere along the way I got a fear of being unable to finish. Except for the one novella I wrote when I was 16 for a dear friend of mine, I've never finished even my fanfic stories. And then as life got busier and more complicated, I stopped writing altogether.
For the sake of my teenage self, I would like to be able to accomplish all the things I told myself I would do. And for the sake of my teenage self, I'd like to be able to send a little message back in time that reads, "It will be okay, really. Stay strong, stay faithful. I know it doesn't seem like it now, but just wait a few years, and it really does get better."
For myself, my dream is to be respected as an expert in my field and as a connector of people. My fantasy is to be slim and healthy with no effort on my part ;)
LOL.
P.S. And then I wanted to be the starring actress in the movies that were eventually made from the books that I wrote.
What a fabulous question, Cheryl!
I'm a huge believer in dreaming big. Years ago, I went to a seminar where the speaker had us write down our goals. On a lark, I wrote: "I live in a log home at the base of the Big Horn Mountains near my parents." We were in NC then with no prospects of making that dream a reality.
But within 3 years, we lived in a log home at the base of the Big Horns and I had coffee with my folks every morning.
Now my dream is to see my DH retire early and travel the world together. I'll send you a postcard! ;-)
Can't wait for Queen of Song and Souls!
One of my greatest dreams is just to be happy with my life and regret nothing. I'm only 19 and I want to be able to look back on my life when I'm 40 and 50 and say that I'm happy with the way that I lived my life and where it took me. I don't want to miss out on any great opportunities that life brings my way.
-Katie
My greatest dream - hmmmm - I don't think I really have one. While I adore fantasy and love to escape into make believe worlds, I am very down to earth and practical in reality.
I do have a greatest wish though, which is that my family be safe, well and healthy.
This is a funny question for today of all days, my best friend, my sister, visited me today. She is my sister of the heart not of the blood. We've been friends since I was 5 years old. We were discussing this topic today. Ever since I knew what a horse was, it was my dream to have one, not necessarily achieve anything with it, but just to have one of my very own. My dream was realized when I was 18. My dream evolved to get one ribbon, just one, with my horse. well, that dream evolved to get one ribbon of every color at one horse show, then it went on to get 50 ribbons in one year, and on and on and on. I got all those ribbons and I got the belt buckle, and I got the high point awards, and I won the money. So my dream kept evolving more and more. Then my horse developed navicular disease. He is only 15 years old now, but I can't do much with him anymore except cuddle with him and tell him how wonderful he is. So the dream evolved yet again. I just recently purchased another horse. I am now 32, almost 33, and my dream still involves horses. I have acheived more of those evolved dreams and have traveled out of state with my new horse to show. We have gone on to new events to show. Now my dream is next year to show for some awesome year end awards and beat some more people and show them who is the best team!!!
My greatest dream is to visit England,Scotland and Ireland.
I would love to be able to spend
a year walking through the most
beautiful spots in the world,and
of course to tour all of the old
castles that are still standing
and the ruins of those that are
not.
Oldbull said Get the Fading Lands Series in Mobipocket format?
LOL. I think that's a dream easily realized. Dorch is the in process of re-digitizing all versions of the ebooks.
Amanda - great dream. I personally fall short sometimes, but I do definitely try on the love and kindness front. :)
Beckey - I can relate to those dreams! :) At the moment, I'd just settle for losing all the weight I gained due to my thyroid.
syraina - sending you prayers and warm wishes for your dad. I love my dad to bits.
Colleen - LOL. There's lots of fiction and drama in politics. I see the tie in to publishing and opera *gg*
kneazle all good dreams. Did you enter the poetry contest year before last? I need to do another one. I love poetry, and one of the great parts about this series is that I've been able to indulge my love - and let a few others indulge theirs too!
Amy C. said Own my own bookstore that caters to both romance and fantasy book lovers. - let's talk! :D Life is tough for indy bookstores these days, but specialization is key.
Jilly - sending prayers that your baby-dreams come true. Nothing is sweeter or more profoundly beautiful than holding your child in your arms for the first time. And if a child of your own is not in the cards, may you find a way to share your love with a child who needs it.
Bethany - whoot on pursuing your geologist dream! Study hard and rock the world :) And hope you rock that guy too:p If he's not the one, don't ever doubt somewhere out there is the one who is :)
Angie - bless you, hon. I'm so sorry for your loss. But it sounds like you have taken that tragedy and turned it into the best possible outcome - peace and love for yourself and your family.
Windwanderer - I would love to be the "really cool" parent too, but unfortunately, I have to be the whip-cracker with some hard-headed children who simply will not let me be all hugs and fun. Ah well. I'll settle for "Mom who cares enough to be mean when it's warranted."
Heather B - My sister Lisette was the horse-lover in the family. Neat dream. I hope you can make it come true.
Maibeeme - You read my books, so i think there's still a dreamer in you somewhere :) And I really don't buy the "romances color your view and make you expect ridiculous, unrealistic things in a relationship." People who say that are usually the same kind who read James Bond (I mean, come on, "Octopussy?"). Fiction is escape, entertainment, and sometimes enlightenment. And if romance readers all went a way with the idea that men should (a) respect them, (b) treat them well, (c) love, honor, cherish and remain faithful to them, and (d) protect their family...um, so what? They *SHOULD!*
Sunset - as Frank Herbert once wrote, "Fear is the mind-killer." It is. Finishing a book and then submitting it - that's still hard work that I have to psyche myself up to do. Because once the book is out of my hands, if it's not "perfect" someone is going to come along and rip it to shreds - then post all over the internet how awful that book is. And you know what I've learned? My books are never going to be perfect. Someone is always going to come along and call my books "sophomoric" or "boring" or "porn" or whatever. (Some even write to me to make sure I know what a terrible person/writer I am. Thank god those emails are few and far between.)
And even if my books are as perfect as they could possibly be, someone will *still* come along and hate them. Because reading is subjective and personal, and there is no such thing as a single book that everyone will like.
The hardest lesson I've had to learn is that one. But when someone doesn't like the book - or writes me some horrible email or mean review - I go to amazon.com, look up my favorite books by my favorite authors (books so spectacular I have read them dozens of times and dreamed about them). And then I read the 1 star reviews somone posted about *those* books. And I realize, it isn't me, it isn't my book. It's just that my book wasn't right for that person.
And then I go back to writing on another book. :)
Publishing is a hard business - hard to break into - hard to stay in. But if you still have that dream, then pursue it.
Cassandra - I adore your fantasy! *gg*
Susnset - ooooh, it's freakish how alike we think :p
Emily - GREAT way to make those dreams come true! YAY you! And how cool is that. They do say, people who write their dreams down are far more likely to achieve them. Hmmm....maybe I should start writing "Finish {insert book title here}" down every time I start a new book - maybe that would help me write faster :p
Katie - You have a good head on your shoulders!
Noreen - May your wish always come true.
Beckey - I love how your dream has evolved. That is the magic of dreams. Dreams achieved lead to even more wonderful dreams :) Hooray for you!
liz - start saving your pennies. *That* dream is one totally within your power, and I hope it soon comes true.
My dream is like many other mother's dreams. I dream that my children grow to healthy, happy and successful adults.
I would like my children to grow up to be well-adjusted adults who are happy with their lives. I also want to live long enough to be able to enjoy any grandchildren I may have :)
P.S. I also want there to be enough time in the day for me to do everything that I need to do as well as everything I want to do. There never seems to be enough hours...sigh
-PW
My dream? Well, it's currently a work in progress... I hope to meet that special someone within the next four years since I plan on having my first kid when I'm twenty five. If all goes according to plan (wishful thinking, I know), that first child will be a daughter. A couple years later, once we survive the terrible toddler years, I hope to have a son. Two kids sounds perfect... Throw in some good ole pets, dogs and cats, and there's my dream in a nutshell. First I'll make my imprint on the world, then watch as my kids do so... and in the end, when I'm old and wrinkled? If I could be that sixty year old couple holding hands while walking in the park, still head-over-heels in love with that special someone... *sigh* Could it get any better than that? I don't think so... :)
Patterson1219
My greatest dream is to get a doctorate. I'm working my way towards it now - I'm a member of two research labs, and working on my first grant for funding what will hopefully become my master's thesis...but I have a long road ahead of me, and hope very much that I can make it all the way to my dream!!
There's a Christmas tree farm run by an elderly couple that my family used to go to every year and cut our tree down, which usually involved a two hour process (rain, sleet, snow or shine) of tramping across the farm in search of the perfect tree. There was Christmas music playing, and when you carried your tree up to have it wrapped and pay for it, the owners had free popcorn, candycanes and hot cider, as well as gorgeous displays of wreaths for sale. It was one of our traditions and some of my favorite Christmas memories took place there. The farm itself is beautiful,on some rolling hills near a lake. I've always wanted to own it when the current owners retire and keep a bit of Christmas alive all year.
~Rach
To be able to look back on my life from whatever ripe old age God has chosen for me to depart this world and know that I've experienced the time I've been gifted with to the fullest.
People are always telling me I need to slow down. I am always go, go, go. I recently heard a lecture that said that people do this because of past tragedies. They rush around trying to make everything and everyone around them perfect. That my soul is unsettled and I reaching or searching for that peace. Sad thing is that I realized they were right. So, my biggest dream would be to find that inner peace in my soul. The missing parts that are empty that I keep trying to fill.
I have four big dreams for my life:
1. I really want to be a great influence on my son. I want to teach him all the ways of the Lord and I want to be a great mom.
2. I would really like to have another baby. He was a miracle,so I can't it will be fine, but i want to adopt.
3. I am supposed to take the praxis 2 in January 2010 and then graduate in May 2010. I def WANT both of those to happen or I feel all this time will have been wasted.
4. I want to send my child or children on a mission for our church. (we are mormons)
Oh, I have all sorts of dreams. Dreams of finding the perfect job, or, better yet, winning a huge lotto jackpot and being able to do whatever I want every day. Dreams of meeting my Soulmate, and, of course, knowing that's who they are when I meet them.
But I'd say my biggest dream is to be less crippled by my own insecurities. Hard to meet your Soulmate or find that perfect job when you're too afraid of failure or doing/saying the wrong thing to take a chance.
ARC
My greatest dream is to learn how to travel in the astral and visit the land of the fey.
I rather like this question. It inspires some good soul-searching and remembrance. I have a couple good, perhaps far-reaching, dreams.
1. I think we all want this, in some way or another [and a lot of us are lucky to have it]...is true love. The kind you find in fantasy and romance novels. I've been a sucker for them since I was...ten, I think. But I've always loved to read...and when I ran out of my own, I ended up sneaking some of my mom's books. Didn't always understand them, and it took me a couple tries to get into them...but wow. What I wouldn't give to find that kind of love. Err, well, I might not give up a lot of things, actually, but this is one of those "if I could have it for no cost" sort of deals. Perhaps that's another reason why I love your series, Cheryl. I've always been a believer of fairy tails and happily ever afters and I hope there might be one for me.
2. As well as a reading nut, I've loved horses all my life, and I've been privileged that my grandfather had a farm and horses. I've been riding pretty much ever since I could walk [got pictures, even if it wasn't me riding by myself, lol]. I've always wanted to have a large farm, most likely some sort of breeding stable...where I'd be content. For the longest time, my childhood friend and I would dra out what this place would look like on sheets of graph paper, right down to our own houses. I don't know if he'd be into that anymore [and to be honest, I've been in love with him for as long as I've known him [whoo, 18+ years, though I've 'known' him all of my 21 years], however, he doesn't feel the same and he's got a girlfriend of his own; I'm happy for him, if a little jealous, but I like his girlfriend--she's awesome~].
Anyway...the first might be unattainable, who knows? The second might be, too...but maybe I'll inherit my father's farmland [haaa, I doubt it, but we'll see], which would bring me one step closer. And if I don't have my love in human-form...I've always got my horses. They understand. <3
Right now, it would be fantastic if someone could show me what direction I should be heading in in my life, as I'm in one of those transitional stages (and unemployed). Finding my one true love would be equally fantastic, but I think supporting myself is a tad more important (unless he was rich, then that would solve all my problems). However, I also realize that no fairy godmother is going to just pop up out of the woodwork; I'm just going to have to give myself a swift kick in some direction and hope for the best.
I've always had the dream of opening a bookstore. And while that is still one of my dreams, another one is to finish the book I've been writing and have it published.
To truly find your shei'tani or true mate, one that you know so intimately there never is any doubt. I think i'm pretty close :)
Mak...
My greatest dream, is probably the greatest drea, of any reader from an early age.... I want to bring my dreams and stories to other readers out there in my own books. I dream for the talent to put those dreams into writen words that can paint the pictures I see as vividly as my favorite authors paint theirs for me.
Day 11 is now closed to new "enter to win" posts. Day 12 blog is now up.
Ahhhhh, I have read through so many of these wishes.... and now I am crying..... All the wishes for families, children, and others... Now mine seems so selfish... but books have helped me though so many dark times in my life that I only want to be able to do the same for others.... give them some where safe to go with a garentee on a hea that may be able to give them a little hope to grab on to for awhile.
Oh, you bet I would ask you to come to my 'dream bookstore'!! :) But you're right, and especially with todays economy, I would be so nervous to even attempt to do anything.
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