QUEEN Release Week - Day 1
Celebrating the Release of Queen of Song and Souls
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At long last, QUEEN OF SONG AND SOULS is on the shelves of a store near you. Yesterday, October 27, was the official US release.
Today I'm kicking off a week of fun and games to celebrate QUEEN's release and first week on the shelves. I'll have a variety of daily prizes to tempt you, and to culminate the week's celebration, I will be offering a second "Fey Gift Basket" as a Grand Prize to all participants who joined in the week's fun.
Today's prizes:
(2) Tairen Soul Collector Cards (Set of 4)
WINNERS: OldBull and Angie(1) an autographed copy of LORD, LADY or KING.
WINNER: NoreenHow to Enter!
It's easy! Just email feyreisa@live.com with your (1) Name, (2)Address, and (3) the name you will be posting under throughout the week. (NOTE: CONTACT INFORMATION WILL REMAIN PRIVATE AND WILL BE DISCARDED AT THE END OF THE WEEK.)
Once I have your contact information, you earn tickets in the daily and Grand Prize drawings in any of the following ways:
- Post on the daily blog! Each comment you post earns a new daily prize ticket. Each day you post earns a new Grand Prize ticket.
- Play the Fey Games! Each Fey game you play earns one new daily and Grand Prize ticket .
- Bring a friend. Each new friend you bring to join the blogfest fun earns YOU a new ticket in the Grand Prize pot. Just be sure your friend mentions your name when s/he emails the participant contact information to feyreisa@live.com.
Join the C.L. Wilson Announcement List
Join the CL Wilson Announcement List. A winner will be drawn from the announcement list each Tuesday from now until December 1st to win an autographed copy of QUEEN OF SONG AND SOULS.QUEEN Sightings!!
Gia at her local Borders (Town Center, Brandon, FL) after a long day at the office.....finds there are only three remaining copies of "Queen of Song and Souls"!!!! All for me!! Muah-ha-ha-ha!!!! ~Gia~
To start the day, I very impatiently waited to get out of work to go shopping. First, we hit Wal-Mart since that was the very first place I ever saw a Tairen Soul book. No luck. So then we go to Schuler's since it's right down the road. No luck there, either. (You could feel the energy coming off me, I wanted this book so bad). We left to go to Barnes and Noble on the Michigan State University Campus ... I ran down the escalator and hustled over to the romance section. Hmmm, every other Tairen Soul book but not Queen.
Thankfully Barnes & Noble is well staffed enough where they can help customers immediately. OHMYGOODNESS!!! The computer said they had it, so we trot back down to the romance section and of course it's not there, since I had JUST looked. So she goes to the back room, and FINALLY, FINALLY comes out with it in her hand. So I am rhapsodizing to her about the series and telling her she has GOT to read them. Then I go to the cashier and tell her how great the books are and she has GOT to read them. Finally, I am the proud owner of a Queen book. All the way home my mom heard "They are SO lucky they had it, if I would have had to make them call every bookstore in Michigan to find my book they would have been sorry, etc. etc. etc."
~East Lansing, MI
My husband's morning started extra early this morning, he is active duty and had a formation very early fun army stuff. Anyway being the loving husband he is got up extra early to go check the shelf's at walmart to see if the book was available yet so it would be there waiting for me when I woke up. Alas it was not :( but when he came home from work for lunch we set out on a mission, first to walmart again but alas queen had not made her arrival to the shelves then it was off to borders where I got a coffee and combed the shelf's in horror no book, until a nice lady pushing a book cart asked if she could help me. Please I said Please tell me you have Queen of Song and Souls by C.L. Wilson on there, she began searching her stack it wasn't looking good, then a spine of a book caught my eye on the back of the cart could it be was my search over? YES!!! there it was the book I've been waiting for with as much enthusiasm as I had for the last Harry Potter book. I paid for it and thank goodness my husband was driving because the minute i got in the car i began to read. Now its cold and rainy and I'm turning on the fireplace and curling up on the couch to read.
~ Ft. Eustis, VA-784337.JPG)
Just like where I first found the first books, Wallie World (Wal-Mart) happens to be the place I can get books easiest. There are no bookstores close by because I live in the middle of nowhere in a village. But! I called Wallie World at midnight last night and asked if they'd put it out on the floor then, they told me no and I cried myself to sleep. JK. So on my way to class the next day for college, I couldn't run fast enough into the WalMart and find the book section. There she was...her aura gold and brilliant. I skipped to the checkouts and ran to my car. Too bad I couldn't read while driving
~Fredericktown, OH
Today's Winner of the QUEEN Sighting Promo is ~ Misty R.!
Do you have QUEEN? Have you seen it in stores? Let us know for a chance to win a $10.00 to the bookstore of your choice! To be eligible send the following:
- A picture of you with QUEEN in hand or standing beside a retail QUEEN display to feyreisa@live.com to share on the blog during Release Celebration week
- A brief blurb about where you found/purchased QUEEN (if a retail outlet picture, please list the city and state) THIS BLURB will be posted along with your picture on the next day's blog.
- Your name and address (THIS INFORMATION WILL REMAIN PRIVATE. If you wish to share your name on the blog, please include it in the brief blurb describing your QUEEN sighting/purchase.)
Fey Games ~ Name that Fey!
Once I fought with strength and prideNow bars and shackles bind me tight
Though torment tests my will each day
Love stays true to this brave Fey.
Everyone got this right! The answer is...Shanisorran v'En Celay, Lord Death. (Highlight the white area after the ellipses to read the answer.)
Blog Fun!
I thought we could do something different today. Instead of me asking a question, I thought we try a "write what comes next" story. It can be crazy funny, sexy (PG rating max, please), or silly. Here's how it works, I'll start off the story with a brief paragraph that ends on an unfinished sentence. The first person to respond completes my sentence and starts a new one of their own. You can write as much (within reason please) or as little as you like, but be sure to end on an unfinished sentence.Ready? Let's go. Here's the first part of our story - and where it goes from here is entirely up to you all!
Setting: Dharsa, The Fading Lands
Time: Let's have fun and say it's AFTER Tairen Soul and the end of the new Mage Wars.
Sparks flew as the gleaming steel of two mei'cha scimitars crashed against each other. The swords and the two seasoned Fey warriors wielding them fought a brief battle for dominance, but neither gave quarter.
White teeth flashed beneath cobalt eyes. Belliard vel Jelani stepped back and grinned at his friend, Gaelen vel Serranis. "Not bad, my blade brother. Your footwork could use a little practice though. I nearly had you on that last move."
One black brow arched expressively. "Keep dreaming, vel Jelani." Gaelen slid his mei'cha into its sheath in one smooth motion. "They tell me hope is good for the soul."
Bel laughed, and the pair of them turned to make their way off the Academy's dusty training field. As they neared the entrance to the Warrior's Hall, the doors burst open and a harried young warrior raced out. He skidded to a stop at the sight of them.
"Ser vel Jelani! Ser vel Serranis! Come quick! The Feyreisen needs you. There's a --"
Okay...it's all up to you. What comes next? Have fun!
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"Ser vel Jelani! Ser vel Serranis! Come quick! The Feyreisen needs you. There's a... duckling hiding under the Feyreisa's skirts. No one's been able to coax it out, and even five-fold weaves have been unsucessful in moving it!"
(Obviously I went for silly. Ellysetta might find herself a new pet. Or perhaps sinister. What nefarious scheme could a new enemy have plotted with an magic-proof fuzzy ducky?*evil laughter*)
~Rach
problem with the feyreisa! The warriors gave each other a frightened glace and took off in a full run. What trouble could she possibly be in now? The wars where over the high mage of eld was dead. They burst through the doors to a scene they hadnt expected cradled in Ellysettas arms a infant boy and and infant girl. She looked up positively glowing and said I would like to introduce you to Belliard Galen and Talisa Adrial it seems the twins couldnt bear to wait any longer. Galen was at a loss for words and Bel
... looked as if a tairen had whacked him with its tail, spikes out. Rain, standing on the side of the bed, laughed at their expressions and ...
There! That's about as creative as I can get! Great intro Rach, Misty! I'm looking forward to how this story unfolds :D.
you can come closer, they're not going to hurt you. We would like the two of you to be their godfathers, so....
I with the continuation of the baby theme, cause I really want Rain and Ellysetta to have children and it would be fuuny to see Bel and Gaelen holding babies.
hee hee hee :) This is fun so far! Keep it going :)
Back to picking the Grand Prize winners for the Release Countdown...
Cheryl
please, come closer."
Looking more troubled than if they were about to knowingly walk into an Eld trap and have to face a dozen Primages, a hundred darrokken and a Demon Lord each, these two ancient fae warriors stepped forward...
April C
you could start by holding them. Ellysetta smiled at Rain as the two fierce fey warriors looked at each other uncomfortably.
"Feyreisa, we would be honored, but aren't they a bit small?" Bel asked.
"Yes," replied Gaelen "Maybe we could hold them in a few hundred years, when they're less breakable."
Ellie laughed and said,
"The way you two can handle a fey'cha, I'm certain you can handle a baby! Here..."
Haha, I love when me are overcome by babies. :)
-Ally
and before they could protest, they were each holding a small white bundle which
(I like the baby theme too. Easier to run with than duckies. Amazing what the tired mind will come up with)
Rach
chuckled and squirmed joyfully.
Belliard, who had ended up holding his namesake, trying, but failing for an inscrutable look on his face as tiny fingers reached out to grab at his hair, trying his hardest not to drop the wriggling bundle that
looked like a tiny double of his father. Bel leaned over to get a look at the other half of the twins and noticed
Gaelen seemed unsure what to do with the wiggling bundle in his arms. His eyes were nearly pleading as he glanced at the Feyreisa. Elysetta laughed.
"Hold her closer to your chest," she advised. He did so slowly. He glanced down and two brillant green eyes stared back up at him. The fearsome Fey felt his heart melt a bit at the sweet look of the babe in his arms.
glowing with magic. Little Bel gave a sneeze and sent both his godfathers flying against the wall. Rain caught his son on a light air weave and chuckled to himself. "He doesn't quite understand his magic yet. You should have seen it when Talisa . . .
-Katie
A tiny, wavering fist broke free of it's soft white prison and unerringly reached to grasp Gaelen's finger. The warrior caught his breath at the instant, powerful surge of spirit that pulsed through him....so pure....so true...and yet...there...in the background he sensed something more.....something...
Hmmm..... ~Gia~
that was almost familiar. But just as that thought entered his mind, the feeling was gone. He stood there, baby in arms, confusion on his face. Ellysetta, seeing this...
-Jilly
wondered what was wrong. "is something" but the sentence was unfinished there was a knock at the door and a thread of spirit that anounced that Marissa, Dax, and their son had arrived.
"Blessing on you both Rain and Ellie. Twins are such a blessing and so rare only once an age! It was at that moment the room became oddly silent everyone turned to see little dax tottering over to peek at talisa there was a look in his eyes...
there was a look in his eye that promised mischief. Little Dax couldn't wait to teach the new fey babies how to...
spin the earth weave to.....
Spin the earth weave....
us their magic to instigate some pranks. He was already becoming quite adept at it and had earned himself the title...
and had earned himself the title of Mischief Warrior. Gaelen was reminded of his childhood days when Dax and he would torment the other Fey by ....
the Daring Soul!
It was uncertain whether it was Marissya or Dax that passed the prank gene on to both their sons, but the Solande family was now building quite a reputation.
On seeing that gleam in Little Dax's eyes, Gaelan heaved a long-suffering sigh, and Bel...
quickly stepped in before things got chaotic, which was often the case when young Dax was around. "By the gods" marissa explained ive never seen a child so adept at getting into trouble Rain gave a chuckle and said maryssa he is after all a tairen sould and tairen are very mischevious creatures.
Ellysetta looked at the faces around her so full of joy as it had been since the end of the wars ammoryth was blooming again and...
...suddenly heard a double burp and saw a pair of rainbows rising from the twins.., "By the Light, they are weaving in such harmony already!"
Dax remarked "Some brave fey needs to weave new swaddling for them, as the babes' skills seem to have some very pungent side effects."
The desert in the fading lands was being driven back into nothing but memory. The Tairen kits that she and Rain had saved from Maur were thriving, and the tairen once again regularily traveled to Dharsa, and flew with Rain and Ellysetta. They had rescued Tyrkomel from Boura Fell....
(on an annoying sidenote the canadian release date is different from the united states release date. I'm mildly annoyed at book publishing politics LOL:P)
As well as Coros, although Ellysetta would always think of him as the sweet little kitling Forrahl. Elfeya and Shan had taken some time to themselves to heal before returning to Dharsa for the birth of their grandchildren. Thinking of Elfeya and Shan, why were they not here?
"Lord Death" and his soulmate struggle to teach Tyrkomel and Coros but their weaves are strong yet their young minds vacilate between bouts of pain they can not yet handle. Shan and Elfeya dare not leave them to go...
...as a strange unsettled feeling has overtaken them. What has happened to cause such a strong feeling that they are needed here?
Is there unseen danger here and for whom?
What else could...
possibly happen?
Lillis glances mischievously at her twin sister, Lorelle, and they invisibly enter the room where their sister is introducing her twins to her friends. They only become visible after they...
(Okay, so I had to bring the girls into the story)
....Lillis dropped the small weave Ellysetta had taught her following the mage wars. Lavender Spirit she had called it, delicate thoughts of illusion that rendered the user invisible. Only recently had she succeeded in wrapping it around her sister and herself. It had taken weeks of practice, and even now, she hadn't reached perfection.
Her sister gave a weak peep as the magic receded to the small well inside her and the two became visible once more....
"Ser vel Jelani! Ser vel Serranis! Come quick! The Feyreisen needs you. There's a...problem at the lake over the Rhakis! Something swims beneath its surface! It has swallowed five fey!" The boy ran, Bel and Gaelen swiftly on his heels, rounding coroners and nearly knocking over the attendants of the palace. They met up with the Feyreisen out back in the clearing of green glass in full Tairen form, two leather saddles atop his vast back.
The two Fey stared for a moment before Rain's tenor voice hollered at them. -What are you two staring at? Get saddled! Five Fey are missing!-
They rushed to the Tairen and summoned air, swooping them both up to sit in their saddles and before they could fully buckle in, Rain took off. They shot up fast into the air, Bel and Gaelen's backs smashed to the saddle backs, their cheeks and lips reeled back from the sheer force of the wind.
-The Feyreisa and myself were enjoying the faelerias(sp) waters with most of her quintet close by and something stirred. The waters splashed up and snatched the Feyreisa,- His growl roared into the skies as they flew faster. -I wrangled it to free her but it vanished again. A few chimes later, the Fey were setting up wards to keep it contained in order to search for it and it snatched them off the surface. The five Fey haven't been seen since.-
They arrived shortly after a deathly landing that left Bel and Gaelen's manes strewn in several angles. They hopped off the Tairen's back, wobbling and running for the water, their directions constantly swerving this way and that, still shaken from the wild flight. They shook their heads to clear them and drew their fey'cha, staring at the dark, murky water.
"I think it best we search under, bind it and bring it to the surface where we can properly fight it without the disadvantage of water, eh?" Bel's cobalt eyes peeked over at Gaelen as they kept focus on the water.
"Aiyah." He agreed and both spun air, covering their mouths with the weave to supply them under the magickal falerias water. They dove in unison, racing to get in and search fast to save their Fey brethren.
The water stilled and both vanished.
"Now!" Rain, now back in his Fey form, gestured to the other Fey hiding behind the trees and magick woven barrier. They ran out fast with Ellysetta at their elbows and Rain dipped her into the water as Steli Cha'kai thumped over from her place hidden as well and blew orange tairen flame over the water, sending it to nearly a boiling point, fish bubbling to the surface dead. Ellie gasped, instantly, her body felt electrified and lustly alive. She stared up at Rain with need in her eyes and he tried hard to resist the urge to get in with her and share that need. The faelerias magick was inhancing her magick, just like the keflee served so long ago at the palace dinner, her instant weave of lust spread through the water.
Bel surfaced first, hair wet and matted to him, flipping water droplets this way and that. He took a gulp of air and stared at the fish bobbing around him in confusion. His body felt shaken, yearning urgently for release.
"What kind of creature...?"
Just then, Gaelen rose to the surface, the same look upon his face as he looked at the fish, then his eyes met that of Bel's. A long moment took before they suddenly clung to each other in a tight hug.
"Gaelen," Bel's voice was throaty and urgent. "I must ask something of you, my brother."
"Oh gods," Gaelen muttered, feeling the same idea to sound genius.
"Gaelen..."
they gave a laugh and went over to their sisters side. Something had happened to lillis and lorelle in the mists, they made it shortly after the wars ended but they were not the same young girls as they where when they went it. While just a year had passed on the outside world 6 years its seems had passed in the mists and the children who entered the mists came out as young women. Their brown ringlets draped down their backs and...
their full breasts were heaving with their unfullfilled passion when
Wow! I wish I had had time earlier to track this patchwork story...it's so cute! Great job everyone!
I'm gonna steal the idea, but pop us a few years in the future!
"Ser vel Jelani! Ser vel Serranis! Come quick! The Feyreisen needs you. There's a...problem with the children!"
Looking balefully at eachother, the warriors ran off towards the gardens, where the twins could most often be found making mischief. Upon their arrival, they found the Feyreisen staring helplessly at his progeny, both of which were rolling around around the ground playing...in tairen form!
their respective shei'tan's entered the room behind them, immediately wrapping their arms around their soul's mate. Lorelle huffed, and pulled out of her shei'tan's arms so she could get a good glimpse of her niece and nephew. Lillis...
April C who is STILL waiting for her copy of Queen. Stupid bookstores that don't have it in stock, making me special order it online and have to pay shipping.
strained forward, but did not free herself from her shei'tan's warm embrace. She cocked an eyebrow at her sister's crooning noises while Ellysetta beamed with joy at her sister's reactions. Ellysetta spoke then, her voice a calm collection of timber and tone. "Lorelle!...
did you see where that pesky frog got to?"
(Sassy Eggs - Google won't let me log in)
Little Dax sidled closer to his mother with a suspiciously innocent expression on his face.
the sound of a enraged tairen thunderded through the walls,
broncos-who cannot find your book in nz,has orderded it from amazon
He snuck looks at the doorway under his lashes, hoping no one would notice that it was propped open the tiniest inch. As footsteps approached the room, little Dax tensed as the door slowly creaked open and...
Steli charged into the room covered in ...
-PW
Steli charged into the room covered in... mud and grime. It seems the twins had decided to take Aunt Steli to their favorite garden to play. As usual they could not stay clean and the playtime turned into a mud fight. Ellie upon seeing this...
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ellie upon seeing this decided that enough was enough! these pranks HAD to stop and she knew just the fey to teach the ones who were responsible...
~amanda
Day 1 closed for contest entries. Day 2 blog now up.
You guys are a HOOT! This was so fun to follow! :)
cheryl
these pranks HAD to stop and she knew just the fey to teach the ones who were responsible...
Ellie sent a spirit weave to Bel, If you can order my kelfee changed to GALLberry, then, you can surely get the twins to....
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