QUEEN Release Week Celebration - Day 6
It's Day 6 in our week of fun and games to celebrate QUEEN's release. Join the fun for a chance to win daily prizes as well as the "Fey Gift Basket" Grand Prize I'll be awarded to one lucky participant at the end of the week.
Today's prizes:
(1) Original Tairen Wall Art Plaque, "Arrival at High Reaches" by artist Heather Carr
WINNER: Bethany S
(1) an autographed copy of LORD, LADY or KING.
WINNER: April C
How to Enter!
It's easy! First, 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 to Win
You can also join the CL Wilson Announcement List for a chance to win an autographed copy of QUEEN OF SONG AND SOULS. One winner will be drawn from the announcement list each Tuesday from now until December 1st.Send in Your QUEEN Sighting for a Chance to Win $$
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.)
Today's Queen Sighting Winner is: Katherine L!
Fey Games ~ Name that Fey!
Once I ruled the Hall of Scrolls
Cool reserve my outer cloak
My loving heart controlled by fear
Which Fey am I, can you see clear?
And the answer is...Venarra v'En Eilan
Highlight the white text after the ellipsis above to see the answer.
Fey Games ~ Name that Quote!
We had great fun with "Name that Quote" on my announcement list (clwilson@yahoogroups.com) while counting down the days until QUEEN. Identify the following quote for another chance to win a daily prize and another ticket in the Grand Prize drawing:"I waited for you, but you never came."
(a) What book is the quote from? LADY OF LIGHT AND SHADOWS
(b) Who said it to whom? Talisa Barrial diSebourne to Adrial vel Arquinas
Highlight the white space after each question above to read the answer!
Blog Fun!
I hope you had fun with the brain teasers yesterday - you guys are the greatest! So many right answers. For those of you too brain-tired to play - I'm glad you came and posted anyways :)Today, I'll ratchet down the difficulty level just for you. I've always loved rainy days and reading alcoves. So for me, the perfect reading experience would be to be curled up in a cushioned reading alcove on a rainy fall day--with bright autumn foliage on the trees and a steaming cup of something fragrant and yummy sitting on a table beside me.
QUESTION OF THE DAY: Describe your perfect reading experience. (can be real, or can be your dream of the perfect reading moment)
posted by C.L. Wilson at
5:39 AM
39 Comments:
I would have to say my perfect reading experience would be mid-winter with snow on the ground outside, curled up in front of a fire with a cup of hot cocoa spiked with peppermint schnapps. The book could be anything, but should be of the romance genre.
This is actually a difficult question for me to answer since I read anywhere!
I read at night like many people take sleeping pills. It lets me go gently to sleep. If I don't have a book, anything with words in a row will do.. box lids, instruction books *laughs*. In fact, I read anywhere, any when. Standing lines, when I travel, leaning against my counter in the kitchen waiting for my bread to bake.
I have a lovely rocker that sits near my wood stove. In the winter, I will curl up with my favorite lap quilt a lovely cup of tea and read for hours.
When it is warm enough, there is a stream that runs behind my house, I have a great comfortable chair and footrest there where I sit in the dappled shade of my guardian locust (he is a big guy) and read until my dogs require I play a bit!
I love to read anytime anywhere, but my favorite time would probably be in the dead of winter. I love curling up in a big armchair with a blanket and warm drink. I love looking outside at the snow and cold and being nice and warm with a good book.
I also love reading in bed at the end of the day. Everything you have to do or are stressing about is going through your brain and when you start to read it just all goes away and you can lose yourself in another world.
Writing this is making me excited for winter, although I shouldn't say that since here in Illinois we're looking at close to 6 months of snow and cold... I could do with a few less :)
This is a hard question, as I always carry a book with me and I read everywhere. My favorite place is my bed where I can snuggle down and get comfy and read to my hearts content.
A hard question is right! Like everyone else I read everywhere I can grab a moment, but I think my very favorite is late at night when the house is hushed, everyone asleep and dreaming peacefully. I draw a tub full of steaming hot water, take my beverage of choice and a few snacks, one of Cheryl's books of course and I slowly sink into all that warmth letting it ease all the cares of the day, while I slip away into the world of the Fading Lands. Thank you Cherly for many a blissfilled hour!
Sorry Cheryl I must still be too tired can't spell today! Did not mean to misspell your name. My bad!
I read anywhere and everywhere. Several places have been described already that I enjoy. I have been known to lock myself in the bathroom to read at home, LOL. I have two children ages 10 and 6 and sometimes the bathroom floor is the only peace and quiet I can get. I prefer the couch or comfy chair with a blanket and cup of tea in the winter, fall and spring. In the summer, I like to read on the front porch swing.
The perfect reading experience is anywhere, anytime with a good book by a good author.
I would have to agree that location is of no importance if the book enthralls you. Once taken..your surroundings fade as you are swept away into the light and loves of the characters. Their sorrows become your own..their joys - a celebration. These moments are rare and these authors too few. Thank you Cheryl for letting us experience your artistry! Your talent engages us all and welcomes us to a magical world! ~Gia~
Anytime when I'm curled up in a quite environment, with a cup of my favorite tea (spearmint) and possibly a chocolate snack of some kind. Blanket is optional depending on time of year.
Another place I liked to use for reading but I can't anymore because i don't go there is a rock across the lake from my grandma's cottage. I would take the paddleboat out across the lake, and read for awhile. My grandma has sold the cottage so i can't go there anymore but sometimes I wish i could.
Although I'm happy to read anywhere, I think my perfect reading experience would be me curled up near a real fire in winter with freshly made coffee and either some freshly baked biscuits or warm scones with jam and cream, secure in the knowledge that I could read for as long as I like (as opposed to having to snatch time out in between having to work :) )
My time for reading is a treasured time what with work and life so often to the fore.
The perfect experience of it would require that my responsibilities for the day be complete. There would be a hot cup of Jasmine tea or a Calvados to sip within easy reach. The scene would be autumn or winter because I could then have the pleasure of snuggling deep under a blanket as I lounged in bed or upon a sofa. The blanket would be sybaritic...a rich, chocolate brown fake mink purchased because my hand brushed across the surface and could not be persuaded to let go.
My perfect reading experience was reading on the top bunk of the bunk bed my sister and I had when we were little on early Saturday and Sunday mornings. I'd get up at around 5 or 6 am, get myself a snack, prop up a bunch of pillows around me and read for hours while the house was quiet, before the rest of my family woke up. I've had some of the best reading experiences of my life on that top bunk!
Nowadays I read usually in my family room (when I can snatch a moment) and almost always late at night.
My perfect reading experience: It would be the middle of winter, maybe a snowstorm, around 8 at night. I would be cuddled up in a big comfy leather chair with a blanket in front of a crackling fire. Ideally, this would all be located in the library from "The Beauty and the Beast". I could sit there for days just reading whatever I want. And ideally I would be all alone, maybe a dog curled at my feet, because I read best when I can focus all my attention on the story in front of me. And of course I would need a box of tissues by side because I always get really involved with the characters.
-Katie
Hmm my perfect reading experience would be outside on a porch swing in October. There's a light breeze around that time of year and the sun is out more often. My big, goofy labrador would be laying at the foot of the swing and I'd have a cup of tea or hot chocolate on hand.
If I had to pick a second option it'd be in the room of a good friend where we're both nose deep in a book and companionable silence rains. That way if I laugh at something funny I at least have someone to share it with.
For me, it's all about comfort. I've done the sit-outside-in-nature thing, and while it's good atmosphere, I find my bony body just can't handle too much hard ground, rock, tree, dirt, and so on.
I also like to be warm.
So mostly, I like to read in bed. My usual favorite is sleeping in, waking up late so that the sun is shining bright through the window and onto the bed (but not in my eyes). I live in SoCal, so we don't have things like winter...or fall, for that matter. So if your bed is in the right place, and your window catches the morning sun, almost every day is the perfect day.
Then I can find a good book within arm's reach (I have tons under my bed), and spend hours reading. I have done this before, and since there is no clock at hand in my room, I have discovered, to my dismay, that it was 2:00 or 3:00 in the afternoon, and I hadn't eaten anything yet.
In a perfect world, this dream would expand to include a few things.
1) I wouldn't wake up with morning breath. This requires you to get out of bed and brush your teeth, and you run the very real risk of ruining the atmosphere by breaking the "seal" on the bed.
2) There would be appropriate snack materials immediately on hand. Cookies, muffins, some juice or tea, what-have-you, and the crumbs would somehow manage not to get in the bed at all.
3) The book will turn out to be fantastic, so you don't feel like you wasted the sunshine and warmth on something mediocre.
4) No matter how long you read, when you finally get up, it's not past 9:00 a.m.
5) The bed with the window is actually inside of a treehouse, and the sun is filtering through the leaves.
But really, I do read anywhere.
Except the toilet. I can't handle being in the bathroom longer than absolutely necessary, so I don't see how people willing sit there and just read the hour away. I'd imagine it would be kind of drafty. (Some people might like that.)
My husband and my mother are both bathroom readers, and besides creeping me out, I am on a constant lookout for books that are finished that can now be removed from the bathroom. I don't like how the covers get dusty from the steam and dirt combo.
I love to read when its raining outside and I'm snuggled up nto the fire with a hot cup of coffee.
I would like to be curled up in my easy chair in front of a roaring fireplace with aromatic candles burning and a hot chocolate or a latte in my hand. Music would be playing in the background and I would be in my jammies.
Contrary to the norm, I'd have to say my perfect reading experience would be in a barn or a barn like setting. Perhaps in a dusty armchair and wrapped in a shawl next to my horse's stall or something along that sort. No hot coco but perhaps during the winter months, boxed in for the day just in the comfort of an animal who nickers at me for attention and carrots while snow dusts the fields outside. Of course this is purely fantasy as I live in California where it's sunny all year round.
When we retired a few years ago, I took a little space for my library. I have a wood burning stove, a sofa and three rockers. My book shelves line the walls of my space. My perfect reading experience is to sit by my fire in the middle of winter, in the middle of the work week (I wave at all the poor people going off to work with their cars covered in snow) with a hot chocolat at hand. The book in my hand would be one from my favorite author which I've been waiting for...
I waited many, many, many years to do exactly this and it's everything I dreamed it would be.
I love reading on the couch under a blanket when it's raining outside and hearing the patter of rain on the roof. I also love doing the same thing in winter, and glancing up occasionally to watch the snowflakes coming down. Add in a nice fire, a cup of cocoa with lots of marshmallows and it'd be just about perfect.
When we honeymooned along the Oregon coast, we stopped at an old house that'd been converted to a motel. Since it was the offseason, we had our choice of rooms. One would have been my ideal reading spot. It was an attic room with low ceilings and dormers and had a window seat overlooking the ocean. It was grey, cold and drizzling out, and that room would have been an ideal place to secret myself. We ended up choosing a ground floor room with more headroom, so instead of staying in to read, I went out into that 55 degree weather, and stuck my feet into the Pacific. I felt I couldn't say I'd been there if I hadn't been in it. Brrrr!
~Rach
That's an easy one for me...Giant bathtub, warm water, nice-smelling bubbles and no homework being ignored!
And a Tairen Soul novel of course! ;)
A comfy plush chair, a warm fuzzy blanket and a cup of tea are great with a good book.
my perfect reading experience would be curled under a blanket on the couch with a cup of hot chocolates
I love to be in several places to read:
Curled up or stretched out on my bed spread, toes curled and eeth biting lip, laughing aloud, talking to the book, crying with it...
Outside in my small patch of woods just beside my house here in town where an overgrown cemetary from the 1800's sits covered in colored fall leaves, myself wrapped in a black hooded coat, laying on my fallen tree or against the cemetary stone of Mary, my newest reading friend. :)
Or I love to be on the back porch with my two outside cats Jasper and Leon, sleeping on my lap or beside me, sometimes mowig when I laugh or get up to rant at them.
I love to lay on any grassy patch in the backyard in the summer's cool breeze, the cats sleeping on my lower back as I lay on my stomach.
It's always been that anywhere I may be in the midst of a book, that's where I lean, lay, sit or even stand to just get lost into the novel.
Anywhere the reader is, that's where the realm can open up and be where you can get lost to it.
It would be very cold and I would be snuggled underneath a very soft, fluffy, and warm comforter with hot chocolate and peppermint bark or maybe some fresh baked goodies...
-PW
anywhere anytime for me..
perfect would be any book i cant put down and beside the fire is always awesome....
Mmm, several things pop into mind.
Curled up in bed after a nice hot shower.
In front of a roaring fire on a cold winter day [though we don't have a fireplace, boo].
Or in a hot bath, with my book well out of the way of the water. <3
I love to read on a rainy day afternoon. A good book, snacks and some quite time is my fantasy. I love to read romance books and relax with them. What I usually do is read late at night when everyone else is sleeping. I also read when I am taking everyone to their appointments.
warm, cozy, and a fire is perfect setting. soft music in background can be good at times.
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While I will read just about anywhere, from waiting for a bus during my college days, to sitting on an uncomfortable chair in the break room when I was working, I much prefer to read in my bed on a cool day or night, preferably fall or spring so it's not too cold, but just enough so that I can comfortably curl up under the blankets with the radio or mp3 player on to provide a bit of background noise. It's even better with a big glass of ice water and some chocolates near to hand.
Then I read to my heart's content, which usually calls for completing the book in a single sitting.
April C
I don't know about perfect, but my favorite reading environment is in my bed, curled up in a fetal position around my favored plush snow leopard. I have the greatest blanket and a really soft bed, so I can be locked there for hours.
Doesn't matter where as long as I am comfortable, it's quiet and there are no interruptions.
I read all the time, and I tend to blank everything but the book out when I read so it's not like I need a special place to read, the only thing I can think of that would make a perfect reading experience would be a log fire and a nice cup of hot chocolate with some kind of music playing in the background (preferably christmas music or classical)
My perfect reading experience can happen anywhere,at anytime. It happens when I read a truly gifted author and her vision and words transport me far from where I am into her world. It is when I am carried into the life and actions of the characters--feel their joys and sorrows. It is when I can not put the book down, and when I finish it, I literally can NOT wait for the next in the series or newest release from the author.
So said--when is the next book expected to be released? :-)
My perfect reading experience is to be curled up on the couch with a fuzzy blanket with the fireplace on and reading a good book, and no kids screaming in the background :) oh wait i had my perfect reading experience with Queen came out, my hubby took the kids out it was rainy and cold so i turned on the fireplace and curled up to read.
Thanks everyone for sharing your "dream reading experience" with me :)
Today's blog is now up, which means Day 6 is closed for "enter to win" posts.
My purrr-fect reading experience would be, curled up in my favorite recliner..with all books in that particular series ..(delayed gratification :) with a very big cup of juice or water and healthy snacks and who am kidding a double chocolate doughnut with chocolate sprinklings...my phones volume off, door locked and my comfy slippers.
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