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Ever since I began the C.L. Wilson book launch countdowns and started giving away art, mugs, shirts, and more to help celebrate the release of my novels, I’ve had readers asking where they could purchase the Fading Lands merchandise I was giving away during the countdowns. Well, at long last, after years of false starts, delays and technical difficulties, I am thrilled beyond words to announce the grand opening of my online store, Tairen’s Lair.

The Tairen’s Lair is the online site for official C.L. Wilson merchandise, featuring art, gifts, t-shirts and more based on scenes and characters from the Fading Lands novels. The Lair is the culimination of a joint effort between me and my dear friend, artist Heather Carr, who has literally plucked my vision of the tairen straight from my head (and the pages of my novels) and brought them to life both in full color oil paintings and delightful pencil sketches.

Follow any of the links in this post to pop in and look around our store. Or, from my clwilson.com site, just click The Store menu and follow the links. In addition to Fading Lands merchandise, the Lair also showcases a selection of Heather’s other original fantasy art. We hope to add more new products and more fabulous fantasy artists in the coming months, so keep checking back.

To celebrate our grand opening, from now until December 31, 2012, all orders over $50 will automatically recieve a 10% discount at checkout.

You can also visit Heather and I in person each year at the Tairen’s Lair booth we host at Atlanta’s premier fantasy & science fiction convention, DragonCon.

As always, miora felah and beylah vo for being a friend of the Fey!

I’m thrilled to announce that I will be joining NY Times Bestseller James Rollins and 36 other fabulous authors at the 2nd Annual Barbara Vey Readers Appreciation Luncheon to be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 27 2013.

The event will be an afternoon luncheon filled with fun, gift bags full of books, door prizes, and raffles for all sorts of fabulous donated treats. Not only will you enjoy lunch at an author table (those who register early can chose the author they’d like to lunch with), but all attending authors will be participating in a book signing open solely to luncheon attendees.

This luncheon has been the brainchild of Barbara Vey’s for a long time and proceeds from the event will benefit local libraries. Enjoy a girl’s day out with a room full of your best friends who love books.

Tickets are on sale now. Visit http://barbaraveyreaders.com for details.

I’m so thrilled to announce the launch of my new, updated author website!

Thanks to the talents of friend, fellow author, and web designer extraordinaire, Lisa Paitz Spindler, I have a gorgeous new home on the web! The URL is the same, www.clwilson.com, but the site’s had a major overhaul and a truly professional beautification. I hope you pop in to check out my new digs.

What’s new and different beside the look:

• A map of Eloran
• A reader’s resources area
• A bookseller’s resources area
• One-click links to my twitter, Facebook, myspace and goodreads accounts
• A new and improved News and Events section
• A website search feature to make information on my site as easy to locate as possible

For me, administratively, the new site allows me greater control over content, so I’ll be able to update information much more quickly.

And I’m not done yet! I’ve got several new exciting additions to the website in the works, including a Members Only section that will be chock-full of great info, so do check back.

As always, beylah vo! And thank you for your continued support.

Tomorrow kicks off the 2011 National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). I’m accepting the challenge again. Maybe THIS will be the year I actually complete a 50,000 word rough draft of a book in one month!

Are any of the rest of you participating in NaNoWriMo?

My German publisher, Bastei Lübbe, has just re-released the German translation of Lord of the Fading Lands ( Im Bann des Elfenkönigs) with a new cover to match the others. It’s beautiful, and 1,000 times better than the original German cover!

Check it out:

Old German Cover	New German Cover

The Tairen Soul quintet now looks like this:

Leontine Roodakker is without a doubt one of the most passionate supporters of romance novels in all the Netherlands. She and I met in cyberspace in the summer of 2007, just before the first book in my Tairen Soul series, and we’ve been friends ever sicne.

Very active on Goodreads, a delightful blogger, and just an all around wonderful person, Leontine contacted me yesterday to let me know that she is participating in an “Author Fan Letter Blog Crawl” in which participants have the opportunity to celebrate their favorite authors. Much to my suprise and delight, Leontine chose to write her letter to me.

Please take a moment to stop by Leontine’s blog and read her post and follow the blog crawl to find other authors whose work you may enjoy. And if you would, take a minute to drop Leontine a line, maybe even friend her on Goodreads or follow her blog. If you love books as much as I do (and even half as much as she does) you will love Leontine!

There’s still time to join in on the Brenda Novak online auction for Diabetes Research!  This fabulous auction, widely supported by romance readers and authors, raises hundreds of thousands of dollars each year for diabetes research.

I participated for the first time ever last year with the C.L. Wilson Gift of Magic basket, and I’m participating again with a new C.L. Wilson Gift of Magic Basket.

This year’s basket of magical and romantic delights contains <

• A complete, autographed set of C.L. Wilson’s the NY Times Bestselling Tairen Soul series, including LORD OF THE FADING LANDS, LADY OF LIGHT AND SHADOWS, KING OF SWORD AND SKY, QUEEN OF SONG AND SOULS and CROWN OF CRYSTAL FLAME.
• A Fading Lands T-shirt
• A Steli-Chakai coffee cup
• Three 8×10 full-color prints from wildlife artist Heather Carr’s Tairen Soul inspired paintings
• A shei’tanitsa bond plaque
• A selection of magical treasures and trinkets guaranteed to make you smile. 

This is just one among hundreds of fabulous items, vacation packages, and more being auctioned off to support this great cause.

Even if this particular basket doesn’t strike your fancy, come on out to the auction and see what else just might!

As a Borders affiliate, I received notice of the following promotions at Borders and wanted to pass them along.

A few nice deals — and you get to support a bookseller who has historically been one of the strongest supporters of the romance genre.

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Save up to 45% Off New York Times® Bestsellers

Happy shopping!

C.L. Wilson
www.clwilson.com

Avon/HarperCollins inked the deal with Bastei Lübbe (Bastei Verlag) to publish the German version of CROWN OF CRYSTAL FLAME. Titled Das Betörende Lied des Elfenkönigs (The Beguiling Song of the Elf Kings), the German version of CROWN is currently scheduled for release on January 20th, 2012.

Mark your calendars!  It soon will be that time of year again – time for the Brenda Novak online auction for Diabetes Research!  This fabulous auction, widely supported by romance readers and authors, raises hundreds of thousands of dollars each year for diabetes research.

I participated for the first time ever last year with the C.L. Wilson Gift of Magic basket, and I’m participating again with a new C.L. Wilson Gift of Magic Basket.

This year’s basket of magical and romantic delights contains

• A complete, autographed set of C.L. Wilson’s the NY Times Bestselling Tairen Soul series, including LORD OF THE FADING LANDS, LADY OF LIGHT AND SHADOWS, KING OF SWORD AND SKY, QUEEN OF SONG AND SOULS and CROWN OF CRYSTAL FLAME.
• A Fading Lands T-shirt
• A Steli-Chakai coffee cup
• Three 8×10 full-color prints from wildlife artist Heather Carr’s Tairen Soul inspired paintings
• A shei’tanitsa bond plaque
• A selection of magical treasures and trinkets guaranteed to make you smile. 

This is just one among hundreds of fabulous items, vacation packages, and more being auctioned off to support this great cause.

Mark your calendar – the Auction begins May 1st.