THE SEA KING Release Countdown T -21 Days

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Only 21 more days until SEA KING!!

To celebrate the release, we’re counting down the days with fun and prizes.  Each day, from now until November 1st, drop by to join the celebration and answer the Question of the Day in this blog’s comment section to be entered to win.  (For sweepstakes rules and eligibility, click here.)

This Week’s Drawing

From now until 10am, Tuesday, October 17th, stop by the C.L. Wilson blog to answer the Question of the Day (QoD) to be entered to win one of this week’s fabulous prizes and receive a ticket in the Grand Prize drawing.  Each individual QoD you answer gets you another ticket in both the weekly and the Grand Prize prize drawings, so don’t be shy.

You can also comment multiple times a day, just to have fun and be involved, but each participant receives only one ticket in the drawing for each day’s blog post you comment on.  All responses will be tallied after comments close for the final post. The winners will be selected at random from all entries, with all winners of this week’s drawing posted on Tuesday, October 17th.

This Week’s Prizes

On Tuesday, October 17th, random winners from the eligible pool will be selected to win one of the available prizes:

  • Autographed copy of THE SEA KING (one winner selected)
  • Autographed copy of THE WINTER KING (two winners selected)
  • Autographed copy of LORD OF THE FADING LANDS (two winners selected)
  • THE WINTER KING & THE SEA KING autographed Collector Cards and bookmarks (5 winners selected)
  • A $5 Tairen Bucks coupon, which can be used to purchase any item from The Tairen’s Lair, the online store for official C.L. Wilson merchandise (3 winners selected)
  • A complete set of signed Tairen Soul series Collector Cards (5 winners selected)
  • A Rainier Eras tairen plushy (1 winner)

And What’s In that Grand Prize?

This time around, two lucky winners will be chosen from all the daily participant tickets accrued throughout the countdown.  (The more you participate, the more tickets you get in the Grand Prize drawing.) Each winner will receive a basket containing the following:

  • Autographed copy of THE SEA KING
  • Autographed copy of THE WINTER KING
  • Autographed copy of ONE ENCHANTED SEASON, the holiday anthology featuring C.L. Wilson’s novella, Upon a Midnight
  • One complete set of autographed C.L. Wilson Collector Cards and bookmarks
  • A $20 Tairen Bucks coupon, which can be used to purchase any item from The Tairen’s Lair, the online store for official C.L. Wilson merchandise
  • Ellysetta Azreisa and Rainier Eras tairen plushies
  • Custom made scented lotion bars, lip balms, and bath salts inspired by the worlds of C.L. Wilson
  • Other trinkets, treats, and goodies that caught my eye

Last Week’s Winners

Announcing the winners for Week 1 of the Countdown:

  • Autographed copy of THE SEA KING (one winner selected) ~ Miranda Herrmann
  • Autographed copy of THE WINTER KING (two winners selected) ~ Stephanie H., Megan
  • THE WINTER KING & THE SEA KING autographed Collector Cards and bookmarks (5 winners selected) ~ LeeAnn De La Cruz, Heather, Linda Townsend, Julie, Sarah Mott
  • A $5 Tairen Bucks coupon, which can be used to purchase any item from The Tairen’s Lair, the online store for official C.L. Wilson merchandise (1 winner selected) ~ bn100

Question of the Day

What is your favorite book of all time? What about that book made you fall in love and stay in love with it?

 

Comments

Brittany Frazier

  on October 10, 2017 :

I have a habit of switching book favorites, so this is a hard question for me. I do have a series that I come back to every other year or so. The Banned and The Banished by James Clemens. I found them when I was young and had just gotten into reading. They were the first books that I finished, then immediately started over again. And now I go back to them over and over.

Tonya Mininger

  on October 10, 2017 :

Well, it is a set of books. George RR Martin’s Song of Fire and Ice series. My husband has been reading them as they were released over the last 20 years, but I started reading the series as it debuted on HBO. Waiting for the next book, Winds of Winter to be released. Although, I am finally happy for the release of The Sea King.

Amanda Adams

  on October 10, 2017 :

That’s a hard one. I guess I will go with the oldest book I keep going back to and it is The Queen of Camelot by Nancy McKenzie. I love that it is the story of King Arthur bit told from Queen Guinevere’s perspective. It give a different spin on the story that I love.

bn100

  on October 10, 2017 :

pride and prejudice- the characters

Miranda Herrmann

  on October 10, 2017 :

I love so many but Dance Upon the Air by Nora Roberts was the first adult book with magic that I connected to and I have read it so many times I have almost memorized it. Reading it is like visiting a friend. I feel the same about the Tairen Souls series.

Courtney Tonokawa

  on October 10, 2017 :

All time favourite book? Don’t make me choose! But I suppose if I have to…I’ll go with Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.

Runa

  on October 10, 2017 :

Count of Monte Cristo. Loved the idea of Karma.

G.B.

  on October 10, 2017 :

Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander. I remember reading it and being so thrilled with the story that I wished I could rediscover it all over again. It was the first time I had felt that way about a book.

Heather

  on October 10, 2017 :

Pride and Prejudice since I was 17. It was the first classic I read and I fell in love with the characters! The Darcy and Elizabeth romance is epic!

Kat Wilson

  on October 10, 2017 :

I’ll say it has to be Dark Demon by Christine Feehan. I was 15 and loved to read but it had all kind of been YA novels and such. I had great interests and adoration in vampires, werewolves, mermaids, magic, just anything mystical or fanciful. And the books I loved so far were great, but I sort of wanted something more adult. I was getting tired of vampire bites and excitement that led nowhere.

So one day, my friend and I are walking around a Rite Aid (our small town has nothing else to go to) and I passed the book section. Same old stuff that side interest me, historical, cowboys and widows, boring. Then a cover caught my eye. DARK DEMON. How scandalous, nothing in my small town looked this way and certainly not in my town with too many churches and small minds. This has a hot guy, his hair perfectly up my alley AND the female lead is a sassy girl with my kind of wit. I picked it up and took it home and agreed it was the biggest book I’d grabbed, the most adult level, and boy, did I learn how adult. But it opened the door to my obsession with Paranormal Romance. I became more aware of a genre that I really adore and never knew how to find, I grew as a writer and discovered what really amped me to begin collecting books again and I can’t tell you how much I needed worlds to runaway to and they helped me deal with the sickness and eventually death of my dad just 2 years later and the terrible situation I was in with a very bad, manipulative man. I’ve been able to deal better with things and really cope because I had the new doors to open and get your of my own head. I needed that. I still do. And it has led to finding The Tairen Soul series and so much more.thsr I’m still finding.

Natalia Jaramillo

  on October 10, 2017 :

My favorite book would be Anna and the Duke by Kathryn Smith . It’s what made me fall in love with reading in high school.

MEgan

  on October 10, 2017 :

I don’t really have a favorite book of all time. I love all my books haha. But Tairen Soul series is one that I constantly reread because it has such a unique world with its own culture and language and I love when authors build amazing new worlds. Plus the romance and secondary characters are so well developed. Also love Harry Potter. Again, amazing world and such great characters, stories, and lessons

Alexandra Preston

  on October 10, 2017 :

My Favorite book it Bet Me. It still holds a warm place in my heart because it had a character that I really related. It treated someone with a larger body size like a normal person (which at least, I have found to be a rarity in books) who was spunky, smart, beautiful & fun. I aspire to be like that character, confident & happy.

Miranda Herrmann

  on October 10, 2017

Omg I love that book!! I have read it several times and always think about it when I buy fun and frivolous shoes.

Morgan

  on October 10, 2017 :

My favorite book is A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J Maas. The world building, characters and passion are just amazing! It is a wonderful fantasy fiction novel that has relatable characters and an unbelievably hot guy!

Heather

  on October 10, 2017

This has become my new favorite series and ACOMAF is the best book in the series!

Kay Mansfield

  on October 10, 2017

loved that book.

Megan

  on October 10, 2017 :

I’m horrible with choosing favorites. How about I mention a series? Not to be a kiss-up but the Tairen Soul series is one of my favorites. I have it in print, digital and audio. There are a few things that made me fall in love with it. #1 It was my first fantasy romance. #2 The romance between Rain and Ellie was believable within the story parameters. #3 The detail of the world. I especially liked the maps. It shows how much effort was put into the world building. #4 The secondary characters. The twins. And Ellie’s dad. And everyone else I guess. #5 Though I hated having to wait so long for books 3-5 I think it’s awesome that you refuse to put out something that you’re 100% pleased with.

Deanna nagle

  on October 10, 2017 :

I don’t really have just one favorite book but one of my favorite authors is Karen rose.

Jenny Dorsett

  on October 10, 2017 :

My first favorite book was The Count of Monte Cristo. The struggle, the vengeance, the adventure, the happy ending, all of it drew me in. I was 11 when I read it for the first time. It was amazing to my young mind. T has stayed in my heart ever since. It has been years since I reread it though. I have ad many favorite books, yours are my adult main go to for faves. But I went with the book that helped me love reading.

Aly P

  on October 10, 2017 :

I don’t have a favorite book, but a favorite author: Nalini Singh(this woman can write ANYTHING and I’ll read it). She has such a way of presenting the characters and building her worlds that I can’t get enough of.

Julie

  on October 10, 2017 :

There’s no concrete answer to this question! I do reread Julie Garwood’s The Wedding quite a bit, though.

Donna Jenks

  on October 10, 2017 :

I can’t pick just one book that is my favorite. There are so many I love for so many reasons. But the book(s) that I fell in love with and keep coming back to as often as I can to get lost in it’s pages, is The Fading Lands novels. Every time I read them it’s as if I’m reading them for the first time again, falling in love with Rain, Ellie, and the gang all over again.

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