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Twelve Days of Christmas Daily Giveaway! Day 6

Congratulations girlygirlhoosier52 you have won the prize for Day 5 for correctly answering White Christmas. Please email me with your name an adddress and I'll get your prize in the mail.

On the Sixth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, six geese a laying....here's today's trivia question:

Have you sent your holiday cards yet? Sending cards in the mail has been a long standing tradition until recently (yet another area of our life where technology is taking over...lol). In what year did the post office issue its first Christmas themed stamp?


(Disclaimer: Trivia questions were taken from multiple Christmas Trivia websites and answers have not been verified for accuracy. Questions are for entertainment purposes.)

Humpday Hottie!

Ready for a little traveling...where would you like to go?

Twelve Days of Christmas Daily Giveaway! Day 5

Congratulations Leni you have won the prize for Day 4 for correctly answering Montgomery Wards. Please email me with your name and address and I'll get your prize in the mail.

On the fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, five golden rings....here's today's trivia question:
Jingle Bells, We Wish You a Merry Christmas, I'll be Homefor Christmas..oh there are so many Christmas songs - and I love all of them (ok, most of them lol!). Today's question asks, of all the Christmas Songs out there, what is the biggest selling Christmas single of all time?(Disclaimer: Trivia questions were taken from multiple Christmas Trivia websites and answers have not been verified for accuracy. Questions are for entertainment purposes.)

Twelve Days of Christmas Daily Giveaway! Day 4

Congratulations James Whitwam, you have won the prize for Day 3 for correctly answering Parson Brown. Please email me with your name and address and I'll get your prize in the mail. I was surprised to learn there are other answers. Thank you for taking the time to research and share.

On the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, four calling birds....here's today's trivia question:

Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer is not mentioned in any of the classic Christmas songs. He was actually created as part of apromotional campaign. What Department Store introduced this lovable little reindeer to our Holiday tradition?
(Disclaimer: Trivia questions were taken from multiple Christmas Trivia websites and answers have not been verified for accuracy. Questions are for entertainment purposes.)

Twelve Days of Christmas Daily Giveaway! Day 3

Thank you to everyone that emailed to let me know the comments weren't posting on Day 2. Those that emailed were entered in the contest! The correct answer to Day 2's question is An Angel Gets it Wings...such a cute movie don't you think?
Congratulations Tessa you are Day 2's prize winner. Please email me with your name and address and I'll get your prize in the mail.

On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me three French Hens....here's today's trivia question:
Christmas songs are a big part of the holiday experience. I have so many Christmas CD's that I start listening to Christmas Music in October! In the song "Winter Wonderland", who dowe pretend the snowman is?
(Disclaimer: Trivia questions were taken from multiple Christmas Trivia websites and answers have not been verified for accuracy. Questions are for entertainment purposes.)

Twelve Days of Christmas Daily Giveaway! Day 2

Congratulations Michstjame you have won the prize for Day 1 for correctly answering England as the country that first created eggnog. Please email me with your name and address and I'll get your prize in the mail.

On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me, two turtle doves....here's today's trivia question:
In the Christmas Classic, It's a Wonderful Life, what happens every time a bell rings?

(Disclaimer: Trivia questions were taken from multiple Christmas Trivia websites and answers have not been verified for accuracy. Questions are for entertainment purposes.)

Contest Winner!

I hope everyone had a great week! The winner of this week's blog contest is...
Carol L.
Thanks for visiting my blog this week! Please email me with your name and address so I can get your prize in the mail.



Don't forget the Twelve Days of Christmas Daily giveaway. Check back each day from 12/9 through 12/23 (excluding Sundays), answer a trivia question and be entered in the contest!

Guest Interview - Sofia Hunt

Welcome Sofia. My readers and I are so excited that you stopped by today to share a little about yourself and your latest release, The Bride Bargain.
1. What is your favorite thing to do when you are not writing?
I like to go out with friends and socialize. I love to dance. I also love to cook for groups of people. I'm a football and hockey fan also.
2. What books are sitting in your TBR pile right now? What book are you currently reading?
I'm reading Mercy Celeste's Wicked Game. I'm a sucker for hot football players, always have been. I just finished a JA Jance novel titled Betrayal of Trust. I also have in my pile Ride the Fire by Jo Davis and Negligee Behavior by Shelly Stevens.
3. Please, share something you found most interesting or fun that you did to research for a book.
While researching for the Bachelor Bay series, Eve Adams and I took a trip to Port Gamble, an old company logging town in Washington State on north Puget Sound. We spent the day taking pictures, touring the old buildings, visiting the museum, and talking with the lady who works in the museum. Port Gamble has a very unique history. It was founded in the 1860s and is still owned by the company which founded it. I have pictures posted on my Facebook of that trip.
4. How did you come up with names plot for The Bride Bargain.
Last summer I started toying with an idea for a ménage series based on a bit of Seattle history. The basic plot revolved around a group of two dozen women who answered an ad in a Boston newspaper for brides wanted in 1860s Washington Territory. The women who answered my hero's ad were willing to leave civilization behind and journey to an unknown land in the hope of finding a new life and a new love. The Gallagher brothers, who owned a logging company and sawmill, placed the ad in order to pacify their lumberjacks who were threatening to leave because of the lack of women in the area.
Figuring there was safety in numbers, I talked to my good friends, Bella Grace and Eve Adams, to see if they'd be interested in joining me. The more we talked about the idea, the more excited we became. The three of us collaborated on characters, plots, conflicts, and threads that'd run through all the stories. I poured over old UW archives on historical logging and pioneer life in the Pacific Northwest.
And The Brides of Bachelor Bay was born.
5. Reality shows or dramas? What is your favorite TV show lately? I love Criminal Minds. I've always been fascinated by what makes people tick, why they do what they do. I'm also addicted to true crime shows. Someday, I'm sure you'll see my interest in crime stories reflected in my writing, but not so much now.
Thanks Lucy for hosting me today. I hope your readers enjoy the interview and leave a comment. I'll be posting throughout the day in response. Thanks again!

Twelve Days of Christmas Daily Giveaway! Day 1

My annual 12 Days of Christmas celebration will run from 12/9 through 12/23 excluding Sundays. Visit my blog each day to answer a trivia question about Christmas. I will chose a winner from the correct responses for a fabulous prize! Winners will be posted daily - Good Luck!
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, A partridge in a pear tree....here's today's trivia question:
One of my favorite Holiday drinks is eggnog. Not the kind you buy in the carton at the store, but my homemade eggnog with the nutmeg and frothy foam on top...hmmm, can't wait. What country first created this yummy drink?

(Disclaimer: Trivia questions were taken from multiple Christmas Trivia websites and answers have not been verified for accuracy. Questions are for entertainment purposes.)

Guest Interview - Lavanda Dee

Welcome Lavanda. I'm so glad you were able to stop by today for an interview. You new book sounds great, I'm sure my readers will want to get it on their Christmas wish list!
1. What is your favorite thing to do when you are not writing?
Other than reading, I love traveling. We've had the good fortune to be able to travel out of the country as well as in the U.S. We've been to China, New Zealand, Australia and Africa to name a few. Also on some great cruises one of my favorites was a Baltic one where the ports of call included St. Petersburg, Germany, and Finland. Recently we've take a couple of river cruises, the ships are smaller and they are more informal.
2. What books are sitting in your TBR pile right now? What isn't might be an easier question to answer. I read a myriad of different genre. Having so many is one of the reason's I joined Goodreads. I was finding I was purchasing more than one copy. Just finished Margaret Mallory's The Sinner, great story. It's the second book in her The Highlanders series. So lets see, a couple of what's in my massive TBR pile is Dangerous Desires by Dee Davis, and The Copper Beech by Maeve Binchy. Both of these authors are new to me. My favorite authors don't seem to stay in the TBR pile very long.
3. How did you come up with the name and settings for Holiday Magic The Gift of Love?
This is a two story anthology I did with a dear friend and fellow author. Laurie and I share an almost surreal connection. We didn't know each other when we were younger and yet we named our children with the same or similar names. The other day we were at an event and even though our ticket numbers were miles apart. Mine was drawn and hers was drawn next. This was in a pot of around a hundred tickets. No wonder when we handed each other our stories for critique we found that they had the same flavor. Both are about family. Both have a heroine who is going it alone until . . . The one thing we did purposely decide was that it would be a Christmas book. We didn't come up with the Priceless Love "For Richer, For Poorer" and Healing Love "In Sickness and in Health" until after the stories were well underway. Mainly because the one thing we do differ in is that Laurie is a plotter while I'm a seat of the pants author.
4. What is your favorite TV shows?
I seem to keep loyal to the ones that have been around for a while. Criminal Minds, and CSI. I like the new shows Body of Proof and Charlie's Angels. I'm into a few of the reality shows. The Amazing Race for one. We find we've been to some of the places and it fun to see things a tourist wouldn't see. Another is Survivor; I could never rough it to this degree. And I love watching The Biggest Loser. While I'm stuffing my face with popcorn J.
5. What is in works for the future?
I want to finish some of the stories I have started. And, I have the first book in a series called The Blackhawk Brothers coming out in February 2012. It's a contemporary set in western Montana. This story is Coopers. I hope to have Grants contracted and out in 2012 as well.
Thanks Lucy for allowing me to stop by today! I hope your readers will leave a comment or two, I'll be checking in all day.