Today I'm pleased to introduce Venus Rising by, Celia Kennedy. While touring this week, Celia stops by our little reading nook to reveal her top 10 favorite places to read.... and her favorite drinks!
How perfect is that?
Top 10 Favorite Beverages:
"1-5 while I write, 6-10 because I write!" -Celia Kennedy
1)
Coffee – I live in Seattle, I’m
required to drink it
2)
Tea – My mother’s British, I’m
required to drink it
3)
Hot Water – My favorite drink
(try it, it tastes different than cold water)
4)
Juice – I do ½ juice ½ water,
they are too sweet (based upon the above list, you’re probably wondering about
this)
5)
Beer – My mother’s British, my
father’s German, it’s in my genes and it’s good!
6)
Scotch – The burn as it slides
down the throat is cleansing
7)
Moscow Mule – The perfect tart
and spicy cocktail
8)
Wine – I live in wine country,
all my friends drink it, and I want to be accepted
9)
Whiskey Sours – A close friend of
the Moscow Mule, minus the spice.
10) Bloody
Caesar – Relative of the Bloody Mary, but spicier and tangy-er!
Top 10 Favorite Places to Read:
"I
average four books a week, variety req’d!" -Celia Kennedy
1)
In bed – Before I go to sleep
2)
In bed – When I wake up
3)
On the couch – After the kids go
to school and I transition from Mom to writer
4)
Under a palapa in a tropical
environment (if snacks are involved, this is a perfect scenario)
5)
Floating on the water on a hot
day, with #4, 5, or 7 from list above
6)
On the patio, when it drizzles,
with a blankie, and #1, 2, 3, 6, or 8 from list above
7)
In front of a fire, with any of
the above listed
8)
On the bed – When I’m supposed to
be cooking dinner
9)
In the car – While I’m waiting
for my offspring who need a ride
10) Wherever
I am, cause I always take my Kindle with me.
About the Author:
Celia Kennedy was born in Wurzburg, Germany on an American
Army base. Her parents' penchant for traveling the world, via a Volkswagen
Minibus with a Porsche engine, sparked her imagination. Staring out the window,
sometimes through fog and rain, at other times at sunny blue skies, she began
to make up stories for the places and spaces they passed by. The in-between
time, the most fascinating to her.
The imagined world has always fascinated Celia. She has
studied Landscape Architecture, Architecture, Interior Design, and pretty much
every other subject matter. Like her childhood, it was the ride that was the
most entertaining, arrival at a degree, not anywhere as important.
Mark Twain said, "Write what you know." When
combining this concept with her unusual life experiences (working at a nuclear
submarine base when Chernobyl blew, testing software Bill Gates kept close tabs
on, travelling extensively while quite broke, or falling in love with her
boyfriend's close friend) thinking of what to write about isn't challenging;
there just needs to be more hours in the day.
Celia published Charlotte's Restrained, The Accidental
Stalker in December of 2012 and Venus Rising in August of 2013. Look for
Kathleen's Undressed, The Accidental Enigma, a companion novel to Charlotte's
Restrained, to be published in November 2014.
Currently she lives in Washington State with the loves of
her life.
About the Book:
Akshaya Bertrand, is a Professor
of Art History at an Ivy League college in New England. Young and incomparably beautiful,
she hides her traumatic childhood in India behind vibrant veils of secrecy.
Jared Harrison, a war
correspondent in the Middle East accepts a position as guest lecturer. Upon
meeting, the two find themselves drawn to one another, sensing the others deep
wounds.
Thrown together on a voyage of
discovery, the two travel through exotic India. Amongst beauty and poverty, sorrow
and friendship, they both will finally face the past that has shaped them and
the present that defines them.
Will the answers they find close the
gap between them or push them further apart?
Connect with Celia Kennedy Today:
Website: www.celiakennedy.weebly.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CMKAuthor
Twitter: @KennedyCelia
Google+: Celia Kennedy
