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Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Venus Rising Blog Tour!



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: 



Twitter: @KennedyCelia
Google+: Celia Kennedy


Purchase Links:

Venus Rising

Charlotte’s Restrained http://amzn.to/1uKXr18

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