OFFICIAL RELEASE DATE!

TA-DA! It's official. City of Angels is considered a released book. And to celebrate that, ANYONE can win again today... well, anyone who's read Spies, Lies...

I made few changes for the reprint, as you know. One thing I did was drop all the nicknames. So, today's winner will be the one who can say what the nicknames are for these characters:

Paul:
Delores:
Keith:
Jason:

First person wins :):)

HAPPY FRIDAY!

The Sad Kitty

Days to Launch at Sugarhouse Park: 4 (EEEEK!)

Okay, since the other trivia was too intensive, we'll switch gears to a riddle.

An indian runs at a tiger. The tiger is faster and beats the indian, but the indian is safe anywaybecause one man says so. Who's the man?

Winner gets a FREE book!

A Little Digging

Days to Launch: 6

So there's this guy I call Uncle John. He has a passion for the Bible, calendars, and the stars. In fact, he has a PhD in astronomy. Frequently he will combine his passions and write speculative articles, which some in the scholastic world might consider unacademic, but absolutely inspire the fiction writer in me! The first book I ever wrote began with my uncle explaining the Mayan calendar. Making the rules of the calendar into a whole new world was my way of assimilating the information and retaining it.

I still love that book first book of mine.

To this day I maintain that whether my uncle is right or wrong in his theories, he should be commended for asking questions and thinking of things no one else focuses on and putting his thoughts into articles that demands readers open their mind and consider something new.

One of his thoeries is the trivia question for today :)

The question is this: My Uncle John once wrote an article claiming that the zodiac signs (though they may have many layers of meaning) are symbolic of the ________. Furthermore, each of the _______ was symbolized by color.

List the (1) Astrological sign, (2) Other Name, (3) color that represents it (on flags, codes of arms, etc., as a way to tracking geneology).

Whoever wins this question, REALLY earned their prize ;)

It's Still Wednesday... Technically!

So TECHINICALLY it's still Wednesday. I was "trapped" at BEA without internet... or rather, internet that was so slow it might as well not have been internet at all and didn't get a chance to post.

Go 3G!

Anyway, today's trivia should be easy for Broadway lovers. I saw a show tonight. Two of the actors deserve to be nominated for Tonys (but only one was). One of the actors did not show up to prove one way or the other if they deserve a nod. One of the lines in the show is, "My favorite bar on 2nd is actually on 1st," and my favorite character, HANDS DOWN, was Marge. She stole the show--which was HARD considering how absolutely adorable/charming the lead actor was.

What show is this?

First correct answer wins!

Lost... Need I Say More?

Raise your hand if you watched the Lost marathon last night.

I know I did... with an empty suitcase waiting to be packed for a business trip, I sat and watched Lost get its big send off with two friends.

When it was over, there was silence. Thoughtful silence of trying to figure out if we were fans of the ending... if the holes we thought were holes were really holes, or if we just weren't thinking it through enough.

In truth, I'm still thinking... as I pack, of course. And while today's trivia needs to be Lost themed, I know there is no trivia I could come up with that a Lost fanatic wouldn't get off the top of their heads. No, the true fan of Lost needs more of a challenge than trivia. A true fan of Lost needs to be able to explain the series... concisely.

Jimmy Kimmel actually shocked me a bit with his insight (did his writers write it for him?) that he thinks the entire show was Jack's journey/test--and that Jack passed. (Also, did any of you see the Debby Gibson video he made as a tribute? That's going to have about 1,000,000 hits in 24 hours!)

So this 2-part question is posed by me, but the winner will be chosen by concesus (as in the first one to post the theory that is most agreed upon). It will focus on two attached characters because they are, in turn, attached to the stories of the other surviving characters:

#1- At what point in the series do you think Jack acutally died?
#2- When did Kate die?

The popular theory in season 1 is that all the passengers died in the crash, but that the "survivors" were simply the people who didn't cross over. Do you still believe that, or something else?

Most popular answer wins!!!

Day #10

Sorry for the SUPER late post! Where does the time go? You start working and suddenly it's 11:00. Totally crazy!

So this is a trivia question for those following TV series finales. Any of you who are my friend on Facebook may have seen my last update that Grey's Anatomy knows how to do a finale. Granted, I only saw three episodes this season, but I thought I would give the season finale a chance.

It was totally old school--which meant I HAD to watch it. Circa 1980's, it actually took the No Holds Barred approach of "no one is safe." Call me twisted, but I found it refreshing after all of the "safe" finales simply perpetuating other show's status quos.

So today's trivia is a pop culture question: List the characters that were shot by the lone gunman in last night's season finale of Grey's Anatomy AND (maybe this part isn't google-able) name the characters who did not turn into weeping, sobbing babies after encountering the gunman.

(Seriously, there was a lot of indulgent freaking out in this episode, which was the only thing I felt didn't work. Some people freak out in a crisis, but most have the sense to do what needs to be done in the moment i.e. hand a doctor something they need while they're holding a would shut and NOT trying to run away into the hall in the direction the gunman went... that's just me, though)

First correct answer WINS :) Have fun!!!

Vitamin Trivia & a Total Eclipse of the Heart

Okay, first off, if you haven't seen this video, it's totally funny:



But what you really came for is the trivia, and today's question is brought to you by my brother Steven, and goes like this: What vitamin is technically not a vitamin?

First correct answer wins :)

Day #6

HAPPY MONDAY!

Today's trivia comes from Day #5's winner, Rachael, and goes a little something like this:

Three brothers share a family sport. They race every day, all day long, and never stop. The first is short and stout, the second tall and trim, and the third poised and skeletal, but he is sure to win. Why, and what are they?

First correct answer (declared by Rachael) WINS!

Day #5- Harry Potter Trivia

Welcome back!

Today's trivia question comes from Day #2's winner, Elizabeth. A bit of trivia about Elizabeth: she is a HUGE Harry Potter fan, so her question comes from the Harry Potter series. Are you ready?

Who said: Who inadvertently gets cursed by the opal necklace?

First correct answer wins :)

Day #4 Trivia

Days to book launch: 25
Days to BEA in NYC: 11

Today's trivia is visual, and for those who have previously read the Rhea Jensen series. Look at the pictures above and tell me which picture represents which character in the series (for one pic, I will accept two answers). The first one to answer correctly WINS!

Day #3

Days to book launch: 26
Days to BEA in NYC: 12

HAPPY WEDNESDAY! And Happy Birthday to Rachael, Sarah, and Strauss! Quite the day for birthdays :)

Today's question is for fans of words: The word 'balloon' has two double letters in a row, l-l-o-o. What is the only word in the English language with three double letters in a row?

First correct answer wins :)

Day #2

Days to Book Launch: 27
Days to BEA in NYC: 13

Okay, all you bibliophiles, today's trivia question category is Young Adult Fiction:

In which 2010 novel could one of the chapters appropriately be entitled Nancy vs. Goliath?

First correct answer wins!