Welcome to Day 30 of Winter’s Favorites
And the second to last day of our month long giveaway. Today we have the WONDERFUL Kallypso Masters sharing her favorite thing about winter.
I’ve had a wonderful holiday season already and hope you and yours have as well. We celebrate Christmas in my family and this year’s was especially poignant because one of my older sisters, who has been battling cancer for two years, was given the news on Dec. 20 that there is hope and her surgeons expect the radical surgery she’ll undergo Jan. 12 will eradicate the cancer from her body. What a Christmas blessing!
Now, I know this blog is more about winter, but since the holidays fall during the winter and a big part of my latest book, Nobody’s Hero, they sort of all get wrapped together in my head. One of my favorite things to do in winter is get together with family and friends and play games. You know, the silly “party” games. I even wrote two of my favorite games into Thanksgiving Day scenes in Masters at Arms and Nobody’s Hero—Quiddler and Apples to Apples, respectively.
On Christmas Eve, we also played Eye to Eye, which is great fun when you have multiple generations playing, because, boy, can’t predict or imagine how different people think based on age! One card said to name three convenience stores. We older members were writing “Seven-Eleven, Convenient, and Speedway.” The under-25 set wrote “Wal-Mart, K-Mart, and Target.” But at least they matched with each other, so they got their points!
This year, Santa brought us a new game called Say Anything. Yes, this one’s destined to become a favorite. I discovered some interesting trivia about two of my sisters—that Paul Revere and the Raiders was their favorite band of all time. Never know when that information might come in handy (and it’s a little embarrassing—I thought my music tastes were off the wall).
At Thanksgiving this year, we also were playing Apples to Apples (just like Karla’s family and Adam do in Hero!) and discovered that it is even more fun when a couple of the people playing are having a bit too much to drink. As you will see in this example, though, it doesn’t take much alcohol for some bizarre responses. One of the adjective cards played was “Violent.” So, the four of us playing that round chose the noun card that best conveyed violent. One of my heavily-drinking sisters played “Midwest.” When the cards were revealed, I asked, “What’s violent about the Midwest?” My inebriated sister who had played the card said, “They’re always fighting over there.” I said, “No, that’s not the Midwest—that’s the MIDDLE EAST!” Then the sister judging that round, who wasn’t really drinking much at all, chose Midwest as the best match for violent. Huh? She said, “Because of tornadoes.”
I laughed so hard my sides hurt. And that’s the point of these silly games, really. To just act like kids and laugh until you can barely breathe. (Works the abs better than a personal trainer can, too!)
I hope the rest of your winter months are filled with side-splitting laughter, whether it’s with games like these or whatever it is you and your family and friends enjoy laughing about.
Have a happy and healthy New Year!
Kally
Nobody’s Hero is the third in my debut Rescue Me series. The books are not stand-alone novels, though, so if you haven’t started the series yet, please accept a free copy of Masters at Arms, the introduction to the series (with prequels for the romances of the three Doms who own the club). Use coupon code AL47T (not case-sensitive) at Smashwords (https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/80282); coupon good through Jan. 6. The Rescue Me series also is sold at Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006PA7UJS/) and Barnes & Noble (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/nobodys-hero-kallypso-masters/1108057218?ean=2940013874121), and Nobody’s Angel (Rescue Me #2) also is available at All Romance eBooks. (Nobody’s Hero will be published there in January.)
Please follow the instructions below and leave a comment with your e-mail address for a chance to win a copy of Nobody’s Hero. (About 1,000 copies already have been sold, though, so if you already have a copy, I’ll add you to the list for a free copy of Nobody’s Perfect when it’s published this coming spring.)
I love having readers help me with the writing of my stories and development of my characters, so I often ask questions on my Facebook Kallypso Masters Author Page (https://www.facebook.com/KallypsoMastersAuthorPage) seeking advice. The answers often become part of the current or future books and sometimes my readers know the characters better than I do! I invite you to “like” my author page and send a friend request to my personal Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/kallypsomasters), if you’d like. (I get a little more “personal” there.) I’m also on Twitter (https://twitter.com/#!/kallypsomasters/) and Goodreads (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5130089.Kallypso_Masters).
To enter for a chance to win an ebook. Please leave Kally a comment, tell her what some of your favorite things about winter, then head over to the MAIN Winter’s Favorite page (<< — Click link) to enter the giveaway.
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