It's The Season for Trivia!

1. The name of Scrooge's deceased business partner in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol was?

2. What is the name of Tiny Tim's father in the story, "A Christmas Carol"?

3. What did Frosty The Snowman have for a nose?

4. How many gifts would you receive if you received all of the gifts in the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas"?

5. In the song "Winter Wonderland", who do we pretend the snowman is?

6. In the movie "Miracle on 34th Street", a man is on trial for claiming to be Santa Claus. What convinces the judge to rule in the man's favor?

7. In the traditional song, "Go Tell It on the Mountain", what are you suppose to go tell on a mountain?

8. According to the song, "Frosty The Snowman" what kind of soul does Frosty have?

9. True or False: Joseph was the one that told Mary she was going to have a baby.

10. In the Christmas Song, who did I (the narrator) see kissing Santa Claus under the mistletoe last night?

At the end of today, I'll post the answers.  In the meantime, figure them out on your own.  Have fun!

What is your favourite genre to read?

We all have that one favourite genre, or setting, or plot we love to read. Sometimes it stems back to our youth, when we would slip under the covers of our bed and read with a flashlight, or when we put that book in the center of our school textbook and just read freely, hoping our parents would only glance our way and be pleased we were finally showing an interest in history.
Oh, yes, we were. Or at least I was. I was deep in English history, fighting Normans alongside the Saxons, or exploring a great old castle with a Victorian maid brought to be a governess.
These old faves brought comfort to us. They were soul food for our minds.
Do you still read them? Does your heart still flutter when you spy a novel so like the ones you used to read?

But I can honestly say I took the love of that genre one step further. This past March, I was published in it with Bound To The Warrior.

Bound To The Warrior

Yes, my all time favourite time period, the Norman conquest of England. There was something about it, the last time England had been conquered. That paradox of wanting a strong king and an English one, getting a Norman King who would forever change history.
Did you know one of the first things William the Conqueror did was abolish slavery in England? He was a brutal, unyielding king, who paradoxically forgave those Saxons who fought against him. There is absolutely no evidence in the history books that he ever cheated on his wife, who bore him many fine sons. And yet, she also defied him, and fought him, and he mourned her when she died.
All periods of history are fraught with interesting tidbits. The rulers of each time period instilled upon them cliches of time and yet, unique aspects of that often contrary human spirit. Queen Victoria bemoaned her fate when she was told she should not have any more children, asking what she was to do for fun. And in the Regency Period, only the poor paid cash. Everyone else lived on credit.
With Bound to the Warrior, I was able to incorporate all the wonderful things I'd come to love about the medieval period, and found out so much more. 'Twas a dangerous time, aye, but one on the cusp of greatness.
What is your favourite time period or setting? What bit of trivia do you know about that time period? What setting do you like, and why?