Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Unfurl Blog Tour: Guest Post and Giveaway With Cidney Swanson!!!

Please enjoy the following guest interview of Samantha Ruiz, the main character from Cidney Swanson's RIPPLE TRILOGY. Plus, there's a great giveaway at the bottom!






1.  If you could choose to change whether or not you could ripple, would you get rid of the ability?
Honestly, no, I wouldn’t. I know that might sound crazy considering that my life could be all safe and normal if I didn’t have Rippler’s Syndrome. But think of it this way: how cool is it to be able to be invisible? And here’s the thing. It’s even more cool than it sounds. Um, that came out weird. I guess what I mean is that the being-invisible isn’t necessarily even the coolest part. Walking through a plate glass window? Hello! Now that is some crazy kind of wonderful.

2.  Sir Walter is a very interesting person to be around.  What era would you want him to give you a history lesson on?
 I don’t know anything about the era he was born into. Like, at all. Our French teacher says she’s going to tell us all about Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Provençal minstrels and how French cooking really came from Italy in the 14th century, but she hasn’t done it yet. The 14th century just sounds like it was a pretty cool time to be born. Well, except for the Black Plague. And all the wars. And no indoor plumbing. Okay, okay, maybe it wasn’t all that great to live in it, but I’d like to hear about it.

3.  If you and Will were a famous couple from literature, who would you be?
In my English class, we just read Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen which totally rocked, BTW. Even better than the movie although Matthew McFadyen looked good. For an old dude. Will would be Darcy and I would be Elizabeth. Except, really, I’d probably have to be Darcy (a girl version) because he was lots friendlier than me at the beginning. But Will and I have the whole “miscommunication” thing going on like they did.

4.  What would you do if you could spend one more day with your Mother?
Oh. Wow. I’d spend it in Yosemite, on a sunny day, watching her paint the Merced River or Half Dome or anything, really. I loved to watch her paint. There was just something so peaceful about seeing her face change expression from frustrated to satisfied and back again. And of course seeing the canvas come alive with color. We would eat dinner at the Ahwahnee Hotel dining room. We would drive home and get Foster’s Freeze soft serve in a regular cone. Then she would read to me from Little Women until I fell asleep.

5.   How old would you choose to be for the longest if you decided to let rippling slow down your aging process?
This is really, really hard to answer. I mean, it would be a lot simpler if I could take all my family members along with me. But life isn’t like that, is it? Will and I have talked about this a little bit. It seems like Sir Walter has really enjoyed living his six hundred-ish years, so maybe about that long? If I remember right from Harry Potter, I think Nicholas Flamel and his wife lived around that long and then they were good with just finishing out an ordinary lifespan. So, yeah, maybe six hundred-ish.



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6 comments:

  1. cant wait to read this trilogy! it sounds amazing!

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  2. Loved, loved, loved, LOVED the first two books in this trilogy! Will and Sam are awesome! and so is Cidney Swanson!

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  3. I'd probably be terrified to be invisible! I definitely don't think that'd be a power I'd use unless I absolutely needed to, hahah. (:

    Thanks for the giveaway!

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  4. If I were invisible I would go freak a bunch of people out. Lol, that's probably bad x)

    and maybe sneak into a few concerts... and live in Barnes&Nobles. and stalk Cassandra Clare. I could even catch a peek into her computer and see what happens in her next book :D!

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  5. Thanks for the giveaway! If I could go invisible I would so spy on people!!

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  6. If I were invisible, I would like to check out what my kids did when I was away.
    Great interview and giveaway~~~~
    Heather
    earthsbooknook at gmail dot com

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