Awards and Announcements

There are a ton of things happening lately, plus I've received a bundle of awards. So, please bear with me while I share all this amazing information with you. I'll start with announcements.

As you can see a little to the north, I already have a book cover for my adult contemporary romance story, The Trouble With Tomboys, which will be published by the glorious Wild Rose Press! WOW. It's surreal to actually see the faces of my characters. My editing process seems to be going at warp speed, so I have a feeling I'll be able to share a release date for this book with you in only a few months...if not sooner!

For my YA Romance, The Stillburrow Crush, I have a WIDGET up (as you can see to the LEFT there), showing the countdown to the release of my first book...right down to the very second. There's another big WOW in my writing journey. Oh, and feel free to share the widget with whomever you like!

The cover of The Stillburrow Crush was shown on The Story Siren's blog. I'll be giving away free goodies there after the new year. Plus, I'll be donating a copy of my book to The Princess Bookie Blog, for their "Around the World 2010 Debut Author Challenge." You might want to check that out.

Then...I've got a blog interview in the works for the end of February, plus I'll be interviewing the amazing romantic suspense author, Nancy J. Parra, at the beginning of February.

	In other people's news, My wonderful critique partner, Claire Ashgrove, had her second book (ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS...IS BIG BLUE EYES) released last week from The Wild Rose Press. Big round of applause for her. Then, Heather Snow--from my writing group--recently started her own blog called Heather's Historical Hodgepodge. I'm already an avid fan there. She posts every Tuesday, if you're curious. And the biggie: Tess Hilmo, a blogger buddy of mine, just announced she sold her first book, With A Name Like Love, to Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Did you hear that??? Farrar, Straus & Giroux!!! I'm so in awe.
Now for the awards.
Loyal Friend Award	I received the "Loyal Friend" Award from Robyn, over at Putting Pen to Paper. Thank you so much, Robyn! You're the sweetest!
Who Loves you Award	Then, or maybe it was before that, I received the "Who Loves You" Award from Laura Gerold, over at Laura's Reviews.
Super Comments Award	And both Laura and Robyn bestowed "The Super Comments" Award on me sometime during all that. Thank you, thank you, guys. You're truly TOO good to me.

And finally, Tricia J. O'Brien at her blog, Tailspinning passed the "Honest Scrap" Award to me at the end of November. For this award, you're supposed to tell five to ten "honest" things about yourself and then pass the award along to five to ten other bloggers for them to do the same.

I think I'm already taking up too much time and space here, so I'll do all the award passing along later (probably after the new year) and share some "honest" things about myself then!

So...Until Thursday. See you guys later!

And the Lucky Winner Is...

If you stopped by and left a comment on my October 2nd Post, where I interviewed the hero in Claire Ashgrove's debut release, Seduction's Stakes, then you entered your name in my prize-drawing giveaway for two books : Seduction's Stakes by Claire Ashgrove and Mr. Charming by Nancy J. Parra. And the Lucky Winner is : Robyn Campbell Congrats, Robyn!! I hope you enjoy your two shiny new books!!! Thank you so much to all who participated.

Blog Awards

I've received a couple of blog awards lately. So, I'd love to thank everyone who thought of little-'ol-me. Plus I'd like to pass on the favor.

Blogging Award Rules
1) Accept the award and post a link back to the awarding person.
2) Pass the award on (the rules differ here; sometimes you pass on to one person, five, or even more).
3) Notify award winner.

Sounds easy enough to me. So, here we go.

1)

-I've received numerous blogging awards from Kate at Another Book Blog-Whore.

-I've also received the Kreativ Blogger Award from Laura, who writes Laura's Reviews.

-Then Linda LaRoque from Linda LaRoque's Musings awarded me the Lovely Blog Award.

-And most recently Robyn from Putting Pen to Paper passed the "Premios Dardos Award" to me.

Thank you, thank you, all. I know I don't deserve any recognition. But, heck, I'll take an award from you anyway!!

2)

Now I'd like to pass on the love:

To Nancy J. Parra from A Room with a View, I'd like
to award the "One Lovely Blog Award" for being so faithful on her blog and having something new to say EVERY SINGLE day. Amazing.

To Kate at Another Book Blog-Whore for introducing me to the blog awarding ceremony, I'd like you to have the "Kreativ Blog Award" since that's about one of the only awards you haven't gotten yet!!

I'd like to award "The Literary Blogger Award" to:

Laura's Reviews

Linda LaRoque's Musings and

Putting Pen to Paper

All three women write the ideal literary blog.

And I'd like Jackie Bannon's Chaotic Thoughts From Ms. Quirky to receive the "2009 Friendly Blogger Award" because a person always feels like they're one of her good friends, sitting down in her living room and chatting, when they read one of her personable, humorous blogs.

3)

Guess I should go do this part now and let my winners know they're... winners!