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Blog Contest Winner & Excellent Blog Awards

  • Apr. 29th, 2008 at 7:57 AM

Well, I call my first blog contest a success. (Success being officially defined as any blog contest with two or more entrants, I believe!) Yesterday, our critique group met, and Terri and I asked our third partner, Beth Proudfoot, to do the honors of drawing the winning name. And...we don't have a name!

Got you. No, we have a winner, but the commenter didn't sign her (I think!) name to the comment. So...trusting in all your inate honesty, would "Anonymous" who got so "glued" to her borrowed copy of Wild Goose Chase that she almost forgot to cook dinner please email me at: becky77 at verizon dot net. Your own, signed copy of Terri's first book awaits you. (You'll probably want to order take-out for the day it shows up!)

Watch for more blog contests this summer!

Now...last week, Martha Alderson at The Plot Whisperer awarded me the Excellent Blog Award. Martha is a wonderful writer and teacher and the author of Blockbuster Plots, You can read all about her at Blockbuster Plots for Writers. I was being the proverbial headless chicken last week, so I didn't have a chance to do more than say, "Thank you," then rush on to the next item on my to-do list. I'm settled back in now (TEN big hours of sleep last night!), and it's time to pass on the honor.



The "rules" of the Excellent Blog Award are that when I accept it, I get to award it forward...to ten more bloggers. My first though--oh, cool! This'll be easy. And it was...easy to think of at least ten bloggers. The harder part was narrowing it down to only ten. If you are like me, you read WAY too many blogs during the week, but there are just so many writers out there delivering informative, helpful, and (for me, a biggie!) funny posts. If we all got carried away, though, and gave awards to all our favorite blogs, well, I'm not sure even the Internet is big enough.

So, today, I'm giving the Excellent Blog Award to:

[info]cathyipcizade
The Cybils Awards
Faster Than Kudzu
The Graveyard Shift
[info]jeannineatkins
Jen Robinson's Book Page
[info]lisayee 
The Plot Whisperer
Shrinking Violet Promotions
[info]susanwrites
  • Mood: pleased
  • Music:The Essential Paul Simon

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[info]territhayer wrote:
Apr. 29th, 2008 08:10 pm (UTC)
Congratulations to the winner! I hope you enjoy having your own copy.

Thanks for playing!
Terri
www.territhayer.com
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[info]jensbookpage wrote:
Apr. 30th, 2008 02:13 am (UTC)
Thanks so much, Becky!! I'm having a bit of a headless chicken week, myself, but this award brightened my day immensely. As for coming up with a list of only 10 excellent blogs ... well, that's definitely something that will have to wait until I get more sleep. But thanks!!
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[info]beckylevine wrote:
Apr. 30th, 2008 02:16 am (UTC)
Jen, I just think that any time I need info on what's happening in the kidlit world, or the literacy world, you've got it at your blog. You're an incredible resource, and you always keep my reading list full. :)
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[info]jensbookpage wrote:
Apr. 30th, 2008 03:04 am (UTC)
Thanks, Becky! The past few weeks I've been really struggling to keep up with the blog, because of travel and the move and such, and your comments came at a very good time to remind me what it's all about. It is a pleasure talking books and literacy with you.
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[info]martha_alderson wrote:
Apr. 30th, 2008 03:53 am (UTC)
Gratitude
You are so nice!
Thanks for returning the honor.
And, thanks for your comments on Lee's blog. What a terrific guy he is, huh?
When are you going to write about the conference????????
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[info]beckylevine wrote:
Apr. 30th, 2008 01:41 pm (UTC)
Re: Gratitude
You're welcome! I did write about the conference--you just have to go back a couple of posts! :)
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