The Versatile Blogger Award

I've won a Versatile Blogger Award!

How Freaking Awesome!

 

If you Google the Versatile Blogger Award, you get 419,000 results as of 1 Aug 2010!

The 4 "rules" (with my responses) that accompany the award are:

1. Thank the person who loved you enough to bestow this gift.

I thank Michael D. Brown for adding me to his award list. You can find Michael's awesome fiction as well as his guest writers' at his really cool blog, MuDJob.

 

2. Share seven things about yourself.

1. I've been a closet writer all my life until last year. 
2. I'm 25 years old.
3. I have urges to howl at the moon.
4. The mountains are my retreat.
5. I archery hunt and can pull back a 75lb bow (but that's not what I hunt with).
6. I'm an avid reader and writing is my passion above all else except spending time with my children.
7. I'm grateful to all of my friends, writer and reader who support my passion, and who encourage me to keep writing even when I feel like a lost cause.

3. Bestow this honor onto 10 newly discovered or followed bloggers–in no particular order–who are fantastic in some way.

 

Here are 10 bloggers that I think deserve this award:

• Richard Godwin
• Lee Hughes 
• Michael Solender 
• Paul Phillips
• D.B. Dean
• Blake Cooper's Thinking Ten 
• Cormac Brown 
• David Barber 
• Randal Graves 
• Illyria Taylor

There are several equally fantastic bloggers I would like to include, but have limited myself to 10, and considering the names previously mentioned by Michael, and that each of the above should be gifting 10 bloggers, I'm fairly certain if I've not included you here, you will shortly be recognized.

4. Drop by and let your ten new friends know you admire them.

 

The Versatile Blogger award is peer-driven and such recognition does a great deal to connect and support our on-line community of writers. It has been my pleasure to be a recepient and now a bestower. All my best wishes to those I was granted space to name, to the many that are great, but just couldn't fit this time, and to those whose writing I have yet to encounter.