Whew!

Who knew this time of year could be so busy? The past month has been a dizzying blur of writing, reading, blogging, editing, revising, drafting, critiquing, commenting, and corresponding. There have been blogfests, contests, awards, tags, giveaways, and campaign challenges. We've done interviews, book reviews, celebrated book releases, and thrown parties. Do you know what it's time to do now?

Take a nap. :)

Image by dannyelbrazil

Okay, before that, we do have a few things on the agenda... but they're fun, I promise! 

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1) Remember the "Get Fired Up!" blogfest? Well, it turns out our generous hostess, the lovely and talented Melissa Sugar, named me as one of the finalists for the grand prize! Guess who the other one was? Cassie! (♥!) How stinkin' cool is that? Congratulations to Cassie for winning! (At least, I'm assuming she won.) Woohoo!

Anyway, big shout-out to Melissa for organizing such a wonderful event. As I said on her post, for anyone who "shows up late to the party," don't think you need to wait for another blogfest to get help with your blog. With a supportive community like ours, there's no reason to go it alone.:)

Oh, and speaking of contest-type-things, thank you to everyone who voted for me during the First Campaign Challenge. I came in third and really appreciated your support. :)

2) Just a heads-up. I'm going to interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to post a review of The Princess of Las Pulgas by C. Lee McKenzie on Wednesday. "But Carrie, you suck at writing reviews..." Well, I'm going to try! To keep myself on task, I'm going to use bullet points. ;) Be sure to stop by for that.

3) A huge thank you to Kathleen for the Sunshine award, Melissa for the Awesome Blog Content award, and Leslie for the Kreativ Blogger award! You three are beyond amazing, and I'm so grateful to know each one of you. :)

Now, each award comes with its own set of instructions, so I'm going to take these one at a time.

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• Thank the person who nominated you. ✔
• Write a blog post about it with the answers to the questions. ✔
• Nominate 10 other bloggers and let them know. ✔

 

• Favorite Color: Blue or black
• Favorite Animal: Wolf
• Favorite Number: 5
• Favorite Non-Alcoholic Drink: Water
• Facebook or Twitter: Twitter (It fits my attention span!)
• My Passions: God, family, friends, writing, volunteering, art, etc. I could go on and on.
• Getting or Giving Presents: Giving. I treat every gift-giving occasion as a strategic mission to find or make the most personalized thing possible. Besides, receiving presents makes me all squirmy and awkward. :P
• Favorite Pattern: I have no idea what this means, but it made me think of that game Simon. Do you guys remember that? "If ya miss, you get the RAZ!" Hahaha!
• Favorite Day of the Week: Friday
• Favorite Flower: Chrysanthemums

Nominees: Melissa Sugar | Jennifer Hillier | Iain | Nancy S. Thompson |  Rachel Morgan | Victoria | Jessica Therrien | Joylene Newell Butler | Emily R. King | Melissa Maygrove

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 Use the alphabet to describe yourself. ✔

Pass the award to ten nominees and let them know. ✔

Artist · Behaved (only as a child) · Crazy Creative · Determined · Energetic · Foolish · Geek · Hockey fan · Inappropriate (at times) · Jackets fan · Knowledge-seeker · Loud · MMO player · Ninjesque · Ohioan · Panhead (Skillet fan) · Quick-witted · Reader · Spit-fire · Trombonist (back in the day) · Umbrella scoffer · Vertically challenged · Writer · X-chromosomed twice (Hah! That was such a reach!) · Young-ish (Hush! I said -ish!) · Zippyphobic (I spent my first year of college afraid of this mascot...)

Nominees: Lisa Regan | Lindsay Currie | Trisha Leaver | Pegasus Peggy Eddleman | Becky Wallace | Michael Di Gesu | Lydia Kang | Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi  | Talli Roland

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Leslie combined the Kreativ Blogger award with the 11 Questions tag going around. (Meaning, I've already answered those questions. Woohoo!) You can find my answers here. :)

P.S. While you're over at my personal blog, would you mind following again? Blogger spazzed on me last week, and I lost my followers there. Thank you!

 

Official rules of the tag:

1. Post the rules

2. Answer the questions and then create 11 new questions to ask the people you've tagged.

3. Tag 11 people and link to them.

4. Let them know you've tagged them.

I think most of you have been hit with this one, so consider yourself spared. *grins*

Official rules of the Kreativ Blogger Award:

1. Tell ten things about yourself

2. Pass it on to six others

Nominees: J.D. Begin | Elodie | Julia King | Siv Maria | Lauren Hunter | TD McFrost

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4) One last thing. Two fabulous ladies (Gwen and Nancy) have tagged me in the Lucky 7 Meme! According to the rules, I need to do four things:
1. Go to page 77 of my current MS/WIP
2. Go to line 7
3. Copy down the next 7 lines – sentences or paragraphs – and post them as they’re written. No cheating
4. Tag 7 authors

Well, my current WIP doesn't have 77 pages yet, so I'll revert back to my last one.  

(I'm using seven lines as they appear on my MS Word screen. Sorry it's kind of boring...) Here we go!

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 I threw my coat over the back of the chair and reached inside to grab my phone. “Funny.” I scanned the screen. “I don’t see any missed calls from you. Not even a text.” I set the phone down on my desk, giving her a pointed stare.

“Aww, you’re not going to be like that, are you?” She sat up, protruding her bottom lip. “We were all drinking. It’s not like I did it on purpose.”

“Uh huh.” I unzipped my boots, set them aside, and crawled onto my bed. “What happened to bros before hoes?”

She scrunched her nose. “Only applies to guys, Ree.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I tag: Tara Tyler | Kathleen Doyle | Leslie Rose | Tina Moss | The Golden Eagle | Sophia Chang | Leigh Covington  
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Have a great week, guys! ♥ 

P.S. No need to congratulate me, just because it's an award/tag/catch up post. :) In fact, why don't you leave me a comment and tell me... um, what you're having for lunch today!