{"id":312,"date":"2008-09-25T01:18:37","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T07:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jodilee.ca\/?p=312"},"modified":"2008-09-25T01:19:20","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T07:19:20","slug":"blog-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/?p=312","title":{"rendered":"Blog Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aaron Polson<\/a> and Katey Taylor<\/a> blessed the Bleed-zone with some really cool endorsements and I’m rather beyond humbled. Okay, I’ll use the word stunned – as always I’m shocked when people actually *read* the posts, let alone comment, and now – an award!<\/p>\n

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With the award comes a responsibility of sorts… there are rules. So of course, I’m gonna break ’em just a tiny bit.<\/p>\n

1) Add the logo of your award to your blog. (check)<\/p>\n

2) Add a link to the person who awarded it to you. (check and check)<\/p>\n

3) Nominate at least seven other blogs. (check, and I didn’t go over or I’d be longer doing this than I have been already…)<\/p>\n

4) Add links to those blogs on your blogs. (checkity check check)<\/p>\n

5) Leave a message for your nominees on their blogs. (if I remember to, or I might email instead)<\/p>\n

Victoria Strauss of Writer Beware had an interesting take on this particular award, and I do agree with her. But, I’d like to go half a step back from her stance and make my nominations, the stipulation being that these folks don’t have to continue on. I read a lot of blogs in a day (I’m currently subscribed to just over 100, and use two different feed readers to get to them all!) so narrowing it down to just seven is hard.<\/p>\n

1 – Louise Bohmer<\/a>
\nLouise keeps me grounded, professionally and personally. She’s spent more time talking me down off the edge of a tantrum than most people would. Then again, we’ve also had a couple of spectacular, well-deserved blow-ups together. This is only one of her blogs, but I’m subbed to pretty much all of them. <\/p>\n

2 – Bob Freeman<\/a>
\nBob is a rare gem in this field. He tells it like it is, lives it like it is, and explores more of it than anyone I know. He’s one of very few people that has a foot in each of the worlds I wander around in, so he knows what I mean when I go off on a tangent from either my personal or professional life. Plus – he’s got the cutest bug of a boy! Conner is like a cherub, only you can see the glint of mischief sparkling in his eyes. I’m pretty sure it’s hereditary…<\/p>\n

3 – MR Sellars<\/a>
\nWhat can I say about Murv except he’s still my hero. And he still puts me on the ceiling at least once a year… \ud83d\ude09 This man is a marketing machine, a writing genius and a damn fine mentor. Someday I am going to hug him. If I can sneak up on him, that is.<\/p>\n

4 – Kevin Hurtack<\/a>
\nKevin has been there to crit my work, spank my ego when it overinflated, send his zombie Frank to cheer me up (shakes the hootchie-butt at Frankie) and he lets me drool on his artwork. Not to mention he created a fang-tastic piece of work to go with Thirsty in Night to Dawn. Maggothead will ALWAYS be my favorite, but Michael cradling his grandfather has a special place in my heart. <\/p>\n

5 – Gina Ranalli<\/a>
\nI bopped around the edges of some of the circles Gina’s in, and imagine my surprise when she and I become friends. Gina just *knows*, if you know what I mean. When I write about the voices in my head (and Krispies) talking to me, she knows what I mean. When I whinge about blocks, and editors and reviews and… Gina knows.
\nI’ve read very little bizarro in my career (life for that matter) and most of what I read, I didn’t like. I read Gina’s 13 Thorns not long ago and frankly – now I see why people like bizarro. I can dig it.<\/p>\n

6 – Brandon Layng<\/a>
\nWORMS! There. It had to be said, I’m sorry. I think Brandon has just as weird and vicious a sense of horror as I do, and I think he enjoys thrusting his eww in my direction when he writes it. It wasn’t just the story from Courting Morpheus, either, I’ve read some of the others – and parts of his novel, Sin in Skin. If I didn’t know better, I’d swear Brandon is dangerously insane. At least… I think I know better… Well, anyway, that’s what makes him cool.<\/p>\n

7 – Debbie Ridpath Ohi, InkyGirl<\/a>
\nInkyGirl – Daily Diversions for Writers lives up to it’s name. Pretty much every day, Debbie posts something of interest to writers, and editors, and people in general. What I love most, though, besides her sense of humor, is her art. Debbie is the artist behind “Will Write for Chocolate”, and of course, InkyGirl. I absolutely love the “Little Nightmares” series she has at DeviantArt, and someday I might just have to order ’em. PS – She’s Canadian!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aaron Polson and Katey Taylor blessed the Bleed-zone with some really cool endorsements and I’m rather beyond humbled. Okay, I’ll use the word stunned – as always I’m shocked when people actually *read* the posts, let alone comment, and now – an award!<\/p>\n

With the award comes a responsibility of sorts… there are rules. So of course, I’m gonna break ’em just a tiny bit.
\n1) Add the logo of your award to your blog. (check)
\n2) Add a link to the person who awarded it to you. (check and check)
\n3) Nominate at …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[90,85,87,61,89,88,66,60,69],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-pondering-on-writing","tag-award","tag-blog","tag-bob-freeman","tag-brandon-layng","tag-debbie-ridpath-ohi","tag-gina-ranalli","tag-kevin-hurtack","tag-louise-bohmer","tag-mr-sellars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}