As an added incentive to try the Smashwords site, I'll offer a prize of a download of one of my Wild Rose Press short stories. All you have to do is email me (DON'T post it here in the comments!) and tell me the color of Amanda's hair in Coping Mechanisms, and the color of the bed sheets in Words. No purchase necessary to find the answers. Put Smashwords Contest in the Subject line.
I'll choose a winner (or winners, depending on how many entries I get—so send your friends over. The more entries, the more prizes.) Deadline: July 7th.
And now onto the topic of today's post. Roz Morris of Nail Your Novel awarded me The Versatile Blogger award. Thanks, Roz. I'm supposed to tell you seven things about myself. I'm fairly open in this blog, so I'm not sure any of them are surprising, but here goes--and in no particular order:1. I didn't start writing until I had my AARP card.
2. I never had ambitions of being a writer until I started writing and was hooked.
3. We once had a ferret named Frank Burns.
4. I'd never read a romance before I started writing (probably because I thought I was writing a mystery)
5. I taught junior high school science in Los Angeles
6. Although I'm rusty, I used to be a darn good Backgammon player
7. I took piano lessons as a kid, but enjoyed playing gin rummy with my teacher more than practicing.
And technically, I'm also supposed to pass this award to 15 other bloggers. I hate to leave anyone out, so if you're a regular here, and have a blog, consider yourself awarded. Feel free to leave a link to your blog in the comments. I hope the award police won't come after me for that one.
As you're reading this, I should be getting my new office furniture. More about that after it actually arrives.
Come back tomorrow. Jason's back with some FANTASTIC landscape shots from a workshop he gave.
9 comments:
Congratulations on the award, well deserved. It's always fun to learn new things about your favorite authors.
Mason
Thoughts in Progress
Mason-thanks. I don't know how much of what I put up here was actually new. But glad to hear I'm one of your favorite authors. At least, that's how I'm going to interpret your comment. :-)
Frank Burns! Love it. Did he make you call him Major?
Congrats on the award :)
Carol -- nice to see someone else who understands the name. And we were on familiar enough terms so he let us call him Frank.
Congrats on the award, Terry. Well deserved!
Congratulations, Terry! I didn't know you were a science teacher--very cool. :)
A ferret named Frank Burns - that totally cracked me up!! :)
Thanks all -- things have been busy here. Got my office furniture, but not sure how long before I get my PC hooked up. Cables aren't long enough for the configuration I need. Can check in from the laptop, but I'm more interested in putting books on the new bookshelves!
I can relate to pets with TV character names. I've got two cats, Quark and Rom, who become purring puddles when their ears are stroked. Not a lot of folks get the Star Trek:DS9 reference.
Can't wait to see your finished office!
Vivian
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