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Love Ya Award: More Blogs for You to Check Out

Last week, K.M. Weiland at WordPlaypresented me with the Love Ya Blog award. Thanks, K.M. for including me in your list!

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Here’s the definition of the award:

The “Love Ya” Award states: These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers. Deliver this award to other bloggers who must choose to pass it on and include this cleverly written text into the body of their award!

I like to add a few new blogs to your possibilities when I pass on one of these awards. On the other hand, some of the “old” blogs I read so fit this award that…well, you’re going to get a mix in this list!

My “Love Ya” awards for the week go to:

Enjoy! And if you feel like passing on the award at your blog, leave a link to it in the comments and we can all share.

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Some New Bloggy Links

Earlier this week, Shawna at WriterMomof5 sent me this blog award.

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Shawna is one of the unexpected rewards I got from starting this new blog and getting out there on some social networking sites. She is sweet and funny and reading her blog is one of the treats of my week. So having this award come from her is just…cool!

I thought I’d combine passing this award on with giving you links to some of the newer blogs I’ve been following. Well, they’re not necessarily new to the blogosphere, but they’re new to me. In some of that free time we all have just laying around, take a few minutes and check these out–leave a comment and say, “Hi!”

  • Elana Roth is an agent with the Caren Johnson Literary Agency. I “found” her first on Twitter and have recently started reading her blog–enjoyable and informative.
    http://elanaroth.com/
  • Beth Revis cracks me up. Every time. She’s writing a SF YA that I so want to read. Beth’s also  a middle-school teacher, and you have to read her Today: In Class posts. She’s the teacher we all wish we’d had.
    http://bethrevis.blogspot.com/
  • Amy Butler Greenfield is History Maven. We hooked up somehow (I’m not sure if it’s a bad or good thing that I can never remember where or when these connections get started!) after I started blogging about my historical YA. Amy is dug into her own historical fiction, and I love her posts (and comments) about history, writing, and life.
    http://historymaven.livejournal.com/
  • Joyce Moyer Hostetter is another history writer, and the author of several historical novels for children. Joyce is incredibly supportive and her posts about research and writing and talking to kids about her stories are hugely motivational for me!
    http://moyer-girl.livejournal.com/
  • Sara Zarr is, for me, the epitome of the thinking writer. Her posts are intelligent and speak clearly and concisely of the process and the art and the struggle.
    http://sarazarr.livejournal.com

I’m passing the Lovely award on to all these bloggers and hope you’ll add them to your own lists of very readables!