Monday Musings: A Creative Blog Award

My dear friend, MVRWA chapter mate, and critique partner Tracy Madison has nominated this little blog for two awards in the last week. This, the second one, requires me to participate and pass it on to seven fellow bloggers (who are writers)… so here we go.

Thank you, Tracy for the :

There are some catches….er…rules that go along with this honor, and they are:

1. Thank the person who gave this to you. (check)
2. Copy the logo and place it on your blog. (check)
3. Link the person who nominated you. (check)
4. Tell up to six outrageous lies about yourself, and at least one outrageous truth. The key here is the “up to” and the “at least.” This means I might tell 4 outrageous lies and 3 outrageous truths, or any combination that equals 7.
5. Nominate seven “Creative Writers” who might have fun coming up with outrageous lies.
6. Post links to the seven blogs you nominate.
7. Leave a comment on each of the blogs letting them know you nominated them.

So: Here we go with my mixture of truths and lies:

1) Almost ten years ago now, I had a mid-life crisis of sorts (and attempted to recapture my youth) by spending the summer travelling the country and seeing over 30 concerts by one paticular 80s popstar.

2) For my husband and I it was about as close to love at first sight as you can get. We were engaged within six weeks of our first meeting — And that was over twenty years ago now.

3) Writing is not the only creative pursuit of mine, I also enjoy needle point and quilting.

4) I’m a soft drink loyalist. Not only is Diet Coke my strict drink of choice, but I have a small collection of coke memorabilia that contains a few choice items considered antique.

5) Though I’ve spent my whole life in the Midwest, my dream and goal is to live in a very warm coastal city someday. I have a very specific architecture of the home in mind, but the most important aspect is that my ‘writing room’ looks out over the water and I have an outside deck (also facing the water) where I can work. (That’s the Scorpio in me, drawn to water.)

6) Not only to I love to write my paranormal stories, but I truly believe just because something can’t be explained doesn’t mean it can’t be real.

7) One of my best kept secrets is my ability to speak two other languages than English.

How well do you REALLY know me? Can you guess what’s the truth and what’s a lie.  Use the comments to make your predictions and I will ‘come clean’ in Friday’s post.

Okay, now I have to tag seven bloggers to carry on the fun:

Jill Kemerer: Not only is she a fellow MVRWA member, but an wonderful friend and a intrical part of my writing support system.

Genna Cockerham: We ‘met’ through the #amwriting thread on twitter. She’s a wonderful cheerleader and has a terrific blog, check it out!

Mary K. Williams: I also met Mary through an internet writing community several years ago and we’ve stayed connected through Blogcritics and facebook.

Mark Saleski: A fantastic writer I met through Blogcritics who has become someone I consider a great friend as well.  He’s probably going to get a book deal before I do, and then I’ll have to hate him though (::wink:: at Mark)

Glen Boyd: Another friend made through Blogcritcs, he’s a fellow music editor.  I just think he’ll get a real kick out of this.  Have some fun with it, Glen.

(Honorable Mention: Sloan Parker. I would have tagged her, but I know Tracy already got her. She’s a wonderful writer and could probably do this game twice, but I wanted to spread out the fun)