Three Fabulous Happenings For This Writer

Today’s post is about three great events this week that show how much fun being a writer can be. Last Saturday morning as I lay in bed checking my iPad I got an email announcing that a questionnaire I had filled in had been turned into an article by a marketer. There was the link right in the email and I clicked on it to see the result. Fabulous. It was almost all my very own words and I was glad I’d taken the time to craft my answers like every writer should. My thanks to John Kremer on whose blog this appears. I hope you’ll check it out. Feel free to use the format for your own article.

On Monday my Inbox revealed another marketing bit I’d gone after, this one from D’vorah Lansky. I had pitched her the topic “Putting on the Blinders to go Straight Down the Writing Road” which would be a piece for authors about focusing in order to finish the book and get it published and marketed. I suggested this might fit with her topics “Productivity Tips for Authors” or even “Overcoming Overwhelm as an Author in Today’s Online World”. Not only did D’vorah want my post she used it immediately so that on Monday morning she sent me the link to it. Terrific!

Tuesday I was awarded the Creative Blogger award by Aurora Jean Alexander at Writer’s Treasure Chest. I knew she had followed me for a while but this gave me the opportunity to check out her excellent writing site. I will certainly be back there and you other readers and writers might take a trip with me. Thanks so much, A.J.!

Rules for The Creative Blogger Award:

1. Thank the person who nominated you and include a link to their blog.
2. Share 5 facts about yourself.
3. Nominate some bloggers in return and notify them about their nomination.
4. Keep the rules in your post to make it easy for everyone to know what to do.According to the rules, I should list five facts about myself, so here goes.

 Five facts about me: (Hope it’s not too boring!)

1. I love a good joke when told by someone else but I can’t tell them myself. I can, however, do pretty awesome on-the-spot wordplay-type jokes.

2. I hope to live long enough for the brown spots on my hands to spread enough to look like a great tan.

3. For the last two months I’ve been trying to walk every day so that I get 10,000 steps in.

4. If I don’t write for a few days I get a sort of ache until I sit at my computer and let my mind spew out beautiful words and exciting plot details.

5. My husband of many, many years is my biggest fan, no matter what I do. (Is that too personal? Sorry, folks. That’s a fact. :-))

Now for my nominees, well-published authors all of them. You’ll love their websites and their books.

1. P. C. Zick(Patricia)
2. Jessica Aspen
3. Sharon Clare
4. Mary Tod
5. Helen Hollick

That’s it for today, everyone.

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