Spread your love like a fever

A Plague of goodwill is sweeping the blogosphere! Imagine how I blushed when I saw that

Natalie L. Sin loves my blog

and

Catherine J. Gardner loves my blog

Unexpected, and totally rad, if I may go 1980s on you for just a moment. (Yeah I had a lot of slap bracelets. It’s true.)

So now it’s my turn to spread the love, and nominate my favorite blogs. Seeing as I do a blog roundup at least once a week, usually every day, I am so ready for this. Blog party.

So, if I nominate you and you feel like spreading some love too:

1) Add the logo of your award to your blog.

2) Add a link to the person who awarded it to you.

3) Nominate at least seven other blogs.

4) Add links to those blogs on your blogs.

5) Leave a message for your nominees on their blogs.

Mine go to:

1. Megan Price. The subject matter couldn’t be futher removed from this blog, I realize. But Meg is many things– avid reader (there is little as fun as browsing a book shop in Decatur with her), PhD candidate (statistics, public health. Tell me she’s not getting into heaven, I dare you), and unbearably smart woman. She blogs about things I love: social equality, books, touring whiskey distilleries in Ireland, and how awesome vaccines are. Get this woman an award.

2. Michael Stone. I’m reading his book– a collection of four novellas titled Fourtold right now. I don’t need any other reason to give him an award, because the man has talent like you would not believe. But I’m sure I’ll devote an entire post to that later, so I won’t get ahead of myself. Mike is a genuine class act nice guy, he writes like a demon, and he likes the Verve. I feel really lucky to be alongside him in Harvest Hill next month.

3. Meghan Brunner. Okay, I’ve never been on the inside of a Renn Fest. The closest I’ve ever come is that episode of King of the Hill with Alan Rickman as the misogynistic king. Meghan makes me wish I was on the inside, like her, and then she makes me feel like I am. She writes flat out charming (Haha, get it? Charm? Like the magic… right, forget I said that.) books about rennies and Magick, and her posts are full of much of the same goodness. Plus cats, social issues, and yard sale adventures.

4. N. K. Kingston. A blog I can relate to. Here we have another speculative fiction geek breaking into the market– except that she makes it look graceful. I love blogs that catalogue a writer’s trials and happinesses while slogging along this muddy freaking path we’re all crazy enough to attempt. This is a good, thought-provoking take on the slog, and the good and bad you find on the way. Writing, subbing, learning, all of it. (Plus, she puts up stories that run in her University magazine on her site. Free entertainment. Seriously. Award!)

5. Jodi Lee. With this one, I get the perspective of both editor and author (and she’ll dye her hair strange colors on a bet!) It’s remarkable and helpful to learn from someone with this kind of experience, but it’s even better when they make it look like this much fun. Plus, for someone whose site is called “Jodi Lee Bleeds”, and who writes such awesome twisted stuff, she’s so optimistic. Hard not to appreciate the contrast. She sounds like the most fun mom ever.

6. Catherine J Gardner. Look, I know what you’re thinking. “You can’t just nominate the same person who nominated you! That’s cheating!” Well, you know what? Too bad. I check this blog every day, both to see what kind of new devilry Cate’s up to, and to see what everyone else is up to. Aaron Polson, another cheater (I’ll get to him in this month’s spec fic post), called her the “social glue of the blogosphere”. Truer words, man. She’s kind, she’s candid, she has some of the best first lines I’ve ever read, and her Burying Sam made me want to start making rec posts in the first place. Lots of goodness coming from her in 2008, y’all.

7. Natalie L. Sin. Oh no, I’m doing it again! Okay, look, I already said I’m a cheater. If you read this blog you’ll understand why I have to. She manages to make every post at once entertaining, thoughtful, and oftentimes flat out hilarious. You just need to scroll down the page and witness the pictures that accompany each one to get a taste of her wicked sense of humor. I think the picture of the plastic pig full of candy almost broke me. Almost. (Or wait, maybe that was the story about the garden and the baby and… hmm…)

So hey. I love your blogs!

While I’m giving shout-outs, happy birthday to Neuroscientist Reenie– probably the only Ivy League student to spend any amount of time inventing vampire science and urban fantasies involving devil flies.

-Katey

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