Heartfelt Award

Judi from Sidhe Vicious Review has honored me with the Heartfelt Award. Thanks, Judi!

“Do you reach for a cup of cocoa or tea when you’re relaxing, seeking comfort, sharing a plate of cookies with family and friends? You know the feeling you get when you drink a yummy cup of cocoa, tea, or a hot toddy ? That is what the Heartfelt Award is all about, feeling warm inside.”

Now it is my turn to name 9 of the blogs that I find are such a pleasure to read while I relax.

1. Sharon Kay Penman
2. Sci Fi Guy
3. Scandalous Women
4. Deadline Dames
5. Ink and Paper
6. Suburban Vampire
7. Vampire Wire
8. Paranormality
9. Smexy Books

I stopped at 9 but as all of you know there are many excellent, pleasurable reading sites on the Web. For more suggestions check the PVN blog links on the side bar.

One Lovely Blog Award

Tara from 25 Hour Books has kindly given the One Lovely Blog award to Patricia's Vampire Notes. Thank you, Tara, for thinking of me! Now I have the honor of naming fifteen blogs I have recently discovered and liked.

All are maintained by book-lovers!

Teens Read and Write

Complete and Utter Poppycock

Good Girls Bad Juju

Preternatural Reviews

Anna's Book Blog

The Book Butterfly

Tales of the Ravenous Reader


All Things Urban Fantasy

Cherry Mischievous

Wendy's Minding Spot

Walker of Worlds

Magical Words

OCD, Vampires, and Rants, oh my!

I Hope I Didn't Just Give Away the Ending

In Bed With Books

The Paperback Stash

Please take the time to check out these awesome blogs! Lots of fun stuff here.

Awards and Gratitude

Special thanks to Jo at Paper and Pen for presenting PVNwith the Lemonade Award (for showing great attitude and gratitude). Jo does an excellent job discussing and reviewing fantasy books!

Rules:
Link back to the person he/she received the award from.
Nominate 10 bloggers who are deserving of this award.

Here are my nominees for the Lemonade Award:

Biting Edge

Bitten by Books

The Galaxy Express

Fantasy & Sci-Fi Lovin' GIVEAWAYS

Grasping for the Wind

Robots and Vamps

Erotic Horizon

West Of Mars - Win A Book

LadyVampire's Lair

Scifiguy.ca


I so appreciate the Heartfelt Award award from Breia [a PVN reveiwer] She has recently begun her own exemplary blog Literaturely Speaking.


Do you reach for a cup of cocoa or tea when your relaxing, seeking comfort, sharing a plate of cookies with family & friends? You know that feeling you get when you drink a yummy cup of cocoa, tea ~or a hot toddy? That is what the Hearthfelt Award is all about, feeling warm inside.
　
Rules:　
1) Put the logo on your blog/post

2) Nominate up to 9 blogs which make you feel comfy or warm inside.

3) Be sure to link to your nominees within your post.

4) Let them know that they have been nominated by commenting on their blog.

5) Remember to link to the person from whom you received your award.


Here are my nominees for Heartfelt Award

Books Books and more Books

Sharon Kay Penman

Midnight Moon Cafe

Fantasy Dreamer's Ramblings

Sidhe Vicious Reviews

Tez Says

Vampire Wire

Something Wicked

Suburban Trash


And I must say there are so many more fabulous blogs that the lists could go on forever!

Dreams Can Come True

The True Fairy Tale Award. It is for the hope that one day all your dreams will come true!!

Thanks to Bridget of Readaholic!

Awards for PVN

My thanks to Ruthie at Books Books and more Books! for the Your Blog is Fabulous award! Be sure to check out Ruthie's blog for some well written book reviews.








Wendy of Wendy's Minding Spot: A Thoughtful spot about books and life and Bridget of Readaholic have both honored me with the I Heart Your Blog award. All I can say ladies is 'back at ya'. I heart your blogs too!








This special I Heart Your Blog award has a toothsome bite to it. It comes from the awesome Bitten By Books site. Thank you, Rachel!






Donna, you are such a sweetie! Thank you for this very special award!

Check out Donna's fab site Fantasy Dreamer's Ramblings.

"The Let's be Friends Awards stands for this: 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."








Yes, there is a sisterhood of book bloggers, and I am grateful to Bridget of Readaholic for naming me as a member! Many thanks!










You just have to love the Zombie Chicken Award. Thanks to purplg8r at So Many Books So Little Time and Vickie at Vixen's Daily Reads. It means a lot coming from two such fab bloggers!

"The blogger who receives this award believes in the Tao of the zombie chicken - excellence, grace and persistence in all situations, even in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. These amazing bloggers regularly produce content so remarkable that their readers would brave a raving pack of zombie chickens just to be able to read their inspiring words.
As a recipient of this world-renowned award, you now have the task of passing it on to at least 5 other worthy bloggers. Do not risk the wrath of the zombie chickens by choosing unwisely or not choosing at all..."


I would never in my wildest dreams risk the wrath of the zombie chickens, but I truly want to pass on the names of others who know the joys of reading (and writing) and want to share their knowledge with the rest of us. The list of great sites seems infinite. Here are just a few.

* All sites listed in this post!

*Marta Acosta's Vampire Wire

*Erotic Horizon

*Robots and Vamps

*Literary Escapism

*The Galaxy Express: Adventures in Science Fiction Romance

*Desert Rose Booklogue

*Kat Richardson's My Own Personal Grey

*Lilith Saintcrow

And many, many more. Look at the Blog Links on the right hand column for more great sites to visit.

Your Blog is Fabulous Award

Thanks to Wendi of Wendi's Book Corner for this award!

Recipients of this award are encouraged to write five things that they are addicted to and then pass it on to five other blogs.

Five Things I'm Addicted To:

1. Chocolate covered peanuts

2. Reading books - fiction or nonfiction. For fiction I prefer, but do not limit myself, SF/Fantasy; for nonfiction history of Europe or Asia

3. To relax I knit or crochet simple projects. Something I can work on while watching Bones, or Medium, or Fringe.

4. Battlestar Galactica. Every episode is so well written. The acting is superb. I hate that it will be ending soon.

5. Last but not least - my family. Everyone, including my wonderful in-laws, has been loving and supportive. I am truly blessed.

Now - to pick five more people to share this award with. . .

My Own Personal Grey

The Good, The Bad, and The Unread

Vixen's Daily Reads

The Anything Blog

Vampire Wire

Premio Dardos Award

Sincere thanks to Ruthy of Books Books and more Books! and to Amber of Amberkatze's Book Blog for the Premio Dardos award. It's an honor to receive this from two writers and thinkers I admire. The award is given for recognition of cultural, ethical, literary, and personal values transmitted in the form of creative and original writing.

The rules are:

1) Accept the award by posting it on your blog along with the name of the person that has granted the award and a link to his/her blog.


2) Pass the award to another 15 blogs that are worthy of this acknowledgment, remembering to contact each of them to let them know they have been selected for this award.


I've had previous opportunities to list outstanding blog sites. Now I will offer 15 more in no particular order.
This is such a pleasure!

The Galaxy Express

Biting Edge

Booklorn

Fantasy Book Critic

Urban Fantasy

Vampire Genre

Vixen's Daily Reads

Robots & Vamps

My Own Personal Grey

Darkfaery Subculture Magazine

Alien Romances

Sharon Kay Penman

Deadline Dames

Vamps and Scamps

Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary

Also visit Lemonade Award , Kreativ Blogger Award, and More Blog Loving

Lemonade Award

Ruthie's Book Reviews has given this blog the Lemonade award - for showing great attitude and gratitude. Thanks so much, Ruth. You certainly deserved your award! Now I get to nominate 10 more sites. That's the best part.



SciFiGuy.ca

Literary Escapism

Bitten By Books

Suburban Trash

Tez Says

Reading with Bite

LadyVampire's Lair

Magia Posthuma

Amberkatze's Book Blog

Midnight Moon Cafe


See the list nominated for the
Kreativ Blogger Award.

Kreativ Blogger Award

My cup runneth over! Three bloggers that I genuinely admire have nominated this site for the Kreativ Blogger Award. My humble thanks to April of LadyVampire's Lair, Jackie of Literary Escapism and Doug the ScifiGuy.ca.

Each one of the above has great information for readers and writers of all sub-genre's fantasy but the paranormal in particular. Doug, of course, covers the science fiction arena as well.

Some rules about nominating
Mention the blog that gave it to you.
Comment on their blog to let them know you have posted the award.
Share 6 values that are important to you.
Share 6 things you do not support.
Share the love with six other wonderful blogging friends.

6 Values important to me
Kindness
Generosity
Gratitude
Honesty
Enthusiasm for life
Friendship


6 Things I do not support
Prejudice against any group
Cruelty to people or animals
Deceit
Gossip
Terrorism
Injustice

My 6 nominees
Vampire Wire (by author Marta Acosta) for all things vampire.
Paranormality (by author Lynda Hilburn) for information on writers of the paranormal
Sidhe Vicious Reviews for fantasy/paranormal books
Urban Fantasy Land for fantasy/paranormal books
League of Reluctant Adults for fantasy/paranormal books
Wendi's Book Corner for general fiction

There are so many great blog sites that it was very hard to name only six.

More Blog Loving

Sidhe Vicious Reviews has nominated this site for the "I Love Your Blog Award" Many thanks, Judi.

Since this is my second time I am going to name seven more blogs. There are so many great ones.

Judi, Amber, and Marta Acosta are in the Hall of Fame
Now for the new Love List of 7 (still too limited)

Magia Posthuma

Booklorn

Suburban Vampire

The Anything Blog

Urban Fantasyland

Fantasy & Sci-Fi Lovin' Book Reviews

Words to Mouth


Rules for I Love Your Blog

1) Add the logo of the award to your blog

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

3) Nominate at least 7 other blogs

4) Add links to those blogs on your blog

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

I Love Your Blog Award

I am truly honored to be nominated for the "I Love Your Blog Award." Many thanks to Amber of Amberkatze's Book Blog for putting Patricia's Vampire Notes on the list (wherever it may reside).

Now it's my turn to nominate 7 of my favorite blogs for the honor. This is not an easy task because the nominations should include everyone on my blog links plus a few more. For those that I know have already been nominated I won't list.

So here goes:

League of Reluctant Adults

Paranormality

Bitten By Books

A Writer's Block

West of Mars - Win a Book

Lilith Santcrow

Book Slut

Below are the Award rules:
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 7 other blogs.
4. Add links to those blogs on your blog.
5. Leave a message for your nominees on their blogs - I still have to do this one.

What are your favorites?