One Lovely Blog Award

It's high time I officially accept my award from Alison, Catherine, and Jessica S. Thank you! I am honored. And since today is "Picture Book" day, I chose to give this award to several picture book bloggers (the first twelve in the list below).

The rules say to pay it forward by turning around and awarding 15 blogs with the same award. I'm doing five bonus bloggers. However, if you've already received it once, I certainly don't expect you to turn around and award 15 MORE. No, just say thank you and take a bow.

1. GREAT BLOG SLANT - My first award goes to Alison Stevens at Wistful Wanderings. She awarded me first. Her blog is dedicated to creativity. She writes creative nonfiction picture books.
2. FELLOW PICTURE BOOK WRITER - Catherine Johnson at Kangaroobee's Blog.
3. FELLOW PICTURE BOOK WRITER - Jessica M. Stanford at Girl, Unpublished.
4. FELLOW PICTURE BOOK WRITER - Heather Kephart at Booksploration. Awesome integrated blog into an awesome website!
5. FELLOW PICTURE BOOK WRITER - Angela Pena Dahle at A Pen In Neverland.
6. FELLOW PICTURE BOOK WRITER - Heather Ayris at Frolicking Through Cyberspace.
7. FELLOW PICTURE BOOK WRITER - Lynne Marie at My Word Playground.
8. FELLOW PICTURE BOOK WRITER - Megan Bickel at The Write At Home Mom.
9. FELLOW PICTURE BOOK WRITER - Corey Schwartz at Thing 1 and Thing 2.
10. FELLOW PICTURE BOOK WRITER - Niki Schoenfeldt at THE FRACTURED KEYBOARD.
11. FOUNDER OF PIBOIDMO - Tara Lazar at Writing for Kids (While Raising Them).
12. GREAT VOICE - Critique member, Julie Hedlund, at Write Up My Life shares her fascinating journey. She has -gasp- QUIT her day job to pursue her dream of writing.
13. HUMOROUS VOICE - Sarah Dooley at Dooley Noted. She has an awesome novel out, now. Also teaches.
14. TEACHING SLANT - Teaching Authors, Six Children's Authors Who Also Teach Writing.
15. TEACHING SLANT - Ruth and Stacey at Two Writing Teachers. Teaching Kids. Catching Minds. 565 Miles Apart.
16. BEST WRITING INSPIRATIONAL BLOG EVER - Kristi Holl at Writer's First Aid. Her blog is also featured in the Institute of Children's Literature e-newsletter. Highly informative and helpful.
17. FAVORITE WRITEONCON BLOGGER - Casey McCormick at Literary Rambles. Lots of helpful writing tips and agent information.
18. BEAUTIFUL BLOG AND FELLOW LDS WRITER - Jessica Byam at Jest Kept Secret runs an awesome feature called BTWP (Before They Were Published).
19. LDS MYSTERY AUTHOR - Josi S. Kilpack has 12 novels published and shares the writing life at What Is A Sundial in the Shade?
20. MYSTERY WRITER AND DOCTOR - Lydia Kang gives advice and answers questions about medical instances you might want in your mystery novel over at her blog, The Word Is My Oyster.