Mary Victoria Says: I’m A “Versatile Blogger”
Fellow F-SF author Mary Victoria recently posted identifying me as a “versatile blogger”, so of course—besides being very flattered, naturally—I thought I had better find out what being a versatile blogger was all about.
So here’s the “gen”: Mary, who is the author of Tymon’s Flight, by the way, received the award from Tarran at Angus & Robertson, Edwardstown in Adelaide (who had herself received it from blogger and reviewer Kate Evangelista). Once you receive the award, the idea is to pass it forward, as follows:
So, here’s 7 things about myself (that you may or may not know already from reading this blog):
- My first novel Thornspell (Knopf, USA) was published in 2008 and is a retelling of the Sleeping Beauty story from the perspective of the prince;
- I have a second dan black belt in the martial art aikido;
- My cat’s name is Ignatz (Iggy for short), named for the cartoon series “Ignatz and Crazy Cat”;
- I live in a 90 year old wooden house, early California-bungalow style, with a woodland garden;
- I love all cooking, but especially baking—desserts, cakes and biscuits (cookies in US parlance) are my speciality;
- I am fascinated by history and read historical non fiction “for fun”;
- I can read maps
And as Kate Evangelista put it: here are The Chosen Ones [in alphabetical order—please note also, I am not including anyone already on Mary Victoria’s list]:
I like your selection. Of course I immediately fell for Books in the Trees just because of the name. 😉 And Beatties and SpecFicNZ are great choices…I look forward to discovering the rest!
I really enjoy Tim Jones’s Books in the Trees blog. Enjoy discovering the rest!