{"id":1592,"date":"2010-10-03T19:15:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T06:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2010-10-03T19:15:14","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T06:15:14","slug":"mary-victoria-says-im-a-versatile-blogger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/10\/03\/mary-victoria-says-im-a-versatile-blogger\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Victoria Says: I&#8217;m A &#8220;Versatile Blogger&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Versatile_Blogger_Award.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1598\" title=\"Versatile_Blogger_Award\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Versatile_Blogger_Award.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Versatile_Blogger_Award.jpg 200w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Versatile_Blogger_Award-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Fellow F-SF author <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/maryvictoria.livejournal.com\/\">Mary Victoria<\/a> <\/strong>recently posted identifying me as a &#8220;versatile blogger&#8221;, so of course&#8212;besides being very flattered, naturally&#8212;I thought I had better find out what being a versatile blogger was all about.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s the &#8220;gen&#8221;: Mary, who is the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com.au\/books\/Tymons-Flight-Chronicles-Tree-Bk-1-Mary-Victoria\/?isbn=9780732290986\"><em><strong>Tymon&#8217;s Flight<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, by the way, received the award from Tarran at <a href=\"http:\/\/angusandrobertsonedwardstown.blogspot.com\/\"><strong>Angus &amp; Robertson, Edwardstown<\/strong><\/a> in Adelaide (who had herself received it from blogger and reviewer <a href=\"http:\/\/kateevangelistarandr.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/versatile-blogger-award.html\"><strong>Kate Evangelista<\/strong><\/a>). Once you receive the award, the idea is to pass it forward, as follows:<\/p>\n<div>1. Thank and link back to the person who gave you this award.<\/div>\n<div>2. Share 7 things about yourself.<\/div>\n<div>3. Pass the award along to 15 bloggers that you have recently discovered and think are fantastic.<\/div>\n<div>4. Contact the bloggers you\u2019ve picked and let them know about the award.<\/div>\n<div>So&#8212;a little bit of work to do, but as I said to Mary when I contacted her to say thank you for the <strong>Versatile Blogger<\/strong> accolade: <em>&#8220;Thank you so much for this &#8230; I feel very honoured in fact.&#8221;<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/div>\n<p>So, here&#8217;s 7 things about myself (that you may or may not know already from reading this blog):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My first novel <em>Thornspell<\/em> (Knopf, USA) was published in 2008 and is a retelling of the\u00a0Sleeping Beauty story from the perspective of the prince;<\/li>\n<li>I have a second dan black belt in the martial art aikido;<\/li>\n<li>My cat&#8217;s name is Ignatz (Iggy for short), named for the cartoon series &#8220;Ignatz and Crazy Cat&#8221;;<\/li>\n<li>I live in a 90 year old wooden house, early California-bungalow style, with a woodland garden;<\/li>\n<li>I love all cooking, but especially baking&#8212;desserts, cakes and biscuits (cookies in US parlance) are my speciality;<\/li>\n<li>I am fascinated by history and read historical non fiction &#8220;for fun&#8221;;<\/li>\n<li>I can read maps<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And as Kate Evangelista put it: here are <strong>The Chosen Ones<\/strong> [in alphabetical order&#8212;please note also, I am not including anyone already on <a href=\"http:\/\/maryvictoria.livejournal.com\/31094.html\">Mary Victoria&#8217;s list<\/a>]:<\/p>\n<div>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jopre.wordpress.com\/\">A Dark Feathered Art<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/\">Bad Astronomy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/beattiesbookblog.blogspot.com\/\">Beatties Bookblog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/timjonesbooks.blogspot.com\/\">Books in the Trees<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/icelines.blogspot.com\/\">Icelines<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nalinisingh.blogspot.com\/\">Nalini Singh<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mary-mccallum.blogspot.com\/\">O Audacious Book<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitbooks.net\/\">Orbit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/outofthiseos.typepad.com\/\">Out of this Eos<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sffanz.wordpress.com\/\">SFFANZ<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.specficnz.org\/\">SpecFicNZ<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/\">Supernatural Underground<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theatrenotes.blogspot.com\/\">Theatre Notes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tuesdaypoem.blogspot.com\/\">The Tuesday Poem Blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tor.com\/\">Tor.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<div>(I would have put down &#8220;John Scalzi&#8217;s Whatever&#8221;&#8212;except I&#8217;m too shy!) And now I have a lot of emails to send!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fellow F-SF author Mary Victoria recently posted identifying me as a &#8220;versatile blogger&#8221;, so of course&#8212;besides being very flattered, naturally&#8212;I thought I had better find out what being a versatile blogger was all about. So here&#8217;s the &#8220;gen&#8221;: Mary, who is the author of Tymon&#8217;s Flight, by the way, received the award from Tarran at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,19,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-funstuff","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1605,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions\/1605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}