The Great Comments Award

Back in early December, I was awarded by Jenna Quentin at Meandering in a Field of Words and Richard at Writing and Living with Richard P. Hughes with the Great Comments Award:

. . . and I figured it was time I got around to awarding the commenters here on my blog. Now, the rules are to pass it on to the most recent 20 commenters--but because I was awarded twice, I haven't awarded anyone else in a while, and hey, it's still the holiday season (kinda; to me it ends on New Year's Day) I've decided to list the 40 most recent commenters instead.

Here we go (in no particular order other than recent to oldest):

1. Heather
2. Jemi Fraser
3. ....Petty Witter
4. Paul Tobin
5. Medeia Sharif
6. Shelley
7. Sun Singer
8. Sarah Allen
9. Jules
10. Belle
11. Shannon Lawrence
12. Tricia J. O'Brien
13. Charles Gramlich
14. Sharon K. Mayhew
15. Krispy
16. farawayeyes
17. Rebecca
18. Old Kitty
19. cherie
20. Emily Rose
21. C D Meetens
22. Michael Offutt, Supra-Genius
23. Vicki Newell
24. J. A. Bennett
25. Cherie Reich
26. Lisa-Marie Jordan
27. Brian
28. Andrea Franco-Cook
29. Christine Rains
30. kelworthfiles
31. Catherine M. Johnson
32. Joshua
33. Alyssa Kirk
34. Melissa Bradley
35. DeniseCovey_L'Aussie
36. Rachel Morgan
37. Misha Gericke
38. Beth
39. Murees Dupé
40. Pearson Report

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And for everyone who's come by The Eagle's Aerial Perspective and read my posts: a big thank you!


-----The Golden Eagle

Okay, So I Hoard Awards . . .

Hello, everyone! It's award time, since I've had these tucked away for months, waiting for a moment when there weren't several blogfests going on or I wasn't trying to keep up with NaNoWriMo.

First, the 7x7 Link Award from Cherie at Cherie Writes.... Thanks, Cherie!

As I've done this one before, I'm just going to link to that post.

Second, the One Lovely Blog Award from Murees Dupé at Daily Drama of an Aspiring Writer.

Unlike the usual rules where I have to list 7 things about myself, this one just asks you thank the person who gave it to you. Thank you, Murees!

Third, the Versatile Blogger Award from M.E. at Breaking Fantasy. Thanks for the award, M.E.!

Rules:

Share 7 random facts about yourself and nominate newly discovered bloggers for the award.

Fourth, and finally, the Friendly Blogger Award from Madeleine at Scribble and Edit. Thank you, Madeleine. :)

And now . . . I think I'm going to skip awarding people until some other date, as I'm running low on time (that seems to be happening a lot more than it used to these days). I really appreciate the awards, though, so another thank you to those who awarded me!

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How are things going at your end?


And if you're a participant in NaNoWriMo, how's your novel coming?


Have a great week, everyone!


-----The Golden Eagle

Awards!

Back in September, Lindy at Lindy Legends and Other Such Nonsense and MC Rogerson at lifebeyond (who are bloggers you should definitely check out) awarded me, so I figured it was about time I caught up!

First, the Versatile Blogger Award, from both of them:

Thank you so much, Lindy and MC!

This comes with the usual requirement of listing 7 random things about yourself, but since I've done it in the past, I'm going to bend the rules a bit and forego that part.

And the Liebster Award from Lindy:

Thank you, Lindy!

I have to say, I was surprised to get this one; from what I've read elsewhere, it's most often awarded to bloggers with 200 followers or less. I, er, just reached 800. (And speaking of that, I'm still taking questions for tomorrow's Q&A post!)

This time, instead of using something a little off the wall like the Fibonacci Sequence, I'm going to award people I know with notable blogs who have less than 200 followers:

Christine Rains
MyTricksterGod
Sarah Pearson
Marlena Cassidy
Emily Rose
Javid Suleymanli
Michelle Fayard

. . . which proved more difficult than it sounds, because I don't normally pay attention to how many followers a blog has.

Anyhow.

Hope you're enjoying your weekend!


-----The Golden Eagle

Awards! And Tags! Hurray!

In the past couple of weeks, I've been awarded and tagged several times . . . and since today was a day when I didn't (miracle, I'm telling you) have a scheduled post, I figured it was time I posted them. :)

First, the 7x7 Link Award!

This one was awarded to me by Siv Maria at Been there, done that. and M Pax at Wistful Nebulae. Many thanks to both of them!

For this one, I have to list the Most Beautiful, Most Helpful, Most Popular, Most Controversial, Most Surprisingly Successful, Most Underrated, and the Most Pride worthy of my posts. Oh, this is going to be difficult . . .

Most Beautiful: A-Z Blogging Challenge: N Stands For: Nebulae
For the pictures. (None of them are mine, of course.)

Most Helpful: How To: Beaming Someone Up Into A Spaceship
All right, all right. So that wasn't what was meant. Maybe this one, then:
How To: Writing
What, you say? That's not really helpful either? Well fine. Here's a serious one:
Do You Have To Like The Setting To Enjoy A Book?

Most Popular: A-Z Blogging Challenge: W Stands For: Water
814 pageviews. The one with the most comments, though, was this one:
First Campaigner Challenge: 200 Word Flash Fiction
. . . with 87 Things People Wanted to Say.

Most Surprisingly Successful: Awards, Deck The Halls, Eclipse, Arctic Dinos, Congress, Christmas
33 comments, but it's my third most-viewed post of all-time. I haven't the slightest idea why.

Most Underrated: It Would Be A Stretch To Call Them Beautiful . . .
5 comments (2 of them mine), on a post about some fascinating birds (I might even go as far to say they're some of my . . . well, if not favorites, then I'm at least quite fond of them).

Most Controversial: In Which We Interrupt The Usual Posting Schedule To Rant About Politics
Just after Gabriel Giffords was shot. I was steamed. So I posted about it.

Most Pride Worthy: The Copenhagen Interpretation vs. The Many Worlds Interpretation
Two words: Quantum Physics.


Emily Rose at mist of the blossom rain awarded me the Lovely Blogger Award. Thank you, Emily!

. . . and technically, I'm supposed to list seven things about myself. But I was also tagged, so I'm going to combine the two into one.

Speaking of which, Susan Kane at thecontemplativecat and WB Terrien tagged me with the meme that's been floating about the blogosphere: listing 10 random things about yourself.

So, here I go:

1. I love fall. The smell in the air, the slight chill, the orange leaves, the start of a new school year. I'm looking forward to September 23. (And Michael Di Gesu's blogfest is another plus, of course.)

2. I have the urge to write a book with the title All the Shades of Gray. With a gray cover, of course.

3. I love cinnamon. Especially the smell, but it's wonderful on things like bread. Cinnamon raisin bagels are lovely.

4. I strongly dislike mint. Strongly. Which makes it difficult when in the dental aisle at the store, because most of the products are Mint. Or Peppermint. Or Cool Mint. Or Fresh Mint. Blech.

5. I'm finding a lot of discrepancies in my writing, for some reason. It's not something I usually do, but I keep coming across sections where I've said one thing at the beginning and wrote the rest like I said something else. For example, this morning, I'd mentioned the character had a breeze on their face as they were moving, but then continued with the character being in an enclosed truck. With all the windows up. (And no sunroof or anything, either . . . :P)

6. I plan to watch The Color of Magic for Terry Pratchett Month tonight and review it tomorrow for the scheduled post. It's rather long (I think it says 197 minutes on the back) but I've been reading some positive reviews of it . . .

7. I have never sent a text message in my life. And I don't intend on changing that anytime soon.

8. My website is coming along nicely. (You probably figured I'd forgotten about that, didn't you? I haven't mentioned it in over a month on my blog, I believe.)

9. I like cold much more than I do heat. For me, crunching through the snow is way more appealing than strolling down a hot, sunny beach.

10. I love my library.

Now, for who I am going to tag and award. I decided to try something a little different this time, just to see. (Don't panic yet.)

Here's the idea: for those commenters who land on a Fibonacci number (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233) consider yourself awarded. Or tagged. Whichever you please. (Basically, you can take any award, both awards, just the tag, a tag and an award, or all three. And can you tell I love the Fibonacci sequence?)

You can panic now.

Or not.

Hope you're all having a great weekend!


-----The Golden Eagle

Award!

Jenny Pearson at Pearson Report recently awarded me The Fancy Fish Award:

Thank you, Jenny! :)

This one comes with a catch, however, and here it is:

I have to link back to Underwater Tales, the origin of this award.

And answer these questions:

Tell us a little about yourself:

• Do you like to swim?
• Have you ever swum with dolphins?
• Do large bodies of water scare you?
• What's your favorite movie that features water?
• If you could be a sea creature what would it be?

. . . and "find three pals of the ocean to pass this along to".

Linked, so now to the questions!

Do you like to swim?
I don't know how. The closest I've gotten is floundering about like a fish out of water in a lake. And that was a while ago.

Have you ever swum with dolphins?
Nope. Though I did see a dolphin show, once . . .

Do large bodies of water scare you?
Not really. My tune might change, however, if I actually went out on a boat. I've never been on a boat, either. :P

What's your favorite movie that features water?
Happy Feet. Go, Mumble!

If you could be a sea creature what would you be?
Golden Eagles don't live underwater, do they? Hmm . . . how about a narwhal? Fascinating creatures, narwhals.

And I award:

Petty Witter at Pen and Paper
Alleged Author at An Alleged Author
Misha at My First Book

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So what about you? Ever swum with dolphins? :)


-----The Golden Eagle

I've Been Awarded!

Nutschell at The Writing Nut and Su at Cheekyness have awarded me in the past couple of weeks, so I think it's time for an awards post!

First, the Seriously Cute Award:

. . . which is adorable. Thank you, Nutschell! :) For this I have to list 5 books/movies/TV programs I've watched in the past 12 months. I've never been awarded this one before, so this should be interesting:

1. TV Program: The PBS NewsHour. I like keeping current with politics.

2. Book: The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp by Rick Yancey. I finished it earlier this afternoon, actually. I found it interesting that it says the character dies later in the story right on the first page. (Whether or not he does, I'm not saying. You'll have to read the book.)

3. Movie: I think the last movie I watched might have been the BBC's A Midsummer Night's Dream. (I know, I know . . .)

4. TV Program: NOVA. Yay for fascinating science shows.

5. Book: The Merlin Conspiracy by Diana Wynne Jones. I was sorry to hear she died this March. She was one excellent writer.

I don't think there's a set number of people you have to award for this one, so I'm just going to award six bloggers:

RaShelle Workman at A No. 2 Pencil Stat! (Don't forget to wish her a happy B-day on July 22nd!)
Madeleine at Scribble and Edit (You have to sign up for her Novel Films Blogfest.)
Bethany Elizabeth at Ink-Splattered (She posts some very interesting questions, and I love her comments.)
Krispy at A Nudge In the Right Direction (Vlogs, blogfests, memes, it's a great place to visit. Head over!)
Samantha Sotto at the blog of the same name (Her book, Before Ever After, is coming out this August.)
Tere Kirkland at The Lesser Key of Tere (I always enjoy her posts.)

And now for the the Versatile Blogger Award:

Thank you, Su! :)

Seven facts:

1. I like Blogger-in-Draft's new interface. When I first saw it a couple days ago (it had been like regular Blogger's that morning) I was frantically hovering and clicking and thinking "Wait! What does that arrow mean? Why are there drop-down menus all over the place? Why is it white and orange? HUH?!" But I like it now. The only problem I have is with the fact it's hard to see the shading in some places (or maybe it's just the angle I'm sitting) and I can't scroll through a post when I'm viewing it in the Editor. I have to use the cursor and arrow keys. But the home page is LOADING SO MUCH FASTER. Really, it's great. See (and/or use) the interface HERE.

2. Dance competition was awesome. Sure, I had to hang around for about eight hours, and yes I had only one dance, and there were over 400 numbers there, but it was still a lot of fun. And our studio took home awards!

3. I have decided what I'm going to do my website on. I mentioned before I was learning HTML in another awards post, and I want to experiment with it a little--so I'm planning to set up a website. I'm not telling you what it's about right now, though. You'll just have to see. ;)

4. I am currently listening to Maurice Andre, Trumpet Masterpieces. I love it. And he can certainly nail those trills.

5. Writing is slowing down. I did manage to write 30,000 words in June, which was my goal, but I've written little in July and it's already the 9th. I know what's supposed to happen . . . the inspiration just hasn't arrived. But I'm still optimistic about the novel right now.

6. I have an absurd number of books out on my card right now. It's over 50, I can tell you that.

7. I know I haven't been doing as much blogging lately. And I've said that before. And I know, it's about time I got back into the blogging swing--I had been following a schedule for a while there.

I've been awarded as a Versatile Blogger many times, so I'm not going to pass it on this time. (If you want to take it, though, feel free to do so!)


-----The Golden Eagle

Tagged Twice And An Award

In the last couple of weeks, both Marsha Sigman at Marsha's Musings and Lynn Kelly at LynNerd Random Acts of Writing tagged me. Thank you so much! :)

Since I already did the tag before, go HERE to read my answers.

I was also awarded by Susan Fields at the blog of the same name.

Thank you, Susan!

And for this one, there are rules: I must list seven random facts about myself.

I'm going to deviate a bit and put in some facts that aren't about me. Because it's easier that way.

1. I don't like summer. Fall is more my season, or spring.

2. I'm in the midst of learning how to build websites. With XHTML and CSS and whatnot. It's quite fun.

3. N. R. Williams needs your help! She's trying to get Amazon to allow her to put up her book for free, and the only way to do that is to send them links of the lower price at Smashwords--which you can do (but I can't, unfortunately, because I don't have an account). Find out more HERE.

4. Have you heard of Pottermore, yet? I'm interested; I'm not so sure how it's supposed to work, but will be keeping my eye on it.



5. According to the OECD's Better Life Index (set up to find out in which country you would live the best life possible based on what's a priority to you) I should move to Canada, Australia, or Sweden, in that order. Which countries do you get? And isn't playing around with the flowers and ranking just plain fun?

6. Um . . . thinking . . . I've recently been reading the source code of sites I come across. It's interesting to see who uses Strict XHTML and who uses Transitional, and who doesn't use the doctype declaration at all.

7. 43 comments on the previous post, last time I checked! Thank you for responding, everyone--I love reading your opinions.

And I'm going to tag anyone who wants to answer the questions, and award anyone who feels like snagging the Irresistibly Sweet Award. You all deserve it!

*I just realized, in a fit of bloggish insight early this morning, that I put the wrong title on this post. Oops. It's changed, now.*


-----The Golden Eagle

I Caught A Toad (+ 2 Awards)

I did. With my bare hands and all that jazz.

Okay, first I put a flower pot over it, got my mom to show her, and then I picked it up and put it in the impromptu pond that formed in the neighbor's backyard because of all the pouring, drenching, incessant rain we've been having.

No, I don't have pics to prove it.

But I can show you want kind of toad it was:

Very toad-like, no? Warts and all.

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Anyway. Just a bit of odd stuff I wanted to post.

Now for the stuff you really want to know.

I was awarded by Canyon Girl at Desert Canyon Living:

Thank you so much, Canyon Girl!

. . . and I was also awarded either the Versatile Blogger Award or the Blog On Fire Award by Trisha at W O R D + S T U F F, and since I've never seen the latter before, I chose that one:

Thanks, Trisha! :)

And I award this one to:

Sarah at Glissades and Gabble (for cool posts--and an awesome title. I love dancing!)
Amanda the Aspiring at Truth, Justice, And Other Stuff (for excellent writing posts)
L. G. Smith at Bards and Prophets (for posts on everything including faint-worthy bookstores. I want to go to Buenos Aires. Like, immediately)
M Pax at Wistful Nebulae (for fascinating science information)
Karla at The Writing Pad (for great writing/life posts. And I adore the title of her blog, for some reason. Don't know exactly why.)
Jai Joshi at Jai Joshi's Tulsi Tree (for awesome vlog posts on the Mahabharat--I can say it right! I think--and her book)

I'm pretty sure I'm supposed to award 15 or something like that (isn't that usually the case?) but I'm just going to leave it here, okay? Good.

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Also, I wanted to thank all of those who did for commenting on my last post! I didn't expect to get 41 people to come by and respond--with pretty long responses, too! Awesome. I guess liking/not liking main characters in the books people read is more important than I had assumed.

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Hope you're all have a great Memorial Day Weekend! If you live in the USA. If you don't, I hope you're having a great non-holiday weekend!


-----The Golden Eagle

Award Time!

During the A-Z Challenge I was awarded a grand total of seven times! So, obviously, I had to get around to writing an award post.

First:

Jenny Pearson at Pearson Report (a cool blog on all different subjects, and who I met through the A-Z Challenge) awarded me the Classy Blogger Award, which was made by her:

Thank you so much, Jenny!

The Stylish Blogger Award was awarded to me by Josh Hoyt at The Blog That Helps You Diagnose Your Characters (a fascinating blog all about the things that make people tick--and has some great information on making character realistic) and by Ladydragonfly at The World of Julie B. (a fellow A-Z Challenger who has a blog on crafts, writing, and other subjects, and who posts great pictures along with them):

. . . and this one comes with rules:

1. Thank and link back to the person who gave you the award.
2. Share 7 things about yourself.
3. Award 10-15 blogs who you think deserve this award.
4. Contact these bloggers and let them know about the award.

I'll get to those in a moment. A big thank you to Josh and Julie!

I was also awarded the Versatile Blogger Award by Reece Hanzon at the blog of the same name (an awesome SF/writing blog) and Melody Jackson at The Tales of Sirius the Dragon (another great blog):

. . . which comes with yet more rules! (Not that I'm complaining, of course.)

1. Thank and link to the person who nominated you.
2. Share seven random facts about yourself.
3. Pass the award along to 15 new-found blogging buddies.
4. Contact those buddies to congratulate them.

Many thanks for the award, Reece and Melody!

And then there's the I Survived the A-Z Blogging Challenge Award from Elizabeth Mueller, which I just have to smile at every time I see (I mean, c'mon. A zebra! That looks like it's cracking up! It's inevitable):

(This one is free to take for all Challenge participants.)

Thank you, Elizabeth!

And finally, Tiger's Delightful Blogger Award from Tiger85 at Tiger on My Bookshelf:

It's such a beautiful picture. Thank you, Tiger85!

And, of course, there is an addenda:

1. Link back to Tiger85
2. Share your favorite thing about blogging
3. Choose at least 3 friends to give this award to

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Now, I suppose I owe you all some facts, don't I? Because I got the Stylish and Versatile Blogger Award four times, and 4x7=28.

Um, let's just stick with 7, okay?

1. I love the fact the sun is shining right now (because there was flash flooding and weeks of rain before now).

2. I wish I wasn't having eye problems (last evening, it was watering like crazy and for the most of the night and morning it hurt. I think it's allergies, although I've never had an allergy reaction like this before).

3. I need to figure out who the heck my characters are supposed to be (as I said to my mom: they're having an identity crisis right now.).

4. I feel weird starting all these sentences with the word "I" (I don't--there I go again--often talk about myself).

5. I hope the royal wedding works out (after all, some of the other marriages ended rather tragically; I also hope I don't hear about them ever again because that will mean they're not involved in some public drama).

6. I love the Vivaldi bassoon concertos playing in the living room right now (they fit my mood perfectly--mostly cheerful, brisk tempo).

7. I am trying to come up with interesting posts now that the A-Z Challenge is over, but the regular schedule now feels strange (I mean, not having to get up every morning and work on a post for hours? Shocker).


To follow the rules of the Delightful Blogger Award:

I already linked to Tiger85, so my favorite thing about blogging? Hmmm . . . for me, that would be the posts.

You're probably thinking "It's not the people?!" but it's through the posts that we get to know people. And I blog not just to get connected (although that's a huge factor). Posts are one of my main sources of information, on various sorts of subjects from people's lives (writing or otherwise--most of you run personal blogs) to the news to other random-ish topics. I also love writing posts and putting my own word in to a discussion on something.

So yeah. The posts are my favorite part of blogging. :)

Now, I guess I'm supposed to pass these awards on now, aren't I? I hope you won't mind it if I postpone awarding others and do it some other day in a second post. Perhaps I'll do it on a rainy day when I don't have any inspiration; at the moment, I've got to finish catching up on Reflections posts, and regular posts on blogs I've sorely neglected throughout April.

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So, how's life at your end? Anything happen lately, writing-wise, life-wise, other-wise?

-----The Golden Eagle

A Final Wrap-Up Post Before The Madness Begins

As for the madness . . . I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. The A-Z April Blogging Challenge begins tomorrow--the day 865 (or so) people post starting with the letter "A".

865. If you divide that by 30, you get 28.8333333. So to keep up with just 865 and comment once on each, you'd have to visit 28+ blogs a day.

My plan is to get to around 30 blogs per day, keep up with as many bloggers that I already know as I can, (I probably won't get around to everyone--if you don't see me, no, I haven't forgotten about you!), and finish scheduling posts. I had wanted to have all 26 done by today, but instead I have something like 17. Now my goal is to finish them by the end of first week. Thankfully, I have Sunday to type like crazy.

And now, wrap-up time!:

• The Powerful Woman Writer award

. . . from Tyrean Martinson. Thank you so much for this award, Tyrean!

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• OpenOffice.org.

Coolness. It's free (free, everyone!) software from Oracle, with Writer, (MS equivalent: Word) Base, (Access) Calc, (Calculator) Draw, (Publisher) Math, (Equation Editor) and Impress (PowerPoint), and available for Linux, Mac OS, Windows, Solaris, and some others. My mom wanted to download Base for database management, and the whole pack came with it. Basically, OpenOffice has fewer options, looks like an old version of Microsoft--but it works. Hurray!

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• Death by PowerPoint. I couldn't help posting this. It's just too funny (and kind of disturbing).

Apparently, Death by PowerPoint can also be called "PowerPoint Poisoning" and "PowerPoint Hell". Retired Marine Colonel Thomas X Hammes called it "hypnotizing chickens" when the program is used to make presentations that are overly-complicated and tedious, such as during press briefings. (Guess he doesn't enjoy the press.)

The Wikipedia article also says there is even such a thing as a "PowerPoint Ranger"; i.e. "a military member who relies heavily on presentation software to the point of excess". In addition, a Colonel was fired for criticizing the dependence on the "presentation method". One Russian said "If we ever had a war, while you are working on your Power Point, we would be killing you."


Yeah . . . is there something fishy there, or is it just me?

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For those participating in the Challenge, I hope you all have fun, and I look forward to reading your posts!

For those not participating in the Challenge, (hey, you can still sign up, if you haven't been terrified by that huge number of blogs) I also look forward to reading your posts, which I will do my best to keep up with while I tackle the aforementioned list!

See you in April, everyone!

-----The Golden Eagle

500+ FOLLOWERS!

You people are awesome. Absolutely fantastic.

End of story.

Actually, that's not the end of story. Because I really must thank you for following and commenting on The Eagle's Aerial Perspective and making this blog administrator beam and jump up and down when she saw the sidebar this morning.

It was only a month ago that I was heralding 400. Gosh. A month. If you had told me I'd have 500 a few months earlier I would have smiled but thought "Heck no". :P

As usual, here are the links to everyone (in the order that they appear on my Dashboard):

TJ Tjheart John The Words Crafter Mist of the blossom rain The Library Lurker Misha Mathew Alison Jessica Canfield Bobbye Terry Bleah Briann Bamba Karen Gowen, maccaz17, Anica Grey, Kerri, Patrick, K. Howard, Will, SunnyReads, Husar, Aisha Iqbal, Reece Hanzon, Abhishek Boinapalli, C., Gaylene Wilson, Carla, Kenzy Icewolf Taylor Alex ~Prism~ Julie Shimmer Bleah Briann Jayden Black  Memzie Jojo Shantal Quintessajazz Sarah Bekah Hayhay Bridget Liliejane Hannah Audrey Liberty Miss M Kristen The Neverending Shelf Adria Milli Guinevere Roland D. Yeomans Lizzy Caroline Cornet Crazie Katie Krinkleberry Maryo Shaynie Laughingwolf RA Elliot Grace Alyssa Kirk Elana Shelley Julie Artistaplastico Jessica Nicole Kulsuma Brooke Samantha Cx2 The Artist Kelsey Opsahl In The Hammock Blog Darlyn LadyViolet Orchid Peaceful Reader Dog Trainer In Training Oceanwing Brian Jenna B. Bobbi Marie Sunsinger Amy Ant Brena Tate Arlee Bird Alex J. Laurel Of Green Dahlia Sammy Sleuth E.J. 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***If I missed you, linked to the wrong blog, spelled your name wrong, or otherwise made a mistake, please comment and mention it!***

This will be the last time I put all your links together in one post. I'll still link to followers, but only 100 at a time. These posts are getting rather long. ;)

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I'd also like to accept some awards I got. The Friends for the Journey award was given to me by Elliot Grace at So close, but . . .--thank you, Elliot! (He's an amazing blogger, and not only because his book is coming out THIS YEAR.)

And this time, I'm awarding this to all of you. No, this is not an absent I've-got-little-time-gotta-run awarding ceremonies. Really. You all encourage me to blog, and write, and continue on.

But I would like to mention a few friends who run fabulous blogs and who are some of the most frequent commentors here. N. R. Williams, Jules, The Words Crafter, Old Kitty, Summer Ross, and Mist of the blossom rain. Thank you for returning again and again, and for the support. :)


I also received the Creative Blog Award from Deirdra at A Storybook World. Thank you so much, Deirdra!

Isn't it pretty?!

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Once again, my thanks to all of you for following--and commenting, and awarding, and doing all those wonderful blogging things. You guys are awesome!

-----The Golden Eagle

My Crusader Group, Poll Results, And Award

I noticed other people were posting their Crusader Groups, as a way of welcoming the others who write in the same genre/age group/etc., so I decided to do the same. :)


Here's a list of everyone in the Fantasy/Science Fiction Group, which is where I am:


1. Dominic de Mattos (Writes of Passage) [Twitter] Fantasy, science fiction 

2. Anica Grey (Butterfly Mind) [Twitter] Science-fiction, fantasy 

3. Sandra Ulbrich Almazan (Sandra Ulbrich Almazan: Speculative Fiction Author) Science fiction, fantasy 

4. Tony Benson (Fireside Park) Science fiction, fantasy (with a paranormal element) 

5. The Golden Eagle (The Eagle's Aerial Perspective) Science fiction, fantasy, adventure/action, YA 


Me. ;)

6. Mlle Lizka (Laws of Gravity) Fantasy (with science fiction elements) 

7. Chris Kelworth (The Kelworth Files) Science fiction, fantasy 

8. Mercy (Have Mercy! Killer Reviews) [Twitter] Fantasy, science fiction 

9. Rogue Mutt (Every Other Writer Has a Blog...Why Can't I?) Science fiction, fantasy 

10. Charity Bradford (My Writing Journey) [Twitter] Science fiction, fantasy (with a heavy dose of adventure and romance) 

11. Gen Jordan (Living on Earth) Science fiction, fantasy, occasional fan-fiction 

12. Pensheep (A Writerly Pensheep) [Twitter] Speculative fiction, literary fiction 

13. K. Howard (Morike of the Chair) Science fiction, fantasy 

14. Cindy Borgne (Dreamer's Perch) [Twitter] Science fiction, fantasy, paranormal, inspirational 

15. Michael Offutt (SLC Kismet) Science fiction, speculative fiction, fantasy, urban fantasy, dark fantasy 

So, welcome to my blog, fellow Crusaders! I believe I follow all of you, or are subscribed to your blog--if I don't follow you, do speak up so I can get to your blog!

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You know the poll I had on my sidebar? Well, it got 61 votes (61!), the question being "Which genre do you write in the most?" and the results are:


17 of you write Science Fiction.
26 write Fantasy.
3 write Thriller/Mystery.
7 write Romance.
5 write Realistic Fiction.
1 write Paranormal.
2 write in another genre I didn't include in the options.

Interesting. Fantasy obviously trumped everything else, but I guess that's to be expected. A lot of you do seem to be in that genre! Which is cool. I've written it myself, and still do--if I'm in the mood for magic and dragons and evil powers and everything else that's in Fantasy--although Science Fiction was my answer.

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I was awarded by Cally Jackson at the blog of the same name. Thank you, Cally!

And because I've been awarded before with the Stylish Blogger, I'm going to pass on listing seven things about myself and offer this up to anyone who wants to take it. Seriously. If you want this stylish award and wish to pass it on, feel free!

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Also, don't forget you still have until Sunday to ask me questions for my blogoversary celebration!


-----The Golden Eagle