Recent Posts Tagged With 'award'

• I Blog, I Write

  Posted on Tuesday December 15th, 2009 at 05:25 in blogs, writers, award, helen ginger, straight from hel

  The amazingly talented author, Elizabeth Spann Craig, awarded me her Blogging Writer Award. When I say, “her” award, I mean really hers. She created it. I’m lucky to take a picture that isn’t blurry, and here she is creating awards. Take a lo...

• Bad Loving

  Posted on Wednesday December 2nd, 2009 at 05:33 in award, helen ginger, straight from hel

  Hollywood gives out awards for just about anything. It’s all about the facetime, baby. We writers are a bit more reserved. We have regional awards and a few national awards for genres and one big national award, which so few viewers tuned into that...

• And the Winner is…

  Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 05:30 in authors, award, publishers, helen ginger, straight from hel

  The 2009 National Book Award winners have been announced. I would have gone to the black-tie ceremony and dinner in New York, but discovered my black tie was in the cleaners. Dang it. Anyway, I’m still here to let you know who won.Young People’s ...

• Blogging Awards

  Posted on Monday November 2nd, 2009 at 05:35 in blogs, award, helen ginger, straight from hel

  Well, I survived NaBloWriMo - National Blog Writing Month. Those of us who participated by blogging every day can pat ourselves on the back. Yay! October turned out to be the month from Hades for me, but not because of NaBloWriMo. I fell, twisted my ...

• My Maximous is Awesomous

  Posted on Sunday October 18th, 2009 at 05:27 in blogs, award, helen ginger, straight from hel

  About two weeks ago, the wonderful Stephen Tremp of Breakthrough Blogs for the Aspiring Author gave me the Awesomous Maximous Award. He not only passed on the award, he created the award “for those bloggers who not only post awesome content that he...

• Traveling Dragons

  Posted on Monday September 21st, 2009 at 05:38 in blogs, award, tagged, helen ginger, straight from hel

  Yesterday, L. Diane Wolfe of Spunk on a Stick honored me with two Dragon Awards. Thank you so much.Diane is both an author and a professional speaker. She’s also generous with her advice and news, plus she promotes other authors on her blog. Diane ...

• Award Monday

  Posted on Monday August 24th, 2009 at 05:55 in blogs, award, helen ginger, straight from hel

  It’s Award Monday on Straight From Hel. I recently received three awards. (Thank you very much!) Of course, the best part about getting awards is sending them on to others. Some of the bloggers I chose have received awards from me before, but I dec...

• Wednesday Author: Carol Kilgore

  Posted on Wednesday August 5th, 2009 at 06:00 in Mystery, Romance, authors, award, helen ginger, straight from hel

  Some of you may already know Carol Kilgore. For those who don’t, let me introduce you to her. Carol is a Texas author, born and bred, but she’s also lived on the east coast from Miami to New York and in land-locked New Mexico. She prefers the oce...

• Book Blogger Appreciation Week

  Posted on Monday July 20th, 2009 at 05:58 in books, blogs, award, helen ginger, straight from hel

  It’s here. Well, almost here. Book Blogger Appreciation Week will run the week of September 14 -18 this year. Started by Amy Riley of My Friend Amy, BBAW recognizes the hard work and contribution of book bloggers to the promotion and preservation o...

• Signed, Humanely Yours

  Posted on Wednesday July 15th, 2009 at 05:44 in blogs, award, helen ginger, straight from hel

  L. Diane Wolfe, otherwise knows as Spunk on a Stick, honored me with the Humane Award. (Quit laughing, all of you pipe down.) Here is the information on the Humane Award:The Humane Award is to honor certain bloggers that I feel are kindhearted indivi...

• National Book Awards Fiction

  Posted on Friday July 10th, 2009 at 05:56 in books, award, best sellers, helen ginger, straight from hel

  The National Book Awards Foundation sent me an email about their celebration of the 60th year of the National Book Awards. To mark the date, they’re doing a book-a-day blog on the Fiction winners from 1950 to 2008. You can visit every day for 77 da...

• Friendship Blog Award

  Posted on Wednesday June 24th, 2009 at 05:59 in friends, blogs, award, helen ginger, straight from hel

  Lisa Logan of Writing In My Wildest Dreams awarded me the Friendship Blog Award. Lisa has a great blog. When you click over, you’re taken to a warning of Adult Content. For a long time, I stopped and didn’t go any further. When I finally clicked ...

• IPPY Awards

  Posted on Wednesday June 3rd, 2009 at 06:04 in books, award, helen ginger, straight from hel

  The 2009 IPPY Awards have been announced. The IPPY Awards are given out by the Independent Publishing Industry.For 26 years our mission at Independent Publisher has been to recognize and encourage the work of publishers who exhibit the courage and cr...

• Macavity Awards

  Posted on Friday May 8th, 2009 at 06:02 in books, authors, award, helen ginger, straight from hel

  This has been a week of awards. On Monday, I listed the winners of the Agatha Awards. Yesterday, I talked about an award new to me -- the Innovations in Reading Prizes. If you’re involved with an organization or group that promotes reading, be sur...

• Innovations in Reading Prize

  Posted on Thursday May 7th, 2009 at 05:58 in reading, award, helen ginger, straight from hel

  This was the first I’d heard of the Innovations in Reading Prize, given out by the National Book Foundation. When I read about this year’s winners, I thought, what a great idea. There are probably groups out there who might qualify, yet haven’t...