I love my fellow bloggers, and I love that they give me fun and fun awards.

Problem is, I always forget to do the post talking about how they gave me some super awesome fantastic award.

I am pretty good at paying it forward. As in, if someone does something nice for me, I always try to repay it by doing something nice for someone else in the future. Probably because I am a total karma-whore and I don’t want there to be some sort of crazy inbalance in the universe that makes me break all the bones in my body or whatever. (That gives me the heebie jeebies just saying it.)

What I suck at, however, is paying it back. I usually remember to say thank you–I am not a total creep, but I just don’t always remember to repay the favor to the friend who did the nice thing in the first place.

So, I want to say thank you to two excellent ladies and their exceptional blogs!

First to Shelli Johannes-Wells (a fellow bookanista) with one of my favorite blogs, Market my Words, who gave me the Lovely Blog Award.

And then the amazing Sheri Larson gave me the Versatile Blogger Award. I like it!

So, a big thanks to both of them, and don’t forget to check out the Bookanistas today for some really fab book reviews!

Happy Thursday!

Under the advice of the awesome Mary Kole, I won’t be blogging today. Go read her post instead.

Okay, so if you follow me on twitter, you’ve probably been hearing about the super secret project a few of us have been talking about. (Okay, maybe we were intentionally building buzz by being all mysterious–but I would NEVER admit that.)

It’s time to reveal the secret, and since it’s an epic project, we decided it needed an EPIC announcement–which totally involved me dressing like a superhero and wearing a blanket as a cape… but at least I didn’t have to eat bacon!

The six of us: me, Elana Johnson, Casey McCormick, Shannon Messenger and Lisa and Laura Roecker, (along with Jennifer Stayrook—goddess of all things web design) are organizing a free online writer’s conference for kidlit writers!!! (Go check out their blogs because they are giving things away today, too!)

We’d all heard our friends tell us how much they wish they could go to a writer’s conference, and since we’re all about paying it forward, we decided to build our own.  And so, WriteOnCon was born—rated MC-18 (main characters 18 and under).

When: August 10-12, 2010

Where: http://writeoncon.com/

Here’s a taste of some of the amazing agents/authors/editors who’ve already signed on: Mary Kole, Catherine Drayton, Steven Malk, Michelle Andelman, Suzie Townsend, Mark McVeigh, Joanna Stampfel-Volpe, Kathleen Ortiz, Lindsay Eland, Dan Ehrenhaft, Mandy Hubbard, Lindsey Leavitt, Josh Berk, Anica Rissi, Jodi Meadows—and there will be many more to come.

But before you go—to help spread the word—we’re all having giveaways!

I’m giving away Josh Berk’s The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin. Josh is actually going to do a livestream chat at our conference! Yaay Josh!

How to enter:

Just comment below! (You have until Wednesday night at midnight CST)

For Extra Entries:

(Don’t forget to leave a separate comment for each one!)

Tweet about this contest

Post of Link this contest on your blog/website/facebook

Post the conference Countdown Widget on your blog or website

Follow the co-organizers blogs or websites

Don’t forget to mark your calendars for August 10-12. WriteOnCon is going to be WIN! We hope to see you there!

Geez! May just flew by, and I didn’t even do an “all about May post. That isn’t like me at all.

So, here’s the big kicker for May–I sucked at blogging. Big time. Apparently when I give myself a little bit of a break and say I am only going to blog every other day, I take that to mean I can blog just whenever I want.

Well, that crap has to stop. You see, I love blogging. I love seeing comments because I am all ego-tripping like that. I love the perspective blogging gives me on life–I find the cool things each day and then get to come here and write about them! So–darn it all– I need to blog!

You hear me, people. The only thing I learned in May is that I can’t cut myself any Slack (haha that used to be my last name, you know).

And so–for the REST of June– you will see a blog post here every freakin’ day.

Dammit.

If you were to ring the doorbell on the blog, I wouldn’t answer.

Because I’m here instead!

Go comment over there and make me feel all sorts of important!

The thing about Star Wars is this… I love it in pretty much every from, no matter what. This is no exception:

To show you how dedicated I am, I made a video about online platform. I’m not wearing makeup–so be nice!

I’m off to the DFW Writer’s conference, where I promise to make an fool out of myself at least twice. (The second time will be for those that missed it the first time.)

But, while I’m gone, let’s all give a school girl squee about new Glee this week. This scene always makes me cry, but then again so do Disney movies–so, there’s that.

We spent the morning at the Colleyville Woman’s Club Fashion Show, and the daughter was adorable.

I started a post today called writing with distractions, and it was all about how to write and blog and such while your kid was home with your for spring break…

Then I was all, WHAT THE HECK AM I DOING!! I AM BLOGGING WHILE MY KID WANTS TO PLAY.

So, don’t avoid the distractions, embrace them.

See you guys tomorrow!