Taking Care Of Business

I have a couple of odds and ends to post about, so bare with me. First, I have an opinion piece up over at TGTBTU entitled Can A Blogger Make A Book? This post actually addresses a couple of issues that I've been tossing around in my head, but that I hadn't articulated until now because I wasn't sure how to not sound like a raving bitch. So go on over and read my take on KristieJ's quest to promote the hell out of Broken Wing, if reader bloggers can truly "make" books, and why reader bloggers should never lose sight of why they started blogging in the first place. I don't care how important we "think" we are - none of us started blogging for the "traffic." Well, at least I didn't.

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In other news, one of my favorite people, Lisa(bea) slapped me with the Kreativ Blogger award.

The Kreativ rules state that: Once you receive this award you are to list seven of your favorite things and then nominate seven other blogs.

1) Tea. God, how I love tea.

2) A great historical western romance. Seriously, nothing better.

3) A long good hunting trip at a massive used bookstore.

4) Hooking up and chatting books with the So. Cal. Bloggers

5) Lazy Sunday afternoons.

6) Blogging. After six years I'm still not bored. Batten down the hatches everybody!

7) My family. Awwwww.....

My nominations are:

1) The gals over at Book Binge

2) Renee from Renee's Book Addiction

3) Lusty Reader

4) Tracy from Tracy's Place

5) Miss Barbara from Happily Forever After

6) Sula - lovin' the details on the upcoming wedding!

7) Tara Marie from Romancing Reading Mom - because I hope she'll see this and start blogging again. God, how I miss her!

Eye Of The Tiger

The Super Librarian parents are boarding a plane and heading back home tomorrow afternoon. Yep, it's time for Wendy to come up for air! I've been able to sorta, kinda keep up with my e-mail, but am massively behind in my blog hopping (and blogging). So to kick start myself back into a semi-normal routine, I'd like to announce that I have won a most prestigious award! Tracy and Kris have honored me with the first ever Official Book Slut award. Isn't it purdy?

How did I win?

Well, first I shamelessly nominated myself. Then I disclosed to Tracy how many books I have in my TBR. This actually isn't a big secret. I have the whole blessed thing cataloged over at Library Thing. Still, I hate to openly admit it publicly because it's a source of much angst and crushing anxiety. Of course I'm among friends here, so I guess I shouldn't be overly embarrassed. Hell, some of you are probably even a little jealous. Sick puppies that you are.

So many thanks to Kris, Tracy, and all the romance junkies I've met and interacted with over the years (in person and online). It takes a village to raise a Book Slut, and I couldn't have done it without all of the help and encouragement you've given to me over the years. ::snort::