Award Monday

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 decided to pass on another because I really thought you deserved it. Some of the bloggers are fairly new to me, but I’ve enjoyed getting to read your posts and hope others will too.

Elizabeth Spann Craig gave me the Kreativ Blogger Award. There are two parts to this award. First, I pass it on to 7 other bloggers:

Laura Eno with A Shift in Dimensions
Lori Tiron-Pandit at Daily Writing
Bermudaonion at Bermudaonion’s Weblog
Dana Fredsti of Zhadi’s Den
Sheila Deeth of Sheila Deeth
N.A. Sharpe of Realms of Thought
Marvin Wilson of The Old Silly’s Free Spirit Blog

Then, I list 7 favorite mystery authors (of many authors and in no particular order)
Susan Wittig Albert
Jeff Abbott
Nancy Bell
Karen MacInerney
Diane Fanning
Susan Rogers Cooper
Roberta Isleib

The second award I received was the Superior Scribbler from L. Diane Wolfe of Spunk on a Stick blog. (Thank you very much, Diane!)

Here are the rules to this award:
Each Superior Scribbler must in turn pass The Award on to 5 most-deserving Bloggy Friends.
Each Superior Scribbler must link to the author & the name of the blog from whom he/she has received The Award.
Each Superior Scribbler must display The Award on his/her blog, and link to this post, which explains The Award.
Each Blogger who wins The Superior Scribbler Award must visit this post and add his/her name to the Mr. Linky List. That way, we’ll be able to keep up-to-date on everyone who receives This Prestigious Honor!
Each Superior Scribbler must post these rules on his/her blog.

I choose…
Miriam Forster with Dancing with Dragons is Hard on Your Shoes
Glynis Smy of New Scribbles From Glynis Smy
Stephen Tremp of Breakthrough Blogs for the Aspiring Author
Lauri Kubuitsile of Thoughts from Botswana
Heidi M. Thomas of Heidi M. Thomas: Author, Editor, Writing Teacher

Diane also gave me the: This "B-I-N-G-O" Beautiful Blog Award (Thank you again, Diane.)

The rules to this award are fairly simple:
This "B-I-N-G-O" BEAUTIFUL BLOG AWARD means that this blog is...

B: Beautiful: Stephanie Faris at Steph in the City
I: Informative: Elspeth at It’s a Mystery
N: Neighborly: Bob Sanchez of Bob Sanchez: Writing, Reading and a Bit of Travel
G: Gorgeous: L.J. Sellers with Write First, Clean Later
O: Outstanding: Jane Kennedy Sutton of Jane’s Ride

All in all, that’s 17 great blogs and bloggers, along with 7 great mystery writers. Gonna be a fun week, I can tell, with this many places to visit.

I hope the recipients will be happy to receive the award and will pass it on so we can all find new and interesting people to follow. Happy Monday to all!