Wow! Brain Cells & Bubble Wrap receives award

Who'd a thunk, we received an award.

Lea Schizas, award winning author-editor, honored Brain Cells & Bubble Wrap with the Honest Scrap award. Scrap means left overs, fragments, discarded material, and many times truth and honesty is discarded material, considered fragments and left over. So, we need to tell it like it is, and let the scraps fall where they will.

According to Lea's blog,The Writing Jungle, the guidelines for winning this award include the following:


1. List 10 honest things about yourself (make it interesting, even if you have to dig deep!)
2. Pass the award on to 7 bloggers

Ten honest things about me, hmm ...

1. I thoroughly dislike dishonesty whether in word or deed.
2. I try never to hurt anyone deliberately.
3. When I discover I have hurt anyone, I must apologize.
4. I often tire of being the peace maker, but feel I have to keep trying.
5. I would much rather write than clean house.
6. I expect other people to try as hard and to give as much as I do.
7. I have few really close friends, who are all dear to me. I'd be lost without them.
8. A hole is torn in my heart each time someone dear leaves permanently.
9. I love light and laughter.
10. Christmas is my favorite season, even if no gifts appear.

Part 2 is seven blogs I believe deserve this award. The award is given to those with the guts to say it as it is, as Lea says, to tell the Honest Scrap.

1. Holly Jahangiri
2. Lee Lofland
3. Marvin D. Wilson
4. Rena Jones
5. Ian Williams
6. Elysabeth Eldering
7. Morgan Mandel

Now, each of the bloggers above may save the award image and use it. They need to follow the two "rules" attached to receiving the award.

I have many more blogs that I follow, but those chosen will pass the award on to others I would like to if I could.




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3 4RV books nominated for Cybils Award

Three books published by 4RV Publishing are nominated for the Cybils Awards:

Trockle by Holly Jahangiri, illustrated by Jordan M. Vinyard in Picture Book Fiction.






State of Wilderness by Elysabeth Eldering, illustrated by Aidana WillowRaven in Middle Grade Novel.



Prairie Dog Cowboy by V. Gilbert Zabel, illustrated by Jordan M. Vinyard in Middle Grade Novel.

Writing Goals

I'm the president of an OWFI (Oklahoma Writers Federation, Inc) affiliate named Pen and Keyboard Writers. We try to help each other improve our writing through critiques and reviews and supporting each other's works.

One thing we did a few months back was to list our writing goals. Putting one's realistic goals in writing helps to make them real, the first step in reaching them.

My goals included the following:
1. Attend more conferences and book festivals, at least three per year. So far this year I've attended two conferences counting the Muse Online Writers conference this week. I've participated in the North Texas Book Festival and the Decatur (GA) Book Festival.

2. Finish Prairie Dog Cowboy and enter it in competition. The book is finished and will be entered in several competitions:
Western Heritage Book Award, North Texas Book Award, and OWFI Awards.

3. Prepare at least five entries for the OWFI writing competition.

4. Begin the sequel to Midnight Hours. I have a title Darkest before Dawn and a general idea of the main conflict.

At the Pen and Keyboard meeting Saturday, we're going to share our progress toward meeting at least one goal. I think I've done well so far.


Cross posted on Vivian's Site.