L Is For...Liebster Blog Award

My twelfth post for the A-to-Z Blogging Challenge is L Is For... Liebster Blog Award:

Brian at Why Do I Bother? very kindly awarded me the Liebster Blog Award. Thanks Brian.

I then did nothing about it, which probably seemed quite ungrateful. Sorry Brian.

The idea is for blogs with less than 200 followers to get a bit more exposure to the wider blogging community. The rules for accepting the award are:

1. Thank the person who gave you the award and link back to them.
2. Nominate up to five others for the award.
3. Let them know via comment on their blog.
4. Post the award on your blog.

As I have been reading entries for the A-to-Z Blogging Challenge, I was bamboozled by the number of great blogs, many of which I foolishly failed to make a note of for the purposes of awarding the Liebster Blog Award.

I have decided to throw this open so I would like you to nominate a blog with less than 200 followers. Make sure it's someone else's blog and not your own, but don't worry I'll look at yours as well.

I'll inform the winners before the end of the month.

The winners so far:

• The Geek Twins

• Luke Wortley

• Lisa Vooght's Flash Fiction

• Fairbetty's World

Please feel free to make nominations for the rest of April...

Zombie Rabbit Award

The new year got off to nice start for me, because Jeremy of the izombielover blog has awarded me a Zombie Rabbit Award. I'm very flattered.

Here it is:

But it doesn't end there. I have to choose some other blogs to pass on the award to as well. A blogging Pay It Forward with Zombie rabbits, if you will. Hopefully they will pass it on as well...

The blogs I have chosen to give a Zombie Rabbit Award to are:

Alex J Cavanaugh

Ellie Garratt

Building Castles On The Beach

Back Of The Net

Just like the rest of the internet, the community of people that write blogs and read blogs have come up with customs, such as blogfests and awards. For the uninitiated, which included me until very recently, a blogfest is when a blogger organises an opportunity for several bloggers to write something on the same subject and then compare and contrast the results. So far I have written for three such events, namely: Top Ten Films They Should Have Made..., Share Your Ten Best Novels and Top Ten Horror/Science Fiction Movie Quotes.

Awards are much easier to explain since people get those in the real word too. I've been lucky enough to receive two awards as a result of what I've written.

Ellie Garratt awarded this for comments made on her blog, although I can't remember what I wrote in them. I'm sure they were heartfelt.


SparkleFarkle gave me a Microfiction Prize, specifically for this Microfiction Monday post. My bowling hasn't improved though.


Thank you again to the pair of you.

Possibly the most flattering, however is my inclusion on a list of "more wonderful people ..." on the blog of Dominic de Mattos.