Showing posts with label Rea Sinfeild. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rea Sinfeild. Show all posts

Tuesday, 18 December 2012

The Blog of the Year 2012


I’m SO excited and thrilled to be awarded The Blog of the Year by my lovely and talented writing friend Rosemary Gemmell at Reading and Writing Blog


 
The rules for this are:

1. Select the blog(s) you think deserve the ‘Blog of the Year 2012′ Award.

2. Write a blog post and tell us about the blog(s) you have chosen - and ‘present’ them with their award.

3. Please include a link back to this page ‘Blog of the Year 2012′ Award - and include these ‘rules’ in your post (please don’t alter the rules or the badges!)

4. Let the blog(s) you have chosen know that you have given them this award and share the ‘rules’ with them.

5. You can now also join the Facebook group.

6. As a winner of the award — please add a link back to the blog that presented you with the award — and then proudly display the award on your blog and sidebar … and start collecting stars… Unlike other awards which you can only add to your blog once — this award is different!

When you begin you will receive the ’1 star’ award — and every time you are given the award by another blog — you can add another star! There are a total of 6 stars to collect.

Which means that you can check out your favourite blogs – and even if they have already been given the award by someone else – you can still bestow it on them again and help them to reach the maximum 6 stars!



I'm passing this on to these fabulous and innovative bloggers:

Carol at Dizzy C’s Little Book Blog as she is such a terrific support to writers and for her fabulous Festive Fun feature that she is currently running every day up to Christmas!

Sharon at Jera’s Jamboree Book Blog as she is also a fabulous support to writers and has recently set up her own book promotion business called Fiction Addiction Book Tours which she is so qualified to do that I’m sure it will be fantastic success.

Kim Nash at Kim the Book Worm is an avid reader, book reviewer, and a generous supporter to writers. As well as her amazing blog, this year Kim has been a radio star with her weekly Book Club programme on Stafford FM talking about her favourite books (and kindly mentioned my latest release!) Together with her co-host, Lee, she has now set up a new Book Club/Podcast feature on Facebook. What a woman!

Rea at Rea Book Reviews blog who says that she is a bookaholic and who I think is one of the loveliest and most enthusiastic book bloggers out there. Rea has a fantastic list of reviews on her blog and is a great support to all writers.

Loveahappyending.com – this innovative magazine style blog (with which I am a featured author and associate editor, I have to say!) is the brainchild of talented author Linn B Halton and is supported by a team of authors, book reviewers, and publishers. It has interesting and fun features posted up by Linn and her associate editors three or four times a week and I love it!

And finally, Rosemary Gemmell, who gave me this award and to whom I’d like to pass it back - so that she gets another well-deserved star award for her blog Reading and Writing - for her generosity and in appreciation of her market expertise in advising writers on suitable markets for short stories and articles. In fact, she has written a feature on this subject for the magazine of the Romantic Novelist’s Association, Romance Matters, this very month.

Thank you so very much for this award – which means so much to me.

Please DO visit the other blogs awarded this accolade and spread the word!

I have one more blog to post for this year - on Friday 21st December - which will be a fun round up of the events that took place on this blog over the past year. I’m looking forward to it already so please do pop back and join me.

Until Friday then, Happy Christmas everyone!
Oh, and did I mention that you might also like my regularly updated author Facebook Page 
and that
I love to Tweet at @JaniceHorton
 
 
 

Tuesday, 20 December 2011

Blog Tour - Day Six - Turning the Pages...!


On Lindsay Gentle's blog today, Lindsay reviews Reaching for the Stars and I'm talking about how I manage to find the time to write!



Just in case you missed any of the 'Reaching for the Stars' Blog Stops so far I've listed and provided links to all fabulous blogs who have hosted me for news, reviews & interviews...

Lou Grahams Book Blog
Lou interviews the two main characters in Reaching for the Stars...!

Melanie Robertson King’s Celtic Connexions Blog
‘Celebrity Chefs – culinary pirates and adventurers of the chrome surfaces…!’

I’m talking to Sharon Goodwin about the extensive culinary research I did for Reaching for the Stars.

In the plotting shed I’m talking about my life as a writer living in rural Scotland and showing you my favourite places to write.

On High Heels & Book Deals Blog - I’m showing off my very favourite shoes!

Sarah Taylor’s Today I'm Reading Blog
for an author interview and a review.

A Review of Reaching for the Stars...!

There are three more exciting blog stops to go on the Reaching for the Stars tour - so please do pop back tomorrow to find out where I am next!

Love, Janice x

Monday, 19 December 2011

Blog Tour - Day Five - A Reabookreview...!


Book Blogger Rea Sinfield, respected for her honest opinion on top women's fiction, has a review of 'Reaching for the Stars' up on her book review blog today!


If you were busy Christmas shopping over the weekend and missed any of the 'Reaching for the Stars' Blog Stops - do pop over to these fabulous blogs for my news, reviews & interviews...

Lou interviews the two main characters in Reaching for the Stars...!

Melanie Robertson King’s Celtic Connexions Blog
‘Celebrity Chefs – culinary pirates and adventurers of the chrome surfaces…!’

I’m talking to Sharon Goodwin about the extensive culinary research I did for Reaching for the Stars.

In the plotting shed I’m talking about my life as a writer living in rural Scotland and showing you my favourite places to write.

On High Heels & Book Deals Blog - I’m showing off my very favourite shoes!

Sarah Taylor’s Today I'm Reading Blog
for an author interview and a review.

And please do pop back tomorrow to find out where I am next!

Love, Janice x

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

A Shout Out!

This week I’ve SO much to shout about!

After an intense week working on my next novel, Reaching For The Stars, I stopped writing to take a break and check my Amazon listing (as you do!) to see that Bagpipes & Bullshot had picked up a NINTH five star review!

I was so excited that I did a little shimmy around my study - so thank you very much to Audrey Hawkins of Bath for taking the time to post a review. I’m delighted you enjoyed reading Bagpipes & Bullshot as much as I enjoyed writing it. Yay!

Then, another lovely lady called Rea Sinfield, posted a photo on Twitter of her taking a tea break while reading Bagpipes & Bullshot on her gorgeous pink skinned Kindle!
Rea Sinfeild's Kindle
Somehow Rea managed to finish Bagpipes & Bullshot’s eighty thousand words in just ONE DAY and write a review. Thank you Rea. Double Yay!!

You can read Rea’s five star review here at Reabookreview Blog.

Don’t forget - if you don’t yet have a copy of  Bagpipes & Bullshot  you can download it at the very special price of just 90p or $1.45 from Amazon uk and dot com, Smashwords, or from any other e-reader catalogue.

If you don’t have an e-reader and would like to read Bagpipes & Bullshot you can download the free Kindle app from Amazon for your PC, Mac, IPad, IPhone or other mobile device.

Before you go - don’t forget to enter last week’s Book Giveaway (you can enter until midnight on 31st July 2011) to win a signed paperback copy of Christine Richards book ‘Whitewalls’.

Also: a very special and exciting event is going down at loveahappyending.com today (Thursday 21st July).

It’s Richard Holmes’ Angelic Wisdom Trilogy Book Launch. Please do take a moment to visit loveahappyending.com to enter into the spirit of the event, to take part in any giveaways, and generally show support by leaving a comment to encourage our new and exciting authors as they launch their work upon the world. Writers need readers and readers need writers!

Book Launch Event

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