Blogs oh blogs, oh my....

I have been remiss of letting you know when I'm at other blogs.

The two regular ones you will see me on are the DarkSide DownUnder blog and the SARA - Sassy In The South Blog, in both cases I'm the blog mum. I'm really proud of my teams and their interesting posts. Why not follow us?


First of all the DSDU blog - btw like the new logo designed by yours truly?

Last week I talked about TV watching and research. You can find the blog post HERE.


With SASSY in the South - I'm compiling the Reading Adventures column, which are reviews by our members.

It's a brand new blog with it's own logo, yep by yours truly...

I've also been blogging about conference spotlights on the Romance Writers of Australia blog and doing the New Releases posts.


So plenty of blogs to go and go read. Go on, what are you waiting for?

Oh, yes, here's my ~yia~

:)

Trekking Tuesday

Trekking Tuesday was meant to be last week but since I forgot to schedule, I'm posting it today.



Award nominations

The ARR(Australian Romance Reader) Award nominations are out and it's fantastic to so many of my buddies on the list, including ones who have visited this blog.

Congratulations to Christina Ashcroft, Annie Seaton, Kaz Delaney, Shona Husk, Tracey O'Hara, Kylie Griffin, M.J. Scott, Rebekah Turner, Erica Hayes, Paula Roe, Annie West, Amy Andrews, Barbara Hannay, Anne Gracie, Anne Stuart, Michelle Diener, Anna Campbell, Beverley Oakley....deep breath.... Cathryn Hein, Rachael Johns, Imelda Evans, Jess Dee, Melanie Milburne, Kelly Hunter, Sarah Mayberry, Keziah Hill, Mel Tescho, Lexxie Couper, Denise Rossetti, Helene Young, Bronwyn Parry, Caitlyn Nicholas, Nikki Logan, Bec McMaster, Christina Brooke, Fiona Lowe, Nicola Marsh, Danielle Lisle, and more....

(blue = DarkSiders ; green = bootcampers)



Blogs
Jim C Hines with another pose for Charity...

and the mega one...

Caricatures by Andre Carrilho at Inspire First. Here are just a couple of them.

All Things Urban Fantasy have the winners of their 2012 Cover Contest...

The overall winner....

Just love the typography of Iced and how the ice is used in the cover to reflect a barren world. As well as the remains of buildings. It's very cool! And yep, it had been in one of my cover posts late last year.


Booktopia will be announcing the Top 50 Australian authors as voted on their blog. So far 30-50 have been announced.



Other

I'm annoyed. Apparently, Alphas, a tv show on SciFi is not going to be renewed for a season 3. Way to go. I mean I don't want to know what happens to the characters do I. Sigh.


~yia~

Tuesday Trekking & Tuesday Tunes!

I'm back with another installment of Tuesday Trekking, but what's this a Tuesday Tune as well. Yes, I saw a clip on FB and had to share.


Cover poses for Charity
First up, Fantasy author, Jim C. Stines is raising money for charity by doing cover art poses.

Example:

You can find out more about why here (and at end see links to poses), and also see the pose off with John Scalzi. Great job, guys.


Websites, blogs, and all that jazz

Nikki Logan
The 12 Dogs...I mean, days, of Christmas has started on Nikki's blog.


Alexandra Sokoloff
Check out Alexandra's new website and blog - looks mega cool. (Alexandra was a guest speaker at Diamonds Are Forever this year, and is an all round cool lady).

Cornell Deville
Musa author, Cornell has a new Youtube channel where he will be uploading videos to help fellow authors along in their journey. You can find it here.

Here's the intro video.



Youtube link


Writing News...

Romance Writers of Australia have started up The Ella - the published novella competition. Details is on their website.

DarkSider Nicole Murphy will be doing Year of the Novel Courses. One in person at the ACT Writer's Centre. Details here. She is also be tutoring the Kim Wilkins developed course online thanks to the Queensland Writer's Centre. Details here.


Artwork links

http://www.inspirefirst.com/2011/08/29/oscar-ramos-illustrations/
Love the first few especially.

Artist: Oscar Ramos

And now for the Tune.... Led Zeppelin's Black Dog performed in 2007 (how I missed this concert at the time, I don't know).



Link


~yia~

Follow Friday: my other blogs

I'm going to showcase my other blogs and ask nicely if people can follow them. No pressure :)

Eleni's Libary - elenis-library.blogspot.com

The place where I write about the books I'm reading and the challenges I'm taking part in. This year hasn't been a great one in numbers for reading. But I'm reading and that's the main thing.

HelzKat Designs - www.helzkatdesigns.com

Where I blog about the designs I do as HelzKat Designs.

I also have a Facebook page at facebook.com/HelzKatDesigns

Dark Side DownUnder - darksidedownunder.blogspot.com

A blog I share with other members of the paranormal group from Romance Writers of Australia. Lots of information weekly about what are members are up to and their good news. 

SARA News -   romancesa.com/news.html

My monthly face to face writing group. With more members, there is also more good news.

Romance Writers of Australia - romanceaustralia.wordpress.com

Lots of great posts. I'm doing the New Releases now, but I also will be doing the upcoming conference blog spotlights, which I also did for the Gold Coast conference this year. I seem to always go back to blogging on this blog.



So why not follow these blogs.... oh, and if you're new to this blog - welcome - and why not follow from the sidebar.

~yia~

Round up....

I've added to the SARA conference pics, so go check them out here.

Being part of the RWAus web team, I twitter on occasion. Check the RWAus twitter here.
And our blog team ladies have done a fantastic job with blog, which you can see here.

If you like Dark Urban Fantasy, you can check out Keri Arthur's first Riley Jensen Guardian series, on the Random House Suduvu site.

I've been working on a detailed synopsis and I've realised how much I love these characters. Life however has gotten in the way abit this week, though, sapping some of my energy, but still I feel like overall I'm still on course.

Currently reading: How to Date a Millionaire by Allison Rushby (YA)
Just finished: Savage Dragon by Anna Hackett (Nocturne Bites)
DVD series watching: Gene Rodenberry's Andromeda, series 3
Waiting to watch: Australia


Yia!

I've been slimed....No, that's Lemonaded....

Lemonaded?  Well it's the "When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade" Award. I was nominated by Christina Phillips and Monique Wood (Thanks Ladies). 

Life sure likes to throw lemons at me and mine, so I like to see this is a positive award, because despite the bumps, we still continue on our journey. 

It works this way:

1) Link back to the person you received the award from (check), and

2) Nominate 10 bloggers who are deserving of this award (check). 

So I shall Lemonade the following (trying not to double up here with others being awarded). Thanks for your inspiring blogs:

* Authorness - Vanessa

* Kiki Lon

* Neomi Quinn ;)

* AJ Macpherson

* The Houseboat of Decadence - CAM

* Tannia Franklin

* Tracey O'hara

* Barbara Hannay

* Trish Morey

* Keri Arthur

May everyone make Lemonade out of any lemons they are given in life - or maybe a lemon cheesecake... hmmm.... cheesecake ;)

Yia!

Blogged out...

Well not writing them, just reading them. Because I have been snowed under, I had over 1000+ blog feeds in my Google reader. Um...skim....hell yeah! No way I could have read them all.... it felt like it was never ending as it was. But I feel better now that I have skidded over them.....

 

Now I hope to be able to keep up.

And I did the blog skidding after I did some editing. Yay me.

Yia!

Over stuffed...

Reminds me of my study...... hee hee.

No seriously, sometimes this is life. Trying to stuff so much into one day and getting distracted by a myriad of things. In the last week, I've realised how much time I spend on 'other' things - eg reading blogs about writing or by authors, or other blogs that interest me, as well as newsletters etc. I find it interesting but it is a time sucker. 

The reason why I realised it is that I haven't done much of this type of activity this week. I have been editing using my EeePC and haven't been so distracted by other things on the internet. So I think I need to make sure I get work done before I read blogs. Or limit my time. That way I get to what I want to do to move forward - editing & writing!

Maybe having a sore back was a wake up call.

Do you feel like the guy in the picture sometimes?

How do you balance your time?

Yia!

Catching up...and polishing

I'm continuing the polishing of my manuscript. It's a long, slow process but I'm at least moving forward. It will will be nice to finally let you know that it's ready for submission. *sigh*

I've also been quiet as I have been doing the shopping for Christmas, caught up with friends and family over the last few days. It has been really lovely. Though I haven't caught up with everyone I wanted to. That seems to happen - time slips away so quickly by the time you make the rounds, you have to start over again. Well at least that is what it seems like to me. :)

I'm way behind on my blog reading - I subscribe to a number of blogs and am falling way behind - and there is so many posts I want to investigate further. Thank goodness for readers, otherwise this would be an impossible feat. I have always had a problem with feeling tired with a computer screen and have really noticed it more in the past month. So hence my stop and starts. It's the way I seem to work. Though I have been a little behind of exercise *hangs head*. But 2009 is around the corner, so would like to establish a routine then. Remind me ok?!!

Also I'm disappointed to learn that Luna will not be published in Australia, so will have to get the US versions if if I want to read them or buy e-books. It was just so easy going to the local Target or Kmart store and having them available there or from the Australian Harlequin site. Too bad.

Yia

~Eleni