The kind, awesome, and talented Stephanie over at Word by Word has bestowed me with a fabulous blog award. I’ve been lax about thanking people for these and posting them, but I’m trying to get back in the habit.

The Liebster Award is for bloggers who have less than two hundred followers, to help spread the word about their blogs, and I’m honored Stephanie not only thought of me, but by her kind recommendation ^_^

I had to think for a very long time about who to send this to. I’ve come up with a list of five, finally. A couple of people I wanted to add to this list have received the award recently, and I wanted to spread the love further, making the decision a little easier, but not much. So, in no particular order:

Breanna @ Polished Bones
Breanna is an entertaining blogger, and she just released her first short story collection – ‘Goodbye, Goddess’. Both the blog and the book are totally worth the read.

Ben & Majora Bell @ Bell’s Shadow
A talented pair of psuedonyms, these writers create some great shorts as well as novels. Ben…or maybe Majora…is working on couple of novels right now that are absolutely gripping and fantastic.

Kate @ Fiction & Film
Kate writes amazing YA contemporary fiction, and manages to spit out novels like I can’t even follow, all while working and raising a family. And she mixes it all together in her blog.

Ashelynn
A fantastic writer (which I’m seeing as a recurring theme here), and I love her motivational posts. I’m not usually a visual person, but she’s got a way of tying pictures with words…and she’s a good debator – not many people can say that.

Sarah @ Glissades and Gabble
(The writing is a given at this point ;-). Sarah has a fantastic quirky sense of humor, and her blog posts are always insightful and make me think.

Go check these individuals out if you haven’t yet, and then when they make it big, you’ll be able to say you knew them ‘back when’ ^_^