It's ladies first. For MAD Blog of the Year award in the Funniest Blog category, the author of books like
Jumping in Puddles
and
Feels Like Maybe
, yer women who has popularised the use of the word 'feck' in local literary circles. Yer woman who spells her surname Allan not Allen, who else could it be but
Claire Allan. Her blog is found
HERE and the voting booth
over here in the corner. She needs your votes, she
once won a basket of fruit in a raffle in school but someone had loaned her the 10p for the ticket so she had to give them the grapes (aka the best bit).
VOTE FAULKNER! No we're not going back in time and I'm not encouraging people to vote for any political party but I am encouraging you to vote for
Michael Faulkner. Michael is author of
The Blue Cabin: Living by the Tides on Islandmore
and
Still on the Sound: A Seasonal Look at Island Life
and blogs @
ISLAND LIFE: The Blue Cabin Blog and tweets
@TheBlueCabin Michael is a finalist in
the Author Blog Awards which aim to honour the best blogs by both published and unpublished writers. They will recognise the writers who use their blogs to connect with readers in the most imaginative, engaging and inspiring ways. At the same time they hope to attract new audiences to these blogs and help readers find out more about the authors they love, and new authors too.Vote for Michael
here.
Spinetingler promote and enhance the profile of talented emerging writers using the forum of electronic publishing and two Northern Irish authors names appear in the 2010 Spinetingler Award list. They are
Stuart Neville for
The Ghosts of Belfast
in the Best Novel: New Voice category and
Adrian McKinty for
Fifty Grand
in the Rising Star category.Vote for them
here.
In other news
Sam Millar has four of his books listed in the top ten
Dark Fiction Picked By Amazon Readers Well done Sam!
