Ellen Lynn of the intriguingly named My Mother Stuttered blog (to find out why her mother stuttered, you’ll have to visit Ellen was kind enough to nominate this blog for the Irresistibly Sweet Blogger Award.

I don’t know if I deserve it. I mean, you’ve read some of my tongue-firmly-in-cheek back story posts. But Ellen goes on to say that not everyone she nominates is in fact sweet. Maybe they just have interesting blogs. Or blogs that try and spread good will.

Well, both of those are goals of mine. So, in that spirit, thank you, Ellen. And to fulfill the requirements of the prize, I offer 7 random facts about myself:

• I was not premature but only weighed 4 lbs 13 oz when I was born
• Desserts are my biggest vice
• I wanted to be a writer before I could write (told bedtime stories to my mother)
• Lois Duncan, Stephen King, William Peter Blatty, David Selznick, and Doris Miles Disney were some of my favorite writers as a kid
• If it wasn’t for libraries I might not have survived middle school
• I love the color copper
• Driving is my cool down activity

and nominate in utterly no order 15 other irresistible blogs:

1. Colleen Thompson et al’s Boxing the Octopus
2. Lelia Taylor’s Buried Under Books
3. Sara Backer’s American Fuji
4. Peg Brantley’s Suspense Novelist
5. Hart Johnson’s Confessions of a Watery Tart
6. Kaye Barley’s Meanderings & Muses
7. Megan Bostic’s The Angsty Writer
8. Warren Bull et al’s Writers Who Kill
9. Poe’s Deadly Daughters
10. Mystery & Me
11. Rebecca Georgsson’s Kindle Fever
12. Ted Krever’s musings on writing
13. Steve Piacente’s Bella
14. Karen Cantwell Author
15. Lesa’s Book Critiques

Thanks again, Ellen! I’m in the process of updating my blog roll–it was great to get down some of 2011’s new discoveries…