Well, would you imagine it? C.D. Gallant King nominated me for the Mystery Blogger Award, and I’m so excited! It’s been such a long time since last I received a nomination from a fellow blogger, which is always such great reward. Receiving an award is always rewarding, but receiving it from a fellow blogger who appreciate the work you’re doing on your blog is doubly so, because it comes from someone who knows fully well what goes into maintaining a blog. At least, this is how I feel.

So thank you CD, you rock!!!

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Rules of the Mystery Blogger Award

1. Post the award on your page
2. List the rules
3. Thanks whoever nominated you for the award
4. Mention the creator of the award and provide a link as well
5. Tell readers three things about yourself
6. Nominate people
7. Notify your nominees
8. Ask your nominees 5 questions of your choice, with one weird of funny question
9. Share a link to your best post

Three things about myself

1. I have a cat named Apache, who’s my baby
2. I like baking. Normally, I manage to pull it off quite nicely. My most appreciated cake is the Rum Flavoured Chocolate and Pears Pie, which is my own recipes.
3. I like people-watching and eavesdropping on public transports, which are awesome places to get ideas for characters. Professional weakness, I suppose.

CD’s questions for me

• What’s your favourite book and why?

At the moment (and I say this because this is a matter that of course changes over time), my favourite book is Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie. It’s a multilayer kind of storytelling that mixes flawlessly fantasy and realism, in a way that adds to both genre rather than take out of them. That’s the kind of stories I want to write.

• Who is your favourite professional wrestler?

I think I haven’t seen a wrestling match since the 1980s. I don’t think I’m qualified to answer this question.

• Favourite type of character to play in roleplaying games? If you don’t play roleplaying games, how about video games? LARP? Cops & robbers? Monopoly? Do you do ANYTHING fun?

I used to roleplay in the late 1990s. It was a email-based kind of roleplaying game. Ton of fun, and honestly I learned a lot about storytelling and the flexibility stories requires to storytellers.

My character was a rogue, and what I loved about him is he was a shape-shifter too. He had a double nature of human and animal. I’ll confess I’ve always had a soft spot for shape-shifters.

• You’re about to be dropped into a fictional universe and be granted really cool powers – quick, which one do you want to be: A Jedi (or Sith) in Star Wars, a witch or wizard in Harry Potter, or a mutant in X-Men?

Well, you’ll guess this. I want to be a mutant. Though about my powers… mhm… know what? I’d like to be some kind of batwoman, who moves silently but can hear perfectly (though I’d also like to see perfectly). Would turn extremely useful when people-watching and eavesdropping.

• Favourite Canadian Prime Minister?

Canadian Prima Minister? What’s that? Something you’re supposed to eat?

My 5 question to my nominees

1. People (especially readers) always dream about being in different place. What is a place (an actual place, a fantasy world or a different historical period) you’d rather live?
2. What do you like most about that place, why would you prefer it to the place where you actually live?
3. You’re aware no place is an absolute paradise, don’t you? What do you hate about that place you’ve chosen?
4. If you could build your own perfect world, what author would you ask to worldbuild it?
5. If you could be the hero of a story, what genre would that story be?

My Nominees

Since this story came from the AtoZ Challenge, I’d like to nominee three AtoZers

Ronel @ Ronel the Mythmaker

Anna @ ATSP

Barbara @ Life & Faith in Caneyhead

And finally, I should post a link to my best post.  That’s hard pressing, eh?

Honestly, I feel I should post something about the New Woman’s New Look series, because you guys appreciated it so much. I’m going to share one post I’m particularly fond of, instead.

Blood – There are always  voices calling and I’ll always listen

To be honest, I enjoyed a lot writing all four diaries of my characters, but I’m particularly fond of Blood’s post because I had such an hard time with him. Not because I had a hard time writing him – on the contrary, it has always been a pleasure – but because Blood is such a positive character that for a long time I feared readers would hate him. Because you know, readers are always fascinated with dark, brooding, tormented characters (that would be Michael, more like), and I feared that a good-hearted, positive, warming, eager to help character like Blood would be dismissed as too good and uninteresting.

Turned out it isn’t like that, and I’m so happy for him!

It was a pleasure, CD. Thanks again for thinking about me!