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Hot on the heels of the Lucky 7 Meme Award I was nominated for by novelist Kirkus MacGowan comes this: One Lovely Blog Award.

The culprit this time around? None other than R. M. Wilburn, author of the Buggy Crenshaw series, as well as her latest book, Magpie & Dilly.

She has one of the coolest looking websites ever, one that I highly recommend you at least go see. R. M. Wilburn can be found here. I’d like to thank R. M. for including me in her list of award recipients. It’s nice to be noticed, you know?

As the winner of this prestigious blogging award, I have responsibilities—kind of like a Miss America or whatever the guy-equivalent is for it. At any rate, aside from acknowledging from whom my award came, I’m also to bestow this high honor upon fifteen others.

Wow.

I don’t know if I know fifteen bloggers.

We’ll see.

First, though, I think I’ll try my hand at the last thing I’m supposed to do, which is tell you seven things about myself. As coincidence would have it, there are only seven things to know about me, so we’re good. Except, for someone who is purposefully trying to be secretive and mysterious, this becomes a somewhat delicate, if not outright difficult process.

But, here goes:

1. Compared to the population of the world, relatively few know what my initials (G. A.) stand for. Someday, I intend to hold a planetary press conference and reveal their astounding but rather mundane meanings.

2. I like Apple products. I don’t quite have one of each, at least not anything more than five years old. Since 2007, when the iPhone came out, all bets are off.

3. I cry at movies. That’s why I mostly watch summer blockbusters and avoid the whole chick flick scene. I can get drama anytime I want it. In fact, I can get it even when I don’t want it.

4. I speak Spanish. Some would describe it as fluent. Personally, I think it’s good in some circumstances and not so good in others. I do speak a lot of it, though, on a near-daily basis. Out loud. Often to myself, sadly.

5. My last name is Danish. The family tradition is that my great-great-grandfather changed it from Albrechtsen to Albrethsen when he and his brothers and their families came to America from Denmark. Being Copenhagen’s premiere practical jokers, they decided they wanted a name that no one knew how to spell, OR pronounce correctly, including their descendants. Thanks, G-G-G-Pa.

6. I was born. That’s it. Born. Little-known fact. Strange, but true.

7. Contrary to popular belief, I am not a bad guy. I like fluffiness as much as the next person. I just don’t wear my fluffiness on my sleeve, but guard it under lock and key, deep inside. On special occasions, I let it out, but not very often, since I hate the word special. As well as cute. Honey, dear, and nice are also on my vocabulary hit list.

That’s quite enough about me. Let’s see if I can make this about you. I give the One Lovely Blog Award to:

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Ashley Barron I’d say the best blog I read regularly on writing.

Shelli Johnson Best. Crockpot. Recipes. Ever. Also, other great stuff regarding, life, family, writing, etc.

Kirkus MacGowan Great book blog, family man, and all-around good guy. Yeah, this is payback for the Lucky 7 Meme Award! Plus, I don’t think he’s received this award yet. And, he has a new book coming out. He’ll love this!

Rebecca Scarberry Interesting interviews with authors, sensational indie author promoter. Has a novella, Messages From Henry, out.

Krystal Wade  Just a girl with a voice who’d like to be heard. How can I resist that? Plus, she has a cool Letter to My YA self thing going on right now.

Ross M Kitson Hello kidney! Hello?

Jordanna East I retweeted a tweet of hers once. She has the summer blog blues, and this is one award I don’t think she has yet (heh heh heh).

Melanie Carrico She works hard on her blog, and thus, deserves a blog award. Oh, and she writes book reviews. You might want to check her out. Like, right now.

One…two…three…eight. Hmmm. Well, between the other award and this one that makes 15, right? I guess I’ll risk the wrath of The One Lovely Blog Award police and call it more than good.

As always, none of those listed above are under any obligation by me. I cannot speak for the aforementioned OLBAP, however.