Hooray, hooray – I’ve just been awarded my first blog award! I was awarded this by children’s author Abi Burlingham (check out her guest post, about the dream that sparked ‘Buttercup Magic’) She’s got a lovely bright, colourful blog, with new posts every Friday  http://www.abiburlingham.talktalk.net/Blog.html Thank you so much, Abi, I’m honoured.

Liebster is a German word meaning dearest, and the award is given to up-and-coming bloggers with less than 200 followers. These are the things you should do if you receive the award: Thank the giver and link back to the blogger who gave it to you. 2. Reveal your top 5 picks and let them know by leaving a comment on their blog. 3. Copy and paste the award on your blog. 4. Hope that the people you’ve sent the award to forward it to their five favourite bloggers . There are some lovely blogs out there, and some wonderful, funny and talented bloggers. So, without further ado…

I’d like to award the Liebster Blog Award to the following bloggers.

Siany Morgan, web angel extraordinaire, who helps women feel more confident and comfortable establishing a web presence  http://websforwomen.com/

Jo Cotterill, for the gorgeous http://girlsheartbooks.com/ a group blog with around 30 regular children’s authors on the team

Katherine Roberts, for the magical unicorn http://reclusivemuse.blogspot.com/ and her trail-blazing adventures in kindling http://authorselectric.blogspot.com/

Susan Price, fab children’s author with a very interesting blog http://susanpricesblog.blogspot.com/

And finally Toko-pa Turner, for talking in such a clear and interesting way about my favourite topic, dreams http://toko-pa.com/category/writing/dreamspeak/

Thanks again Abi 🙂 and more soon, everyone!