Meet & Greet Giveaway Hop w/the Social Bloggers

In case you've ever wondered just what that 
Social Blogger button on my sidebar meant but 
never asked, this is it.  I met the "Girls" by chance 
looking for something one day and fell in love with 
the logo.  Then I began to read the main blog and 
voila…I gained a newTribe on Twitter…
VERY fun group to say the least! 

(you'll want to meet the Hussey, great gal).

They actually shut down something on 

the internet when they had a steamy post that 

spread like wild fire and everyone hit on, 
causing things to disappear.  We lost all our 
buttons and photos, it was a hoot!  So here's the 
Blurb about the hop, I'll let you catch up then I 
need to tell you five fun things about me and my

blog…yikes!  Here's a link to the Social Bloggers Blog

Come Meet & Greet your favorite bloggers and find a few new ones to love too! Enter the Grand Prize Giveaway then hop around and visit all of the Social Bloggers and learn some fun facts about them! There will be individual giveaways at some of the blog so don't forget to stop by and say hi!

So here goes nothing.  Five Fun Facts about June and her Blog:

1. I have chickens.  I love my chickens.  They're like shoes to me.  Each one is even more amazing looking than the next and I can't help but get another one.  The last bunch I got this past spring turned out to have not one, but two, roosters instead of hens.  I couldn't keep both, too much for seven hens to handle.  So Mr. Kotter had to find a new home and we kept Elvis, that seems right.

2. I just got married almost a year ago.  Now this might not sound so interesting or unique until I tell you that I was almost 58 at the time and this is my first ever marriage!  So there you have that.  It was wonderful, and yes, I wore a "real" wedding dress (and I intend to wear it again at this years party, so there you have it again).

3.  I actually worked a majority of my adult life as an artist. I did mostly interior design and was the in house artist for a big firm.  Specialty painting, aging things, murals etc.  And canvas painting of course.  My latest series of work is called the Rock Series.  It's large scale black and white realism with bright color in the background…of rock icons. I've pretty much slowed way down on that while I'm deep into writing my YA Fantasy/adventure series.  I've never loved doing anything more than writing.  But I gotta say I was thinking the other day, I really need to do a painting of Robert Plant already..hey when it's in your blood what can you do?

4.  I was a minor background person in a Guns and Roses Video back in the 90's.  And during that same time I was at an actual G&R concert when Keanu Reeves came into the row behind us and he was in his very "Bill and Ted" time back then and everyone was high fiving him, so of course I did the same.  And much to my chagrin instead of slapping my hand back he grabbed my arm and ran his big wet tongue from my wrist to my finger tips…eau!

5.  This blog was built not only to showcase my own work but to bring in quality fantasy for young people.  I love interviewing kids, authors, illustrators, industry, anyone that has something interesting to say about the genre/writing.  My goal is to make this a "go to" blog for YA Fantasy.  And I'm talking about magic, wizards, gnomes, fun adventurous fantasy.  Nothing against vampires, just looking to give the younguns something that makes them dream a little, something to touch their whimsey. I'm just getting started, but I've already met some really lovely and talented people and found some really good books. So anyone who would like to be included let me know.   Enjoy your look around.

If you're interested in an ebook version of either one or both of the first two books in the Benjamin McTish series by all means leave a comment today and I will be happy to gift that to you as my thx for joining in and sharing a bit of yourself as well.  Thx again, June @ PLP.

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