I am honoured to announce that I have been chosen to receive the Versatile Blogger Award by author and colleague Sandy Wolters, who runs a great blog called "Sandy's Spotlight", where she reviews books and  interviews authors.

As a "versatile  blogger" I'm supposed to share 7 things about me; so here they are:

1. I am a multi-genre novelist, and I love it!
2. I mean to  go and live "under the Tuscan sun" one day
3. I miss my mum, who passed away in 2007  :-(
4. I am starting my life afresh,  since my hubby left me in early 2011 for a
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5. Like my new, soon-to-be-released mystery series  featuring, Mia Ferrari, a tough late 40s, wiseass chick investigator, I am now a  tough chick myself and anyone who messes with me is going to regret it.  LOL.
6. I love  cappuccinos
7. I could eat pizza  every day of the week and twice on Sundays :-)

I am to pass this award onto 5 other people whom I  consider to be Versatile Bloggers; their blogs are:

Tongue of Dog's Breakfast - a comic blog about politics and  other life issues, run by US-turned-Canadian author, Nicole Chardenet and her  evil henchkitty, Belladonna.
Aobibliosphere - great blogger and book reviewer  extraordinaire!
A Word Please - fabulous mystery author and avid supporter of  indie-authors, Darcia Helle 
Famous Five Plus -  a blog run by author Pauline Barclay about authors and books whose protagonists  are in their 50s (I just slipped into this one even though my protagonists are  in their 40s. Woo hoo!)
Madame Perry's  Salon - a blog where authors and artists meet (as they did in centuries  past), run by super extraordinaire publicist, Jennifer Perry.