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"Sushi For One" Release sparks Awesome CONTEST -- Win an iPOD!

Camy Tang's first book, Sushi for One, just came out. To celebrate (and to generate interest in the book) she is hostessing an awesome contest. The grand prize, first place winner, will receive an 8 GB iPod! Plus a lot of books (I didn't count them all ...)

For more information, and to enter, go here:
http://www.camytang.com/contest.html

You will need two things
- you'll need my email address to put in the contest entry form -- SuseADoodle at gmail.com. Please be sure to use that, okay?
- a Yahoo ID so you can join her Yahoo Group, Camy's Loft. And you will WANT to join her Yahoo group because every week she gives away books!

An author who whole-heartedly believes writers are readers too!

The contest runs till October 31, 2007.




The book sounds like a wonderful read. It is on my list of "GET THIS SOON!" Books and I've scheduled an afternoon to read it cover-to-cover. Want to know a little more about it? Check out:
http://christianfictionblogalliance.blogspot.com/2007/09/sushi-for-one-by-camy-tang.html
or
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0310273986
or
http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/product?item_no=273981&netp_id=479128&event=ESRCN&item_code=WW

FAIR TRADE CHOCOLATE EVENT

Who doesn't like chocolate? There are very few people who don't. (They were probably given chocolate as a kid but were told it was calves' liver or something like that.)

Did you know that about half of the world's chocolate is produced with slave labor? For more information, visit http://www.stopthetraffik.org/.

If you like to cook and would like to win a goodie bag of Traffik-Free Chocolate, stop over here: http://rkhooks.net/2007/09/03/stop-the-traffik-chocolate-event/

If you participate, stop back here.

In the comments section leave your name and the url to your blog post that you use to enter r k hooks' event, using Traffik-Free Chocolate.

I'll be posting this info about the event at each of my blogs. Feel free to leave your comment and link at each one. (One comment entry per blog please, though.) From all of the comments posted, there will be a random drawing and I'll send out a chocolate-related thank you to three winners.

TALENTED? You bet!

At all my other blogs, I'm telling everyone to go here to see this video:

http://loopdeloops.blogspot.com/2007/09/dreams-can-come-true.html

Kay has an awesome playlist of songs at that page, as well as this pretty amazing video. So stop by there sometime ...

However, this is where she found the video:

http://allthings2all.blogspot.com/2007/09/when-gift-speaks-for-itself.html

And this blogger has some interesting comments about it. Now go on over there and watch the video and read those comments. Then come on back, okay?




















You did go, right?

Okay, I'd heard about this guy on the radio, had heard an excerpt of him singing. But was really unprepared for the effect seeing this guy follow his dream would have on me.

This guy is becoming somewhat of a folk hero. I think that is great.

But, it isn't important to get a lot of applause or to win a contest or to even become a hero. What is important is realizing you have a dream. You have talent(s). You have been given a gift.

Embrace it. Follow it. PLEASE, share it!

"My Blog Lesson For Today" Continues, part two ...

It has been over a week since I asked "What is wrong with me?"

(You can read that post here: http://suseadoodle-pms.blogspot.com/2007/08/my-blog-lesson-for-today.html and then the continuation here: http://suseadoodle-pms.blogspot.com/2007/08/my-blog-lesson-for-today-continues.html )

I intended to post the continuation of my thoughts on the issue a lot sooner than this. But ...

Don't know how I could have forgotten. I know it far better than I know the freckles on the back of my hand. Remember the old ads that said "When E. F. Hutton talks, everyone listens."? Well, I learned quite a while ago that when I ask questions, God listens! And then answers those questions.

Did I really want an answer?

Yes.

And God has been sending answers to me. :-)

He is showing (not just telling) me that He really is my Best Friend. He has been sending me to new blogs and posts that somehow deal with the issue of trusting Him. He has been finding books for me to read: novels by godly authors (if you're really bored enough to read any more by me, here's my blogged lament on what I find on the shelves of the bookstores: http://suseadoodle-pms.blogspot.com/2007/08/i-love-to-read-but.html) that deal with issues of trust and / or friendship in ways that illustrate God's faithfulness and why we can trust Him. E-mailed newsletters showed up with reports or stories that fit the question quite well. He sent music my way to listen to that really lifted me. (Okay, you'll find that here: http://www.shoutlife.com/shennethcanegata -- and the song "Stand and Live." This was a "gift" I found from reading Marilynn Griffith's blog at: http://marilynngriffith.typepad.com/rhythmsofgrace/ It was in the archives -- keep reading back and back and back ... it's worth every click LOL) And three of the WIP vying for my attention have all taken on the issue, this week, in ways that reach out to me like fingers massaging a headache or brushing hair out of my eyes.

Okay, I had made a comment that the concept of prayer as a "conversation" is a little difficult to imagine (and I have a very vivid imagination) because I like to have the audible response at the other end -- like the phone conversations mom and I used to have. Well, while His voice isn't audible in this "conversation," He sure is sending His message to me.

Discovered some of what I am afraid of. And now He decides to answer the next question even before it's asked -- why it happens and why I shouldn't be afraid of it. He's kept me "busy" this week. But it was one of the best weeks I've have in a long time. Best friends have a way of having that effect in our lives.

:-)