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A wonderful article featuring the Amanda Travels series as a Christmas gift suggestion.
INTERVIEW WITH DARLENE FOSTER FROM “DARLENE FOSTER’S BLOG”
Meet Darlene Foster from Darlene Foster’s Blog
All about your BLOG:
Tell us about your lovely BLOG.
- What is the name of your blog and how did you decide on your blog name?
My blog is simply named Darlene Foster’s Blog because I want people to be able to find it easily. My tagline is dreamer of dreams, teller of tales but it no longer shows up under my name and I can’t seem to fix it. - What prompted you to start on this blogging journey?
My publisher suggested I start a blog when she published my first book in 2010. I’m so glad she did. - To date, what blogging achievement/s are you most proud of?
My blog is read all over the world and that makes me happy. I’ve made a shed load of friends too which makes me even happier. - How would you describe your own blogging style?
Natural, friendly and easy to read. - What excites you most about blogging?
Making new friends always excites me. I love being able to share all the fabulous places I have visited, stories about my amazing family and news about my books.
Hop over and read the rest of the interview where I reveal my thoughts on cucumbers, the sun and confusion.
https://esmesalon.com/interview-with-darlene-foster-from-darlene-fosters-blog/
This interview was posted in June but Esmé had just created a new blog site and I was unable to reblog it at the time. Better late than never!!
You might consider being interviewed by the amazing Esmé yourself.
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Sally Cronin is an amazing woman who is a tremendous supporter of other writers and bloggers. So I was so happy to see her here being interviewed by another writer friend of mine, Joy Lennick. Enjoy learning about her very interesting life.
Thank you very much Joy for inviting me over for an interview… it is a great pleasure.
Where you born and what was your first memory?
I was born in Wickham, a village in Hampshire, not far from Portsmouth. My parents lived in a house that my mother grew up in from about the age of 8 years old. Her step-father was the village butcher, with a shop in the main square. We went to Ceylon, as it was called in those days, when I was 18 months old for two years, and my first memories were of noisy monkeys. Small macaques lived all around us in the forest, and they would come into the house at any opportunity to thieve food, my father’s cigarettes and my mother’s jewellry. I also have vivid memories of the scents and sunshine, and I remember swimming at a very early age in my…
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You may have read on a previous post that one of the items on my personal “bucket list” was to meet my blogging friends in person. I am excited to say that I have met three recently.
During my last trip to Canada, a blogging friend showed up at my presentation at a Calgary Library. I was delighted to meet Sue Slaght from Travel Tales of Life. She is as delightful in person as she is on her blog. A prairie girl like I am, she enjoys travel too. Her blog provides excellent articles written with a great sense of humour and filled with interesting details and pictures. She is game to try anything and have it videoed by her patient, eye-rolling husband. Check out her blog. It’s laugh-out-loud funny and the stunning pictures will entice you to visit the many locations she writes about. I am so glad to have met Sue in person.
With blogging buddy Sue Slaght in Calgary, Alberta
Another blogging friend I met recently is Fatima Rosales Naya. I have been following her blog, Saysell Travels, for a few years now. She writes about her travels with her husband and cute dog, Beano, around France and Spain in their motorhome. They find the coolest places to stop and explore and writes about them. They happened to be near Alicante recently so we arranged a meetup. It was like seeing a best friend at long last and we chatted nonstop for two hours. I’m sure we were sisters in another life. Check out her blog, with fabulous pictures here.
With long-time blogging friend, Fatima in Alicante, Spain
While in Liverpool I had a coffee with Alison Sandilands of Seemytravels.com who lives there. We had met once before when she spent six months in Canada five years ago and made a stop on the west coast. I wrote about it in an earlier blog here. After a coffee, snack, and catch-up, she took me to a historic church and gave me great ideas of things to do while in Liverpool. She was the one who suggested I stop by that fabulous library. It was so wonderful to see her again, especially as now she has a sweet little girl. Her blog is a mixture of travel and lifestyle articles.
With Alison and her baby in Liverpool, UK.
There are those who question whether blogging friends are real friends? I for one have always felt they are real friends and meeting some of them in person, makes them even more real. It is so great to have friends scattered all over the world. You can never have too many friends!
Have you had the opportunity to meet a blogging friend?
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To celebrate Halloween, I am a guest on Teri Polen´s Bad Moon Rising Blog Event. Please do check it out, read an excerpt from Amanda in New Mexico: Ghosts in the Wind and leave a comment if you wish. Happy Halloween everyone!!
I’m always excited when a children’s book is featured during Bad Moon Rising – it’s important that the little guys not be left out. I’m thrilled to have Darlene Foster back with the newest addition to her Amanda Travels series, released earlier this month. She’s also hosting a giveaway on her blog – make sure to enter!
Thank you, Teri, for the opportunity to participate in Bad Moon Rising. It has been a month of fascinating posts.
Amanda Ross is on a school trip to Taos, New Mexico with several of her fellow creative students. She shares a room with Cleo, an anxious classmate who insists she sees ghosts. Although Amanda is determined to prove there is no such thing, she can’t seem to shake the feeling that something or someone is watching her.
Join Amanda, Cleo and their funny friend, Caleb as they visit a rugged and beautiful landscape…
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- In: Family | Travel
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After visiting six cities in BC and Alberta, travelling by car, train, metro, bus, large and small aircraft and ferry, I am back in Spain and back to blogging. It feels like such a long time since I wrote my last post. The trip was successful on so many levels. I was able to see many family members and friends. The time spent with my mom was precious and seeing my children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren was wonderful. I was treated to many amazing meals, picnics, a Monet Exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery, a remarkable production of Much Ado About Nothing at Bard on the Beach and a performance by my son’s new band who dedicated the first song to me! I launched Amanda in New Mexico – Ghosts in the Wind and sold out of books at a couple of the venues. Visiting schools, libraries, and bookstores is always a pleasure for me. A week as a workshop leader at the Vancouver Public Library´s Writers and Book Camp was a real treat as was presenting at the BC Association of Travel Writers.
It was a busy schedule and I am now catching up on sleep and chores but I wanted to share a few pictures with you. I’ll start with the most important, my family.
Mom with me and my great-granddaughter, Emma.
An Amanda Travel’s fan
With my handsome musician son and his daughter
Sharing Mexican food with grandson No. 1.
His first car!
Sharing Indian food with grandson No. 2
Grandson at his youth group’s garden produce stand.
Great granddaughter, Devin
Another Amanda Travels fan with a matching Day of the Dead bowl.
They are all growing up and becoming amazing young folks. I enjoyed every minute I spent with them. Then it was off to Vancouver Island.
Beautiful potter daughter showing off the skirt I brought her from Cordoba. I think she likes it!
Best buds
Cousins at the beach
Typical fabulous family meal, with daughter and cousins. I am so lucky!!
My new grand-puppy Petite Du Champs. Love him to bits.
Enjoyable lunch in Calgary with the younger brother who is also my clever website designer.
More to come. I missed blogging and was pleased to see my posts continued to be read and commented on while I was away. You folks rock!!
Liebster Blog Award for me!
Posted on: January 11, 2012
- In: People
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What a wonderful day. I was given an award! A huge thank you to Linda Cassidy Lewis who gave me the Liebster Blog Award. Liebster is German for dearest or beloved and carries the sense of “favourite”. Being raised in a German family, where I was often called “Liebster”, this was especially special.
Apparently the rules say to pass the award along to five of your favourite blogs with less than 200 followers. I guess if you don’t know how many followers the blogs have, its OK. Here are some blogs I feel worthy of passing the award onto:
Laura Best has a great blog over at My Little Corner of the World. It has all the warmth of a maritimer and makes you want to visit that part of the world.
Pattisj’s blog A New Day Dawns is loaded with inspirational messages and wonderful photography
A Daily Life is filled with useful information for bloggers, writers and readers. Check out this blogger’s other site Living The Seasons for some great day to day stories and fabulous pictures
March Hare Books is a delightful site that features vintage children’s books. I love reading about these old books and looking at the whimsical drawings. This is a feel good site.
Read Aloud Dad is a great site for children’s book reviews. This Dad only reviews books he has read to his twin boys and promotes reading aloud to kids. You gotta love that!
That’s my five but I would like to give out one more award, to a new blogger. It takes courage to start a blog. Sheila MacArthur is a well travelled, talented writer who has been writting for a long time and is ready to share her talent with the world. Watch for some great posts on this site in the days to come and give her the support you gave me.
Enjoy the links and remember to pass the award along (if you wish)
Happy blogging!
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