{"id":540,"date":"2007-12-12T00:00:05","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T00:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shilohwalker.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/12\/my-favorite-thingscontest-2\/"},"modified":"2007-12-12T00:00:05","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T00:00:05","slug":"my-favorite-thingscontest-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/2007\/12\/my-favorite-thingscontest-2\/","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite Things….Contest #2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Edited to add…***OOPS!\u00a0 I forgot to post the winner’s name….\u00a0 winner’s name was Ann. (blogs at Fractured Fiction)
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Ann commented<\/font><\/p>\n

Hi Shiloh, I\u2019m tossing my name.
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\u00a0Ann, you need to email me at shilohwalker@gmail.com to claim your prize.<\/font><\/p>\n

Since I got published back in ’04 (I think), I’ve met a lot of people. A lot<\/em> of people. Most have become casual friends, while some others are acquaintances. I’d say most fall into one of those two groups, or somewhere in between.<\/p>\n

I have made a few really good friends, people like Jaci Burton, Dianne Castell, Patricia Sargeant, Rosemary Laurey, the friends that make you smile when they email you or when you bump into them out in blogging land. And FYI… *G* Don’t want to hurt any feelings~that list is by no means complete. \ud83d\ude09 There are others and they know who they are.<\/p>\n

Then there are a couple of really close friends. You know the kind of friends that you can tell anything and they love you anyway? The kind of friend you’d call at 2 am if you had to bury a body<\/strike> were really upset and just needed to talk?<\/p>\n

I’ve made three really close friends and today’s contest is in honor of them.<\/p>\n

Lora, Renee and Anni.<\/p>\n

Lora sort of adopted me back when I first got published with EC. She’s the woman I bounce ideas off of when a plot is sticking for me. She’s the woman who listens to me gripe when something just isn’t working right, or when I’m just really, really down and I need a shoulder.<\/p>\n

Anni is a friend I met through the EC chat loop and the two of us were alike in so many ways, we either had to love each other or hate each other. \ud83d\ude09 Thank God we decided to love each other, cuz she’s one of my bestest friends ever.<\/p>\n

Renee is a stalker<\/strike> another friend I met through the EC chat loop, and she was the first reader to email me about one of my books. We clicked, even aside from the writing, and she’s been another close friend the past few years.<\/p>\n

Good friends are something I thank God for and they are definitely on my faves list. But since I can’t really give them away, even if I wanted to, I’ll give away books in their honor.<\/p>\n