Thanks

Special Thanks

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People leave impressions. For everything you do and have done. For those of you who have shaped my life and made these characters possible and for those who have offered your support and encouragement, or have inspired me.
Mum, Dad, David Dando-Moore, Sam Dando-Moore, Rachel Bradshaw, Lucas Bradshaw, Blair Shelmerdine, Nick Ridley, Neil Middleton, Nan, Nana, Granddad Ray, Granddad Eric, Richard Moore, Archie Moore, Isaac Moore, Ivy Moore, Emily Moore, Kath Kanji, Norman Troake, Amir Kanji, Steve Troake, Paul Troake, Jenny Troake, Seánagh Troake, Ellen Troake, Nikki Turner, Chris Turner, Annabelle Turner, Henry Turner, Robin Moore, Jean Moore, Louise Moore, Alice Moore, Lynne Dando, Robert Dando, Darran Lloyd, Jasmine Brennan, Chantal Boudreau, Ien Nivens, Cynthia Echterling, Ren Garcia, Steve Haynes, David Prosser, Gavin Lees, Helena Hann-Basquiat, Sarah Valeri, Pamela Spiro Wagner, Frankie Stein, Stephanie Davies, Richard Guest, Darnell Cureton, Mark Thimesch, Helen Howden, Graham Casselden, Rusty Selwyn, John Clinock, Kenny Beachmount, J.R Floyd, Peter Saga, JRD Skinner, Hernán Jara Droguett, Michaela Staton, Deborah Walker, Heather Stevenson, Allen Veitch, Sister Ancille, Rich Feitelberg, Siddiqui Fayesal, Andrew Carey, Azriel Johnson, Kim Williams Justesen, Breanne Rowe, Justine Hedman, Samantha Quinnell, Elizabeth Judd, Arthur Imbrey, Anna Moray Parker, Chris Nurse, Frances Woodley, Matthew Rampley, Kelly Priestley, Betty Devine, Sammy Devine, Ken Devine, Damian Hemsworth, Matthew Ridley, Sam Ridley, Tori Amos, Neil Gaiman, Cyndi Lauper, Anne Rice, Alan Moore, Alma Alexander, John Martin, Toni Morrison, Joanna Russ, Frida Khalo, Alexand Merek and Katherine De Somme.
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Awards

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A special thank you to Laura Crean for three awards. The Sunshine Award, The Versatile Blogger Award and I Am Part of The WordPress Family Award. You can visit Laura’s poetry, art  and stories at her wordpress site.

Sunshine Award

“The recipients of the Sunshine Award are bloggers who positively and creatively inspire others in the blogosphere.”
“The recipients of the Sunshine Award are bloggers who positively and creatively inspire others in the blogosphere.”

This award was given to Unbound Boxes Limping Gods by Jasmine Batchellor-Sequeira who has a wonderfully thoughtful and imaginative blog called Tales Through Time Thank you so much, Jasmine.

Now here’s the rules.

Post the Sunshine Award image, answer the following 10 questions and note 10 blogs you wish to nominate.

Ten Questions:

1: If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be? (answer) Probably the South of France by the Mediterranean.

2: What’s your favourite time of year? (answer) Any season but winter. I hate the cold and dark days.

3: Which words do you hate most at this moment in time? (answer) Pop and proctor.

4: Which words do you like most at this moment in time? (answer) Wobbly and befuddle.

5: What are your favourite and least favourite terms of expression? (answer) I can’t stand idioms, they make me shiver and feel dead inside. I like unexpected phrases that don’t quite rhyme or match, but somehow go well together.

6: Which writers/artists/Musicians inspire you most of all? (answer) Toni Morrison, Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Frida Khalo, John Martin, Tori Amos, Kathe Kollwitz, Ian Banks, Anne Rice, Margaret Attwood.

7: What is your greatest passion? (answer) Writing and illustrating Unbound Boxes Limping Gods.

8: Who do you love most in the world? (answer) My Mum and my son.

9: What’s your favourite animal? (answer) cats

10: Where can you be found online, other than wordpress? (answer) Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Google +, Pinterest, Readwave, Wattpad. Linkedin, Tumblr, Stumbleupon.

And now to the bloggers I’m giving this Sunshine Award to:

1: From one left handed blogger to another, a truly inspiring blog, gutsy, candid and uplifting. You deserve the Sunshine Award, Bill, for bwthoughts.

2: Eric Alagan has LOadS of awards, because of his versatility as a writer, but I thought I’d offer him one more for his blog Written Words Never Die.

3: I’d also like the Sunshine Award to go to my fellow writer / illustrator F Kenneth Taylor who weaves history and politics so skilfully into his work.

4: Talented graphic designer and fellow writer, Laura B Williams, also deserves The Sunshine Award, for her very informative and creative blog Laura B Williams Designs

5: Gabriela Blandy, for The Sense of A Journey, an imaginative and addictive blog.

6: I’d like to award John Henry Beck for his smart character observations and short stories, at his blog Free Fiction, I write you read, life goes on.

7: For her fantastically entertaining and witty blog, Being The Memoirs of Helena Hann-Basquiat, Dilettante, I’ve nominated Helena for The Sunshine Award.

8: I’m nominating Apurva Kandicuppa, for the Sunshine award, as she is a very talented artist and writer, for My Experiments With Words.

The Blog Of The Year Award

blog20125starsI am hugely honoured to receive The Blog Of 2012 Award from a truly great blogmaster, John Clinock. John runs an inspiring and amazingly artistic feast of a blog, known as Art Rat Cafe. Thank you so much John! I am also pleased to receive the second award from Joe at I Am For Change, who writes a very positive and refreshing blog. Thank you also to OA Writings Poems, Paintings for the third Blog of The Year Award. Thank you to a very talented artist, Heekeow, for her Blog Of The Year Award.  Thank you so much Tarisai Mzwimbi for his Blog of The Year 2012 Award, which gives me my fifth star! Thank you so much Joe. I will now award this to three very deserving recipients, who are all talented and prolific.. Their names will be revealed after the rules.

1. Select another blog or other blogs who deserve the ‘blog of the Year 2012’ Award.

2. Write a blog post and tell us about the blog(s) you have chosen – there’s no minimum or maximum number of blogs required – and ‘present’ them with their award.

3. Please include a link back to this page ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award – http://thethoughtpalette.co.uk/our-awards/blog-of-the-year-2012-award/   and include these ‘rules’ in your post (please don’t alter the rules or the badges!)

4. Let the blog(s) you have chosen know that you have given them this award and share the ‘rules’ with them.

5. You can now also join our Facebook group – click ‘join’ on this page ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award Facebook group and then you can share your blog with an even wider audience.

6. As a winner of the award – please add a link back to the blog that presented you with the award – and then proudly display the award on your blog and sidebar … and start collecting stars…

7. There are stars to collect! Yes, there are stars to collect! Unlike other awards, which you can only add to your blog once – this award is different! When you begin you will receive the 1 star award, and every time you are given the award by another blog, you can add another star!

8. There are a total of 6 stars to collect. At which time your “badge” will look like this: blog20126stars

You can check out your favourite blogs, and even if someone else has already given them the award, you can still award them again and help them to reach the maximum 6 stars!

Now for my nominations and the criteria for my decision.

I am always impressed by imaginative and prolific work, which captures artistry, and takes me somewhere else. I love escaping into worlds created lovingly by others, whether they be writers, artists or photographers, if they can translate their vision and allow me to go on that journey with them then I think they deserve this award. My nominations are Chantal Boudreau, for Word Blurb, in which she reviews, interviews, and shares her own very prolific writing and stylish illustrations. Chantal has written in many genres, has been published numerous times and is an amazingly talented writer/illustrator. Ren Garcia For The Temple of the Exploding Head, an insight into his imaginative mythology, The League of Elder. Ren has not only written a mind-blowing series in The League, but has ingenious ways of promoting his world, through mixed media, through art and video, through humour and has even had made models of his wonderful characters.  Both Chantal and Ren are talented writers, who also have the good fortune of possessing great business heads (something I lack personally) They also have in common with my third nominee the ‘need’ to create as if it is intrinsic to their life. Finally but certainly not lastly, Richard Guest for The Future is Papier Mache, in which he takes stunning photography of people in the city around him, capturing moments with them, translating moods and feelings, sharing many real life ‘characters’ with his viewer. I have become captivated by his work. He has a great rapport with his subjects, which shows in his photography. Richard cares about the people and places he photographs and tells us about them. Because of this his reader/viewer becomes engrossed in his work.

The Imagineer Award

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Thank you to Steve K Smy for nominating Unbound Boxes Limping Gods for his Imagineer blog award! You can visit Steve’s site Imagineer-ing and adventure in e-books, here.

The Very Inspiring Blog Award

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Thank you to Shehanne Moore, for nominating me for this award. Thank you to Rebecca Bond for her Very Inspiring Blog Award. Thanks to Word Wabbit, for their Very Inspiring Blogger Award. Laird William and Lady Glyn of Glencoe for their Very Inspiring Blogger Award. Michael Sheridan for nominating my blog for this Very Inspiring Blog Award.  Thank you also to Allison Boroda, for This Very Inspiring Blog Award and to Russell Boyle, from Boyle Poetry for his award nomination and Chandra Lynn for her nomination. Thanks to Joe from I am for change, for his award. You can visit her blog at ChandraLynn.wordpress.com. Thanks to Motivational Talks for this award. Here are the rules.

1. Display the award logo on your blog.

2. Link back to the person who nominated you. You can visit Michael’s blog here at bakersfieldlad.wordpress.com. You can visit Allison’s blog Sandbag Heart, here

3. State 7 thing about yourself.

(1) I spend most of my free time writing and illustrating

(2) I sleep in the lounge on a 1940’s army camp bed (used to be my grandfather’s, he’d be so proud…)

(3) I have 4 cats

(4) I wanted to be a marine photographer

(5) As a child, strangers thought I was a boy called Gerald

(6) I’m pescatarian

(7) One night, Katherine De Somme materialised in front of me (briefly) dispelling my belief I imagined her.

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4. Nominate other blogs for the Very inspiring blog award and tell them you’ve nominated them.

(1) Bwthoughts

(2) Art Rat Cafe

(3) Avenues

(4) The Future Is Papier Mâché

(5) A Girl Who Writes

(6) The Thiessen Review

(7) The daily blog of Judy Morris

(8) Mark’s Studio

(9) Beachmount’s Writing Corner

Wonderful Team Member Readership Award

I am very honoured to be nominated by Art Rat Cafe. Thank you John Clinock.

1. The nominee of the Wonderful Team Member Readership Award shall display the logo on his/her post/page and/or sidebar

2. The nominee shall nominate 10 readers they appreciate over a period of 7 days. This can be done at any rate during the week. It can be all on one day or a few on one day and a few on another day etc.

3. The nominee must finish this sentence and post: “A great reader is..”

PLEASE NOTE RULES CAN BE ADDED TO/AMENDED if deemed appropriate; let’s be creative, and let’s grow & improve, but let’s also keep to the spirit of the award

My nominees are:

1: Michele Dacosta, (museum of documentary and fiction) for her inspirational documentary work, overseas.

2: The Amateur’s Quill, by Tebogo Ndlovu. Philosophical and poetic, and in her own words; “the phenomenon that we make an impact on the people around us, creating experiences that mold our characters and change our lives  adversely or favorably.”

3: Nathan Filbert for his beautifully crafted blog exploring language and art. Man of The World.

4: Just A Thought Inside My Head, for a very intimate and artistic peeling back of layers.

5: Lesley Carter, for her ultra adventurous travel blog, making the real world look fun! Bucket List Publications

6: Michael D Woods, Writer and artist. Pest Control Technician.

7: Falling Short of the Absolute Truth is an experiment in story telling.

8: Afternoon Tea, short stories by Darla McDavid.

9: Beautifully written poetry, by Julia Dean-Richards, at A Place For Poetry.

10: Pfugler, mythology and folk law from around our galaxy. Some unusual and creative short films by Cynthia Echterling.

A great reader is… open minded enough to explore new concepts, to recognise themselves in what they read, even if momentarily. Empathy and imagination allows us to place ourselves in the lives of others. Emotion, conjured by a fictional catalyst, can only work if the reader relates to and empathises with the characters. The writer is just a conduit, it’s the reader who breathes life into what he or she reads.

The Addictive Blog Award

I was very pleased to receive this award from Sonya Glyn Nicholson who writes an inspirational blog called Ironically: Rare, Acts & Deeds of the Style Prowess.

To accept, I must post the awards on this page, tell who sent the awards, write about why I blog and then recommend others (up to 10) and notify them that they have been awarded.

The reason I write.

Since an early age I’ve never really felt part of the real world. Although I am interested in real people, I feel somewhat disconnected for large intervals. I felt my body and my self didn’t quite belong together, because I wanted to be treated the same way as my brother, but society and nature derailed this delusion. As a child I used to face this inability to be part of a ‘group’ by becoming different people inside my head, by placing myself into the role of someone I was more comfortable being. Children do this a lot, but for some reason I never quite grew out of this phase. I didn’t start my first short story until the age of twelve, but found comfort in writing. It enabled me to express myself in ways that eluded (and still elude) me in real life. This mutated into other reasons through time, with my father’s death and all the inevitable questions that occur as a result of attempting to accept something so final. Hope springs from grief, along with many other conflicting emotions, which become fictional cocktails, mixed to create new lives, lived far away from the grimness of something so painful. I learnt to take parts of the real world and place them safely into new people, fashioned from everything and everyone who has had an impact on me in reality. Without this cushion I would be nothing, I would be reduced to feeling inadequately trapped inside the body which didn’t fit me as a child. The best thing I’ve done in reality, is to have created a real son, but in fiction I can create whole worlds, become anything I dream and share that with others in ways my clunky socially inept self couldn’t possibly pull off in reality.

Now here are 10 very addictive blogs:

1: Deidra Alexander’s Blog. In her own words, “I have people to kill, lives to ruin, plagues to bring, and worlds to destroy. I am not the Angel of Death. I’m a fiction writer.”

2: Welcome to The Asylum, by the very talented J.S Chancellor

3: Word Blurb, by Chantal Boudreau, a prolific artist, writer and reviewer.

One Lovely Blog Award

Thank you to Michele Dacosta, (museum of documentary and fiction) who has one of the most inspirational blogs on wordpress; for the photographic and documentary work she produces overseas in troubled  countries. I’m honoured to receive the One Lovely Blog Award from her! Thanks also to Tina and Caroline for The One Lovely Blog Award. You can visit their website, A Readers Review Blog, here. Thanks to Mary Myers for The One Lovely Blog Award. Thanks also to Gabriel for the One Lovely Blog Award to, Paharidotme at Discovering myself, and to Tebogo Ndlovu for the One Lovely Blog Award too! Thanks to Steven L Campbell for the One Lovely Blogger Award, and to Sage Doyle for the One Lovely Blog Award and Christopher at Reality Enchanted for his One Lovely Blog Award

Now for “The Rules.” Anyone nominated for the One Lovely Blog Award must do the following to keep this unique prize rolling:

  • Thank the person who nominated you and link to them in your post.
  • Share seven unknown things about yourself.
  • Nominate other bloggers and blogs you like or admire… 15 or so if possible.
  • Contact the bloggers you nominate to let them know and to link them back to your post so they can read “The Rules,” too.

The second “rule” demands that I share seven unknown things about myself, which will not be easy.

Here are the seven.

1. When I was young I thought I was  a boy.

2. I still secretly believe I’ll meet my characters one day, as they are as real as living people to me

3. I get on better with ‘loners’ than large groups

4. I used to have a big crush on Glynis Barber (Makepeace)

5. I prefer cats to dogs

6. My family are more important to me than most other things apart from writing and drawing

7. I’m generally quite a confused human being

Now here are the people who I believe deserve to get my vote for One Lovely Blog Award (If I could nominate Michele Dacosta as well, I would!)

1. My good friend Chantal Boudreau for her prolific writing, artwork and reviews.

2. The Unknown Phlogger for some beautiful art photography, poetry and writing

3. The Temple of The Exploding Head, by the very funny and talented Ren Garcia

4. My amazing son, Sam (12) for his ambitious and imaginative poetry

5. Welcome To The Asylum, by J.S Chancellor

6. Appropriately Frayed, by Unsouthern Belle

7. Living In Fairyland, An etiquette guide for sl!!s

8. The Future is Papier Mache by Richard Guest

9. Art Rat Cafe by John Clinock

10. Anelephantcant

11. Diabetic Redemption

12. Steven Leo Campbell, creating new worlds

13. If writing was a child’s play

14. Flying over a forest, LC Aisling

15. Nonoy Manga

I discovered today that I have won the Reader Appreciation Award after being nominated by Steven Leo Campbell. This is my first award for blogging, and I’m intrigued that it’s a reader appreciation one. I don’t know who created the award, but I’m glad to see that Steven was a recipient too.

The Lovely Blog Award, from Elisabeth Berg please visit Elisabeth’s blog here elisabethberg.wordpress.com

Thank you to Living In Fairyland for this sunshine award! 

Thank you Anelephantcant for this award!

Thank you, Julia at A Place For Poetry

Thank you to One Lovely Blogger award on Talking Tosh by Christopher Farley

Thank you to LC Aisling for the sunshine award

Thank you to Jofelyn at Sleepy Tales and Lucid Dreams

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Thanks to F Kenneth Taylor for The Next Big Thing Award. Check out his blog here.

Reviews and interviews

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The Thiessen Review by Katharine Griffifths (Interview with me)

The Blurb on other people’s words Cheryl Moore: Writer / Artist by Chantal Boudreau

Book Reader’s Heaven, interview part 1 with Cheryl Moore by Glenda Bixler

Book Reader’s Heaven, interview part 2 with Cheryl Moore by Glenda Bixler

Encountering Cheryl Moore, Her art, her words, a review by Glenda Bixler

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Links to friends on wordpress and elsewhere

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Phlogit

Word Blurb, by Chantal Boudreau

Johndwmacdonald.com

A Place For Poetry

Stevenleocampbell

Living in Fairy Land

If writing was child’s play by LC Aisling

The American Book of Changes, by Ien Nivens

TalkingTosh.com

Doug Stubber’s Blog

Diabetic Redemption by Judith Atwood

We Like Humans by Cynthia Echterling

The Temple of The Exploding Head by Ren Garcia

Anelephantcant

The Future is Papier Mache by Richard Guest

Welcome To The Asylum, by J. S Chancellor

Jasilandia Underground, By Jasmine B Brennan

Kim Williams Justesen

Azriel Johnson, writer 

Justine Hedman, Artist, Writer

Ella Ragland, art

L.E Fallon

The Cola Factory

Joyce Ragland

Adrian Chamerlin

Franz McLaren

Rich Feitelberg, Paraphernalia in my Pocket

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  2. Thanks for following my blog, Cheryl. The artwork and writing you have here are very wonderful and intriguing. I look foreword to seeing more of it! 🙂

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  4. Hey Cheryl! Thank you for checking out my writing and for subscribing :). I hope you find my cornucopia of stuff ‘n such interesting.

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  7. tq for subscribing. may i interest you in my other blog which i am well known to scribble also? i love your blog name! unbound boxes limping gods .. have a nice day!

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  9. Thank you for liking my post which brought me to your blog. It’s amazing. You’re one talented woman. Which material do you use for the drawings?

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    1. You’re welcome, I love your sketches! Thank you, I’m glad you like the blog too. 😀 I draw on paper, mostly with H through to 2B pencils, and then scan it in.

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  10. Cheryl, thanks so much for reading my blog! I’m so glad you decided to follow along. Your stories look intriguing, keep up the writing bug!

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  16. Thank you for choosing to follow my blog. I hope you continue to enjoy my posts. Thank you too for introducing me to your interesting site.

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  20. Thank you for finding and following my work. I have been amazed at your material here, and I am looking forward to really diving into what you have created here!

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  21. Thank you very much for following my blog and thus prompting me to see your work. Wow, what an inspiration your blog is for me! I’m actually fairly new to blogging and am totally impressed by all your work, creativity and talent. Thank you again~ Liz

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    1. Hi Liz, thank you for taking the time to visit and likewise, I’m impressed with the portraits on your blog. Good to meet you. I’m really glad you like the stories, it means a lot to me. Cheryl

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  22. Just wanted to say that I had a look at your drawings on Flickr, and I especially love the one with the girl looking through a partly opened door. You are a gifted artist and writer! =D

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  24. Wow you are so talented, I’m so glad I clicked on your blog because I’ve only just read a few stories and I already love you. Your illustrations are seriously inspiring and amazing. I feel honored that you’re following my blog! Keep up the good work and please neve stop posting.

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  27. Hello Cheryl, it is so nice to meet a fellow artist and writer such as yourself!
    You have such an amazing blog. Your illustrations are beautiful! You have a terrific grasp on details and perspective, and your shading is gorgeous. I am going to go through your entire blog to view all of your drawings and to read your work!
    I look forward to seeing your future illustrations and reading your future writings! Thank you so much for following my blog! I am truly flattered!

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    1. Hi Alison, likewise, I love the movement you capture in your art (something I have trouble with in my own work) and am glad you took the time to visit. You’re very welcome here! Thank you. Cheryl

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      1. Thank you so much as well! Capturing movement and perspective always seems to be incredibly difficult in art. You do such a lovely job! I can’t wait to see more of your work!

  28. Thank you for the like on my blog. Your blog surprised me, I did not expect to see just an array. Between sketches and drawings your a very creative person! I’ll be interested to see where your short stories end up.

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    1. Hi Mary, good to meet you (I came across your blog, because I love Tori too, *wishing happy birthday to her*) Thank you for visiting my stories, it means a lot to me. Cheryl x

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    1. Hi Anna, it’s good to meet you and thank you. Your posts are very informative as an indie writer, and I’m looking forward to reading and learning more. I’m glad you like the stories.

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  31. Hi Cheryl, thanks for stopping by and subscribing to my blog 🙂 You’ve got a pretty impressive body of work here which I’ll surely be back to dip into in future. I love how you never know what you’re going to discover when you click on that link…Cheers, Andy.

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  32. I am so humbled that you followed my photo of the day blog. Your talents are boundless and inspiring. Thank you for introducing me to them and you.

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    1. Hi Sara, very good to meet you. I love the idea that you’re taking up your father’s photography quest. Some beautiful memories and also great photos shared. Thanks for taking the time to visit, I appreciate it. Cheryl

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      1. Cheryl, thank you. I have just returned from a short hiatus and I am catching up on the wonderful blog posts I have missed. Yours is tops on my list, so I shall be there soon.

      1. You are so welcome! Your War Party: Unbound Boxes Limping Gods illustration is so beautiful…what mediums did you use here if you don’t mind me asking and the size?

      2. Oh War Party is an older painting, it’s all illustrated on 120g/m2 paper and then coloured in photoshop! (I can’t paint well with real paints!) 😀

  40. Many thanks for following Dragonshades. Listening to shapes, seeing words and hearing silent stories is the result of my spending a lot of time in the company of Nature, animals, birds, wood and stone. Keep on doing what you do it is wonder-full.

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  41. What an extraordinary blog you have here. A writer who illustrates her own stories… it’s very impressive. Your drawings have a distinct style, and you’ve built up an enormous body of work. Truly amazing. Wishing you all the best! : )

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  42. Dear Cheryl, Thank you so much for your strong support and appreciation for the work that I’m doing independently and with my colleagues at The Peace Project. You inspire me with your exceptional writing and drawing. Wishing you all the very best and congratulations on the One Lovely Blog Award 🙂 Mx

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  46. Awesome sketches Cheryl ! I didn’t know anyone who could weave wonderful stories and sketch awesome sketches at the same time…… All the very best to you..

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  47. Cheryl, Thanks for stopping by and deciding to follow along. I’ll happily catch up with your stories as well! Beautiful illustrations 🙂

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  52. Thanks for stopping by my humble little blog, I’m glad you saw something you liked 🙂

    I love your artwork, it really is beautiful, I’m a little envious, I still can’t draw people and yours have fantastic life about them.

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    1. Hi Eric, good to meet you, and thanks for the encouragement, it helps a lot. I’ve followed you on twitter btw. So you’ve been working on the project for 12 years?

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      1. 12 years and counting, and finally getting closer to where I’m just about ready to start sharing whole portions of it. I don’t have a set timeline, that would probably ruin it so I take my time and make sure it’s really ready.

        And thank you for following, it encourages me to work harder on it and always puts a huge smile on my face one someone takes an interest.

  54. Cheryl, thanks so much for following my blog. You are an amazing artist. Always wished I could draw but I can only draw a picture with my words ; ) You can do both! Great blog…there is so much here…

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  58. Hi Cheryl, another ‘thank you’ for following the blog and sharing your work. Your illustrations and short stories are inspirational. Good luck with getting the whole thing out there.

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  60. Greetings Cheryl, thank you so much for following my blog. I’m glad you found something you liked there, and I hope I can continue to entertain you. I’ll have to have a peruse of your blog as your sketches are really expressive, and your style of storytelling seems very original and intriguing.

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  63. Thank you so much for following my Hamilton Color blog, shoot, I just got that one started for work and only last night settled on a theme. already have two followers in just 24 hours. I’m hoping you will stick around as we have some interesting art articles that will be posted.

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  66. Hi Cheryl, thank you for following my blog. Your site here looks amazing and the illustrations are lovely. I look lovely to seeing your upcoming work. If you’d ever be interested in giving an interview please just let me know 🙂

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    1. Hi Katie, you’re welcome, I’m enjoying reading the interviews and reviews. Thanks for stopping by, and I’m glad you like what you’ve seen here so far. I’d be happy to give an interview any time. LMK when you’ve got time and I’ll give you my email address so we can talk about it. Thank you! Cheryl

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      1. That’s great. I don’t know if it’s possible to send private messages on wordpress but just let me know when you’re free as I’m pretty flexible atm. Best, Katie

  68. HI Cheryl,
    I just wanted to stop by and say thank you for following my blog. Your artwork is beautiful! Writing takes courage and a willingness to look deep inside yourself.

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  69. Hello, just a brief note to say thanks a lot for taking the time to stop by – and follow – my “beeseeker” blog. Will be back to take a look at your work when I have a little more time. Be lucky.

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  72. Hello, and thanks for liking my Trailer 8 post of my latest book. You have some amazing art on this blog. I’ll be sure to check back often.

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  75. I love your work! Can’t wait to explore more of your blog. Thank you for checking out my blog and becoming a follower. Best wishes ~ Mary

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  76. Hi Cheryl,
    Thanks for visiting and “liking” my post on thesaltwatertwin. What a lot there is to explore here! I’m excited to dive in. Maia

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  78. Thank you for visiting my poetry blog ! You seem like a really cool woman, Cheryl. I like your artwork and your writing very much ! I’m going to enjoy looking all of it over….JEFF

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    1. Hi Jeff, you’re very welcome, I really enjoyed reading Fate’s Lilting Laughter, thanks for reading this story, I appreciate it, you’re welcome here any time! Cheryl

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  83. Thanks so much for stopping by my foodie blog Rogue Pastry Chef, i too am a author, but i only have written one novel so far…I am working with a great editor to get it printed:) hope the same for yo cuz your work is amazing. look forward to chatting in the future 🙂

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    1. Opps yo came to Sown in Peace lol i should read better….I do have a foodie blog called Rogue Pastry chef, as well….but im glad you liked it anyway and i hope you check in form time to time:)

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      1. No problem, what’s your food blog called? I’ll take a look. (I’m always hungry lol) 😀

    2. You’re welcome and it’s good to meet you too, good luck also with the publication. Thanks for taking the time to stop by, I appreciate it. 😀

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  84. I love your imagination. I also love your epitaph: The writer breathes life into a story, but the reader keeps it alive. My favorite quote is similar: from READING IN THE BRAIN, by Stanislas Dehaene: he quotes Alberto Manguel, who says: “The existence of the text is a silent existence, silent until the moment in which a reader reads it. Only when the able eye makes contact with the markings on the tablet does the text come to active life. All writing depends on the generosity of the reader.”

    Virginia Anderson
    http://justcanthelpwriting.wordpress.com/
    http://canwritingbetaught.wordpress.com/

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  88. Hello,
    I just wanted to stop by and thank you for subscribing to the content of my new blog, postcardsanonymous.wordpress.com. Have a great day and feel free to send me a card 😉

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  89. Wow! What great writing and drawings to go along! It’s going to take me a while to “catch up”, but thanks for following me – I wouldn’t have found out about your work unless you did.

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  92. Thanks for following my blog Cheryl. Yours is certainly one of the most distinctive I have yet come across on WordPress, well done!

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  94. Hi Cheryl — your work is beautiful. Will definitely find the time to peruse your stories — very intriguing! Signed up to follow your blog and thank you for the same.
    Toodles,
    Barbara Jean

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      2. I’ve been to your blog and you have quite a collection in your archives, it’s very interesting. I’ve followed you!! 😀 Thanks again.

  98. Lovely combination of writing and illustration skills. I wish your stories to reach far and wide sooner through publications. Nice to have seen this blog. Thanks for visiting pages from serendipity.

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  99. Hello Cheryl Moore,

    You’ve been to my blog a couple of times and expressed “Like” so thank you for that. I’ve been to your blog a few times and realize the complexities that make up a person need not be understood to be appreciated. (That’s my way of saying, “Wow! You go girl!”)

    So now I’m asking for your help. If you or any of my daughters (or sons) read these posts (http://mlbergitn.wordpress.com/tag/alice-zeorlin/) what would your reaction be? Not so much what is your reaction to my reaction but “What is your reaction to global protocols, manifested in local politic?”

    I’ve tried to be fair and honest in my approach to life. We share that trait.

    Dan

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  103. I would love to be alone with your drawings. They could tell me their stories to write for them or perhaps poems? You draw such interesting characters!

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  108. Cheryl Thanks for visiting my blog. You are my No. 1. Appreciated it very much for stopping by so that I have the opportunity to follow your blog. Amazing works!!!! I like your header design and the image you picked for yourself! Great to see that in this community there are so many talented and artistic people around. It makes me feel more and more humble now. Btw I do prefer cats than dogs, and will be putting up soon some simple sketches of my cat who had passed away in September 2012. Have a nice day! Heekeow

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    1. Hi Heekeow, likewise, I think your artwork is beautiful, and love the colours you use to blend and create depth and warmth to your paintings. I’m glad you visited here, and look forward to speaking with you in the future. Thanks for reading, I appreciate it. Cheryl.

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  112. Hi Cheryl, thanks for stopping by my blog. The fact that you did has given me the chance to get to know your work, and I’m enthralled. You have some powerful stories and illustrations. I love your blog and am looking forward to getting to know it better

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  118. Cheryl, thank you for appreciating my writing! I am stunned by sheer volume of work on your blog – what a great collection of stories and sketches!

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  121. Cheryl, I appreciate your stopping by my blog and for following. Your illustrations here are awesome. You are quite talented and I am glad I found your blog. I will be back.

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  128. Hi , I am joining the Blog Awards Trail and have nominated your blog for an award – VERY INSPIRING BLOGGER AWARD. If you havent seen this yet you can read more about it on my blog, if you have already done this or you are not interested thats ok!

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    1. Hi Michael, thank you so much for this award. I’m going to do this today, and I’ll let you know when it’s done. It will be on my thank you page once I’ve finished. Much appreciated, Cheryl

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  129. Cheryl, thanks for visiting OurHerstory.net today. May I also suggest a visit to view my verbal poetic work at susanbourne.net and visual poetic work at allbourneart.net.

    Keep creating,
    Susan Bourne

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  131. Thank you for following Word Play For Today. I’m looking forward to enticing the creative mojo inside that brain of yours and reaping the benifets your skilled imagination offers to the written word (not to neglect your renderings… Beautiful). Thrilled to read what you have in store for us!!!

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  132. Thanks for liking my blog enough to follow it. This is a quick drop in (the eyes have blog-blur at this time of night). I’ll spend more time looking around, later.

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  134. Thanks for stopping by my blog and liking my Random Penguin post! Your artwork is absolutely incredible. Keep on doing what you’re doing!

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  135. Hi Cheryl – you have put your awards together beautifully and congratulations for them all – you richly deserve every one. Thank you so much for nominating me for The Very Inspiring Blog Award and for the One Lovely (I always want to call it ‘loverly’)Blog award – I am flattered and honoured to receive these from you – a creative master who’s work I hugely admire – I will be posting these soon. Hooeee! – this is like an early Christmas…

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  136. Hi Cheryl – Thanks for dropping by and deciding to stay 🙂
    I’m already in awe of your creative talent. Can’t wait to explore the grand work you have here. Such a pleasure to not only write your characters perspective but also design their personality. Great words, great illustrations.
    Regards
    S.

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    1. Hi Siddharth, you’re welcome, I am enjoying reading your poetry. Thanks for stopping here, I appreciate it. Glad you like what you’ve seen so far. Cheryl

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  138. Pingback: Genre for the Holidays – Celebrating 2012! « Word Blurb

    1. Hi, thank you so much for visiting. I’m enjoying reading your blog btw as it’s very diverse and interesting, so many categories to choose from! I liked the boy with a guitar. I agree, writing is everything (to me, well almost 🙂 ) Good to meet you. Cheryl

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  142. Thanks for the nomination…..you have an amazing blog, and I love the illustrations too……so pleased we met here in blog land. You´re amazingly talented. xxxx

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  143. Hello Cheryl! Your blog is AMAZING, and I’m truly honored that you liked my poem and is now following my blog. I’m just starting out and have a lot to learn and do, but your stories and illustrations are very inspiring. I’ll have an illustrator for my stories soon, and then introduce different aspects of my blog to the public that will be both helpful to writers and interactive. I hope you’ll come back and read my new entries, as I’ll definitely be visiting your blog often. THANKS SO MUCH! Take care! 🙂

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  145. Cheryl..first I want to thank you for visiting and signing to follow my blog…savorthefood.wordpress.com . Also I want to express WOW!! what a blog you have here. Am I right to say these are your drawings? What excellent illustrations and drawings.

    Your cat stares at you all day because it feels privileged to be the pet of such a learned writer and drawer of her own illustrations. 🙂

    Thanks again for sharing and following my blog. I look forward to your future post’s.

    Chef Randall
    savorthefood.wordpress.com

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  146. Hi Cheryl,

    I would like to add one more star to your “Blog of the Year 2012” Award!!

    http://heekeow.wordpress.com/2013/01/02/blog-of-the-year-2012-award/

    Thanks for sharing with us all your beautiful creations in writing and illustration!!! Truly impressed by what you have done, although I hardly have time to read and follow your story, but each time when I stopped by quickly, I always so touched by your efforts and talents.

    May you have a wonderful and meaningful 2013.

    Cheers,
    Heekeow

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  149. Thank you for liking my blog Cheryl. Your artistic out put is phenomenal.
    If in the future, may be at the stage of publication you would like to collaborate with a photographer, I’d be pleased to illustrate photographically your created world on intersecting lives and the themes that they weave.

    I have only written one short piece myself,

    http://sinclairgordon2012.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/perspective-on-autobiographical-fiction/

    so not taken the plunge as yet.

    Gordon.

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    1. Hi, Tarisai, thank you so much for this award!! I appreciate it, I’ll add you to my thank you page and a link to your website. All the best for 2013. Cheryl

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  152. Thanks for the beautiful illustrations, for being included in this list and for following my blog. Be filled with blessings and promises.

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  156. Hi Cheryl. I see you already have an Award or two on here. I really like your Blog and the work that you are doing on it. I want to nominate you for the Reality Blog Award because you draw a beautiful grey-shaded and poetic reality. The link to the Award is here: http://wp.me/p2qfuv-sz. I don’t know if you got it already, but I just thought I would send it to you just in case. Take care.

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  159. Thank you for Liking my blog post Affirmation, Gratitude and Merkaba! Gratitude Dance! I love your sketching and your words and sketching go together like peanut butter and jelly! :~) Congratulations! on your awards! :~)

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  160. Hi Cheryl, thanks for stopping by my blog and following me. Your blog is awesome and I can see why you’ve been nominated for Best Blog. I love your artwork and slightly envious. I’ve always wanted to be able to write a short story and draw characters, but sadly I got the writing gene and my sister got the drawing gene.

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      1. That’s OK! I’m glad to see that you’re a writer too! You can check out some of my writing on my blog if you’re interested! I currently have a discussion going on about Writing Advice, and it would be great to hear your views! 🙂

  165. Hi Cheryl. Thanks for visiting and following my blog. You’re drawings are amazing! What an incredible amount of work you’ve done here. I wish I could draw my characters, but I have no skill in the visual arts. Instead, I have to satisfy myself with scouring the internet or through magazines for images, or else gawking at people on the street who resemble my characters and hoping not to get my a** kicked for staring too long.

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  167. Hey Cheryl, Thanks for following my blog. What a discovery to check yours! I love your illustrations, and the definition in your characters. All the best with your world!

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  168. Thanks so much for following my blog … I thought it was gonna be another poet .. .but I stumbled onto a storyline that hooks me … I read #69 and #70 and now I wanna read from the beginning … 🙂 The illustrations rock too! *Diving in to start from the beginning*

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  169. Good morning Cheryl! Thanks for visiting & following my blog today . I absolutely love the illustrations in yours, I don’t want to miss a thing so I’m reading from the beginning. Zadry 🙂

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  170. You are absolutely amazing! Thanks for sharing your talents. I’m new to blogging and have found so many great sources of inspiration out here. I can’t wait to dive further into your site. Thanks for following me.

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  172. Hi Cheryl, thank you for liking my post and following my blog. Love the illustrations, and what you wrote about your dad. Will have to give a longer read.

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    1. Hi Chiarina, thank you! I love your style of art, and was impressed by Sejour and Just My Cup of Tea. It’s good to meet you, I’m glad you stopped by, you’re very welcome here! Cheryl

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  173. So glad you visited Ina today so I could reconnect as I lost your email and blog address. Once again I relate that I would like to feature your art on a Wednesday guest post like today’s. I think you indicated you were interested. I would like to pick 4 from your 34 drawings. I would need gravatar and 4-6 line bio with your wp address included. I hope you will participate.

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  174. thank you very much for visiting my site, and for showing your appreciation for my writing! it’s cool to know that there are others out there who enjoy what you do. you are a very talented illustrator! it’s been wonderful to be exposed to your work.

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  179. Hey Cheryl,

    Thank you for following my blog. I have so much admiration for what you’re doing over here. More than anything, I’m glad I found your blog. You’re very very very very very very good at your craft.

    Cheers.

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  180. Thanks for following my blog. This gave me the electronic trail to follow back to yours. I like your pencil drawings. I awoke this morning from a dream where I was making a pencil drawing of an eye. My hands were drawing on my thigh as I awoke. And here are yours. Synchronicity.

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    1. Hi Alice, you’re welcome, it’s good to meet you. That’s strange, I have a story with an eye as the main illustration coming out in a few weeks. I reckon you may be able to see the future!

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  181. Hi Cheryl,

    Thanks for the *like* and follow, it’s always good to find another writer on WordPress; especially someone with your evident dedication. The illustrations I’ve seen thus far, are very original and evocative. I look forward to reading your work.
    PS: Kudos on the 4 cats, I lived with 4 myself once; exhausting, as they were all queens and unrelated, but my God they gave me the runaround as well as ample love!

    Celena

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    1. Hi Celena, you’re welcome, good to meet you, yes my cats are actually driving me mad tonight! All four have surrounded me and are demanding attention! Thanks for following too, I appreciate it. Cheryl

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  182. Hi Cheryl. I can’t find any other means to contact you than through a comment here. I am delighted to inform you that you have been awarded the 2013 Imagineer Part-work Blog Award. This is not a “chain” award! You are not asked to do anything, However, if it pleases you, you are now entitled to display an award button that I’d be happy to email to you. If you wish to provide a link back to the Imagineer blog, that would be appreciated, but it is not a requirement!

    Please accept my congratulations,
    Steve K Smy.

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  184. Thanks Cheryl for liking and following KRI-TEEK MEE. I’ve been following you for a couple of months now on my other blog. I enjoy your stories an art work. I hope you’ll come back and be a participant either as a writer or critic or both soon. I look forward to seeing you around.

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    1. You’re welcome, I enjoyed reading Valley of Lilies, especially, and thought it a clever piece of flash fiction, glad you like it here too! Thank you so much 😀

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  188. Thank you so much for the like and the follow Cheryl! Your work is PROLIFIC and it means a lot to me to have said something useful to someone who wraps themselves up in the writing as much as I do. I hope you continue to enjoy what you read, and I would be honored to host any feedback or suggestions you may have for my own improvement. Thanks again!

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  193. You made me curious and I came back. My eyes note you are a non-exploitative feminist. I’m a guy with guy eye and to make cute kids we have to see women in sexual ways. You have chosen a tough niche; Sci Fi guys often have guy eye. I had a navigation glitch which kept me from enjoying the story. You can override guy eye, but added obstacles hurt. Just some honest feedback. I see talent and I wish I had a tenth.

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  195. Thank you for following my blog! I had my socks blown off when I wandered in here. I’m a bit envious of your audience, any hints as to how to get started?

    Also, I wish I had your skill with a pencil!

    Keep goin’ girl. You’ve inspired me to consider putting my mug on my blog too.

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    1. Hi, you’re welcome, good to meet you, best advice is write what interests you and people will see that! I also try to publish regularly the same time every week, so consistency may be a factor? Thanks for stopping by and good luck with your blog. Cheryl

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  200. Hi Cheryl,

    It’s Rob from ReadWave, a new social reading platform, here. I was wondering whether you could do me a huge favour. We’re launching a free Short Story of the Week subscription service, whereby readers sign up to get a free short story from an up-and-coming writer in their inbox every week. Could you please have a read through the attached press release and let me know whether you’d be able to do a blog or Twitter post for us? Of course we’d be happy to promote anything of yours in return.

    Thank you so much for your time.
    All the best,
    Rob

    Rob Tucker
    COO and Co-founder
    http://www.readwave.com

    Join us on Facebook
    @readwave

    +44 77900 54721

    READWAVE
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
    London, 8th March 2013

    ReadWave: Free Short Stories from Emerging Writers

    ReadWave, a new platform which showcases the best stories from exciting new authors, has just announced that it will be giving away a free short story each week. Just sign up to ReadWave’s Story of the Week, and get a fantastic short story from an up-and-coming author in your inbox every week.

    If you would like to read more but don’t have time for a full-length novel, then ReadWave is perfect for you. Every day, the ReadWave homepage is updated with brand new short stories from emerging writers to read for free.

    ReadWave is accessible on all mobile devices, so whether you’re sitting on the train or bored at work you can instantly dive into a great read. All stories on ReadWave are lovingly handpicked by a team of editors. Visit ReadWave.com now and discover your next read.

    About ReadWave
    ReadWave is a community of readers and writers who love to discover and share new stories from contemporary writers. Readers can access thousands of stories and read them for free on mobile or desktop. Writers can use ReadWave to build up a fanbase and market their stories online. ReadWave puts writers in touch with the readers who are just right for them.

    Contact:
    Robert Tucker
    rob@readwave.com
    http://www.readwave.com
    ReadWave on Facebook
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    1. Hi Rob, I’ve had a browse of readwave and it’s a fantastic platform for readers and writers, I’d love to be a part of it! Thank you. I’ll email you shortly to talk. Cheryl

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  204. Hi Cheryl! Many thanks for your ‘Like’ of my “Night” post yesterday. Your blog is really impressive; I’ll consider myself fortunate if I ever garner an audience like yours. All best to you.

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  205. Hello Cheryl ! Thanks for stopping by my blog and making your existence known to me 🙂 I am absolutely fascinated by yours! You have embodied what I truly believe : imagination knows no bounds! And once you set it free, and you give it a heartbeat, it takes a life of its own, merely using your body has a vessel. I will keep looking around here for a few minutes, if you don’t mind… 🙂 Keep smiling!

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  208. You’re an amazing illustrator. Wow…

    I wish you all the best in your endeavors. You’ve got something truly…. “special.” Sounds trite, I know….but this time it’s the reality.

    Lovely, stunning work.

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  209. AnElephantCant remember when he last came here
    Although he proverbially never forgets
    Your writing is brilliant
    He thinks you’re one in a million
    And your blog is as good as it gets

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  212. Cheryl, Whuoah! This overwhelms me! Nominated for all these awards? And you make time to come visit all these blogs? Even mine? That’s simply remarkable. Invigorating blog here, and what a vibrant community you’ve inspired. I hope all the best for you.—M

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    1. Hi Melissa, you’re welcome and that’s the beauty of WordPress, it’s such a vibrant and inspiring community to be involved with, and I’m glad to be part of it and thank you too for stopping by, I’m glad you enjoyed reading. Cheryl

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  213. Thank you for following my blog! I appreciate it so much!

    I started reading/scrolling through some of your writing and artwork, and I have to say… I’m excited to read more! =)

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  214. Thanks for coming by Hoomahmoos. Looking over your blog this looks like something I’ve wanted to do myself for a while Thanks for giving me some more impetus and push that I’ve needed.

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  215. Hi, Cheryl. I think whoever thought your name was “Gerald” had a lazy listening ear and was a bit idio- (add suffix of your choice. Choose Your Own Word adventure on me.) Whew, well now you are a lively lovely libertariatian of not liturgical liturature with picturogragh pictorials that remind me of crosshatchings of occult comix in obscure cubbyholes in the juvenille section of my childhood library. I can’t recall the name- a moritorium, a sanctimonius morturarium… gosh dang it- where they stack people three high inside behind marble. Well the old Tigard, OR library was like that. It had uneven flooring and the books felt like the remains (truely are) of people who are mostly dead.

    Not “mostly dead” in a Princess Bride Wesley-is-mostly-dead way. You know. Dead dead, like “conversation is one-way only. Well I liked how the old library collectively smelled like pages, as a mortellio or mortu-zoo-ium smells like roses. I like you desperate explosive bloody characters and the juicy illustrations, they feel like real GI, not CGI pabulum and I dig it. Ever read “The Flying Cats” series? It feels cross hatched catscratch a’lika that. And I like it. I like it a loht! Hope you are well today. I can’t figure out how I’m going on with blogging next. Sideways twostep, I think.

    Take care,

    Magi Andreas Templar Urbani

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  216. Oh- they are called “Mauseleums”. Ugh. I hit about five phoentics differentials before I can distinguish a decicive dialog directly. I like so sing “Ave María” in mauseluems, real soft, way down the hall. Singer’s trick, you might try this for Kareoke- take an updose of guaifinessen and your lungs and sinus crank out heavily and clearly and more on tune, so if you were to belt out Jeff Buckley’s “Eternal Life”” you know what its like to live forever for a few minutes. Heh heh.

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  220. Thanks for following my blog, Cheryl. Looks like you’ve been up to a lot of neat, fun stuff here too! Lots of cool pics with plenty of emotion and character. An interesting place to hang out. Thanks for sharing yourself with the rest of us!

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  221. Oh my word you are an incredible artist. I hope you dont mind because I am taking a few ideas from you, like the multiple Blogs for different reasons! Great work, it will take me some time to read them all, but keep it up it looks awesome so far!

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    1. Hi James, thank you, glad you like it. And multiple blogs are useful aren’t they! I appreciate you taking time to read the stories and good luck with your blog(s) All the best. Cheryl

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  223. Thank you for stopping by Ancestreats and liking our Tub-to-Table fish recipe. We encourage you to share a family favorite of your own (submit tab on blog). Usually readers submit an accompanying photograph. But, how fun would it be if you sent in an illustration of the dish! Best wishes. Leslie

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  224. Heya Cheryl, I’ve been given the honorable task of nominating a few bloggers for the “The Next Big Thing Award” blog-hoppy thing and amongst the bloggers writing books that I “know”, you are well deserving for the passion and time you put into your art. You can find the list of questions for participation on my blog, or any of the previous noms, if you wish to follow suit. Take care!

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  226. Hi! Thank you very much for stopping by my blog, and for deciding to follow it. I appreciate it very, very much. And I hope you continue to enjoy my posts … although I can’t seem to get onto a good and reliable posting schedule. (ha, ha)

    Your blog is wonderful! Your illustrations are incredible and full of emotion and expression. And your writing is lovely. I am looking forward to following your blog and reading more of your work.

    Thank you again! 🙂

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  228. Hello Cheryl, Thanks so much for stopping by Where Do I Go From Here?, reading my poetry, and following my blog. I can’t tell you how much it means to me. You have an amazing set of characters! I never thought of drawing my characters out to bring them to reality and give them more substance in my mind, what a great idea!

    I hope my works continue to entertain you as your surely will be a source of enjoyment for me. Vickie

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  229. checking thank you page i see a few names i recognise, like the way you write and illustrations, nice mix…..will check in from time to time….congratulations on 2012 award………

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  230. Thank you for following my blog! 😀
    You’ve got a wonderful blog – I just hope mine can be as awesome one day. I’ll try and do my best with those promised posts on Doctor Who. 😉

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  236. don’t know where to begin…mayhaps the poems eh?

    like the site- really love the drawings.
    still trying to work out how to jazz my site up!!;)

    a warning to my past self >> 🙂

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  243. Well Cheryl – you’ve collected a few awards too 🙂 and thank you for passing on the Sunshine Award my way. Much obliged and appreciate you thinking of me. I’ve enjoyed reading your work and shall continue to do so.
    All good wishes dear,
    Eric 🙂

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  244. And for another nomination: Much like the lovely blogger who nominated me, I generally don’t participate in these awards things. (I know, I know, EVERYONE says that), but I thought the WordPress Family Award was actually pretty special, decided to spread the love, and nominated you. Stop by my latest post accepting the award for details if you’re interested (http://wp.me/pwIUF-5B )…I promise I won’t be offended if you’re not though. I know a lot of people don’t do these or carefully pick and choose which ones. Cheers!

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    1. Thank you so much Devon, I also find wordpress one of the most welcoming places on the net and I’m very appreciative to receive this award from you. I’ll get busy tomorrow and add it and a link to you, on my thank you page. All the best, Cheryl

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      1. 🙂 Best to you as well, and thank you for supporting me and our fellow bloggers!

  250. Hello Cheryl,

    Thank you for following my blog. I must say that your stories and artwork are amazing. I love the walks into fantasyland you take the readers onto.

    I wish you all the best!

    Best regards,

    Ramon.

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  251. … and I want to thank you for the follow – I appreciate it a lot. I look forward to your posts. Your illustrations are amazing, btw! – Noora

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    1. You’re welcome, and likewise. I love the way you use your actual experiences to tell stories. I’m enjoying reading your blog, and adventures too. It’s good to meet you and I’m glad you like my stories!

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  258. ‘Morning, Cheryl! Thanks for following my new blog. I’m very much still felling my way on here. Looking at your prolific, inspiring and award winning output I see I have a way to go! Have a great day.

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  259. Thanks for following me! Your illustrations are awesome, and I look forward to reading your stories. You said you know your characters better than you know yourself, and that resonates (even though I have way fewer of them so far).

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  261. What an imaginative blog. Stunning photos. I wish my brain did gymnastics like yours. Which character have you fallen in love with? I’m honored for the follow. I hope you can take away good things from my thoughts.

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    1. Thanks Diana, and likewise, I’m enjoying your thoughts and your poetry. Glad you stopped here too. (I have many favourites, too many to list) 🙂

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  262. Cheryl, you display great sensitivity as an artist and a storyteller. Thank you for sharing your genius! Thank you also for your audience to my poetry.

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    1. Hi Shainbird, thank you also. I’m really enjoying reading your poetry, in particular Remote Parallels. Good to meet you and I’m glad you stopped by!

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  265. Thanks so much for stopping by and following my blog. Most appreciated. Love your drawings, characters and stories. It will take some time to absorb it all.

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  266. Cheryl, Thanks for stopping by my blog and for choosing to follow. Your work is really fantastic! Wandering around feels like a journey through multiple worlds. -Blessings, Margaret of “Daily Musings on Life Together”

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  267. Hi, I wanted to thank you for following my blog ‘Beyond Beauty Tips’ and supporting me in my journey for six months.
    I recently moved that blog to its own domain http://toraveabout.com
    so I would like to take this opportunity to invite you to my blog at its new address.
    I hope to see you there. Thanks!

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  270. Dear Cheryl! Thanks for stopping by and following our blog!! We looked through your blog and love it. Soon we’ll be posting some of our writings!! Can’t wait to be able to share!!

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  272. Whew! That’s a lot of scrolling! 😀
    Please add to your collection the “I Am Part Of The WordPress Family” award. I am very proud to nominate you, a very prolific writer.
    Please get the badge at http://wp.me/p32YrK-ko and get more info.

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  273. Thanks so much for following my humble blog, it really is appreciated – you have 50,000 hits, I have 500! I hope you enjoy my blog. Just taking a cursory look at your blog and I have a quick question – did you do all the sketches as well as the writing? They are really good. 👍

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  274. Hi Cheryl,
    Thank you so much for following the D/A Dialogues. These are some incredible stories you have here. I am really looking forward to jumping in and reading more (especially upon seeing Grace O’Malley; you are my hero.).
    Cheers,
    Katie

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    1. Hi Katie, good to meet you, you’re very welcome, especially if you like Grace O’Malley too! 😀 (She has a story coming up in the future) Glad you like what you’ve read. I’m enjoying reading your very refreshing dialogue driven stories btw. Thank you. Cheryl

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  275. Hi Cheryl

    Caroline and myself at areadersreviewblog have nominated you for the One Lovely Blog Award. I just noticed on scrolling down that fellow bloggers have already nominated you for this and we can understand why with the worlds and the characters that you create, not to mention your awesome artwork. You can find out more information about your nomination at the link below, if you chose to accept it:
    http://areadersreviewblog.com/2013/06/18/one-lovely-blog-award/

    Tina 🙂

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  276. Thanks for the follow at my haikules.wordpress.com blog site. Haiku are created there, and I have other blogs for prose, articles and how-to-sell data.

    Good luck on your story publication quest.

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  288. Thank you for liking “Swan” and for following Imagine New Designs Gallery. Your illustrations are beautifully drawn, and I hope you have the best of luck with your future creative projects. 🙂

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  289. Greetings Cheryl Moore:

    Not knowing what to expect when I first encountered your blog, my first feeling was of being overwhelmed. So many stories, so many illustrations. Also there’s a uniformity of style to the illustrations, so at first one doesn’t know where to settle one’s attention and to linger. The graphite powder falls like snow onto one vibrating sheet of paper after another, outlines and forms becoming defined in your heart and nerve vibrations, one image after another emerging as the powder is blown away. One wonders where you find the time to do so much and can’t help but to imagine an assembly-line method of production. I envy you for your output. I myself am lucky if I can complete an image in a couple months. Your drawings have a curious effect of having the essence of what might come hot off the newspaper press, the photographic image transmuted by your human touch and transplanted into the diverse and engaging slice of life and noirish world set in some future you have created. I figure many who encounter your blog for the first time, like me, don’t know where to start. Then I started reading, and clicking around, one wonderfully defined character and episode – great writing – threading through to other characters and episodes, then what first came to my mind is the Choose Your Own Adventure books I used to read as a kid. I loved those books, and what you appear to have done here is to raise it to another level, to sophisticate it and to blow it open for adults, the pieces of story of some larger kaleidoscope falling into place in a “disconnected” way. But there’s still an overall pattern you’re striving for one senses, maybe as yet unknown to you, only vaguely sensed, with the unifier of your printing press with human touch style in illustration helping you along. In short, it is a great larger concept through which to create you’ve struck upon and the entirety is unfolding into a wonderful and inspiring accomplishment. There are treasures hidden here, of written lines, of details in certain illustrations; on one level one finds oneself a child again on an easter egg hunt. I’m sincerely glad to have discovered you and your work, you making yourself discoverable by me, and I will certainly be spending more time here to absorb as much as I can, to get to know your characters, and to learn from you in a way that’s not detrimental to my own creative integrity. This is a compliment to your power.

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  291. Hi
    I’ve happily stumbled into your blog. I enjoyed reading a few scenes and will definitely come back for more. Your illustrations are fantastic. You capture and amazing depth of human emotion.
    Thanks for sharing!

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  292. “This is a copy paste message”

    Hi there my name is Almeida Garcez, and I´m a freelance illustrator and writer.
    I love to listen, and interpretate the power of words.
    My work is mainly focus on social issues, philosophy, and existentialism.
    Right now I´m into a very personal project, that I think it´s the answer for all forms of life – collaboration.
    I illustrate people´s phrases, songs and wandering thoughts, I´ve called it Abandoned Illustrations.
    The reason that I´m “reaching” you, it´s because you followed me a couple of weeks ago.
    I hope it wasn´t a mechanical reaction that bursted out of you.
    I hope the first reaction I caused in you, was good, and my work truly made you reflect.
    We both know it´s easy to follow someone, since we already do that in our role in society,
    and in all sorts of ideologies.
    Please unfollow me if you only intended to sell your marketing.
    If you didn´t returned to my blog after you followed me, please go to:
    http://almeidagarcez.wordpress.com/about-the-guilty-preacher-spirits-link/
    http://almeidagarcez.wordpress.com/about/
    There you can take a look at the topography of my reflections, and overall geography of my brain.
    If you come to a conclusion that after all you don´t like my interpretations and analogies, please unfollow my blog.

    Kindest Regards
    Almeida Garcez

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    1. “We´re all entwined in numerous dependencies of the mind, and we´re all connected in a voice that should be heard. Creatively speaking we are linked together, and we´re all capable of understanding bits and pieces of the world.” Good to meet you! Cheryl

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  293. CHERYL—I’ved nominated you for another SUNSHINE AWARD….with a different picture than the one you have! I think I have both of these pictures now, too! 🙂 See my blog!

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  298. Welcome aboard, Cheryl. It’s good to meet you and be introduced to your work. Great concept of drawing your characters – it defines them in a way that makes them exactly your own. Very enjoyable.
    Best wishes,
    Miles and Pippa

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  299. Hey!

    Thanks for following our blog Equals Awesome (www.equalsawesome.com). We really appreciate your interest and will try our best to maintain the highest standards of awesome in everything we do!

    Thanks,

    Rainier

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  301. Hey – just messaging to make you aware of my competition, I really value everyone who decided to follow my blog (there may be one or two I fear who just spilt coffee on themselves and accidentally clicked the button.. but I’m still taking it as a win). I need help deciding which poems to perform in the next month or two and I’d really value your opinion.

    Stay Well – Mart

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  303. Much better experience visiting your blog this time. Either you fixed navigational problems or I did a better job navigating. I critiqued you on the “guy eye” factor and it appears you have added more attractive characters and some action oriented illustration. I have a greater feeling for your success. I made my “guy eye” comments in March of last year when I was new to blogging and didn’t check the box for follow-up. I understand the desire to do something different, but commercial success, in this genre, needs to attract the rather standard male eye.

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  305. Dear Cheryl,
    You continue to astound me, happily so, with your stories through the years. The beauty and brilliance of your stories never falter and I live through your characters and their plights. It seems to me that you have taken the essence of self-publishing and run with it, (though you would not care to think of this; only caring to write and draw). You create backstories so immediate and elaborate to be woven into each other that the ‘whole being greater than it’s parts’ is a trifling phrase to describe your work.
    Thank you for the stories you create, one in particular that you dedicated to me, which I’m still astonished and grateful for.
    I send you my appreciation for you thanks.
    Warmest regards,
    Lee

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  306. You’re rocking my world, Cheryl Moore.

    Thanks for finding and following me. I’m a little humbled after seeing what you have going on here! Ultimately, though, I’m just glad for the opportunity to “meet” you and read your outstanding work. Can’t wait to fully dive in here…

    All My Love,
    AZ Gringa
    (aka Jennifer)

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    1. Hi Jennifer, it’s good to meet you too, and I’m also enjoying reading your blog, I find your work very witty, and am also pleased I’m able to read more of your blog. I love the experimental nature of your art and writing. Thanks for stopping by here too, I’m glad you’re enjoying reading. Best wishes, Cheryl

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  307. Feverish intensity. Reminds me of a profile of an artist, whose name I can’t remember, profiled in the New Yorker, who labored in relative obscurity for years and drew these enormous, complicated portraits of alternative realities. No one know much about him until he passed away. I hope you find your place int he annals of the genres you are working in, in living time and soon.

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  310. Hello Cheryl!
    Thank you for following my blog.I have ‘only’ a photo blog.I am so sorry, my English is too bad. I do not understand all you write, but the drawings are exceptionally good! They tell to me strories. Do you have a blog with your drawing?
    Have a good day and many greetings from Germany!
    Birgit

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  311. thank you so much for your follow! I see I will have to peruse your site! wonderful illustrations on Flickr. I write a few stories along with my photography- both works in progress!

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  313. Hello friends,many thanks for your visiting in my visual dialogue and follow.
    You are a welcome 🙂 have a good day
    Greetings

    Soul.

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  316. Thanks so much for swinging by and following my blog! You have a very in-depth project going on over here–your dedication is incredible.

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  317. Cheryl,
    Thanks for liking my blog. I don’t know how you found it or what you read, but the fleeting interaction, like brushing past me on a crowded street, was welcome.
    Now. I find your blog with thousands of likes and followers and hundreds of stories. You have assaulted by passers-by. But I wonder what drives you on.

    Regards,
    Richard

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    1. Hi, Gayle, you have some beautiful stories and memoirs on your blog, which I am very much enjoying reading. I’m glad you like the illustrations. Best wishes to you. Cheryl

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  320. Hey Cheryl, thanks for dropping by my site and leaving a trail back to yours. You certainly have wonderful thing going on here, and I’m thinking that I ought to mirror your format style. Unlike yourself, I’m somewhat new to fiction; actually, that’s an outright lie, but not an intentional one; you see, it’s more like I’ve stepped away from fiction, and have busied myself with other styles of writing, and now I feel it’s time to return home and warm myself next to the fireplace. My socks are wet and my feet have blisters due to walking in the bog of forgetfulness; hell, you know, the more time we spend away from our natural talent, the more we shrink, but we also grow. Are you too young to cuddle with me next to this fire? To feel the coziness of intimacy? Of course you are, but through stories the world sparkles in the palm of our clammy hands. So before my fingers push another key… without having to praise thee, I want you to know that you have intrigued me. xoxo

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    1. Hi Jason, I thoroughly enjoyed reading, The Winds of Change, as there is some beautiful dialogue between Jason and Thomas. I need to find myself some time to read more issues. I’m glad you liked Unbound Boxes too. As for the format, it’s whatever works with your writing style, although I have had some constructive criticism that white text on a black background is harder to read. (But I kept this format anyway, because I like it) Here’s to future reading, and it’s very good to meet a fellow writer who publishes a series. Cheryl.

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  321. Your kindness matches your creative genius, and your words are as a sweet aroma to me. I strongly suspect your work will continue to inspire me and help me to grow as a writer of fiction. I also love the way you embellish your writing with beautiful art. This certainly helps to make the story come to life all the more. Your attention to detail is astounding. In addition, I would like to share one of my artistic mediums with you, more so as a way for you to broaden your horizons, that more souls might gravitate towards your creation.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR17ggdttPw

    PS: The lyrical poem was created as a means to enhance my story. Lucifer sang this song to God moments after he was thrown out of heaven for good, according to my fiction that is.

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    1. Hi Jason, thank you. I’ve just listened to your song on Youtube, and it’s beautiful. People should go and visit it. Was that William Blake’s work in the background?

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      1. Thank you Cheryl, the links in the description section provide info about the footage used in the video. Can you foresee yourself in the future using your art in this manner so as to create promo videos for your fiction?

  322. Your drawings are impressive and so is your writing. I confess I am a bit overwhelmed by your work, your awards, your blog and just EVERYTHING here. I would love to offer awards but I’m not sure I have the tech savy ability to follow all the rules, et al. I am only blogging by the good graces of my very tech savy son. Sigh. But I am so very glad that you read and liked one of my stories – in fact, I’m flattered. Thank you!!! And very happy that it brought me here. I have lots to explore AND you have given me a trove of other writers to check out. I’ll be following you. Perhaps we’ll check in with one another again.
    All the best, Linda

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