1.  Thank the person who nominated you and link back to their blog. I wish to thank all four of you for this opportunity, and invite my followers to visit your blog and contribute!

2.  List seven random things about yourself. I will be cheeky, and rather than talk about myself, most uninteresting subject, I will say a few words about some of my (fictional?) characters, and real heros!

3.  Nominate 15 other bloggers for the award.

Seven random things:

1. Julian is a kind of alter-ego, a geek on the other side of – erm… – thirty,  in love with his beautiful wife, and visited by ghosts from his past: there is a twist in his life, the point of discontinuity where virtual merges with “real”…
2. Helena is the object of desire for the mysterious and cruel Mistress G: her story is spun elsewhere but her steps can be found in these pages…
3. Rosa Luxemburg: she does not need introduction, suffice to say that she is to my mind one of the greatest women of modern times, intelligent, beautiful, with a courage that put to shame our age of cowardice…
4. Paul is the owner of a boat named Arrakis, a story of love and high seas that is progressing in deep waters, somewhere in the Pacific.
5. Yukio Mishima is an enigma, a talented writer who excoriated modernism, loathed the fashions of the age, and ultimately died for his principles.
6. Susan may be my most controversial creation, a mother with a dark secret, and yet of such charm that one wonders… Susan is not in fact my character, but Julian’s, a way perhaps to distance myself from a tale of passion and forbidden fruits?
7. The Dolomites: well they are everywhere in my writing and on my photo blog…

Nominations:

1. Miss Juliesse at http://musepalace.wordpress.com/
2. Serge Gainsbourg (for ever) at http://www.gainsbourgforever.com/
3. Kalliope Amorphous at http://www.kalliopeamorphous.com/
4. Maeve at http://maevemcmurray.com/
5. Linda at http://garridon.wordpress.com/
6. Damian at http://thegraypen.wordpress.com/
7. Nela at http://nelabligh.com/
8. Ferns at http://www.domme-chronicles.com/
9. Helena at http://helenamallett.wordpress.com/
10. Steven at http://stevensawyer.wordpress.com/
11. Susan at http://susandanielseden.wordpress.com/
12. Joanne at http://joannegphillips.wordpress.com/
13. August at http://augustmclaughlin.wordpress.com/
14. Tawn at http://totallytawn.wordpress.com/
15. Kern at http://www.oddparticle.com/

NB – I am aware that some of you gorgeous people have already been nominated, sometimes more than once!  If so I won’t do it again 🙂