In a recent entry at Cruel Music Beverle Graves Myers, author of the Baroque Mystery series featuring 18th-century Venetian castrato Tito Amato, awarded me a Premio Dardos.

Premio Dardos means "prize darts" in Italian and is awarded for recognition of cultural, ethical, literary and personal values in the form of creative and original writing. The rules are:

1. Accept the award by pasting the graphic on your blog along with the name of the person who granted the award and a link to his/her blog.
2. Pass the award to another 15 blogs that are worthy of acknowledgment, remembering to contact each so they know they have been selected.

I'm flattered and a little embarrassed. It has been so long since my last update that I suspect Beverle, as an author of historical mysteries, was intrigued by the fact it all took place far in the past!

However, it gives me a chance to remind many of you that I still enjoy reading your blogs even if I haven't been updating my own.

Now, the envelopes, please. My Premio Dardos winners are:

Do You Write Under Your Own Name?
Electric Grandmother
jimsjournal
Keith Snyder
My Incredibly Unremarkable Life
Mysterious Musings
Mystery of a Shrinking Violet
Rambler
reenie's reach
rhubarb's journal
spy scribbler
susurration
This Writing Life
What's Up at BooksForABuck.com
Woodstock's Blog

Most or these blogs are by writers. Some concentrate on books and writing, but all of them deal with other topics as well. I prefer variety.