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I did another giveaway for an early copy of SCENT OF MAGIC for those commenting on their favorite minor/obscure character from one of my books.  The response was wonderful and I thought I'd give away a book to one of my blog readers and to one of my Goodreads friends. Congratulations to Rywn who won a copy and to Rachel on Goodreads who also won a copy!!  Keep checking my blog as I'm doing a 10 day blog tour starting December 10th and we're giving away 10 copies of SCENT OF MAGIC!! The results for favorite minor/obscure character are in: #1 Fisk - 14 (He first appeared in MAGIC STUDY) #2 Kiki - 9 #3 Belen - 8 Rand - 7 Pazia - 5 Logan, Reema, Moon Man, Leif, Mom, Flea, Nutty - 3 Dax, Mara, Sheepy, Fire Warper, Death Lilys, Noelle, Dilana, Commander, Perl, Zitora - 2 Bain, Irys, Alethea, Maren, Tula, Esau, Quartz, Cog, Eve, Nic, Heli - 1 And just for fun - Can anyone tell me which book Beevan appears in?  He's a very obscure character :)

I had a celebration and give away over on my Facebook Author Page last week, celebrating hitting 4000 likes.  Pretty exciting for me and I asked people to leave a comment on who their favorite character was from one of my books.  The response was overwhelming (yay!) and I tallied the "votes" and thought I share with my blog readers. I also thought, since I have a box of SCENT OF MAGIC books sitting in my office, I'd offer a signed copy to a random commenter on my blog.  Now this time I want to know who your favorite obscure/minor character of mine is :)  Contest open until November 23 - and please leave a contact email so I can notify you if you win (Goodreads friends you don't need to put your email - I can find you :) Favorite Characters of my Facebook Readers: #1 Valek - 236 #2 Yelena - 151 #3 Ari and Janco - 65 Avry - 39 Opal - 37 Trella - 23 Belen - 11 Devlen - 10 Kade, Leif & Kiki - 9 Kerrick - 8 Moon Man - 6 Flea - 5 The Commander - 4

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