Enlightened Winners!

Enlightened is now available to purchase and read! A few of you have already read it (Bravo!) but it will take a day or two for it to become apparent with how well it is received.

In reminder I am running a Read and Review special for King Arthurs (see top post for details) but the timing is a little different. Since I will be away from my computer from 6/12 through 6/15, I’m not officially starting the special until Tuesday, 6/16. However! If you email me your review today (Of ANY King Arthurs book) there is a fairly good chance I’ll be able to email you the two page extra. Also, don’t feel like you have to wait for the special to start to email me. You won’t be disqualified, it’s merely that I won’t be able to respond until 6/16.

Finally, the Rafflecopter raffle is over! I found the raffle widget a little vexing as there were several problems, but thank you for staying with me as I experimented with it. Hopefully the next one will go smoother. Anyway, the randomly selected winners are: Meaghan, Catie L., Karra I., Marie N., and Kathy B! The winners have been notified via emails, and can expect their ebook copies as soon as I receive a confirmation that they got my message.

Thank you to everyone who entered, and I hope you enjoy Enlightened!

Raffle belated but released!

Greetings, Champions! Thank you to everyone who participated in the poll–I’ll be discussing the details below, but first, I’m announcing a new contest! From today (Monday, June 8) through Thursday, (June 11) I’m running a raffle to give away five free copies of Enlightened. The rules are simple. Just enter via the rafflecopter link below, and you’ll be in the drawing to win one of five copies of Enlightened. On Friday, June 12 I will randomly select and announce the five winners! I was supposed to get this contest out yesterday, so I apologize for the delay, but here it is!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Sadly, I can’t get the java coding to work on wordpress–my host. I’m hoping to get something up later, but for now you’ll have to click on the link to go to the raffle form. This is the first time I’m running a raffle-contest, so I apologize in advance for any additional bumps and hiccups we experience in this learning process. (Speaking of bumps, rafflecopter forces me to ask you guys to do something in order to enter. Just click on the “comment on the blog” option and then click “I commented!” to enter. You don’t need to comment, it was just the easiest way to get the raffle up.) Ahem…yes…thank you for your patience!

I closed the “Ideal Hero” poll, and I have to say it was a ruthless race! The Strong and silent men won with 121 votes. Pranksters/Deviants were in second with 115 votes. Earnest and sweet came in third with 108 votes. Sarcastic and opinionated took fourth place with 96 votes. The Loyal flirts swiped fifth place with 58 votes. Bad Boys strong-armed their way into sixth with 37 votes. Best Friend/Boy next Door claimed seventh with 28 votes. Heroic types trailed close behind with 25 votes, and Loveable idiots trailed in last with 18 votes. (Although it seems most people think Loveable Idiots make excellent secondary characters, and both of the examples I have listed are secondary characters, so I feel like I might have pushed those guys into the wrong playground.)

The top three winners were a tight race. The Strong and Silent guys commonly fell back and pulled ahead, but they managed to pull off a win! Anyway, thank you to everyone who voted. I enjoyed your explanations and reasoning, and your opinions are valuable to me. Please enter the poor guinea pig raffle, and have a fantastic day!

Feeling Curious–a Hero Poll!

Greetings, Champions! I’ve been puttering around my office, getting ready to plot out my next book. (For those keeping track, Enlighten is on the brink of its release, and Puss In Boots is at the chopping block with Editor #2, which means I have a bit of free time! Woohoo!) Plotting is a lot of fun, and it stretches my creativity and imagination as it’s during the plotting that I come up with my characters, world, and story.

This next hero has been a joy to plan out–think Mr. Darcy with his mouth unhinged–but it got me thinking…what kind of heroes do you prefer? I know that there are a lot of differing opinions out there. Some of you love the quiet but affectionate Severin of B&B, others love Callan of The Little Selkie for his sweet but introverted personality, and so on and so forth. No matter what hero I create, some of you will love him and some of you won’t be terribly impressed. It’s not a reflection of there is only ONE kind of Prince Charming/Mr. Right, but the opposite. As we’re all different we’re all going to have our own preferences. (Which is good news, because it means that somewhere out there is someone who will appreciate and love your quirks and personality traits!)

BUT! I’m still curious. You see, I am terribly unloyal as an author, and I love a huge variety of male personalities. I can’t even say I like any male character as long as he’s smart because I ADORED Prince/King Toril of Rumpelstiltskin, and he is an idiot. This is good, because it means you will find all sorts of different personalities in my books, but I’m curious to see what kind of male the majority of you like reading about.

So I’ve created a poll! I decided to use my characters as reference because I know you’ve met these guys, or you wouldn’t be here. (There is nothing more disappointing than waxing on over a character only to discover your conversation partner has never read the book. Yes, it has happened to me. More than once.)

VOTING RULES: If I designed it right, it should allow you to vote more than once, which I’m all for. However, please try to limit yourself to your absolute favorites and please DO NOT vote for the same type of guy more than once! Also, PLEASE comment on this post if you have an additional type you like! Or comment to explain why you voted multiple times, or just comment! I take your responses seriously, so this is a bit of market research for me. Because of that I would really like to see some good discussion take place!

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So…cast your votes and get to the comments; it’s time to see who wins!