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You all offered some terrific journal prompts for the Be My Guide giveaway, and I hope you'll take the next step and use your suggestion (or any of the other entries you found intriguing) as inspiration to start a journal or add to one you've already been writing.

We got the magic hat to work its wonders, and the winners of the giveaway are:

SandyL, who offered From a tarot deck, I pull out a card and then use the imagery and symbolism on the card to write a scene or a character.

Liv, who suggested Write the life story of a lightbulb?

Winners, when you have a chance please send your full name and ship-to address to LynnViehl@aol.com so I can get your packages out to you. My thanks to everyone for joining in.

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I liked seeing some of the new series novels you all recommended this week -- some here I definitely want to check out. In the meantime, we got the magic hat revved up tonight, and the winners of the Never Give Up giveaway are:

Diana Troldahl, who thought Written in Blood by Anne Bishop was great

Petite, who was captivated by Deborah Crombie's series.

Leslee, who recommends Skinwalker by Faith Hunter

Jennifer, who can't put down Daughter of Smoke & Bone

Winners, when you have a chance please send your full name and ship-to info to LynnViehl@aol.com so I can get your books out to you. My thanks to everyone for joining in.

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I'm glad to see so many of you are trying new or new-to-you writers; I often do the same when I'm restless or in a reading slump (and thanks to your many recs I now have a list of new-to-me writers to try out.)

We got the magic hat to stop flirting with Her Ladyship's Hat Box -- man, I didn't even plan that -- and the winners of the Storm Warning giveaway are:

Michelle in Colorado Springs, who wrote Name in the hat please,this books sounds cool.

Kristen, who commented New to me author I can't get enough of is Chuck Wendig. Both of the books I've read from him kept me up way toooooo late. Now I want to start over and read them again.

Margaret Yang, who commented I haven't discovered anyone new and fun in a long time. Name in hat, please!

Susanne, who wrote Please put my name in the Magic Hat - the book sounds great!

Dunabit, who wrote Lou Morgan. I picked up her debut, BLOOD AND FEATHERS, and became an instant fan. Funny enough, I had the same response to Rob Thurman.

Winners, when you have a chance please send your full name and ship-to address to LynnViehl@aol.com so I can get your books out to you. My thanks to everyone for joining in.

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The entries for the Nine Lives giveaway were really magical -- bravo to you all for making such marvelously creative suggestions (and the next time I adopt a kitty, I know who I'm asking to help me with a name.) We got the magic cat, I mean, hat, to do its thing, and the winners (along with the names they chose) are:

Anne V.: I might call a magical cat Dresden after a favorite wizard for hire.

Deb Salisbury: My most magical cat was Mystic, a little black queen from the California Gold Country.

bluebamboo: Rowan, a mash-up and slight spelling tweak of Rod and Owen from Shanna Swendson's Enchanted Inc. series.

SandyH: . . . I decided that our next cat would be named Darcy (yes, after that Darcy - my most favorite book).

Terri R.: Mistofeles, from the musical Cats

Bonnie (Bonz): Miss Minerva Delurvah!

Jennifer and Jeff: How about FNU? (Pronounced Fin-oo) It also stands for First Name Unknown.

Lisa954: Poof! would be the name I would give to a magical cat.

Na: I would like to name a Magical cat Whispers.

Winners, when you have a chance please send your full names and ship-to address to LynnViehl@aol.com so I can get your books out to you. My thanks to everyone for joining in and helping to celebrate our pal Darlene's NYT bestseller debut.

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I know it's hard for series lovers to pick a favorite; I have so many that I had to do that "If I were stranded on a deserted island and could only have one series with me . . . " thing. Even then I could whittle the list down only to three: Marjorie Liu's Hunter Kiss novels, Anne Maxwell's Fire Dancer books, and The Petaybee Trilogy by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. If I can't have all three series then I'm not going to the island, lol.

We revved up the magic hat, and the winners of The Adventures of Miss Temminnick giveaway are:

Karen Renee, who still favors Lord of the Rings.

Caroline, whose favorite series last year was the Parasol Protectorate.

ten, who chose Zenna Henderson's People.

Winners, when you have a chance please send your full name and ship-to address to LynnViehl@aol.com so I can get your books out to you. My thanks to everyone for joining in.

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I enjoyed seeing what books everyone who entered the First Read of 2013 giveaway are reading; there is such an eclectic range of authors and stories. I also think Shadow Woman made an interesting start for my new year, too. As for the winners of the giveaway, they are:

Bethany K. Warner, who is reading Felix J. Palma's The Map of Time (I started that one back in December, too, Bethany, but the pacing you mentioned made me decide to set it aside for a less hectic time.)

traveler, who read I'm Your Man, a biography of Leonard Cohen, and is now reading Barbara Claypole White's The Unfinished Garden.

Winners, when you have a chance please send your full name and ship-to info to LynnViehl@aol.com so I can get your books out to you. My thanks to everyone for joining in.

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The winners of the Wonderful Winter Reads giveaway are:

Joyce M., who is reading 30 Pieces of Silver by Carolyn McCray

Nicole, who is reading Barbara Bretton's "Casting Spells".

digillette, who is reading the second book in Christine Henry's "Black Wings" series and plans to read the next Dresden Files book, the next in Kevin Hearne's Iron Druid's Chronicles series, and about 30 other books.

Winners, when you have a chance please send your full name and ship-to address to LynnViehl@aol.com so I can get these books out to you. My thanks to everyone for joining in

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After reading all the entries for the Jump into Journaling giveaway I needed to do a couple of things. First I prayed for a couple of my visitors who are going through tough times right now. I then counted exactly how many not-so-blank journals and notebooks I'd found during my quest. Finally I had a chat with the magic hat. The hat, who knows how I feel about journaling and my visitors, gave me the green light to pick the names this time.

So the winners of the giveaway are:

Everyone who entered the giveaway, which would be Lisa954 ~ Robin Connelly ~ Jane ~ Margaret ~ Sylvia van Bruggen ~ digillette ~ Vicki Orians ~ Elizabeth Greentree ~ Shizuka ~ petite ~ bluebamboo ~clairecherven ~ Jennifer and Jeff ~ traveler ~ Vom Marlowe ~ Diana Troldahl ~ Darlene Ryan ~ Mireya ~ Anne V. ~ Alli Johnson ~ Robin Bayne ~ Nicole ~ shawna ~ wade2121 ~ Battlekitty ~ Lanette

Winners, when you have a chance please send your full name and ship-to info to LynnViehl@aol.com so I can start shipping these packages out. My thanks to you all for joining in and sharing what you did; when you open your heart and speak with such beautiful honesty, we all win.

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Thanks to everyone who offered up the impressive titles for the See for Yourself giveaway. I love following the little mini-discussions in comments, and I really do buy a lot of the titles you all recommend; today I spotted at Dollar Tree a hardcover copy of The Magic of Grace by Charles de Lint, and picked it up because of Diane's rec.

Anyway, we revved up the magic hat tonight, and the winners are:

Erin K., who was impressed by The First Confessor by Terry Goodkind.

Shelley, who really liked Lilith Saintcrow's The Iron Wyrm Affair.

Stephanie, who loves all the books in the Iron Druid series by Kevin Hearne.

Susanne, who really liked Blood Oath and The President`s Vampire by Christopher Farnswort.

Jessica, who really liked The Summoning (Moon Wolf Saga) by Carol Wolfe.

Winners, when you have a chance send your full name and ship-to address to LynnViehl@aol.com so I can get your books out to you. My thanks to everyone for joining in.

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Thanks to all of you who volunteered to be my lab rats test subjects for the book drop experiment giveaway. This was so much fun I'm definitely going to do it again.

In the meantime, we cranked up the magic hat, and the winners are:

Margarent M. Fisk, who is "in it for the story, so it's hard to limit." (Limits? Hey, we don't need no limits)

Kaplooey Mom, who likes "books where the hero or heronine saves the day/world/universe and gets their romantic interest of choice. Humor is a bonus. All else is brain candy." (I am so stealing that last phrase.)

DeeCee, who refused to accept defeat by Google Chrome, and likes "UF/PNR that have multiple book story arcs with fewer than 10 TSTL moments." (Now I want to borrow some of your books.)

Winners, when you have a chance please send your full name and ship-to address to LynnViehl@aol.com, and I will commence the book drops. My thanks to everyone for joining in, and I'll report back on the winners' reactions once they have a chance to read their books.

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I've got a whole new list of books to check out on my next shopping trip, thanks to the many authors and titles mentioned for the Obsessed giveaway.

Tonight we cranked up the magic hat, and the winners are:

terlee, who recommends Discovery of Witches, the first book in the All Souls trilogy by Deborah Harkness

Megan, who is reading Dennis Lehane's Shutter Island (that one will keep you up all night, too)

LJCohen, who needs a new book to keep her guessing.

Winners, when you have a chance please send your full name and ship-to info to LynnViehl@aol.com so I can get your books out to you. My thanks to everyone for joining in.

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I think Magnetic Poetry needs to hire you guys as creative directors; you came up with some great ideas. For me the perfect little box of words would be about writing (but of course everything is about writing.)

We revved up the magic hat, and the winners of the MagPo's Little Boxes giveaway are:

fionaphoenix, who thinks a color theme has lots of possibilities.

Ayla, who wouldn't mind a tin of sanity

TanjaG, who'd like a high fantasy/sword & sorcery theme, or a witch craft/spell theme

clairecherven, who would like to see wisdom in 72 words or less

Winners, when you have a chance please send your full name and ship-to address to LynnViehl@aol.com so I can get your packages out to you. My thanks to everyone for joining in.

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You guys mentioned some very intriguing methods and sources of inspiration for the All the Answers giveaway; I'm definitely going to test-drive a few of them the next time I need to try something new.

We got the magic hat revved up, and the winners are:

Emily, who uses the 'open a book to a random spot' method

terlee, who has been inspired by the names from paint chip cards, a one-line lyric in a song, and conversations overheard while out and about

Deb Salisbury, who plotted an entire novel using a Tarot deck

Winners, when you have a chance please send your full name and ship-to address to LynnViehl@aol.com, and I'll get these cards & books out to you. My thanks to everyone for joining in.

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The magic hat has handed me the winners of the Bright and Shadow giveaway, and they are:

Tami in Jacksonville, whose favorite magical world is Mercedes Lackey's 500 Kingdoms

fionaphoenix, who digs Kim Harrison's The Hollows series

Ellen, who likes both Patricia Briggs' and Ilona Andrews' worlds

Stephen B. Bagley, who wouldn't mind visiting Discworld (brave guy)

Jessica, who picks Karen Moning's Fever series

Winners, when you have a chance please send your full name and ship-to address to LynnViehl@aol.com so I can get your books out to you. My thanks to everyone for joining in

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Thanks to everyone who joined in the Nightborn Preview giveaway. There is no greater power in the Publishing world than supportive readers, and whenever you talk about any author's books to other people you become the most effective advertising there is, and that's something no author or publisher can ever buy.

I wish I had forty ARCs to send you all instead of just four, but this will not be the only ARC giveaway, so if you don't win this time stay tuned to the blog during the holidays for another chance.

We got the magic hat to do its thing, and the winners are:

Charlene Teglia

mofo8727

Keita Haruka

John C

Winners, when you have a chance please send your full name and ship-to address to LynnViehl@aol.com so I can get these ARCs out to you. Again, thanks to everyone for offering to help out.

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I think the Cool Cats giveaway will end up being my favorite PBW post of the year. Not because of what I wrote, but because of what you all told us about the pets you've loved. There is so much love in these comments, it's making me tear up again just typing that.

We got the magic hat working, and the winners of the giveaway are:

Juanita Olson

M. Powell

nightsmusic

Winners, when you have a chance please send your full name and ship-to address to LynnViehl@aol.com so I can get these books out to you. Please also let me know if you'd like both of Sofie's books.

While reading through the comments I discovered Darlene Ryan (aka Sofie Kelly) stopped in to add her own donation pledge for this post, and I want to thank her for her generosity. You make Owen and Hercules proud, lady.

As for the rest of you, you were so honest and eloquent that I've decided in your honor to up my donation to $2.00 per comment to Bideawee, so they will be getting a check for $106.00 from me. I also think your little pals were as blessed to have you as you were to have them. My heartfelt thanks to everyone for sharing your stories with us.

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I am hitting the road again today, so unfortunately I must make this quick. The winners of the Linda Howard giveaway are:

Shiloh Walker, who depends on Mercedes Lackey's Winds of Fate books and others to get by during tough times..

Petite, who got help from Frenchman's Creek while coping with a loss.

DeeCee, who counted on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows to help get through losing a loved one.

Winners, when you have a chance please send your full name and ship-to address to LynnViehl@aol.com so I can get your books and surprises out to you. My thanks to everyone for joining in.

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So I'm not the only one who self-medicates with books? Good to know. I also see a lot of titles and writers in your comments that I'll have to check out next time I'm at the bookstore.

We dusted off the magic hat (who has been sulking over being left in the closet so long), and the winners of the Rob Thurman giveaway are:

SandyH, who escapes with the Darkyn series and Jayne Anne Krentz.

Sari from Michigan, who depends on Mercedes Lackey and Anne McCaffrey's earlier novels.

Emily of Tom, Emily & Brenna, who mentioned Cherijo from StarDoc and Sylvia Thorpe as particularly helpful

AthenaW, who recommends anything by Lilith Saintcrow as a tough times go-to read.

Winners, when you have a chance please send your full name and ship-to address to LynnViehl@aol.com so I can send your books and surprises out to you. My thanks to everyone for joining in.

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I appreciate all the great entries for the Coming Home giveaway, so much so that I think I'll take the comments with me next time I hit the book store.

Tonight we got the magic hat to do its thing, and the winners are:

Karla Jackson-Levine, who is on her third copy of Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke.

AthenaW, who was very pleased with Quinn by Iris Johansen.

Lorinda, whose current satisfying read is Annie's Song by Catherine Anderson.

SandyH, who is getting caught up on her reading with several great reads, including Sarah Addison Allen's The Peach Keeper (I just read that on myself last week, and it was terrific.)

Fran Kane, who found Jacquelyn Frank's Hunting Julian a satisfying read.

cymberleah, who particularly enjoyed A Madness of Angels by Kate Griffin.

Lynne Connolly, who thought Loretta Chase's Silk and Seduction was a lovely read.

Erin Kendall, who picked Kiss of Snow by Nalini Singh.

Rowan, who is reading the Sword of Change series by Patricia Bray.

Ilona, who often reads The Deeds Of Paksennarion series by Elizabeth Moon.

Winners, when you have a chance please send your full name and ship-to address to LynnViehl@aol.com. Also, please indicate if you'd like me to send along the other three Kyndred novels along with the Nightshine ARC. My thanks to everyone for joining in.

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You guys provided a lot of great recs for the Seven Reasons giveaway, and I do want to add one more -- this week my daughter asked me to read Jeanne DuPrau's The City of Ember, which I did. Although dystopian YA lit isn't really my thing I liked the worldbuilding a lot.

We revved up the magic hat tonight, and the winners are:

B.E. Sanderson, who got a kick out of Fairy Bad Day by Amanda Ashby

Shawna, whose most recent excellent reads are Steinbeck's Ghost and The Haunting of Charles Dickens

bluebamboo, who is in a fiction-reading slump (not anymore!)

knotdamomma, whose latest best read was Last Sacrifice by Richelle Mead

Marian Halcombe, who broke cardinal zombie rules and enjoyed Feed by Mira Grant

Signy, who was impressed with Heidi Cullinan's The Seventh Veil

DeeCee, who liked Vicki Pettersson's The Taste of Night

Winners, when you have a chance please send your full name and ship-to address to LynnViehl@aol.com so I can get your books out to you. My thanks to everyone for joining in.