Introducing: Assistant-Rock-Star Meg

Good day to you, Champions! I’ve got some fun stuff to share today! For starters, I’m part of a giveaway that highlights “excellence in indies,” which is a huuuge contest you can enter for the chance to win lots of books. It’s being held over at “Reading is My Superpower,” which is a review blog, and they were nice enough to let me write a guest post! Check it out here!

Next up, today I finally get to introduce you all to my new rock-star author assistant, Meg! To help you guys get to know her a bit, I thought I’d do the same thing I did with Britt and hold a mini interview.

Kitty: Hello Meg, welcome to the community!

Meg: Thank you Kitty!  I am happy to be here!

Kitty: Could you tell us a bit about yourself?

Meg: Well sure! I was born and raised in a small town in the Midwest. Jesus has blessed me with a wonderful husband and a beautiful little farm where we raise milking goats.  I love coffee, anything chocolate, and spending time with good friends and family.  I also enjoy reading, Scottish Country Dancing, and watching movies. Lastly, my favorite Timeless Fairy Tale is Cinderella and Colonel.

Kitty: Meg will mostly be in charge of my email inbox and sorting everything out—though she’ll also be popping in on Facebook too! Besides keeping me more organized, she’ll also be answering some of the more common questions. (For example: Is the King Arthurs series really over? ((Yes.)) Will Life Reader get a sequel? ((Yes, but not for a while.))) If there’s a more personal email that’s sent to me she’ll shoot it my way so I can respond, so I’ll still be reading my messages!

Meg: Yes, I will only be handling the “easy” emails.  Kitty will still reply to you on specific matters.  But please be patient as we make the transition with the email. 

Kitty: With Meg helping me combat the slog of my inbox, it will free up my time for other aspects of the business, so I’m very excited to welcome her to the team. She’s also a long time friend of mine, which is really nice as I know my inbox and you Champions will be in good hands.

Meg:  Thank You Kitty. I appreciate that you have such faith in me and asked me to be a part of your team.

Kitty: That covers the intro! I’m confident you wonderful Champions will have fun getting to know Meg—and witness what a calming influence she is on me, ha-ha. Thanks for reading, Champions, and have a lovely day!

Meg:  I look forward to meeting and getting to know you all! Thank you for letting me join your community!

Kitty: Of course–we’re so thrilled to have you!

So with Meg acting as my assistant, Britta, who is once my intern but I now consider her my lead beta reader; Myrrhlynn on covers; And my awesome-sauce editing team backing me up, we have quite the little posse now! Which reminds me, thank you to everyone who added in their favorite fairy tale retellings on my last post–we had an amazing discussion and some really good recommendations were shared! (I’m thrilled to have bulked up my reading list for the summer, woohoo!) If you didn’t get a chance to check it out yet, here’s a link to the post.

That’s it for today, Champions! Thanks for reading, and if you like give Meg a warm welcome in the comments and check out that giveaway I mentioned at the start of the post. 😉

Endings Update!

I have a video update for you all today, which will give you a status report of Endings–the final King Arthurs Book!

If you haven’t voted in the hero poll yet, you can do so HERE!

Thanks for watching, Champions, and have a lovely week!

Annual Hero Poll II

Greetings, Champions! I hope you all had a lovely Valentine’s Day, and got a chance to vote in the Hero Poll! Today marks the launch of the second part of the poll, but first, the results!

There were 1,036 votes total–which means approximately 340 of you participated in the poll! The results are….

1. Stil of Rumpelstiltskin is reigning champion with 181 votes!

2. Farrin of the Snow Queen books was an upset with 144 votes

3. Merlin of King Arthurs AND Friedrich of Cinderella tied with 105 votes

4. Next Captain Arion led the charge with 95 votes

5. Asher and Aaron of Life Reader were a surprise with 87 votes

6. Azmaveth of Princess Ahira with 61 votes

7. Devin of the MBRC with 41 votes

8. Falk of Wild Swans with 40 votes

The rest of the boys all received less than 40 votes. I will admit, I am VERY surprised by the rankings! (For those who are participating for the first time, usually I tried to match up similar personalities–Like Friedrich and Asher & Aaron–so the poll wouldn’t be so HUGE.) Splitting the pairs up made a huge difference. For instance, Stil has been the leader since his book launched, but the entry of Friedrich and the twins and the entry of Prince Severin of BB and Arion of Red Rope were always in second and third place. I assumed Friedrich alone carried the twins, and Severin was more popular than Arion, but the twins proved their popularity, and apparently Arion actually was the lure for Severin–who only had 30 votes this year.

I was also surprised that only four of the fairy tale heroes made the top nine entries. You might think that’s reasonable given that it’s almost half, but there are far more fairy tale heroes than there are heroes from my other books, so it did come as a shock that my other books (which don’t sell as well) are just as appreciated!

I did want to add that I thought it was really sweet some of you wrote in my heroines for the poll–Odette, Britt, and Briar. (Technically this was the “main male protagonist popularity poll,” but that didn’t fit very well on the banner, so it got shortened to ‘hero.’ This summer the gals will have their chance too as they’re going to get a popularity poll as well!)

Now comes Round 2!

I want to know what kind of male archtype/heroes you would like to see in future books! I can’t make any promises that I’ll use the suggested characters because depending on the book/adventure/heroine, the winning archtype might not work. But even so I still appreciate your input because I use this poll to take your pulse, so to speak, so I can see what sort of male protags are popular, and make my plans accordingly.

I gathered a bunch of ideas from you guys–and from Facebook–but I threw in a few archtypes that weren’t mentioned as well. The rules are the same–you get to cast your ballot once, but you can vote for three archtypes. The poll will close March 2, so you’ve got two weeks! Here’s the link!

Thank you to everyone who voted–both in Round 1 and Round 2 of the poll! I appreciate your input and, to be frank, it’s also just a lot of fun to put on. Thanks for reading, Champions, and may the best man win!