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And the winner is…

Huge, gonzo thanks to everyone who entered my ARC contest! It was lovely to see such interest and I do hope you’ll keep on coming back and commenting—I love the back-and-forth. And there will be MORE giveaways soon; I’ve been reliably informed by my editor that Del Rey Spectra is going to be giving away a few of my ARC’s on their Facebook page. (Search for Del Rey Spectra on Facebook and like ’em—why not, you like books, right? I hope you win!) I was also told that there would be some giveaways on Goodreads and Library Thing; I’m on both of those sites, by the way, and you’re welcome to friend me there, etc.

So here’s how I chose the winner: I went to Random.org and used their sequence generator. I told it to randomize a sequence from 1-68 (since there were 68 comments) and whatever number came out on top would be the winner. If the winning number corresponded to one of my comments then I was going to do it again, but luckily that didn’t happen. Here’s the screen shot of the drawing, timestamped at the bottom, winning number at the top left:

So the winning comment is #16, and that belongs to Becky B! Congratulations, Becky! You have won an advance copy of HOUNDED! It’s been maltreated, but we’re going to look at that from the sunny side and say instead that it is now infused with a sense of adventure! Email me your address (kevin@kevinhearne.com) and whatever you’d like me to sign in the book, and I will send it to you via the fabulously slow Media Mail!

And in case you didn’t hear via Twitter or Facebook and you missed this, check out this post I did with my editor, Tricia Pasternak, on the making of the cover of HOUNDED.

Tomorrow I will post my next Still Life with Fantasy and Fruit…it’s a big one, number 10. :)