And the winner is…

Congratulations to the ten winners, your books will be mailed to you shortly.

But we also have a jury of eleven voting on favorite characters.  Allowing split votes (half each) the rating is: Rap 2, Durendal, 1.5, then one each for Alfeo Zeno, Sir Beaumont, Katanji, Knobil, Omar, Radgar, and Shonsu, with a half vote for Sir Wolf.  I was happy to see Katanji making the cut, but not surprised.  He is the only non-hero to do so, but he almost stole a book away from me.  (The only character who succeeded in doing so was Radgar, in Lord of the Fire Lands.) Shonsu reappears in the forthcoming The Death of Nnanji and of course Katanji sneaks in there also — couldn't keep him out!  And no women??  Not even Inos or Aunt Kade?  Oh, well, Dickens was better doing men, too.

But if anyone else wants to vote in this popularity contest, I'd be interested to hear from them.  No book rewards, I'm afraid.  (I do offer three good characters coming up in Against the Light — you see them on the cover.)

PS: I see a twelfth juror just cast a vote for Ylo.  There was another sneaky character!