Contest: Week 7 winner

What a great weekend! Thank you to everyone who came out to the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books for the signing at the Mysterious Galaxy booth on Saturday and to the fiction panel and booksigning on Sunday! It was fun to see so many friendly faces, and to meet so many new readers. It took a a whole pot of tea to get my brain working again this morning, but I'm finally caught up with all the contest entries, so let's get to the fun part : picking the winner for this week's prize of a Victorian-inspired key pendant with embedded timepiece on an 18-inch chain, a 6-inch vintage-inspired hat pin, and a collection of four (4) postcard artifacts dating from 1907 to 1913.

I've plugged the numbers into the random number generator at Random.org, and we get...




And lucky No. 1,059 in the official contest entry spreadsheet belongs to...

Melissa Keith

Congratulations, Melissa! I'll email you in just a moment to get a mailing address for you.

If you didn't win, no need to re-enter. All the non-winning entries will automatically be added to next week's drawing. If you want to improve your chances, you might want to visit the Contest page on my website and make sure you're doing all the things that earn entries.

Good luck!