We have a little less than an hour to go until the formal close but as always you can read and add to the comments all evening and answer the polls, too! I think we will put off our drawings until tomorrow. Authors who are doing their own can handle this as they see fit.

There were some amazing books discussed today. I am just so excited and am going to be doing some shopping. I love slightly quirky and off-beat things and several of these sound right up my alley! I was interested to see how different authors have reached out not into their own ethnic roots and history but into other cultures and traditions as well! Imagination is such a wonderful thing.

Friends and readers of Deirdre O’Dare and Gwynn Morgan often ask where do my ideas come from, especially when I am talking about a WIP that is somewhat out of the box and even out in left field! LOL I have to admit I honestly do not know; usually a character emerges from the mists–or maybe myths — in my muddled mind and begins to tell me his or her story and the rest is just kind of taking dictation.  You other authors here today–does this sound familiar or totally off the wall as far as the methods this strange madness works for you?  I’d just like to know if I am totally mad or not!! Mad in the noonday sun sense of being stark raving crazy!