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Giveaway time!!

Hi folks! This weekend is your last chance to enter the Fairydust giveaway. Ends Monday - good luck!

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Published on November 01, 2013 06:31 • Tags: fairydust, giveaway

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Oct 29, 2013 01:25AM

Lucinda wrote: "Dear Simon,
Thank you so much for the friendship request here on Goodreads. You are right - i am very interested in your novel 'Fairydust' (as a keen reader of all things fantasy), and so would lov..."

Hooray! Thanks Lucinda. Feels good to know I didn't hide in a darkened study for nothing :P Good luck in the giveaway!

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message 1: by L

Oct 29, 2013 01:11AM

Dear Simon,
Thank you so much for the friendship request here on Goodreads. You are right - i am very interested in your novel 'Fairydust' (as a keen reader of all things fantasy), and so would love to have the chance to read it at some point.
Thanks once again,
Lucinda x

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