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Well the obvious answer to that is I want them to come back to the blog. Frequently. Not just once or even twice.<\/p>\n<p>So what I&#8217;ve decided to do since I&#8217;m getting a rash of winners neglecting to check back to see if they&#8217;ve won, starting this week, I&#8217;m going to start rewarding my <em><strong>frequent visitors<\/strong><\/em> when the winners don&#8217;t come back to collect. This is how it will work. A week after post announcing the winners, I will go back and find my most frequent commenter(s) and reward them the prize. If there is more than one, I&#8217;ll draw between them. Couldn&#8217;t be more simple, right? Let&#8217;s face it, faithful commenters are who all blogs are looking for and I&#8217;m going to try to find ways to show my appreciation. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Now if you&#8217;re one of the visitors who doesn&#8217;t check into the blog weekly and you&#8217;ve commented to win a book, I would suggest that you subscribe to<strong> <em><a href=\"http:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/feed\/rss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Season Blog RSS Feed<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, which is on the sidebar right at the top. I have my feeds delivered to my email. I love it because I never miss a post of my favourite blogs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published authors<\/strong>, I&#8217;ve sadly neglected <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Excerpt Thursdays<\/strong><\/span>. The reason I love this so much is because a good excerpt has always been able to sell a book to me. As authors, we have no or little say in our covers or our back cover copy. The words inside our books are truly ours. 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