What do you think of his ironic smile?

You know who really loves seeing art of fictional characters?

Authors. Authors, and I mean this in the most loving of ways, are ravenous art fiends.

Myself not excepted.

I mean, we have fictional characters jostling around in our brains all the time, so naturally it's fun to see some of them with more than just our mind's eye.

And share them. Yeah, we love that nearly as much.

Here, then, is the couple from my story this fall — Pen Novak and a wizard's assistant with an ironic smile and a habit of not revealing his name.

A lot of lovely art has come out of the anthology that story is in, Once Upon a Forbidden Desire. This, for instance. And this. And also this.

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What's some character art you loved getting to see?

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