Off the top of my head, my lifelong favorite characters from other authors are Peter (Lewis’s Narnia books), Sam (Tolkien’s Ring Trilogy), Anne (Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables), and Rat (Jonell’s Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat).
I admire and like Peter and Sam. They are noble characters. When they do make mistakes, they face up to them. Anne is delightfully imaginative in both good ways and bad. She also faces up to mistakes—eventually. Rat is very likeable and also hilarious. I love characters who make me laugh out loud.
My favorite characters from my own books are (duh) Janna and Benk, and I like them because they are real people who love and get angry and grow. They make me laugh—yes, every time even though I have obviously read the stories more than once. I also like very much Princess Pearlrope Diamonde Primrose (Rose) from Benk and the Ugly Princess, which will hopefully get published sometime this year.