Acknowledgments
WordFire Press is pleased to be the new publisher of The Ferryman & The Flame series, but would like to include the author’s original acknowledgments to recognize all those who helped build this series from scratch.
Kevin J. Anderson
Publisher
I thought publishing a book was easy—until I did it. What I’ve learned about myself from publishing is that I’m a spazz case, control freak and perfectionist. I feel like most of the people I need to thank on this list I also need to apologize to, for all my author craziness.
A.P. Fuchs, Jennifer Laughran, and Natasha Heck, I have no idea how you put up with all my incessant e-mails or how you managed to encourage me to stick with it even when my whole world was a boatload of no.
Sue Dawe, I don’t know how to thank you enough for being honest with me and telling me not to Tolkienshire it up. It’s because of you that I have avoided many lawsuits.
Marc Wolfe, I don’t know what it is about your artistic vision but without it, I don’t think anyone would have gotten Kaliel and Krishani’s likeness. It’s like you took them directly out of my head and put them on paper and they look like real people, real non human people.
Primo Cardinalli and Hugh Rookwood, your illustrations were incredibly on point and accurate to the characters. I seemed to give you an idea and you ran with it, again, taking what was in my head and putting it on paper in ways I never could.
Tommy Castillo, for the painting that looked like it was something Michaelangelo painted five hundred years ago. That will always be my classic version of the Ferryman + the Flame and I don’t know how to tell you how much I will always love it.
Christopher Boll, I know you’re not a map maker anymore, but you certainly did a fantastic job on my map.
Regina Wamba, you fantastic lady you! We had a short deadline, not a lot of options, a whole lot of stubbornness on my side, and you managed to make me a cover that I can’t stop staring at, it’s sooo pretty!
Cory Putman Oakes, Evie Seo, Lucy D’Andrea, Molli Moran, Kathy Habel, Rachel Rivera, Sammie Spencer, Susan Haugland, Laura Kreitzer, Marie De La Rosa, and well the endless list of bloggers I’m forgetting to mention personally, thank you so much for your constant support and encouragement. I would have given up if it weren’t for people like you.
Rae Smith and Sabina Grosse, you two have been my little secret weapons, BETA reading well into the night and finishing my books in record time. I’m so glad I have written books that you ladies cannot put down. Thank you both for being there for me.
Lastly, you may have noticed I dedicated this book to Michael, because without him I wouldn’t be writing.
Rhiannon Paille
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