Creating a work to meld fact and fiction, as I have done with The Babylon Prophecy, has been not only a fun adventure but an extraordinarily challenging one as well. I have appreciated the assistance of many librarians and bookstore owners, as fascinated as I am with ancient history. I am also constantly encouraged by friends, colleagues, and readers of Book One, knowing that my imagination knows no limits! They eagerly await the next installment and let me know I’m not writing fast enough. So here, I want to acknowledge fellow-author George R.R. Martin, whom I heard told his impatient legion of fans: “I can’t write as fast as you read!” Thank you, Mr. Martin!
I also want to thank Beverlee Bowman Price for her insight into my character Betty, helping me to develop her into a person the reader could perhaps relate to. Beverlee is Betty in her fondest dreams. As she breathed life into Betty, she discovered more of herself.
Publishing a series of this magnitude requires guidance, patience, understanding, and objectivity, and all of these are in great abundance in the person of Sheryn Hara and her Book Publishers Network. Although she has published many best sellers over the past thirty-plus years, Sheryn is always willing to help a fledgling author achieve a lifelong dream.
My editor, copy editor, and publicist Barbara Kindness is always an enormous source of inspiration to me as she makes my story her own.
I see The Babylon Prophecy as a nine-part saga as there is still much story to tell, so my thanks in advance to all you readers who are hangin’ in!
—Sean Salazar