ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Writing and publishing a book is a lot like packing up a house; you write and you write and you edit and you format, and you think you’re almost done, and then you remember the Acknowledgments.

The. Acknowledgements. The last little bit before I can kick this thing out into the world.

The worst bit about acknowledgements is trying not to write the same thing you did last time, I mean, there are only so many ways you can say ‘it takes a lot of people to publish and book, and I would like to thank...’. That’s what they’re all about, after all, saying thank you to the people who:

• put up with you storming around the kitchen when you don’t know what to write next (thanks Mum)
• listen to you rabbit on, yet again, about how you have no idea how to get Kuma to the Med deck (thanks Tracy)
• read the manuscript and pick up all the niggly plot holes before it goes to the editor (thanks Tracy, Iffet and Roger)
• edit the damn thing (thanks Amanda J Spedding)
• inspired you to try writing a novel without plotting it first (this one’s all you Devon Madson).

And then there are the Kickstarter Heroes, a small group of people who supported the special edition of Cold Between Stars* before it was even finished. These Heroes have a special place in my heart, because they make many wonderful things (like special illustrated editions) possible, they are: Amelia Soon, Iffet, Gaby van Halteren and Ruth Molenaar. Thanks guys, you’re legends.

*Yes, there’s a special edition, it has illustrations and if it’s not already in your hot little hands, check it out on my website.