Shoutout Post I

[annathepiper]

Some version of this is going to wind up as an Acknowledgments page in the official version of Faerie Blood. However, it's getting posted here too, on general principles.

This book would not exist without mizkit. She made me do NaNoWriMo in 2003, which got me 50,501 words by the end of November, a complete first draft by the end of January 2004, and the writing habits that have let me finish two more novels since. Plus, she and shadowhwk convinced me to attend Writer's Weekend in 2004, where I started learning firsthand from the pros how to go about submitting a book for publication.

Thanks, Kit and Sara. You gals rock. Willowholt writers FTW!

Many thanks also are owed my beta readers, who helped me pound multiple drafts of this book into shape:

In the Seattle area, wrog, lyricae, and sksouth;

From the Writer's Weekend crowd, shadowhwk again for help with the synopsis, seimaisin, and dr_pretentious for pointing me at Drollerie Press;

Another former Willowholter (and avowed Elessir fan), janne, and fellow Murkwork-er and Willowholter lyonesse, who tickled me pink by comparing me to Esther Friesner;

From the Lexington Fantasy Assocation, starfallz;

From the Gruntland.com forum, Jen McKinney;

From Livejournal, peregrine_ek and LJ user kriski;

And last but not least, to the fine folk of the OKP: gerimaple, Michaelene Greathouse, OntarioGurl, and everyone else on the board who may not have done actual beta reading, but who urged me on nonetheless with kind words and encouragement. There's no bass like an Outer Cove bass, and there's no fandom like Great Big Sea fandom.

Comments

[seimaisin.livejournal.com]

{{hugs}}

I'm so honored and happy to have had the chance to spend time with you at WW, and to be even a little bit of help in this process!

[annathepiper]

*hugs a bunch!* Thank you, and I hope someday soon I'll get to celebrate you getting some words out there too!

[mamishka.livejournal.com]

What about all the brainstorming I did with you while you were writing it? *sniff!*

[annathepiper]

Oh, you're going to be on the list for Lament of the Dove, I assure you! ;)

(Although if we had brainstorming about Faerie Blood and I'm forgetting, mea culpa!)

[mamishka.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I helped you brainstorm some stuff on Faerie Blood. A couple of different things, but the only one I remember now was the storm and the damage it would create and how that would force them out of the protected house. ;-)

[annathepiper]

OKAY! Thank you for the reminder, babe, you will therefore duly be credited in the final version of these acknowledgements. ^_^

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

awww. *hugs*

[annathepiper]

*huggaKit!* You're welcome. :)