Ex Nihilo Academy (20 page)

Thank you to Megan McDougall and Marianne Thicke (team M&M) for being such eager and enthusiastic readers. Your feedback and edits have been invaluable and your unwavering support helped get this e-publishing
project off the ground.

Thank you to my loving family and to all of you who’ve ever read for me or rallied for me. Thank you to those of you I’ve had the pleasure of sharing workshops with and to the O.G.’s of Buchanan D who know in their
heart of hearts that no offense was meant to Alice.

Thank you to the UBC Writing program and UBCO for stoking the creative fires and reminding me why one should never give up on one’s passion (even if it means doing it with a glass of wine after the kids go to
bed).

Thank you to the Savage clan in Northern Ireland for the inspiration, to my spirited grandmother Jeannie (nee Savage) Johnston, and to my little brother Adam Johnston; may God hold you both in the palm of his hand.

Thank you to my husband Thorsten for supporting me in my endeavors even if the whole vampire-genre confounds you. Thank you for sitting through all five installments of the ‘Twilight Saga’ without a grunt of protest
and for agreeing not to run the blender during episodes of ‘The Vampire Diaries’, even if it frustrates you to no end that they can’t seem to kill Klaus. You may have married a fourteen year-old girl trapped inside the body of
an adult but I know you love her all the same. And most importantly thank you to my babies James and Andrew for being the loves of my life and the sole reason I do anything I do. Much love.