Blood and Chrysanthemums (24 page)
Profound thanks are owed to many people, especially:
Jim Baker and Diane Volkers, who donated Banff tours, free accommodations and jujubes, climbing expertise, and who got me halfway up the wall;
Professors John Brownlee and Yasko Nishimura of the University of Toronto, who provided invaluable information on Japanese history and culture; any errors there might be occurred despite their best efforts. Additional thanks to Professor Nishimura for her calligraphic talents;
Kim Kofmel, who told me when I most needed it that this was a story she wanted to hear;
Telemedia Publishing, which generously found a way for me to do my job and write a book at the same time;
My editor [for the original edition], Cynthia Good, who believed in the book and in me;
Mary Adachi, whose copy-editing sessions taught me about writing and Japanese language and culture in equal measure;
And most importantly, my husband, Richard Shallhorn, who held me together through a birth process that was far more arduous than either one of us expected.
Thank you to Sandra Kasturi, Brett Savory and the team at CZP for the e-book editions. Thanks to Gillian Homes of the House of Pomegranates for her gorgeous cover and to Suzy McKee Charnas for the kind introduction.
Note: Some imaginative liberties have been taken with Banff geography and climbing-wall architecture.
Nancy Baker is the author of three vampire novels (
The Night Inside
,
Blood and Chrysanthemums
, and
A Terrible Beauty
) and a collection of short stories (
Discovering Japan
). Her next book, a fantasy novel titled
Cold Hillside
, will be published by ChiZine Publications in 2014. She lives in Toronto and avoids writing by working with numbers, gardening, and making jam. You can find out how any or all of these things are doing at
nancybaker.ca
or on Facebook.
In case you missed the first Ardeth/Rozokov novel, you can read it now!
The Night Inside
: Dependable grad student Ardeth Alexander finds herself trapped in a nightmare as the unwilling blood source for a captive vampire. When she discovers that her fellow prisoner is not the worst monster she faces, she realizes that the only way to survive is to make an irrevocable choice.
A Terrible Beauty
: “Will you give me your blood to drink, though you die of it?” In an unexpected twist on a fairy tale, an artist goes into the wilderness to fulfill his father’s debt and finds himself the prisoner of a dangerous, alienly beautiful monster.
FIRST ELECTRONIC EDITION
Blood and Chrysanthemums
© 1994, 2014 by Nancy Baker
Cover artwork © 2014 by Gillian Holmes
All Rights Reserved.
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either a product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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The Night Inside
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1994
eISBN: 978-1-77148-190-8
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The Japanese characters within the book were drawn by Yasko Nishimura.
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a CZP eBook
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Copyedited and proofread by Steph Da Ponte and Sandra Kasturi
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $20.1 million in writing and publishing throughout Canada.
Published with the generous assistance of the Ontario Arts Council.