Cold Moon (The Huntress/FBI Thrillers Book 3) (35 page)

Acknowledgments

I have so many people to thank for this series, I could write a book. I am eternally grateful to:

My most awesome editors, Anh Schluep and Charlotte Hersher. Anh, you’ve been a lifesaver!

My superstar agents, Scott Miller and Frank Wuliger.

The Thomas & Mercer team: Alan Turkus, Jacque Ben-Zekry, Grace Doyle, and Tiffany Pokorny. There are not enough superlatives!

The Amazon KDP, ACX, and CreateSpace talents of Lael Telles, Nicole Op Den Bosch, and Lauren McCullough, through various versions of these books.

My priceless early readers: Diane Coates Peoples, Joan Tregarthen Huston, Joseph Wrin, Jim Williams, Sharon Berge, and Rebecca Wink.

Timoney Korbar, Amanda Wilson, and Adam Cruz for brilliant publicity support.

Visionary original cover designers Robert Gregory Browne and Brandi Doane.

The initial inspiration for the Huntress from Val McDermid, Denise Mina, and Lee Child, at the San Francisco Bouchercon.

My mega-talented critique partners, Zoë Sharp and JD Rhoades.

My incomparable writing group, the Weymouth Seven: Margaret Maron, Mary Kay Andrews, Diane Chamberlain, Sarah Shaber, Brenda Witchger, and Katy Munger.

Lee Lofland and his amazing Writers Police Academy trainers/instructors: Dave Pauly, Katherine Ramsland, Corporal Dee Jackson, Andy Russell, Marco Conelli, Lieutenant Randy Shepard, and Robert Skiff.

The learned Dr. Doug Lyle, for forensics help.

RC Bray for his terrific narrative interpretations of the books.

Joe Konrath, Blake Crouch, Scott Nicholson, Elle Lothlorien, CJ Lyons, LJ Sellers, Ann Voss Peterson, Robert Gregory Browne, Brett Battles, and JD Rhoades, who showed me the indie publishing ropes.

Siegrid Rickenbach, Captain John Rickenbach, and Alison Davis, experts in all things California.

Leslie Goldenberg, Jennifer Nickerson, Patti Frick, and Elaine Sokoloff, who inspire me to hold up my half of the sky.

Madeira James, for her visual inspiration.

And Craig Robertson, for a million things, but especially for always being willing to boldly go just about anywhere for the sake of research.

About the Author

Photo © 2009 Lawrence Smith

Alexandra Sokoloff is the Thriller Award–winning and Bram Stoker, Anthony, and Black Quill Award–nominated author of the supernatural thrillers
The Harrowing
,
The Price
,
The Unseen
,
Book of Shadows
,
The Shifters
, and
The Space Between
, and
the Thriller Award–nominated Huntress/FBI crime series (
Huntress Moon
,
Blood Moon
,
Cold Moon
). The
New York Times Book Review
has called her a “daughter of Mary Shelley,” and her books “some of the most original and freshly unnerving work in the genre.”

As a screenwriter she has sold original horror and thriller scripts and adap
ted novels for numerous Hollywood studios. She has also written two nonfiction workbooks:
Screenwriting Tricks for Authors
and
Writing Love
, based
on her internationally acclaimed workshops and blog (
www.ScreenwritingTricks.com
). She writes erotic paranormal on the side, including
The Shifters
, Book 2 of
The Keepers
trilogy, and
Keeper of the Shadows
, from
The Keepers L.A.

She lives in Los Angeles and in Scotland with the crime author Craig Robertson.