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Acknowledgments

Cue the happy dance. This day has been a long time coming. I wrote the first draft of
daynight
in 2009. Rewrote it many times. Still not perfect. Tabled it for a couple years while I worked on other things, and then alas, inspiration hit and a few changes here, there and everywhere and I finally felt happy enough with the results to release it. Well, after enough editing to make many eyes bleed.

There have been so many people who helped and encouraged me along the way. First, I’d like to thank my daughters, Ashley and Breanna. From the time they were in kindergarten, they have had such a huge appetite for reading, I literally could not buy books fast enough to satisfy them. They were thrilled when my husband, Jon Thomason, wrote
Max Xylander and the Island of Zumuruud.
After, when I came up with a new book idea for Jon and he scoffed at the idea of writing a teen romance (not really his thing), my daughters dared me to write
the thin veil
. They gobbled up every chapter that I wrote and when the book was done, Ashley asked me to write the sequel for her birthday,
the thin line,
which I did. A year later, I wrote the conclusion to the trilogy,
thin skin
and then decided to take on a much more ambitious project in my favorite genre, dystopia. Ashley and Breanna, and also my step-daughter Ashley Lyn, have been with me every step of the way, providing commentary, editing, and occasionally threatening my life when they didn’t like where things were headed with certain characters. They shared the books with their friends and soon, I had many girls threatening my life :).

A note on editing. I’m a bit of a perfectionist. I’ve been through
daynight
hundreds, if not thousands of times (on my laptop, phone and iPad, because things jump off the page on smaller screens). I *hate* finding mistakes. Invariably though, each time I edit, I potentially introduce more errors. So, my apologies if you find a problem and know that I’m cringing right along with you. I’ve done updates over a single incorrect letter, so email me at megan@meganthomason if you find anything.

My husband, Jon, an exceptional writer in his own right, has supported me through thick and thin, also reading and re-reading my books, offering suggestions, and honest criticisms. He also designed the book cover for
daynight,
which I love.
When I’m fully entrenched in writing, he puts up with a messy house, less-than-fabulous meals, and a very distracted wife. My kids have patiently endured hearing “Just let me finish this” and “Not now”s. Is it a bonus that they’ve all learned to be quite self-sufficient? The honest truth? If I’m not writing, I’m doing another project. My kids tease me incessantly about my projects (sure, the world-class weapons collection might have been a little unnecessary, but at the time it seemed cool. And it will be rather useful come the zombie apocalypse.)

My kids also make the most excellent muses. I feel like I live in a comedy show. Yes, they have been known to have raging debates at the dinner table about the best weapons to use during the zombie apocalypse with guests present (those guests never returned).

A huge shout-out to my friends who graciously agreed to read my books early on… Kelli J., LeAnn R., Marci B., Darlene I, Liz S.… you guys are awesome. My sister… Tara C. And thanks to my kids’ friends who also logged some major hours… Rachel P., Jonci R., and Jennifer T.

I find music inspiring and some of the artists who help get me typing include Muse, My Chemical Romance, Imagine Dragons, Owl City, blink-182, The Killers, Fall Out Boy, Ludo, and Neon Trees.

Thanks to the folks who designed and developed Scrivener… they make outlining, organizing notes and research, and writing easy. I’m also grateful to those who created Dropbox, which allows you to open files in Kindle and see your book before it goes live. And a huge shout out to the folks at Amazon and CreateSpace who have transformed the publishing industry.

I’m hard at work on the next installment of the
daynight
series and have other story ideas in the mental works as well.

About the author

Megan Thomason lives in paradise aka San Diego, CA with her husband and five children. A former software manager, Megan vastly prefers writing twisted tales to business, product, and marketing plans. When she isn't typing away on her laptop, she's reading books on her phone—over 600 in the last year—or attending to the needs of her family. Megan’s fluent in sarcasm, could potentially benefit from a 12-step program for road rage, struggles with a Hot Tamales addiction, loves world travel & fast cars and hates paperwork & being an insomniac.
Daynight
is Megan's first published novel, but fourth written one.