Healer's Touch (47 page)
Authors: Deb E Howell
Mustn’t forget T and Gav. Without you guys – my first readers – this story would have floundered a LONG time ago. Your encouragement of my early efforts got me here! I know! I hope you like the direction the book ended up taking . . . Thanks to Chy and the rest of the First Three Chapters group, and the follow up Fruit Basket group at writing.com (WDC). Double thanks to Chy for letting me fail to properly join your Outliners group and then still offering advice on my outline!
And thanks to anyone who reviewed the chapters of “Healer’s Touch” (or, as it was once titled “Weapons of War”) I had up on WDC. Every little bit of feedback helped shape it. Also members of YouWriteOn, Authonomy, and the rest who have offered both encouragement and criticism. Yep, even that person who called a snippet I posted on Tumblr “drivel”. I kept that bit.
Thanks to Evelinn Enoksen for the great maps, and Matt Donnici for putting up with my picky cover art notes. It’s not that I didn’t have faith in you. It’s just my baby, is all . . . you understand.
Thanks to Brooke Todd for putting up with me talking incessantly about it; as we aqua-jogged, when we swam at the river, when we played with the dogs, as we bathed my son . . . basically every time I’ve seen you since I started this journey I’ve bored you with my thoughts, my small joys, my bigger joys, and my doubts. Sorry I didn’t write a murder mystery, but hopefully Braph is interesting enough . . .
Thanks Sammy and Robert of Kristell Ink for seeing something in the submission documents I sent them. And an extra thank you to Robert for the work on the edits. However good the book might have been going to be, it wouldn’t be what it is without your help. And I wouldn’t be the writer I am now.
Thanks to my husband who let me play the “professional writer” role well before I earned it (still working on that) – taking our son out of the house so that I could make some real progress once a weekend.
Thanks to my son, Josh, for keeping me grounded. Without someone ensuring I kept regular hours I might have slipped into the creative genius routine of working nights and sleeping days. Can’t do that with a toddler. Thanks.
Basically, thanks to anyone who’s read a bit and said something about it (I think I’ve covered my butt there, right?)
Thanks one and all who reads it, loves it, and tells someone else about it!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Deb E Howell was born in New Zealand’s North Island, but her parents corrected that within months, moving south to Dunedin and staying there. Childhood nights were spent falling asleep to good cover versions of
Cliff Richard and the Shadows and other Rock ’n Roll classics played by her father’s band, and days were spent dancing to 45 LPs. Many of her first writing experiences were copying down song lyrics. She graduated
to scientific reports when she studied a fungus in the Zoology department of the University of Otago, trading all traces of popularity for usefulness . . . then traded both for fiction.
The second book in this series, Warrior’s Touch, is due out in late 2013.
OTHER TITLES FROM KRISTELL INK
Strange Tales From The Scriptorian Vaults:
A Collection of Steampunk Stories edited by Sammy HK Smith
All profits go to the charity First Story.
Published October 2012
Non-Compliance: The Sector by Paige Daniels
I used to matter . . . but now I’m just a girl in a ghetto, a statistic of the Non-Compliance Sector . . .
A great cyberpunk novel, the first in the Non-Compliance series.
Published November 2012.
Guardians of Evion by E. Enoksen
On the world of Evion the telepathic Riders of the Dragon defend the peace and maintain communications between the Waystatiosn. Numak is eager to join the elite . . . but nothing, least of all Numak, is as it seems.
Due Out March 1st 2013
OTHER TITLES SCHEDULED FOR 2013:
Space Games by Dean Lombardo
Darkspire Reaches by C. N. Lesley
In Search Of Gods And Heroes by Sammy H.K Smith
The Art of Forgetting by Joanne Hall
The Reluctant Prophet by Gillian O’Rourke
All titles in print and as e-books.
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