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Authors: S. R. Karfelt
Tags: #Fantasy, #warriors, #alternate reality, #Fiction, #strong female characters, #Adventure, #action
Forever thanks to the Ragged Edge writers for the hand up, Ted Dekker, Steven James, Kevin Kaiser, Tosca Lee, Robert Liparulo, and Eric Wilson. It was your light on a tough path that made me persevere. Heather Burch, your wise counsel was invaluable.
Ruth Logan Herne, I am grateful you dragged me out of my writing closet. I wear my big girl pants most every day now.
Horace Tupper at Votadini Publishing opened a back door for an unknown writer with a big story to tell. Thank you for allowing the likes of me into your world, H.T. Thank you, Jeff LaFerney, for befriending a newbie and pointing me to Blue Harvest Creative.
There is one other person who knows this story almost as intimately as I do. That is my main beta, Lindsay Hodges. For your pedantic nitpicky ways, and steadfast perseverance through rewrites, edits, and changes, I am very grateful. It is a pleasure to be red-lined by you. Snaps for my backup beta, Kelsey Rae Keating, who watched this story grow and mature, and read and commented on each version. Your enthusiasm and impassioned opinion fueled me through many a tough patch. You are my shieldmaiden and my next-gen clone. Thank you.
Thank you to my early readers, Miriam Timmer and Brenda Brooks, for your enthusiasm and feeback. Trapped in the wilderness they had nowhere to run when a wild-eyed writer foisted an early version of this book on them.
For my editor, Robin Harnist, thank you for enduring my obsessive fixation with commas, and for answering all of my questions. It has been great to find someone else who works all night.
To my Blue Monkey peeps who make the writing jungle an oasis, I thank you for all the encouragement and support: Rob Holliday, Ashley Cyare Procko, LaDonna Cole, D. M. Kilgore, Kimberly Robertson, Linnette R. Mullin, Lynnell Koehler, Gary L. Wade, Rachelle Rediger, and Cory Clubb. To the Blues I’ve already mentioned above, their names bear repeating: Kelsey Rae Keating, Heather Burch, Robert Liparulo, Robin Harnist, and Steven James. To the rest of my Blue Munks, I raise my goblet to you (and know there is something banana flavored in there): Jason and Jennifer Fancher, Lydia Paine, Elizabeth Buzzard, Emily Dukes, Emily Kunkel, Ed Keelan, Isabel Berrios-Brown, Tyler Carrington, Colette StOnge Pedersen (spelt correctly), Frank Lattimore, Ben Erlichman, Tracey Lanter Eyster, Caleb Jennings Breakey, Donna Underwood Spivey, Natalie Pedersen Pierson, Chris Varble, Amy Machelle, Krystal Travis, Reuben Horst, Tim Ward, Heather and Billy Sudbrock, Benjamin Gathright, Hannah Travis, Lindsay Catherine Bullard, Caroline Madison, Britton Peele, Karissa Travis, Catherine Jones, Cory Kruse, Chadd Baltzley, Sarah LeighAnn Thompson, Heather Fourman, Dayla Cole, Hannah Lee, Kevin Frasure, Emma Sangalli, Victoria Walcott, Joey Spicer, Rose Ahonen Corscadden, Greg T. Carpenter, and of course our Warden, and all absent Blues. Thank you.
Cover design by Cory Cubb
Interior book design, all interior graphics,
eBook design and
Votadini Publishing logo design by
Blue Harvest Creative
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From entomology to teaching to business, S.R. has dabbled in many fields. Swallowed by the engineering world, she co-founded a high-tech company with her husband before returning to the other love of her life, writing.
Warrior of the Ages
is her first novel.
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