JANE HAGSTRAND

My 11th-grade High School English teacher who is just awesome & inspired me to keep at it.

MY PARENTS

Thanks to my dad for getting my mom Pet Semetary, when I was 10.
Thanks to my mom for letting me read it when I was 15.

SHAUN COLLINS

Thanks for helping me finish my first full-length anything...
(which was a “maybe”
& that’s something)

STEPHEN KING

For the last line of Pet Semetary that made me understand writing.

For On Writing.

For your visit to KSU in 1995.

And for your role in Creepshow.

Pf. DON HEDRICK

Thank you for making me understand Shakespeare. Stay Well. (There’s got to be a double meaning in that)

DAN BROWN

For The Davinci Code for my own reasons.

For your Masterclass and it validating all I learned the hard way.

Pf. L. ESCALADA

Thanks for facilitating the content review so I could complete my exciting soon-to-be-released...

THE CREATOR

For I didn’t create the brain, the muse, the wonder.

Molecular Biology and DNA pretty much convinced me…

MY CHILDREN

For their…

…suggestions.

FOR LOSING A JOB

So I finally had time to revise.

And, thus Job, as well, for his mentorship.

JACK & RANDY

and the gang.

…all of them

…and Indigenous Peoples everywhere.

SO MANY OTHERS…

Including my Pre-Launch Crew

For inspiration along the way.