Operation Dolphin Spirit
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Special thanks to Skylar and JP for the brainstorming dinner. It was such fun. I enjoyed every minute. Your enthusiasm was contagious. I thought you’d think I was nuts when I told you the plot included Russians.
Thanks to my good friend, Steve, for the chemical stuff. I know I threw you for a loop when I called and asked how to make a homemade stink bomb. I appreciate so much that you took me seriously.
To Rachel, thanks, as always, for keeping Poppy real and Katy Bertodatto, you’ve been a blessing, breathing new life into this series.
I am so thankful for my early readers—Mom and Alexa. And my proof readers—Cathy, Annie, and Lisa—you went above and beyond
Special thank you to Wayne Stinnett for believing in me and my stories enough to become part of them. Our cross over has been so much fun. You inspired me right out of a big slump. I owe you big time.
I get to do this because of the loving support of my husband. As always, thanks to my parents for raising me with a deep love of animals.
Most of all, thank YOU for reading and supporting this indie author.
Dedication
For Kelly and Nicole—
Thanks for all you do to help further our understanding of these most intriguing animals. Your research matters—to them and to us.
For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.
~ Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
About the Author
Born and raised in Michigan, I spent summers at the lake, swimming, catching frogs, and chasing fireflies, winters building things out of cardboard and construction paper, writing stories, and dreaming of faraway places. Since I didn’t make honors English in high school, I thought I couldn’t write. So I started hanging out in the art room. The day I borrowed a camera, my love affair with photography began. Long before the birth of the pixel, I was exposing real silver halides to light and marveling at the magic of an image appearing on paper under a red light.
After college, I freelanced in commercial photography studios. During the long days of rigging strobes, stories skipped through my mind. As happens in life though, I was possessed by another dream—to be a wildlife photographer. I trekked through the woods to find loons, grizzly bears, whales, and moose. Then, for six years, I put my heart and soul into publishing a nature magazine, Whisper in the Woods. But it was not meant to be my magnum opus. This time, my attention was drawn skyward. I’d always been fascinated by the aurora borealis, shimmering in the night sky, but now my focus went beyond, to the cosmos, to wonder about our place in the universe.
In the spring of 2010, I sat down at the computer, started typing words, and breathed life into a curious boy named Kiran in The Path to the Sun. Together, in our quest for truth, Kiran and I have explored the mind and spirit. Our journey has taken us to places of new perspective. Alas, the answers always seem just beyond our grasp, as elusive as a firefly on a warm autumn night.
Most recently, my focus has shifted to more pressing issues—imperiled wildlife. With the Poppy McVie series, I hope to bring some light into the shadowy underworld of black market wildlife trade, where millions of wild animals are captured or slaughtered annually to fund organized crime. IT. MUST. STOP.
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Copyright
Published by Turning Leaf Productions, LLC.
Traverse City, Michigan
www.KimberliBindschatel.com
Copyright ©2018 Kimberli A. Bindschatel
All rights reserved.
Print ISBN-13: 9780960026104
E-BOOK ASIN: B07JMT68PH
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
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