The Red Coat
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To Skyhorse editors, Lilly Golden and Kirsten Kim, we are quite a team. I am grateful for your editing expertise and for our easy rapport.
Go raibh mile maith agat
May you have a thousand good things
THE ARTIST AND THE AUTHOR IN HIS STUDIO
A special thank you to one of the finest gentlemen in South Boston, Dan McCole! Dan is a renowned watercolorist who kindly agreed to create the cover art for The Red Coat – A Novel of Boston. With his great talent and heart for Boston, Dan readily captured the emotion of the story and the beauty of the city while producing this wonderful work of art!
“We Irish prefer embroideries to plain cloth.
To us Irish, memory is a canvas—
stretched, primed, and ready for painting on.
We love the “story” part of the word “history,”
and we love it trimmed out with color and drama, ribbons and bows.
Listen to our tunes, observe a Celtic scroll: we always decorate our essence.”
FRANK DELANEY, TIPPERARY