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Thanks for buying, thanks for reading, and thanks for sharing. Here’s to 2013, and many more good years to come!
-L. M. Ironside
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I owe big thanks to Rebecca Lochlann and Richard Coady, two historical novelists whose work I admire very much. I was fortunate to receive advance critiques of this book from Rebecca and Ric, and the book (and my writing in general) is much better for it.
Whenever I finish an Egyptian historical novel, I feel I ought to thank Joyce Tyldesley and Barbara Mertz. These two Egyptologists have written the best and most readable nonfiction works pertaining to ancient Egypt I’ve ever read. I turn to their books constantly while researching and writing my own.
A heap of thanks to my readers, whose great enthusiasm for the first two books in this series kept me working away happily on this one as well as the fourth and final book in this series. It is a very gratifying experience to receive emails asking when the next books are expected, and to read about readers’ enjoyment and anticipation in reviews. I appreciate it so much. And thanks, readers, for your understanding when I pushed the release date back so I could get married.
Speaking of which, my biggest thanks of all go to my husband, Paul Harnden. I couldn’t do any of this without his big goofy smile for motivation. Every story I write is for him.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
L. M. Ironside joined the independent literature movement after her first novel, The Sekhmet Bed, was thoroughly rejected by every publisher on Planet Earth. Since then, The Sekhmet Bed and its sequel, The Crook and Flail, have enjoyed two years of steady presence on Top 100 lists in the largest bookstore in the world, and Ironside has become a leading voice in the genre of historical fiction, where she strives to recreate the drama and humanity of the past with literary style and authentic atmosphere.
When she is not writing, she’s painting, hiking through the mountains of the Pacific Northwest, or canning in her kitchen, which is much too small for canning.
Find out more on her web site: LMIronside.com
Sovereign of Stars
L. M. Ironside
First Ebook Edition
Copyright © 2013 – Libbie M. Grant
All rights reserved.
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Cover design: Running Rabbit Press
Cover art: “Cleopatra on the Terraces of Philae”
by Frederick Arthur Bridgman, 1896, public domain.
Running Rabbit Press
Seattle, WA
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