My most excellent crit group helped me salvage the disaster of the first draft: Dario Ciriello, Juliette Wade, Keyan Bowes, Doug Sharp, Genevieve Williams, Janice Hardy, and TL Morganfield. As always, Traci Morganfield was a treasure trove of information, a great help for brainstorming, and a wonderful friend whose enthusiasm helped me navigate the troubled waters of writing this book.
The response to the books has been wonderful so far, and many people have publicised Obsidian and Blood online. I don't have space here for everyone, but here a few people I'm deeply indebted to: Charles Tan and Lavie Tidhar at the World SF blog, Josh Vogt of examiner.com, Ove Jansson at cybermage.se, Duncan Lawie of Strange Horizons, Lauren from Violin in a Void, Ros Jackson of Warpcore SF, Brad P Beaulieu and Gregory A Wilson from Speculate! for a truly epic set of podcasts, Cheryl Morgan (and co-conspirators Mike Carey, and Jon Courtenay Grimwood), Jenny Barber from the British Fantasy Society, Seb Cevey and his co-conspirators at Angle Mort, Rob at Val's Random Comments, Emmanuel Chastellière of Elbakin, Brenda Cooper, Jonathan Crowe, Gemma Files, Rose Fox, Russ Gray, Alethea Kontis, Jason Loch, Henry Lopez, Anne Lyle, Gillian Pollack, Jason Sanford, John Scalzi, Angela Slatter, Fred Warren and the rest of the gang at Liberty Hall…
Special mentions to everyone who took part in the Great Honeymoon Giveaway competition on my blog; to the numerous people who entered my goodreads giveaway for Harbinger of the Storm; to the people involved in the Codex Blog Tour (Colin Harvey, Lawrence M Schoen, Nancy Fulda, and Doctor Grasshopper) and to everyone who attended Eastercon, the SFWA Nebula Awards Weekend, and Imaginales – and actually managed to make me feel like a rock star.
And since space is limited, and I don't have enough of it to mention you all, a big blanket thanks to everyone who read the books, blogged about them, lent me some space on the web for guest posts, or boosted the signal in some other way. You all rock, and I definitely wouldn't be here without you.
Special thanks to Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Chris Kastensmidt, Floris Kleijne, JK Cheney, and Justin Pilon for being around and providing much needed friendship and support when I needed it; and to friends closer to home (Charles-Eric Drevet, Clémence Lê, Alexandre Mège, Fabien Terraillot, Mathieu Leocmach, the ex-police interns/Binet Robot team, and the various members of our Nephilim roleplaying group) for reading and promoting the books.
As always, I owe a lot to the Angry Robot team – Overlord Marc Gascoigne, Lee Harris, Mike Ramalho, and John Tintera – and to my wonderful agents at Zeno, John Berlyne and John Parker, for the dedicated work and the awesome advice.
And, last but not least, to my family – to my grandparents and my parents and my sister – for always nurturing me, and for propagating my reputation as a writer all over France, Europe and Vietnam. And to my husband, Matthieu, for the brainstorming, the crits – and the general awesomeness.
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