Eden West
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Tobias Ball, my Latin Guy. Everybody needs a Latin Guy.
The young man who, after attending a Loft Literary Center reading of an early draft of the first chapter back in 2007, gently pointed out that I was perpetuating a negative stereotype in my description of Jacob’s Native American neighbors: You were right, and I would thank you by name if I had thought to ask it.
Finally, thank you to my readers, who in recent years have tolerated more than their share of self-indulgent genre hopping, style shifting, and messing about with words: I’m having fun. I hope the same for you.
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