Acknowledgments
This book represents a departure from my work up to now, and I want to thank some important people for their support and encouragement as I embark on this new writing adventure.
The Mars Ho beta readers—Tuffy Black, Laura Graham Hirschfeld, Wendy, Mike Volk, and especially Rebecca, who got smut-spammed—for your superb, constructive, and funny feedback in a short space of time.
The Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop for Writers for an amazing week of brain-melting science and making me (mostly) a stickler for good science in fiction.
The members of the Northwest Independent Writers Association and Susan Kaye Quinn’s For Love or Money group, for lending me the wisdom of collective experience.
Steve Novak, for producing beautiful artwork while being easy to work with.
Ashley Trainer Arcaro, for taking time out of a family vacation to share intimate insights about being a contestant on a reality show.
Ames Hardymon, for reading recommendations and for marveling with enthusiasm about the process.
Suzanne Hall, for getting excited about this project even when I was flat-out exhausted and barely able to string a basic sentence together.
Laurel Standley, for showing up nearly every Tuesday morning and being a steady cheerleader.
Rob Gonzalez, for thinking the story’s premise was crazy enough to work.
Mike, for doing some pre-reading and for being heartened that I’m finally writing science fiction.
Ever and always, The Masked Hucksters, a writers group without rival, for pushing me to try something I thought I couldn’t do. Dale Ivan Smith, Wendy Wagner, and Rebecca Stefoff are more dear to me than dark chocolate or fresh pico de gallo or even barbecue garbanzo beans.
About the Author
Author photograph by Rachel Hadiashar.
Jennifer Willis loves tales of magickal mayhem, unlikely adventure, and playful intrigue.
An admitted sci-fi nerd and urban fantasy fan, she is the author of the Valhalla urban fantasy series and the new M.A.R.S. science fiction romance books. When she’s not hiking, knitting, baking, star-gazing, or reading like a fiend, she spends her time bringing enchantment to the world. She is also the writer behind the Northwest Love Stories feature in The Oregonian and has a byline in the Hugo Award-winning Women Destroy Science Fiction anthology from Lightspeed.
She lives in Oregon with her dude, their dog, a couple of cats, and possibly a family of raccoons residing under the house.
This is her sixth published novel, and the first volume in the Mars Adventure Romance Series.
For more information . . .
Jennifer-Willis.com
[email protected]
Also by Jennifer Willis
Rhythm (2001)
The Valhalla series
Valhalla (2011)
Iduna’s Apples (2012)
The Black Pool (2013)
Raven Quest (2017)
The Chaos Witch (coming 2017/2018)
Ragnarok (coming 2018)
Mars Adventure Romance Series (M.A.R.S.)
Mars Ho! (2017)
Lovers and Lunatics (2017)
Mars Heat (coming summer/fall 2017)
Find news of future books at jennifer-willis.com.
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