I’ve had a few complaints about this page—but not the complaints I expected. When I was writing the acknowledgments, I was worried that I’d leave someone out who gave me good comments on the book. It took me a lot of searching through old records, but I think I finally found pretty much everyone. However, I assumed that if I DID leave anyone out, they would complain. (It’s been five years since I wrote ELANTRIS, and a lot of people have read it during that time.)
However, most of the complaints I got weren’t from people I forgot to put on the acknowledgements page. The complaints were from people who were on the page, but didn’t think they deserved to be there!
You see, I added a few names to this list. These were people who hadn’t read ELANTRIS as an alpha reader, but who had been part of one of my writing groups or who had otherwise given me support during the days when I was trying to get published. These people read other books of mine, even if I wasn’t working on ELANTRIS when I met them. So, on this acknowledgements page, I wanted to give a general thanks to all the people who have helped me over the years. That means if you’re on the list and don’t think you belong there, tough!
You get my acknowledgement whether you want it or not!
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