The Pharos Objective

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This is the part of the book that I like to think of as the author’s Oscar acceptance speech. It’s our chance (and obligation) to thank everyone who’s ever touched our careers, nurtured our souls, flexed our literary muscles and given us hope that our Olympian-sized dreams might actually have a chance of coming true someday.

And since for more than one reason I can’t go all Jack Palance on you and do a set of one-armed push-ups, I’ll follow the typical tradition and give well-earned thanks to a bevy of folks without whom I’d still be lost in a mountain of rewrites and half-finished dreams:

To Tim Schulte and the Variance team for seeing the potential in my little slush pile submission, and to Shane Thomson for helping improve the work and creating such an excellent final product. To my agent, Hannah Brown-Gordon, for taking a chance on me and jump-starting my career.

To Tim Powers, KD Wentworth and all the classy people at The Writers of the Future organization for all the wisdom they impart. And to Nancy Kress and my hometown writing group heroes at Writers&Books for their endless encouragement.

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