Beautiful to the Bone (The Enuis Trilogy #1) (42 page)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

PG LENGSFELDER
began his writing career at 7 years old, co-editing a neighborhood newspaper with Annemarie, his next-door neighbor. His lifelong passion for writing and telling stories include awards for storytelling on national television, NPR and in print, including 17 years as a television writer/director and 16 years consulting on themes and storylines for litigators telling
their
stories in courtrooms across the country.
Beautiful to the Bone
is his first novel.

PG Lengsfelder is available for select readings and lectures. To inquire about a possible appearance or to be kept updated on his newest books, please visit
www.pglengsfelder.com
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Acknowledgements

My mind, as author Anne Lamott has cautioned, “is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.” So it is with great appreciation that I thank the following people for their willingness to wade into my neighborhood with bon homie and guidance as I navigated this, my first novel.

To fellow writers, Larry Watson, Marina Endicott, John DeDakis, Katherine Reay, and especially my dearest writer friends Leslie Budewitz and William O. Joseph, your insight and encouragement has kept me moving. Let me add Jim McCarthy at Dystel & Goderich Literary to this list.

Then too, there are my editors, Peter Gelfan and Brenda Windberg, who saw through the clutter of my thoughts and gently suggested weeding here and there and there and there. Oh, you were so right!

The enthusiasm and affirmation of my beta readers —Apple Williams, Eliza Lape, John Finger, Terry Byrnes, Lorin Oberweger and Teresa Pugh— remind me what a circuitous and eye-opening journey it’s been.

Close friends and some new acquaintances, experts in their respective fields, kept this work of fiction grounded in the historical facts and the remarkable science of today. Thank you Dennis Stark, Rena Falk, Halyna Breslawec, Jeff Welch, Leo Soukup, Barry Babcock, and the other wonderfully supportive people at the Bemidji Historical Society.

Credits

Lyrics from the following compositions are used by permission:

“Guess Things Happen That Way”
words and music by Jack Clement, © 1986 Universal – Songs of Polygram International, Inc. Copyright renewed. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Hal Leonard Corporation.

“Sign In Stranger”
words and music by Walter Becker & Donald Fagen, © 1976 Universal Music Corp. Copyright renewed. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Hal Leonard Corporation.

“Willin’”
words and music by Lowell George, © 1970 Naked Snake/Abraham Music. 100% administered by Naked Snake (ASCAP). All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission.

“A Moment of Forever”
written by Kris Kristofferson & Danny Timms, © 1994 Jody Ray Publishing/Knode Music. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission.

“The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn”
words and music by Ralph Stanley, © 1980 Fort Knox Music Inc. and Trio Music Company. All rights administered by BMG Rights Management (US) LLC. International copyright secured. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Carlin America and Hal Leonard Corporation.

Other quoted text:

Essentials of Cell Biology, Unit 2.3
, © 2014 www.nature.com/scitable

Dickens, Charles:

The Old Curiosity Shop,
1841.

American Notes for General Circulation,
1842.

The Haunted House
, 1859

From a letter to Marguerite Power, 1847