Dawn of Procyon (27 page)
Acknowledgements
Things happened quickly with
Dawn of Procyon
. It first began bouncing around inside my head in July 2015, but I didn’t get time to officially start writing it until I’d finished
The Reach
in November. Once I started, I had
Dawn
finished in less than a month. A subsequent draft and beta reading were done by early January 2016, and then the book was picked up for publication later that month.
It couldn’t have happened so quickly without my beta readers, Nic Healy and Pete Turner, who put other things aside to give me their time and provide valuable early feedback. Thank you guys!
Many thanks to the team at Future House Publishing, especially my editors Mandi Diaz and Helena Steinacker, for helping to improve this book in practically every way.
Also thanks to Hayden Wright, Saul Caldwell, Mike Kershaw, Robert Heyl, Rene Young, Wes Fox, Greg Hanson, Shaun Watters and Christopher Newman who have supported me since I began self-publishing in 2014.
Lastly, thank you to all the readers who have taken the time to read my books. I wouldn’t have made it this far without you.
About the Author
Mark has been writing stories for as long as he can remember. In the early days he assembled his own illustrated books with accompanying stories and forced his parents to buy them. Unfortunately this model was not scalable, so in later years he has sought to promote his works to a wider audience.
He loves nothing more than to surprise readers, and, as a result, there are always twists and turns in each of his novels. He also endeavors to reach readers on an emotional level, by crafting complex characters that have real and believable relationships with each other. All of this is set against immersive, fully-realized sci-fi worlds that lend authenticity to the experience.
It is Mark’s goal to write stories that stay with the reader long after they have turned the last page.
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