Forged In Flame (In Her Name: The First Empress, Book 2) (37 page)

Final Battle

In Her Name: The First Empress Trilogy

From Chaos Born

Forged In Flame

Mistress Of The Ages
(Coming Winter 2013)

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Season Of The Harvest

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I’d like to give a huge thanks for the folks who have so graciously given of their time and talent to help me continue to improve my writing and to give you, dear reader, a more enjoyable reading experience. Big hugs to my editorial team of Mindy Black, Stephanie Hanson, Marianne Marianne Søiland, and Frode Hauge for picking this book to pieces and then helping me put it back together again.

I’d also like to thank the team of beta readers who provided some great feedback as part of the final review the book underwent before launch. For Robert Hill, Jay Lamborn, Tonietta Walters, fellow RVer Steve Dawson, and fellow author Steve Umstead (I highly recommend that you check out his work, by the way!), many thanks for the great feedback you gave on this book.

As always, I want to thank my wife, Jan, without whose love and support none of this would ever have been possible. 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Born in 1963, Michael Hicks grew up in the age of the Apollo program and spent his youth glued to the television watching the original Star Trek series and other science fiction movies, which continues to be a source of entertainment and inspiration. Having spent the majority of his life as a voracious reader, he has been heavily influenced by writers ranging from Robert Heinlein to Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven, and David Weber to S.M. Stirling. Living in Florida with his beautiful wife, two wonderful stepsons and two mischievous Siberian cats, he’s now living his dream of writing novels full-time and spending as much time at the beach as possible.