Necromancer Falling: Book Two of The Mukhtaar Chronicles (71 page)

If you enjoyed your journey with the Mukhtaar Lords, the cichlos, even the Barathosians…I’d like to ask you to take one more moment to leave a review on Amazon, or any other venue of your choice. And please tell your friends! I will owe you a most sincere debt of gratitude.

Many thanks,

Nat

Pflugerville, Texas

May 2016.

Acknowledgements

Book 2 of a trilogy is always a tough one. It’s the middle section of a larger, overarching story, yet it has to be a story unto itself. Necromancer Falling was no different. It wouldn’t have been possible without an army of people.

I have to point the first finger at Joan Reginaldo and say “Thank you for making me a better writer.” I can always count on her honesty and objectivity, and it remains an ingredient of incalculable value in the spell I weave to create Erindor and its inhabitants.

My colleagues in software engineering, John Boyd, Ian Mitchell, and Adam Takvam. Thank you for humoring me and allowing me to spend time talking about my crazy stories when I (we all) should be working.

I’d like to offer a special thank you to David Steiniger, another colleague of mine, who also happens to be a subject matter expert in firearms of all shapes and sizes. No, you don’t understand. David travels to historical reenactments all over the place with a collection of antique firearms you wouldn’t believe! David spent a lot of time chatting with me about matchlocks, flintlocks, and others I can’t even pronounce, all in the name of getting the details right. Those details brought many scenes to life that otherwise would have been missing that special
something
.

Erindor wouldn’t have the depth it has today without the input of my good friend and fellow necromancer, Joe Smithey. Not only is he responsible for Nuuan, he also taught me a thing or two about
shrillers
. I’ll keep bugging him to write that shriller-centric novel he keeps talking about.

I would be remiss if I didn’t mention my lifelong friend and “brother from another mother”, Mike D’Onofrio. Mike and I have known each other since elementary school. He created the original
Aelron
character in EverQuest (full name: Aelron Addonis). He was a vital member of our
Enchanted Circle
guild, and I gleefully bastardized his character for my own purposes.

My beta readers; Julia Byers, Raymond Clarke, Michelle Dalson, Katie Drake, Ken Hughes, JC Steel, Ian Tennant, and Thomas Weaver. Thank you all so much for time and input.

Lastly, I simply cannot do this without the support of my family. This may come as a surprise, but most writers have day jobs to pay the bills. My family happily allows me to spend my “off” time writing crazy stories and swearing at my laptop.

About the Author

Nat Russo was born in New York, raised in Arizona, and has lived just about everywhere in-between. He’s gone from pizza maker, to radio DJ, to Catholic seminarian (in a Benedictine monastery, of all places), to police officer, to software engineer. His career has taken him from central Texas to central Germany, where he worked as a defense contractor for Northrop Grumman. He’s spent most of his adult life developing software, playing video games, running a Cub Scout den, gaining/losing/gaining/losing weight, and listening to every kind of music under the sun.

Along the way he managed to earn a degree in Philosophy and a black belt in Tang Soo Do.

He currently makes his home in central Texas with his wife, teenage son, mischievous beagle, and newly rescued Shepherd mix.

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Also by Nat Russo

Necromancer Awakening
(Book One of The Mukhtaar Chronicles)

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