Authors: Kristi Belcamino

Blessed are the Meek (27 page)

On the day my rock star agent Stacey Glick offered to represent me, I asked her if she had an editor in mind for my book,
Blessed are the Dead.

She did.

The editor she had in mind was terrific to work with, very smart, and extremely skilled at what she did.

As things turned out, that editor, Emily Krump, was the one who ended up buying
Blessed are the Dead
and this book, the second in my Gabriella Giovanni series.

I could not be more thrilled. I'm very grateful to have both these smart, super cool, talented women in my corner.

So first off, I want to express my heartfelt thanks to Stacey and Emily!

Stacey is a superstar agent. Emily is the kind of editor every writer dreams of havingâÂI don't think there was even one small suggestion she made that I didn't absolutely love.

Danielle Bartlett and Dana Trombley, at HarperÂCollins, are wonderful and I want to thank them for their expertise and help on the marketing end of things.

Writing groups are invaluable and I was lucky enough to be involved in two of them while I wrote this bookâÂmy first writing group, Mickie Turk, Laurie Walker, Alex Kent, Susan Hastings, and Carolyn OreâÂall took a peek at
Blessed are the Meek.
After that, the members of Supergroup: Jana Hiller, Kate Schultz, Sean Beggs, Sarah Hanley, Coralee Grebe, and Kaethe Schwehn, all gave me extremely valuable input in to how to make this novel shine before I passed it on to Emily. In addition, Sarah Henning and Sam Bohrman both provided keen insight that helped get the novel in shape for publication.

Thanks to Lynn Cronquist for clearing up some cop procedural questions and just being overall super cool.

The L.A. band Wood & Smoke has been a source of endless inspiration to me since the late 1980s. Lead singers/songwriters Gary Williams and Lance Whitson are two of the most talented musicians I know. Their song, “Annalisa,” inspired my character's name.

And last, but not least, I want to thank my fourth-Âgrade teacher at Ponderosa Elementary School, Mrs. Ward, who encouraged me to pursue my dream of writing a book one day.

About the Author

KRISTI BELCAMINO is a writer, photographer, and artist. In her former life as a newspaper crime reporter in California, she flew over Big Sur in an FA-Â18 jet with the Blue Angels, raced a Dodge Viper at Laguna Seca, watched autopsies, and interviewed serial killers. She is now a journalist based in Minneapolis, and the Gabriella Giovanni mysteries are her first books.

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By Kristi Belcamino

Blessed are the Dead

Blessed are the Meek

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

BLESSED ARE
THE MEEK.
Copyright Â© 2014 by Kristi Belcamino. All rights reserved under International and Pan-ÂAmerican Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-Âbook on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-Âengineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperÂCollins e-Âbooks.

EPub Edition JULY 2014 ISBN: 9780062338921

Print Edition ISBN: 9780062338938

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