Thank you to all of my professors these past two years whose classes gave me enough knowledge to design my own book cover: Patrick Mohr, Design I; Rebecca Graham, Drawing I and II; Letha Wood, Color Theory; Louis Baker, Intro to Graphic Design; Adriana Burgos, Drawing for Design; David Pierce, Typography I; Swapnil Mathkar, Graphic Design Media Management; and Jorge Montero, Graphic Design Studio I. I also want to thank Professor Saty Sharma, Model and Prototype Development, for a tough class that taught me a lot about time management!
As I worked on this story, I joined several Facebook groups: Authors and Writers Helping Each Other Grow, Beta Readers & Critiques, Beta Readers and Critique Partners, and BookBoro Neighborhood. I turned to these groups for beta readers, feedback on my cover, and several questions along the way. Thank you so much to everyone who gave me feedback on the cover. I wasn’t sure about it before your responses. When I started having concerns about the structure of the Otherworld series, I turned to the members of these groups. Thanks to John Martin and Martin Bannon, who responded to that post! I also turned to the group to make sure the bits of German were being used correctly. Thank you, Laura Madley, for your help. Any mistakes left are my own!
Thanks to the authors of all the articles and blogs and websites I read as I looked for information about front matter, point size, and so many other things. I also attended several webinars that helped so much. At those webinars, Keith Ogorek answered my copyright questions, Cathy Fyock helped me with writer’s block, and Allie Pleiter gave me ideas for the future of the series.
Thank you, BookBoro, for providing a platform for early read tests. Also, thank you for making Beneath Which Sky a featured read test back in January, something I didn’t notice until five months later! Thanks to the people who did the anonymous read test on BookBoro in January. I don’t know who you are, but I loved your support!
Thank you to everyone at Kindle Direct Publishing and Draft2Digital who made this possible.
Finally, thank you, reader. On to book two!
—Madeline Walz
Don’t miss book two of Otherworld,
When Comes the Stroke of Midnight. Coming soon!
A normal day, or so it seems–
A normal boy, with normal dreams.
“A day like any other. Will nothing ever change?”
He has no way of knowing
He’ll never be the same.
Zaivyer Verling has never known his father. He knows only that he shares his father’s name, his heterochromatic eyes, and the strange metal plate on his temple. The plate doesn’t do anything–until he turns thirteen. Then his life changes. As he explores his new gifts, he starts to suspect that there is something much bigger in store.
In this second installment of the Otherworld series, you will meet one of four people destined to save two worlds.
About the Author
Madeline Walz is a recent graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design, where she studied user experience design. Originally from Waukesha, Wisconsin, she now lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with her family of six people, a dog, and a parakeet. She loves reading seven books at a time, doing math puzzles, and browsing for typefaces. You can visit her website at madelinewalz.com or find all her social links at linktr.ee/mawalz21.
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