by Sarina Dorie
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I want to thank my fans for their enthusiasm. My Street Team/Arc Team has done a great job telling me when you find typos, pointing out formatting errors, leaving reviews, and purchasing books from Amazon so that you can help my ranking. Downloading books from Amazon also helps you become a verified reviewer and Amazon is more likely to show your review—and not delete it later. I also have many people on my team who review on Goodreads and Book Bub, post on social media, and tell their friends. I am thrilled to have so many fans!
For those who have filled out my Google form, it has helped me become more organized so that I don’t have to search my emails to find all the wonderful things you have done to support the creation of my novels. I also know there were times some of my readers have told me other books they’ve reviewed, people have interviewed me, or helped me in other ways, but it wasn’t necessarily on the form, so I wanted to say one giant THANK YOU for everything I didn’t list below. For those who filled out the form after I included it in the back of this book, I also wanted to say thank you, even if you are not named.
After hearing some people’s comments and thinking it over, I decided to only use first names and last initials to keep identities confidential in the list below.
A BIG SHOUT OUT TO:
Mom, thank you for being my number one fan of all time. You encouraged me when I was six while I was writing and illustrating my own picture books, kept encouraging me in middle school, and read my stories and novels in high school. I have kept writing because of your nurturing, enthusiasm, and your brutal honesty that has helped me improve my writing. I probably wanted to be a writer because of the respect you showed for literature. You read me bedtime stories, our house was always full of books, and you let me watch Romancing the Stone over and over as a kid.
Stephanie, thank you for telling your friends and family about the series and telling people on Facebook. I appreciate that you have purchased, read, and reviewed books 1-12 on Amazon. You are amazing!
Holly, I am so fortunate to have you on my team! Thank you for reading Wedding Bells and Midnight Spells and sending me those corrections. I am grateful I have your eagle eyes looking over my work.
Kathryn M., thank you for recently purchasing and reading Hex Crimes. I am thrilled to have you on my street team!
Vicki G., thank you for purchasing My Crazy Hex-Boyfriend and reviewing on Goodreads and Amazon. I appreciate your enthusiasm for my books.
Dimitries B., thank you for purchasing, reading, and reviewing the first two books in the series and posting a review on Goodreads. I love that you have suggested my books to a book group!
Dave M., thank you for sending me typos and grammatical suggestions for Hex and the City: Book 13. I appreciate your enthusiasm for my series when you email me. It always makes my day when I hear how much readers enjoy the series.
Jodi S., I love that you got a friend hooked on my books! Word of mouth is so vital with new authors. Thank you for purchasing my books from Amazon and posting reviews of Cackles and Cauldrons and Hex and the City.
Pamela S.F., thank you for purchasing, reading, and leaving honest reviews for books 1-12 on Amazon. I love that you are telling your friends and spreading the word about my books. Personal recommendations go far when readers tell people they know what they are reading and why they like it.
Christine H., thank you for purchasing and reading books 1-5 in the Womby’s School for Wayward Witches series. I am so happy you are enjoying the series enough that you recommended the books to your mom! My mom and I share our favorites with each other too.
Becky, thank you for reading Tardy Bells and Witches’ Spells and reviewing on Amazon and Goodreads. When fans leave honest reviews, it helps more readers find my books and know whether they will like them. I appreciate that!
Lynn E., thank you for being such a superstar! I appreciate you purchasing Books 1-13 and leaving honest reviews on Goodreads and Amazon. Keep on sending along any typos you find—I will continue to keep making them.
Lyn M., thank you for posting a review of Tardy Bells and Witches’ Spells and posting an honest review on Amazon. I appreciate your enthusiasm for my writing when you email me. It brightens my day.
Shirley K., thanks for posting a review of Tardy Bells and Witches Spells on Goodreads! It means a lot to me that you are willing to talk about my books so that more people can find them.
Brian B., thank you for reading Wedding Bells and Midnight Spells and contacting me so punctually regarding typos. Your speed helped me clean up the copy prior to release. As always, you help me save face with that.
Michelle R., I am so fortunate to have you on my team! Thank you for reading Wedding Bells and Midnight Spells and having that review ready to go.
Christa E., thank you for recently posting a review of Cackles and Cauldrons: Book 12 on Amazon and purchasing books 1-12. Honest reviews are always welcome! I am so glad you are willing to read and review.
Travis P., thank you for purchasing and reviewing the first two books in the series. I was also thrilled when you mentioned you had read some of my other short stories including Day of the Nuptial Flight. I appreciate your interest and enthusiasm for my writing.
Tonya G., thank you for posting reviews on Goodreads, Bookbub, and Amazon for Books 1-13. Your honest and enthusiastic reviews make it easier for new readers to find me and decide if my books are a good fit for them. Thanks for being such a superstar!
Evelyn, thank you for purchasing, reading, and reviewing books 1-13. I love Pinterest (and don’t know a thing about Instagram, but I am glad you do!), and I am happy you have shared my covers and links when books are offered for free so that more people can find me. Thank you for suggesting me to a book group. I hope they select my book!
Shoshanah L, thank you for your enthusiasm, purchasing, and reading my books. I am so happy you are one of my readers and enjoying my books. I appreciate hearing your encouraging comments.
Michael R., thank you for reading Wedding Bells and Midnight Spells and contacting me so punctually regarding typos. Your speed helped me clean up the copy prior to release. I appreciate that!
Barbara H., thank you for recently purchasing books from Amazon and reading the series. I love that I have such an enthusiastic reader.
Diane K., like a true Celestor, you have been a busy reader! Thank you for purchasing books 1-13 in the series, posting reviews on Goodreads, Amazon, and telling people on Facebook. You get a gold star!
Carlynne T., thank you for your recent purchase and review of Tardy Bells and Witches’ Spells and posting reviews on Goodreads and Bookbub.
Jim B., I am so appreciative you are willing to help me provide a cleaner draft before I send my books out to the rest of the ARC team. I hate that I make mistakes while correcting mistakes, and there are so many things I miss. Fortunately, I have readers with eagle eyes like you.
Gail H., thank you for recently purchasing and reading Hex and the City. I appreciate that you are willing to post reviews on Amazon to help readers find me. It has been helpful when you send me typos before release, and I am thrilled that you have suggested Tardy Bells and Witches’ Spells to your friends and family—and a book group. Thanks for being such a superstar!
Emma Q., thank you for recently purchasing Cackles and Cauldrons: Book 12 on Amazon and leaving a review on Goodreads. I appreciate that you are willing to write honest reviews to help more readers find my books and decide if they are a good fit for them.
Katherine, thank you for posting an honest review. Authors like me rely on readers like you to share what you think so that other readers who might like the books can find them.
Sherri C. L., thank you for purchasing and posting a review for Hex and the City on Goodreads, Twitter
and Facebook. I appreciate that you told me the typos you found so that I could publish the cleanest manuscript possible. You are such a superstar!
Cathy S., thank you for posting reviews on Amazon and Goodreads for Hex and the City. I know it is more work posting in multiple places, but it helps more readers find me, and I appreciate that!
Jennifer W., thank you for posting reviews on Amazon, Bookbub, and Goodreads for My Crazy Hex-Boyfriend and Budget Cuts for the Dark Arts and Crafts. I appreciate that you purchased my book bundle from Amazon this month and talked about my books on Facebook! Your support and encouragement mean a lot to me.
Patricia G., thank you for purchasing and posting reviews for books 1-12 in the Womby’s in the series on Amazon. That’s a lot of work! I appreciate your enthusiasm for my books.
Jeannie M., thank you for suggesting my books to a book group and recommending my book to your friends—and your enemies. I hope they select it to read! I appreciate you reading, downloading, and reviewing the books in my series. Are you a Celestor?
Norma A. S., thank you for purchasing and reading Hex and the City on Amazon! I appreciate your willingness to post honest reviews so that readers know if my books are a good fit for them.
Robin B. G., you have been busy! Thank you for reading, purchasing and reviewing books 1-12 on Amazon, Goodreads, and Bookbub. I love that you suggested the book to a book group! Thank you! Thank you!
Night Writers, I am so fortunate I have a writing critique group that tolerates my many submissions, gives me honest feedback, and listens to me complain about my publishing frustrations.
Daryll Lynne E., I am so thankful you are willing to not just critique my manuscript, but that you want to read the books in their entirety when I only submit sections to our critique group. You are a valuable critique partner and friend, not only because of your enthusiasm when I do something well, but your honesty in telling me what I did wrong, and your willingness to brainstorm with me to help me improve the manuscripts while they are in the rough draft stage. I am so fortunate I have you in my life.
Charles, thank you for your encouragement and support. Other writers complain about significant others who don’t understand their need for writing time. I lucked out when I found you, a man fully capable of entertaining himself by playing Dungeons and Dragons and computer games—and willing to make dinner so I can spend more time writing. If it wasn’t for you, our house would never have tissue, toilet paper, or any other paper products just like Joan Wilder’s house in Romancing the Stone.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sarina Dorie has sold over 150 short stories to markets like Analog, Daily Science Fiction, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Orson Scott Card’s IGMS, Cosmos, and Abyss and Apex. Her stories and published novels have won humor and Romance Writer of America awards. She has sold three novels to publishers. Her steampunk romance series, The Memory Thief and her collections, Fairies, Robots and Unicorns—Oh My! and Ghosts, Werewolves and Zombies—Oh My! are available on Amazon, along with a dozen other novels she has written.
A few of her favorite things include: gluten-free brownies (not necessarily glutton-free), Star Trek, steampunk aesthetics, fairies, Severus Snape, Captain Jack Sparrow, and Mr. Darcy.
By day, Sarina is a public-school art teacher, artist, belly dance performer and instructor, copy editor, fashion designer, event organizer and probably a few other things. By night, she writes. As you might imagine, this leaves little time for sleep.
