by Jeff Miller
My developmental editor, Bryon Quertermous, provided excellent suggestions that improved and tightened the book, and reminded me that not everything is precious. Valerie Kalfrin not only fixed story problems and caught hundreds of typos in her copyedit but also kept me from naming three different characters Davis. Proofreader Stacy Abrams fixed things I never would have caught in a million years.
I try to find inspiration in the real world, and I’m helped immensely by those who write about it. Radley Balko always does terrific reporting, and his book Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces is fantastic. Terry Sterling’s Illegal: Life and Death in Arizona’s Immigration War Zone was a great and illuminating resource. Eileen Kelley and the Cincinnati Enquirer did a wonderful series on immigrants in Southwestern Ohio.
There are surely countless other people I should be thanking, and I beg their forgiveness for the oversight.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jeff Miller started plotting stories as a boy on an Apple IIc personal computer, and he’s been writing ever since. His first novel, The Bubble Gum Thief, kicked off his Dagny Gray series. Jeff lives in Cincinnati with his wife and their two young sons in a house littered with Legos. Visit him online at www.jeffmillerwrites.com.
