Thank you to Tom, who helped greatly during the draft process. We would frequently pass drafts back and forth and hammer it until the point where we were both happy. As we both had very different approaches to prose this was an often arduous and counterintuitive process, but the final piece greatly benefitted from this hardship.
A great thank you to Lou, who read through The Killing Hand upon its inception and provided critique which helped shape it. I’m quite bad at cobbling original drafts together and pretending those gaping plot holes don’t exist. Lou was detrimental in telling me they did and to screw my head on and do something about it. She also helped greatly with the redrafting process. As much as I detest the site, I miss the days of us critiquing each other’s work via Wattpad.
Thank you to Gemma, who gave the work some major quality control in its final hours before publication. It’s amazing how many little plot holes and gaping spelling errors you can leave in after staring at something for so long. Gemma was the one who stood outside the woods and told me which trees to tear down.
Thank you to Steve Parolini, who is currently acting as my editor for the third draft of the story. He initial feedback has been extremely helpful, and I cannot wait until the Third Edition lands as a result of his suggestions, I’m sure it’ll go from strength to strength.
And additional thank you to those who provided words of support in my hours of need, or were simply there for me. I would not know how to start to word such praise for those who understood the need for me to disappear for large lengths of time and hammer at a keyboard undeterred, however selfish it may have appeared, but at the very least I can do this: thank you Aidan, Rosie, Lori, Simon, Matty, Parker, Elliott, Jake, Suki Saturn Fio Smith, Clyde the shrimp, Mr & Mrs Tishyfips the pearl gouramis, Russell the bristle nose catfish, and of course the greatest thanks to my parents, who have provided me with the freedom in life, without ever letting me stray too far from the path, to enable me to chase and achieve my dreams.
So yeah, ta!
About the Author
Andrew Bishop lives alone in West Yorkshire, UK, where he wastes his days playing board games, editing instead of writing, and being pawed at by his cat, Suki.
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