Weavers

by Aric Davis

  Thanks as always to my wife and daughter for their endless support, especially as the reality of just how difficult this book was going to be sort of came to bear on me. I love you guys a ton, and I know that I could not do what I do without your love and support.

  Thanks as well to my mom and dad, cheerleaders and first readers as always, and both a huge inspiration for this book as well. I can’t say for sure that watching Dune with my dad when I was eight allows me to have such weird ideas, but it probably didn’t hurt.

  Thanks a ton to my editor, Anh, who took a look at an early draft of Weavers and gave me a pair of suggestions. Thirty-three thousand words later, the rewrite was done, and if you liked this book, Anh is a big part of the reason—her ideas for changes were utterly instrumental. If you hated it, however, that can all be on me.

  Thanks to David for another wonderful edit. Piecing together this weird little story with you the second time around was almost as fun as doing it the first time by myself.

  Thanks to Greg for tons of good suggestions as always, and for being a great friend. When this book comes out, you and Maggie will have just passed your second anniversary, so hey, congrats on that.

  A big thanks to Jacque, Grace, Kim, and the rest of the Kindle Most Wanted team for putting together an amazing event in NYC. I’m still a little nervous that I’m going to look dorky on camera but am excited to see the results. Plus, it’s not every day that you get to have conversations with Blake Crouch, Marcus Sakey, S. G. Redling, and Reed Farrel Coleman like it’s the most normal thing in the world.

  Thanks to Dr. James Bakeman of Orthopaedic Associates of Michigan and his wonderful staff for getting me safely through surgery and repairing my ruined hip.

  Thanks as well to Dr. Dave Thornsen of Fountain Hill Center for being a great friend and a wonderful listener.

  Thanks of course to everyone at Thomas & Mercer and Amazon in general. There are so many of you guys, but thanks so much to Jeff, Tiffany, Brooke, Alan, Jon, Sarah, Andrew, Alex, Caroline, Britt, Jodi, Justin, David, Ashley, Luke, and every other darn person that works in those massive buildings. You guys are the best and do so much for your authors that it’s really sort of unbelievable.

  Finally, thanks to my dear friend and first editor, Terry Goodman, who retired earlier this year. I wish you all the best, Terry, and I will never be able to repay you for what you’ve done for me and my family, so if you need a body disappeared, keep me in the Rolodex.

  One last thing: Cynthia and Darryl and Terry and Jessica and Katarina and everyone else are going to be back sooner rather than later. I can’t wait for you guys to see what happens next. Thanks to all of you for reading my work and for giving this writer a chance. You guys are the best, and this world wouldn’t be nearly as fun of a place to live in if I couldn’t share my stories with you.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Photo © 2013 John Keatley

  Aric Davis is married with one daughter and lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he worked for sixteen years as a body piercer. He now writes full-time. He likes weather cold enough to need a sweatshirt but not a coat, and friends who wear their hearts on their sleeves. In addition to reading and writing, he also enjoys roller coasters, hockey, punk rock, and a good cigar.

  Davis is the author of eight other books: From Ashes Rise: A Novel of Michigan; Nickel Plated; A Good and Useful Hurt; The Black Death: A Dead Man Novella; Rough Men; Breaking Point; The Fort; and Tunnel Vision.