Friends and Other Liars
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I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the beta readers for my first novel: Rebecca Nichol, Brian Holmes, Jaci Mills, and Veronica Grenier. Even though that book was not published, you gave your time and patience as you slogged through my early drafts and offered constructive criticism and ideas. Perhaps almost as important, you helped me get used to receiving feedback without inhaling a Costco-size chocolate cake in response.
To Meredith Tate Servello and Kristin Fields, thank you for all the advice and support you’ve offered me in the process of trying to get published. Thank goodness for Twitter, or I would never have met you! And to Amy Burrell Cormier, my writer friend, for understanding the trials and tribulations of being a writer. May we one day (tomorrow?) be sitting with a pitcher of margaritas, laughing about our naïveté.
The most meaningful compliment I received, and will ever receive, about this novel came from my sister, Stina Booth, who said she teared up at the end, sad that the story was over. If you knew her, you would know this is the highest praise conceivable.
And finally, I must acknowledge the most patient man in the world: my husband, Randy Coble, for dutifully playing video games or watching ESPN (anything I’m not interested in), so I can zone in on my writing, for cooking dinner on the nights I need more time to write, for making me take a break when he knows I’m burned out, and for holding my hand when I doubted the ability to make this dream come true. Abubus.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kaela Coble is a member of the League of Vermont Writers and the Women’s Fiction Writers Association, a voracious reader, and a hopeless addict to bad television and good chocolate. She lives with her husband in Burlington, Vermont, and is a devoted mother to their rescued chuggle, Gus.
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