Dear Coldest of Flames and Darkest of Hearts,

The manifestation draws nigh. The Huntress Mother waxes full and what was promised beneath the Carrion Oak's blessed hungering boughs now draws close to fulfilment. Literally!

We are only one day away from the UK publication date of my debut novel HOT SINGLES IN YOUR AREA and I quite literally could not have done it without you. Ironically I don't think I will ever be able to find the correct sequence of letters, syllables and thoughts to properly tell all of you what it means to me that you cared enough to support this book and my writing in general through the long process of conception, writing and finally printing. I did not make it easy on Unbound and added lots of weird formatting and print issues . . . but I DID IT FOR YOU. You of the twisted wings and shattered claws, you who slink beneath the corners of the night and scuttle back from the hateful dawn. I quite literally wrote this book specifically for you the long-time reader and true of darkness and sharp of tooth. 

FOR YOU FOR YOU always and forever for you.

I cannot wait for you to read this book. I hope it is as fevered a wonder to read as it was to write. I look forward to your individual book reports being on my desk by the waning of the next Cron Mother's Harvest.

With all the love that I can find inside the dark echoing void where my heart should be,

Jordan Shiveley,

Minneapolis, MN

November, 2024