Death by Diploma, page 23
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Emma grinned, folded the note, and sat down to prepare some lessons for Tuesday.
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Acknowledgments
To the Red Adept Publishing Acquisitions Team, thank you for seeing the potential in this book and the series and taking a chance I could reach it. Suzanne Warr, it was such a great experience having you as my content editor. I learned so much about the editing process—what a challenge you face! Cassie Cox, you definitely faced challenges in being my line editor. You showed great patience and panache. Thank you both for guiding me to a much better book than the one I started out with. Streetlight Graphics, what a great cover! You created an amazing visual for this series; I know it will draw in so many readers. I’d like to thank the other authors in the RAP house as well—you’ve given me much guidance, good ideas, feedback, and funny and/or inspiring posts about writing. To the entire RAP family: you are all rock stars!
Nancy Pickard, Frederick Ramsay, Matthew Pallamary, Michele Scott, and Michelle Gable: thank you so much for offering to use your stellar talents as writers to help promote or “blurb” this book. I hope to repay the favor.
Shawn Clingman, you are my superhuman superstar superhero. Your input and support began when I FIRST started writing this book clear back in 1999 and continued to the all-day Colorado powwow which helped shape that major rewrite near the end. Your help is beyond invaluable. You know I heart you so much, and I value our friendship like mad. Thank you thank you thank you.
To everyone who helped me with the minutiae of creating a novel: sentence structures, names, plot twists, and questions ad nauseam: Carol Bloch, Shawn Clingman, Sandy Haulman, Leslie Anderson, Lisa Burns, Erle Reid, Jim Gusich, Melissa Fischer, Joe Holmes, Larry Meredith, Kirby Richardson, Cindi Pierce, Kim Orozco, Jaxon Crow-Mickle for the “Chalkboard Outlines” stroke of genius, and everyone who participated in the contest at the 2015 Southern California Writer’s Conference. You all kept my brain turning and will keep it churning for future books in the series. Thank you!
Finally, to my husband, “Jim Darling” Jim Gusich. The outlook you have about our mission to support our family’s dreams has allowed me to go after this achievement called “Writer” with all the passion I have, and I am so grateful. You may never know what a gift you’ve given to me and to our sons as they experience this support and encouragement. Thank you. I love you to infinity and beyond—to quote Buzz Lightyear—and because that is much further than to the moon and back. Speaking of our sons, I want to acknowledge them here, because I can’t believe I get to do that! I waited so long for you, Grey and Griffen, and you guys were definitely worth the wait. How long will I love you? That’s right, always. The fact that you are such wonderful little boys makes this writing job more rewarding, too. I hope you are half as proud of me as I am of you.
This book is dedicated to my father, Donald Wilson Bowles, who died in 2012 but whose influence is still so present in my life. His love for books and the language and culture of books exceeded that of anyone else I have ever known. I can only aspire. I’d like to acknowledge him and my mom, Shelley Rochelle “Rachel” Frick Bowles, for being THOSE parents. You know those parents—the ones for whom every achievement of their children, no matter how small, is placed on a stage and oohed and aahed over so much that those children will succeed no matter what. That kind of unconditional love and support is cherished by those children, every day. Thank you. I love you both so much.
To anyone who’s reading this book, thank you. I’m so excited to share this story.
Kelley Kaye
About the Author
Kelley Kaye taught high school English and drama for twenty years, but her love for storytelling dates back to creating captions for her high school yearbook. Maybe back to the tales she created around her Barbie and Ken—whatever the case, the love’s been around for a long time.
Kelley is married to this amazing man who cooks for her, and they have two funny and wonderful sons. She lives in Southern California.
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Did you love Death by Diploma? Then you should read First to Find by Morgan C. Talbot!
Death is the hardest puzzle to solve.
Margarita Williams escaped death at a young age, but its shadow has followed her all her life. Now, amidst the chaos of a new Australian roommate and mysterious, menacing neighbors, Death has set the puzzlemaker a puzzle of her own. Someone is killing her fellow geocachers, one by one.
Bindi Ryan left Australia to marry a man who abandoned her the minute her plane landed in Oregon. When thieves steal a local sculpture and a teenage friend is blamed, Bindi and her super-nose must prove him innocent and find the real culprits. But are she and Margarita working on two mysteries, or one?
If they can't solve the final puzzle, the killer will strike one final, deadly blow.
What is Geocaching?
From Geocaching.com:
"Geocaching is a real-world, outdoor treasure hunting game using GPS-enabled devices. Participants navigate to a specific set of GPS coordinates and then attempt to find the geocache (container) hidden at that location."
Also by Kelley Kaye
Chalkboard Outlines
Death by Diploma
Poison by Punctuation
Strangled by Simile (Coming Soon)
Watch for more at Kelley Kaye’s site.
Kelley Kaye, Death by Diploma
