Dariana by Jason Pedersen
First, there is a 98-99% chance that Legends of Windemere: The Spirit Well will be live by the end of the week. Still time to volunteer for posting about it next week since the weekend tends to be rather slow even now.
Now, I’m doing this ‘thank you’ page and getting opinions on it. This will go at the end of Legends of Windemere: Warlord of the Forgotten Age. Figure I’ll write it up and test it here since I can’t touch the book. The kid is home because it was parent/teacher conference day. Didn’t realize this until Monday. Anyway, here we go and remember this will be on the final book coming out NEXT DECEMBER:
From the Author
It wouldn’t be right to end this without saying thanks to the people who helped me get to this point. I started working on Legends of Windemere in 1998 and now it’s ending just shy of two decades later. It all began when I went to college, joined a D&D game, created a half-elven ranger named Luke Callindor, and realized this would make a fun story to share. Wrapping my head around the fact that I won’t be waking up tomorrow with Luke and the other champions to work with. Maybe I’ll sleep through the day and see if that helps, but I do have work to do. Other heroes and adventures need attention that I haven’t given them in a long time. I can only hope that I get the same amount of support for those stories as I did for Legends of Windemere.
Thank you to all of the players from the game that started it all. You all gave me permission to use your characters and make adjustments when I realized a book can’t follow a game perfectly. Thank you to Mike, Dave, Nate, Harold, Tracy, Sarah, Mark, Alan, Elisa, and Brynn.
Thank you to Jason Pedersen whose cover art immediately became an essential staple of the series. I wouldn’t have made it this far without him and I’m really thankful that we could work on this until the end.
Thank you to Ionia Martin for helping with editing, promoting, and advising me when I had no idea what I was doing. I should also apologize for all the times I was stubborn and frustrating. Thank you for never throwing me clear across a recently cleared clearing in Clearville, Pennsylvania.
Thank you to all of my characters for never giving up on me or turning on me when I made them suffer. Some of you followed my plans while others (looking at you, Kira Grasdon) decided to change things and put me back to the drawing board. I’m happy that each one of you has been memorable to write and taught me how to hone my skills.
Finally, a big thank you to every reader that entered Windemere. Whether it was a single book or the whole series, I’m honored that you decided to take a chance on me. I hope you enjoy the adventure and will return for whatever I do next.
Legends of Windemere 
This is beautiful, Charles.
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Thanks. 🙂
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Wonderful page for the last book.
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Thanks. Nearly done with the rest too.
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Excellent acknowledgement, Charles. Heart-felt with dashes of your wit thrown in. 🙂
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Thanks. Happy to hear that the wit worked.
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Like. Without wanting to sound self-pandering, you may want to throw in a line for those who have helped you promote the books or supported you in other ways as well. You have the readers, the players, Jason, and the editor, so that’s the only thing missing IMHO.
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Oops. I even had that on my list. I’ll add it after lunch. A lot of names if I go that route.
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Actually, I was thinking of something along the “thanks to everyone who has supported me” line.
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How does this sound? Thank you to everyone who helped me with the blog tours, requests for opinions, cover reveals, interviews, and whacky promo schemes. You have been there to support me and we have swapped knowledge, so that all of us could become more successful. All of you are my blogging and writing family.
(Working on an empty stomach here, so it might not be as good as the others.)
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Too wordy. Get some food :b
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Fine. I’ll chop it down to two sentences. That middle one is the tough one.
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Nah, never mind me. Ever the jackass. Go with your gut.
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Thank you to everyone who helped me with the blog tours, requests for opinions, cover reveals, interviews, whacky promo schemes, and supporting me for all these years. You are my blogging and writing family.
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Love it! And you’re welcome 🙂
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I like the whole thing and your last edit of Nicholas’ suggestion.
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Thanks. Added it in. 🙂
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🙂
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With the last addition, it sounds perfect.
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Thanks. I had to add something for my family too. They took offense to being left out.
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I’m sure you will be paying for that oversight for a while. I’ll keep you in my prayers. 😦
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I put in a line or two. Mentioned my son editing one of my books with a crayon. That should cover it.
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When you think about it, writing a series of books does involve a lot of support from many sources. It’s great to remember them all.
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True. I fear that I’ll miss somebody since it’s been going on for so long. Just realized I never did a thanks for all the teachers that inspired me.
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