Authors: James Kendley
The Drowning God (21 page)
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hanks to Thao Le of the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency for her energy and enthusiasm, and thanks to Kelly O'Connor of Harper Voyager for bringing out the best in this story.
Special thanks to Gordon Gaar, Zakariah Johnson, Elizabeth Kendley, George D. Kendley, Alison Schemmer, Leslie Sperry, and Tate Reece.
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JAMES KENDLEY is the author of
The Drowning God
and has written and edited professionally for more than thirty years, first as a newspaper reporter and editor, then as a copy editor and translator in Japan (where he taught for eight years at private colleges and universities), and currently as an educational software content wrangler living in northern Virginia.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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EPub Edition JULY 2015 ISBN: 9780062360656
Print Edition ISBN: 9780062360663
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