I can not even contain my excitement that
Disappear With Me is now available. Get it directly from
Amber Quill Press this week at 35% Off
Dedication:
Just like
the first edition, the second edition is dedicated to all the pastors in my
life who made scripture come alive for me and help me understand that even
though I am a gay man, I am still a child of God and just as deserving of his
grace and love as anyone else.
In no
particular order, this is dedicated to the Reverends Carolyn Wilkerson, James
Burns, Justo Gonzales, II, Heidi Peterson, Ian Gregory Cummins, Cynthia
Cearley, and Bill Calhoun.
Acknowledgements:
I said after my first novel that doing this takes a
community of support and that becomes more evident to me every time I do this.
Here is a list of the people who helped me along the way.
First of all, I’d like to thank my partner Thomas for his
continued support of writing career. Even thought there are times we would both
rather be sitting on the couch watching TV together, he knows I need to sit at
the laptop to achieve my dreams and goals.
I’d also like to thank my parents, Tom and Peggy Frech, for
their enthusiasm and support. Mom works hard as a beta reader, usually letting
me know exactly where she is every step of the way. A big thank you to Dad who
read the manuscript and gave me some notes.
Thank you to my brother, Rick Frech, and sister-in-law,
Lori, for their help and continued support. A big thanks to my brother Kevin
for encouragement as well.
This version of Disappear With Me would
not have been possible without the help of my writing group. Although they
don’t always tell me what I want to hear, they always tell me what I need to
hear. In alphabetical order: Michele Helsel, Larry Hightower, Gina Lapp-Rinker,
Jane Perry, Emily Parnell, and Judy Swofford.
Although they didn’t help with any of this manuscript, because
I wrote it before I joined them, I want to thank my critique group, “House of
Manlove”, for everything they have taught me and I applied to the editing of
the second edition.
All the pastors listed in the front of this novel truly did
contribute to my interpretation and explanation of the verses presented.
A big thanks to my beta-readers who also let me know
exactly what they think: Eunie Carkuff, Abi Carter, Barbara Curry, Elaine
Foiles, and Pamela McDowell.
I want to
thank, by name this time, Jeanne DeVita, Kerry Mand, Kelly Shorten, Celina
Summers, and Dominque Eastwood to this list for giving Disappear With Me its first chance.
And a BIG THANK YOU to the entire Amber Quill Press team for
helping me keep Leander’s story alive and available.
To celebrate the release of Disappear With Me, I am giving away a copy of my first novel, A Place to Call Their Own, available from JMS Books on Amazon and other online retailers .
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