Venice: A novella (Wisdom Tree Book 2) by Earls Nick

Author:Earls, Nick [Earls, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Exciting Press
Published: 2016-06-01T04:00:00+00:00

Acknowledgments

In late 2013, I worked out that my five best and most compelling story ideas would need padding or some other kind of fakery to become novels and would lose something if I tried to trim them to short-story size. I had to write them and they had to be novellas.

Any author can do with a team of like-minded people on their side, and the author of a novella series needs them more than most. I needed people whose response was ‘Yes! Novellas!’ with the exclamation mark audible after each word—people who saw 20,000 words as a great size for the times and had great ideas about what to do with it. So, a big thank you to:

— Meredith Curnow and Chris Flynn for backing me from the start

— Pippa Masson at Curtis Brown for talking me into the idea rather than out, and making the idea even more ambitious

— Kim Wilkins and Bronwyn Lea, in their UQ roles, for their regular wise navigational advice for a new world

— Jane Stadler for the crash course in how to survive there upon landing and Isobelle Carmody for being the ideal fellow traveller

— the Griffith Review Novella Project III judges and editorial team for backing novellas in general and mine in particular

— Donna Ward and her team at Inkerman & Blunt for embracing a new approach to novellas with passion, imagination and editorial vigour

— Georgia Knox and the team at Audible for adding new dimensions to the project from their first email

— Will Entrekin at Exciting Press for being the ideal partner in the ebook world

And a particularly big thank you to Sarah and Patrick for tolerating me all those times when my brain stayed in the story rather than in our lives.

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