darya semanakraseyeni

"You are the wind beneath my moyawa..." Acknowledgment to the people who have helped with my writing and still do.

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Critique, support and encouragement, going way back:

Natalie Walker (high school teacher who told me my writing would see print someday)

The Bunch of Seven: Shirley Meier, S.M. Stirling, Louise Hypher, Tanya Huff, Fiona Patton, Marion Hughes, Mike Wallace, Terri Neal, Julie Czerneda, Stephanie Rendino, Lloyd Penney.

Bob Knowlton

Critique, support and encouragement, more recently:

My frequently-commenting readers: capriox, GreenGlass, V, Ravenrux, Michael Thedford, Blue, Lightdefender. Also Daphane.

Melissa Gold

The WordSwap crew: Jenny Cressman, June Salmon, Alan and Doreen Pearson, Jodi Bartle, et al.

Major financial contributors:

Mega-donor: Terry Shaw

The Ultimate Mega-Fan:

Jeyen Chevenga Barham-Kaiel (yes, that’s his real, legal name)

Volunteer contributors:

Melissa Gold (Millennipedia)
Blue-Winged Coyote (fan art)
Larry Elmore (cover art adapted with permission)
Jeyen Chevenga Barham-Kaiel (Pronunciation guide - forthcoming)
Michael Thedford (vocal acting)
V (Role-playing Veresinga Shae-Rusha)

And last but far from least:
Partner in rhyme (or at least reason)

...i.e., she shares the world, contributes billions of ideas, is absolutely reliable in reassuring me that my writing does not suck when I feel it does, role-plays, IMs or Googlewaves dialogues with me, catches errors and is almost always the first audience for each post:

Shirley Meier