I would like to give a big thanks to all the people who bought The Mad Raven’s Tale and have decided to continue this journey with Amantius and Ulam. I am eternally grateful for your support, the amount of which surprised me and continues to do so. There is nothing that makes me feel more special than seeing all the different people from my life, some of whom I haven’t seen or spoken to in decades, enjoy my books.
I also would like to thank my cover designer and chief mapmaker Cristina Tănase for creating another gorgeous cover, because the real magic is her ability to take my kindergarten-level map sketches and lack of cover ideas and turn them into works of art.
A big thanks to Joe Messmer for being my permanent beta reader and go-to idea guy. Regardless if he realizes it or not, Joe has played a crucial role in the world-building of my series. He has helped me hammer out some of the finer details that make up the cornerstones of the universe in The Accarian Chronicles. One of these days I might even pay him back for all the pizzas I’ve mostly eaten by myself. Mostly.
And of course, as always, the biggest thanks goes to my girlfriend, April Stevens. Aside from Joe, she’s the only other person who gets to read the original manuscripts of my books. But she does far more than that, she also gets the privilege of listening to me whine and complain about even the smallest, most irrelevant things you could imagine. You know the blurb on the back of this book? That took over an hour and about two-hundred groans and curses to figure out. Now imagine that process multiplied by every page in this book, and you will understand why I couldn’t do any of this without her.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Andrew Walbrown is a guy who hates writing about himself, because Orcs, Kalikkis, Mwai, Dragons, and everything else is so much cooler. But if you want to know something about him, he grew up in West Virginia and started college in his home state, before finishing his education in Massachusetts. He earned a degree in history and proceeded to use it to become a full-time cat dad. When he’s not trying to figure out how to reach the remote without upsetting the kitty sleeping in his lap, he spends time over-salting everything he cooks, watching his favorite sports teams lose, and wishing that he could find a portal to an alternate universe where he could eat ice cream all day without gaining a single pound. Until then, he will keep writing books.
