Take care, be well,
Neil
Acknowledgments
As always, there are a great many people to thank for helping to make this book possible. My thanks to Susan Turner, Kyle Turner, Tamara Miller, Monica Furness, Tina Raymond, Mary Ann Tippet, and Erin Scothorn, who read and commented on my working files along the way. Your input was invaluable and made the book immeasurably better. As I said in the acknowledgements of A House on Liberty Street, while writing can be a solitary endeavor, generous souls such as yourselves ensure that it need not be a lonely journey.
My gratitude also to a pair of amazing professionals who helped to ensure that A Plane in the Lake was as good as I could possibly make it. Leighton Wingate did a terrific job proofreading the manuscript so that it reads far better than it did when he took on the arduous task of cleaning up after me. The talented David Prendergast has once again designed a stunning cover. I hope the inside of the book is as good as its cover.
As for the portions of the story pertaining to aircraft, flying, and accident investigations, any mistakes in technical information are my responsibility—as are decisions to take artistic license in crafting events in service to the story. I’m a fiction writer, after all. It’s my job to make things up!
About the Author
Neil discovered the thrill of losing himself in the pages of a book as a five- or six-year-old when Beatrix Potter and Thornton Burgess immersed him in the worlds of Jerry Muskrat, Peter Rabbit, and their furry friends. His mother and father had the good grace to indulge his excitement about being able to read them stories, which he thought was pretty darned cool. He’s been reading and writing one thing or another ever since, but it was many years before the audacious idea of writing a book wormed its way into his head. He’s lived throughout Canada, spent three years in Europe, and lived in Chicago and Arizona, somehow managing to squeeze a career in banking and finance into his travels. After doing an apprenticeship reading, reading, reading, taking courses, attending seminars and conferences, and churning out some truly atrocious manuscripts, he began writing and stockpiling the Tony Valenti series of thrillers. The series will total four published novels by the end of 2021, plus a free prequel novella for members of my exclusive Reader’s Club. There will be more titles to come in 2022 and beyond, probably at the rate of two or three per year . Stay tuned!
Neil lives in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
