Marked Redux: Acknowledgments

[zelda_queen]

ZeldaQueen: Hey, everybody! It’s this thing, again. I know, I know, I abandoned this series for ages and now I’m starting over instead of doing Chosen. I’m sorry! It’s just that I’ve been reading ahead, and there are a lot of things I should have covered in the first two book sporkings but didn’t. And so I decided it would be easier to just restart

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[legal_assasin]

So, as this has a lot of Greek mythos fail, I've decided to have Hades from "Kid Icarus: Uprising" spork a couple of lines from here as well to give what will likely be needed comic relief. I'm going to follow along this sporking as much as possible. Take it away, Hades!
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For our wonderful agent, Meredith Bernstein, who said the three magic words: vampyre finishing school.

Hades: Really? I thought those magic words were "mythology kitchen sink."

We heart you!

Hades: "Like, OMG, guys! Don't we, like, sound so totally hip and young? Like, we totally are!"

I would like to thank a wonderful student of mine, John Maslin, for research help and for reading and giving feedback on many early versions of the book. His input was invaluable.

Hades: Considering which character he's named after, I'm guessing the research consisting of "is he gay enough?"

A big THANKS GUYS goes out to my Creative Writing classes in the school year 2005-2006.

Hades: The all-caps is enough indication of how big your thanks is, PC. No need to mention it's big.

Your brainstorming was lots of help (and quite amusing).

Hades: "Yes! Dance for me, my monkeys! Dance!"

I also want to thank my fabulous daughter, Kristin, for making sure we sound like teenagers. I couldn't have done it without you. (She made me write that.) -PC

Hades: Why? Did she hold a gun to your head? Though at least now I know who to blame for all the annoying prose I'm about to read. Thank you for that.

I want to thank my lovely "mam," better known as PC, for being such an unbelievably talented author and so easy to work with. (Okay, she made me write that.) - Kristin

Hades: So they both had guns to each others' heads? Why aren't I reading that instead? That would be so much more interesting! Then again, this way I can watch these two tear their hair out over these books. Quality entertainment!

PC and Kristin would both like to thank their dad/grandpa, Dick Cast, for the biological hypothesis he helped create as the basis for the House of Night's vampyres. We love you Dad/G-pa!

Hades: Biological hypothesis! Another name for "I just made this junk up!"

From Hesiod's poem to Nyx, the Greek personification of night:

Hades: So there's Greek mythology mutilation here, too? Wonderful! I feel right at home! I'm looking forward to this already!