Acknowledgements
Though
Mountain Boy in the City is totally fictitious, names
of my son, Andrew, my godchildren, and their classmates make
up many of the characters. This novel is dedicated to my son,
Andrew, who sailed through childhood upon a sunbeam. As an
adult, he struggled toward that bright light. Let him now
recapture it–that simple wondrous child within.
Thank
you, Mark Mosely. You helped me believe I could be a professional
author/ journalist by sending me off to take creative writing
classes in 1989 and naming me a staff writer for your magazine,
Seabreeze, in 1992.
Additionally, Mountain
Boy in the City is also dedicated to my friend, Ginger
Curry, award winning contributor to Ranger Rick’s Nature
Magazine and Owl Magazine, who has supported my works for
five and a half years.
Further thanks
must go to Terry Thompson, co-author of Training The Performance
Horse, for teaching me about the Appaloosa--both as a
horse owner and as an authoress And thank you, Terry, for
the picture of the bay Appaloosa to be placed on my website.
Thanks
to my three godchildren, their classmates, and my son, Kevin
for being Mountain Boy in the City’s target reading
group. And thank you, Arlo Guthrie, for bringing me back to
Kay Sproat Chorao, my high-school classmate, who became an author
and illustrator early in her adult life. Just recently she read
Mountain Boy In The City and initially says, " a wonderful
yarn . . . with much heart . . . the reader really pulls for
Nicky and shares his . . . ambivalent feelings. With Mark, Ginger,
and Kay encouraging me, I now send my works out with God’s
trust.
