Authors: Mark Wilson
dEaDINBURGH (23 page)
I’d like to thank the following people for their support in writing this novel:
Thanks to my regular test-readers Derek Graham, Gayle Karabelen. Derek suggested linking the plague to the Ring of Roses rhyme. Thanks for that, dude. Gayle always agrees to read for me without hesitation.
Very Special thanks to Jayne Doherty for her continued support of my writing career. Always ready to help, your support is much appreciated and never taken for granted. Jayne is ever-reliable and always ready to give an honest opinion. Thank you so much.
Special thanks also to fellow writers Keith Nixon and Ryan Bracha. Both have been a tremendous support and source of inspiration and always make themselves available for advice or to just talk nonsense about whatever. Reading their books pushes me to be a better writer. Thanks also to Bracha for letting me have his name.
Thanks also to Paul McGuigan of
PMCG Photography
for lending me his talents shooting key locations from the book around Edinburgh on a very dreech afternoon.
A huge thank you, as always to my wife Natalie Wilson for unwavering encouragement and support. Twenty years with me isn’t an easy task.
When I set out to write this book, I’d sat at my desk with the intention of continuing with another novel that I was ten thousand words into. An image of a steaming hot baby, born fresh onto the cobbles of the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, surrounded by the clutching hands of the dead, shot through my mind and I started writing about him instead. Sometimes it’s a worry, the shit that goes through my brain, often these random thoughts are dead-ends; but in this case, a novel emerged.
A novel that I had amazing fun writing and ,finally, one that my kids might be able to read whilst still young. Of all my people, I reckoned that my baby sister would like this book the most. So I wrote it for her.
This book was inspired by the fine works of Jonathan Maberry, Robert Kirkland and George A Romero.
Thank you for reading my book.
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to real persons, alive or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
First Kindle Edition, 2014
Text Copyright©2014 Mark Wilson
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