A Man of Honor (A Young Adult Paranormal Romance) (The Honor Trilogy) (20 page)

Acknowledgments

I’d like to thank my editor Sue
Toth for her brilliant insight and knowledge. Sue, you are the best editor an author can have. Thank you so much for all your hard work and dedication in making my story the best it can be.

To my writing posse – Amber, Kathleen, and Stefan – thank you for listening to me vent and rant and sometimes even boast. You guys make the whole writing journey worth it.

Once again, I’d like to thank my husband and children for understanding that I am trying to make writing a full-time career, and because of that, some domestic responsibilities (i.e. laundry, vacuuming) get dropped. So thank you for picking up the slack. I love you, guys, so much.

About the Author

J.P.
Grider (1966 - ) born in Paterson, New Jersey as Julianne Pellegrino, was raised in Haledon, New Jersey, the oldest of six siblings. Her love of writing started early in her childhood, when she started writing poetry in-between homework assignments. As part of a school work program as a Journalism major in High School, J.P. Grider worked as a freelance reporter for a local newspaper, writing feature stories about exceptional high-school classmates. She studied Television Production and Film Writing at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey, where she graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Communications.

Two of J.P.
Grider's novels have won awards in the Textnovel Writing Contest, with her first published book – Unplugged (A Portrait of a Rock Star) – reaching Semi-finalist position. Though Unplugged is not her first novel written, it is the first to be published. Her second novel, Maybe This Life, published in 2012, was actually her first attempt at writing a novel. After completing the whole manuscript, Grider decided to scrap the whole thing and rewrite Maybe This Life from scratch. In Grider's opinion, the difference between the two was night and day.

Currently, J.P.
Grider is continuing work on the third book of her Young Adult Paranormal trilogy – A Heart of Honor – and continues to work on stories in the Adult Contemporary/Paranormal romance genre as well.