Dead to Rites (33 page)

¹
“Gh” pronounced as “ch,” but more guttural.

²
This sound falls between “ch” and “k,” as in the word “loch.”

³
This “t” is
almost
silent, and is separate from the following “h,” rather than forming a single sound as “th” normally does in English.

⁴
Strictly speaking, these “d”s fall somewhere between the “d” and a hard “th”—such as in “though”—but a simple “d” represents the closest sound in English.

ARI MARMELL
would love to tell you all about the various esoteric jobs he held and the wacky adventures he had on the way to becoming an author, since that’s what other authors seem to do in these sections. Unfortunately, he doesn’t actually have any. In point of fact, Ari decided while at the University of Houston that he wanted to be a writer, graduated with a Creative Writing degree, and—after holding down a couple of very mundane jobs—broke into freelance writing for roleplaying games. In addition to the Mick Oberon novels, with Titan Books, his published fiction includes
The Goblin Corps
and the Widdershins Adventure series (Pyr Books),
The Conqueror’s Shadow
and
The Warlord’s Legacy
(Del Rey/Spectra), and
Agents of Artifice
(Wizards of the Coast), as well as several others and numerous short stories.

Ari currently lives in an apartment that’s almost as cluttered as his subconscious, which he shares (the apartment, not the subconscious, though sometimes it seems like it) with his wife, George, and two cats who are nearly as crazy as their owners. He is trying to get used to speaking of himself in the third person, but still finds it awkward and strange.

You can find Ari online at
www.mouseferatu.com
and on Twitter
@mouseferatu
.

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